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The Gospel Horse in the Valley: Evangelical Slavery and Freedom in the Chattahoochee Valley, 1821-1877
(2011-05-05)
This dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and ...
The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001
(2011-08-04)
“The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in
Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001” represents a comprehensive examination of
Captain America comic books as a primary source for the study ...
A Cross Section of America’s World War II Prison Camps: The Lives of Axis Prisoners of War in Alabama, Their Memory, and Their Place on the Historical Landscape
(2011-08-04)
The experience of nearly half a million Axis prisoners of war held by the United States on American soil, their impact on this nation, and their legacy has been largely forgotten and neglected. The state of Alabama held a ...
“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”: An Examination of P.T. Barnum’s Methods and Museum Controversy Today
(2014-01-09)
The purpose of this paper is to show that P.T. Barnum’s methods have been used in contemporary museums when dealing with controversial exhibits. This contention is supported by first exploring P.T. Barnum’s production of ...
The Second Reconstruction in Local Politics: Alabama Grassroots Activists Fulfilling the Promise of the Voting Rights Act, 1960-1990
(2012-12-05)
In arguing that historians expand the timeline for what is considered the modern civil rights movement, this dissertation examines how grassroots Alabama activists affiliated with the Alabama Democratic Conference carried ...
From Pre-Civil War to Post-Civil Rights: The Political Lives of African-Americans
(2012-08-16)
African Americans have played a major role in the history of Perry County almost
since the first white settlers arrived in the area with their black enslaved laborers. In a
county known for its pre-Civil War cotton wealth, ...
Laying their own Track: Provincial Cities and Urban Development in France, 1851-1918
(2013-05-16)
This thesis examines the role of the railway station in the development and transformation of the provincial city in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, in terms of its effect on the relationship of ...
Regulating a Global Technology within the American Federalist System: The Ideological Origins of the 1926 Air Commerce Act
(2014-05-02)
The 1926 Air Commerce Act represented the institutionalization of a specific
mental model for aviation regulation within the United States. This dissertation focuses
on how individuals and groups responded to three ...
War in the Pine Barrens: The Civil War Era in South-Central and Southeastern Alabama
(2014-12-04)
When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, the eight counties that comprised south-central and southeastern Alabama responded by sending thousands of men to fight in southern armies. This corner of the Confederacy, and ...
The Discomforts of Empire: Emily Eden's Life in India, 1836-1842
(2012-07-27)
This thesis discusses the physical and psychological discomforts of Emily Eden, an English aristocrat, during her life in India from 1836 to 1842. I argue that the comforts Eden identified during her early life in England ...