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Hoeing out the New South: The Material Culture of the Hoe and the Segregation of Progress
(2020-05-04)
In the New South, the hoe became a symbol, utilized by white southerners, that attempted to primitivize blackness and segregate progress before the solidification of the Jim Crow. The historical relationship curated between ...
American Aerial Perspectives: Observations on the Technological Development of Military Aviation during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
(2020-07-14)
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, marked the full integration of airpower into warfare and introduced the latest developments in aviation technology. Whereas the First World War featured dogfights between wooden biplanes, ...
The GI Coffeehouse Movement, 1968-1972: Class-Based Activism in the Vietnam War
(2020-04-20)
This work examines the GI coffeehouse movement of the Vietnam era in the United States from the years 1968 to 1972 by analyzing the underground newspapers that the coffeehouses produced. From one perspective this work ...
Women, the Family, and the "Search for Stability" in Thermidorian France
(2020-07-21)
The Revolutionary Tribunal trials of Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville played a central role in the Thermidorian government’s “search for stability”. In these trials, the Thermidorians sought to ...
Sliding Under the Radar: The Illegal Slave Trade in the United States
(2020-05-15)
The Slave Importation Act of 1808 legally prohibited the transport enslaved persons from Africa but failed to prevent illegal smugglers from continuing to import slaves. Before 1808, the Atlantic Slave Trade had been a ...
From New South to Sunbelt: Greenville, South Carolina
(2020-07-21)
Greenville County, South Carolina is the Palmetto State's most populous county and exert's substantial influence on the state's politics and economy. Spaces such as Greenville have largely been omitted from the narrative ...
An Actor on a Grand Stage: Adelbert Ames and his Military, Political, and Civil Rights Legacies
(2021-04-12)
Adelbert Ames, born in Maine in 1835, served as a Union general during the American Civil War—winning the Medal of Honor for his service at the Battle of First Bull Run on July 21, 1861. After the war, he remained in the ...
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 ...
'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 ...