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Denomination and Dissent: Benjamin Franklin Haynes and the Travails of Methodist Identity, 1885-1925
(2016-08-05)
This dissertation explores the themes of denomination and dissent in two related denominations, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), and the Church of the Nazarene, using the life of Benjamin Franklin Haynes. A ...
The History of Alabama State College
(2021-06-04)
Alabama State College, now Alabama State University, has played an instrumental part in providing exceptional educational opportunities for
generations of African Americans in Alabama and beyond. The university has ...
"Alas for the Church of God": Southern Methodist Leaders and the Quest for Ecclesiological Identity, 1844-1876
(2016-08-19)
This dissertation traces the formation, development, and preservation of a distinctive “southern Methodist” identity by southern Wesleyan leaders during the Civil War era, and describes the tensions faced in seeking to ...
'Women in a Changing World': The International Council of Women, Global Power, and the Boundaries of Sisterhood, 1888-1966
(2021-08-04)
This dissertation explores the first seventy-eight years of the International Council of Women (ICW) – the first multipurpose international women’s organization – through the lens of global structures of power, specifically ...
Unsuitable and Incompatible: Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg, Bisexuality, and the Cold War U.S. Navy
(2021-12-02)
This research introduces “the Cold War ideal of American morality” to the historiography surrounding the federal purges of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals known as the Lavender Scare. Alluded to, but never formally ...
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 ...
Southern Progress and Southern Honor: Slavery and Jim Crow at Auburn University
(2022-04-22)
Slavery built Auburn University physically, ideologically, and monetarily. After emancipation, slavery’s impact on Auburn does not vanish, instead it transforms into the violence of the Jim Crow South. Auburn played a key ...
Segregation Academies in Rural Alabama: White Resisters’ Final Stand Against School Integration in Wilcox County
(2022-04-29)
This paper examines the series of events leading to the establishment of segregation academies in Wilcox Academy, Alabama, followed by a brief analysis of how white resisters founded and built these white private schools. ...
The Master’s Tools Will Do Just Fine: Booker T. Washington, Racial Capitalism, Immigration, and the Utility of Differentiation
(2022-06-23)
Booker T. Washington understood capitalism quite well. It was a system that not only promoted uneven social terrain but depended on such conditions to sustain itself. Washington had an acute grasp on the reality that ...
Transcendent Hunger: Poor Women and Resource Raids in Civil War Georgia
(2022-08-05)
Poor women in Civil War Georgia organized and participated in resource raids of varying sizes in cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the state from 1862 to 1865. While the largest “bread riots” in cities across the ...