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Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)
(2008-09-09)
Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...
Senators Hill and Sparkman and Nine Alabama Congressmen Debate National Health Insurance, 1935-1965
(2009-02-23)
From the 1930s to the 1960s, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama was admired for his experience with issues like national health insurance (NHI). Senator John Sparkman, also from Alabama, was fiscally conservative yet sensitive ...
NASA's Hidden Power: NACA/NASA Public Relations and the Cold War, 1945-1967
(2009-02-23)
During the 1960s, NASA’s human spaceflight program commanded national and international attention. The program created American images infused with heroic values. What were these images? How and why did the process of image ...
Minimum Moral Rights: Alabama Mental Health Institutions And The Road To Federal Intervention
(2009-02-23)
This thesis explores the history of the abuse to the patients in Alabama’s Mental
Health Hospitals from 1860 to 1970. It addresses the social norms that encouraged the
abuse, the legal aspects that endorsed the abuse, ...
"Souls in the Treetops:" Cherokee War, Masculinity, and Community, 1760-1820
(2009-07-31)
This dissertation focuses upon the rapid changes Cherokees underwent during the early national period in American history. They dealt with challenges that presented in a variety of ways but did not always agree upon ...
Genealogical Research, Ancestry.com, and Archives
(2009-12-17)
Genealogy is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Until the 1990s, genealogical research was conducted either by visiting at or corresponding with physical repositories. The rise of the Internet, ...
The Intent and Fulfillment of the Morrill Act of 1862: A Review of the History of Auburn University and the University of Georgia
(2008-09-09)
What was the intent of Morrill Act, and what does it mean to be a land grant university? The principal purpose of the Morrill Act, as relevant to the twenty-first century land grant institutions, was to increase the ...
Writing, Religion, and Women's Identity in Civil War Alabama
(2009-04-14)
This dissertation deals with middle and upper class, literate, Protestant, white Alabama women during the Civil War and their construction of personal identity through their religious beliefs. How did women cope with the ...
A Meaningful Reality: The Integration of the Opelika, Alabama City School System, 1965-1972
(2008-09-09)
This thesis chronicles and analyzes the integration of the Opelika city school system from the institution of the freedom of choice method of desegregation in 1965 to the court-ordered total integration of the system in ...
Setting the Table With Bibles: A History of the Non-Aligned, Non-Class Churches of Christ
(2009-02-23)
This study seeks to explore the non-aligned, non-class Church of Christ, a particular movement within the Churches of Christ\Disciples of Christ, which has never been recognized as a separate and independent part of the ...