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The Forgotten Fountain Pen: The historical significance of the fountain pen in twentieth-century American society
(2017-04-17)
This thesis addresses the adoption, popularity, decline, and revival of the fountain pen in American culture and society over the twentieth century. It examines how the World Wars and Great Depression interacted to influence ...
Where No One Stands Alone: Harvey Gantt and the Civil Rights Movement in the Carolinas, 1943-1987
(2017-11-30)
As the first African American student to enroll at Clemson University and the first African American mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, Harvey Gantt served as a trailblazer. Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, ...
From Rolling Bungalows to Mobile Mansions: The Origins of America’s Obsession with the Recreational Vehicle
(2017-04-19)
This dissertation studies the rise of the recreational vehicle technology in America. It argues that recreational automobility required the achievement of mass automobility and long distance roads to become a viable travel ...
“It’s Not My History:” The White Counter-Narrative of Selma, Alabama, 1965-2015
(2017-04-20)
Almost immediately after the dust had settled behind the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March, forces within Selma began competing for control of the march’s historical legacy. After the successful passage of the 1965 ...
The Baptist Frontier: Isaac McCoy, Indian Missions, and the Making of a Denomination
(2017-10-30)
This dissertation explains how the missions to Native American tribes run by Isaac McCoy in the Old Northwest (Indiana and Michigan Territory) shaped the development of the Baptist denomination in the early American republic ...
“The Skeleton in America’s Own Cupboard”: Mississippi’s Theodore G. Bilbo and the Shaping of Racial Politics, 1946-1948
(2017-04-26)
In the summer of 1946, Theodore Bilbo, a politician from rural southeast Mississippi, ran for election as a United States Senator. Fearing that a large number of newly-enfranchised blacks in his state would work to have ...
The Odor of Things: Deodorant, Gender and Olfaction in the United States
(2017-04-21)
My dissertation examines the history and technology of scented deodorants and antiperspirants and discusses how certain scents became tightly connected to ideas about gender. The history of deodorant illuminates the complex ...