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'My goal will ever be to make history popular': Peter Brannon's Quest for Alabama History
(2018-04-23)
Peter Alexander Brannon (1882-1967) was a noteworthy figure in Alabama history during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Throughout his fifty-year career at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Brannon ...
The Lord of the Air: Winston Churchill and the Technocratic British State, 1917-1922
(2018-12-03)
This dissertation examines the evolution of Winston Churchill’s efforts at technocratic reform within the British military from 1917 to 1922. It seeks to understand the roots of Churchill’s technocratic tendencies in the ...
Globalization and the Auto Industry in the U.S. South
(2018-07-19)
Since the early 1980s, numerous foreign automakers have built plants to
manufacture motor vehicles in the American South. Mercedes, Honda, and Hyundai in
Alabama and Kia Motors in Georgia are some examples of this ...
Inmates Make War: Convict Labor at State Penitentiaries in the Antebellum and Civil War South, 1796-1865
(2018-11-08)
Throughout the antebellum period, Southern state legislators sought to create financially self-sustaining penitentiaries that also reflected modern practice by encouraging inmate rehabilitation through silent reflection ...
"In Time of Iron-Age: The Choctaw Civil War and the Southern Frontier
(2018-04-23)
This dissertation is the first extended ethnohistorical study of the Choctaw civil war that occurred between 1746 and 1750 CE. Using gender as a primary lens of inquiry, it outlines the mutual intelligibility of Choctaw ...
"No One Comes Close": US Airmen and their Technological Paradigm
(2018-04-10)
“No one comes close” is a recent US Air Force (USAF) mantra, developed as both a recruiting slogan and service motto. It reflects both the physical altitude of their domain (sky and space) and conveys a sense of operational ...
“Looking for a City”: Community, Politics, and Gay and Lesbian Rights in Atlanta, 1968-1993
(2018-12-03)
“‘Looking for a City’: Community, Politics, and Gay and Lesbian Rights in Atlanta, 1968-1993,” explores the evolution of gay and lesbian communities and the development of lesbian and gay rights in Atlanta, Georgia, from ...
Models of Moral Treatment: British Lunatic Asylums in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
(2018-04-19)
Samuel Tuke established a model of moral treatment for British insane asylums in the first half of the nineteenth century with his Description of the Retreat (1813). The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield—under ...
A Tricky Chessboard: Albert Rains, New Deal Liberalism, and Southern Progressivism in Alabama
(2018-11-15)
Alabama during the post-World War II period until the late 1960s was represented by a
group of Democratic congressmen that has been described as the most liberal and progressive in
the nation. Collectively, they were ...
A Garden for the Living and a Gallery for the Dead: Consuming Animal and Preserved Specimen Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century London
(2018-04-18)
Throughout the nineteenth century, a diverse array of wildlife arrived in London, the center of both a nation and a global empire. Once in Britain, live animals were exhibited for adoring, middle- and upper-class audiences ...