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Academic Business: Professionalization and the University Business Officer
(2014-12-10)
This dissertation examines the place of the college and university business officer in institutions of higher education across the U.S. South. In 1927, George Howell Mew, newly minted business officer at Emory University, ...
Un-Living History: Programming, Interpretation, and Management at Haunted Historic Sites
(2012-07-23)
Using employee interviews and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, this thesis examines ten historic sites throughout the southeast that are considered haunted in order to explore the advantages and disadvantages ...
The Strange Career of Birdie Mae Davis: A History of a School Desegregation Lawsuit in Mobile, Alabama, 1963 - 1997
(2009-04-17)
The Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown ruling helped transform America as it responded to the process of school desegregation. However, school desegregation remained a complex endeavor, based on changes in the law, Supreme Court ...
Letting Teachers Speak: The National History Standards Project and Its Consequences
(2009-02-23)
This thesis examines the National History Standards Project within the context of successive cycles of educational reform. It attempts to illustrate why and how the National History Standards were developed in the 1990s, ...
Alabama Courts and the Administration of Slavery, 1820-1865
(2009-02-23)
The examination of contemporary legal materials from the slaveholding states, particularly Alabama, shows considerable official involvement of the legislature and the courts in the management of slavery, going well beyond ...
A Third Option: Imperial Air Defense and the Pacific Dominions, 1918-1939
(2009-02-23)
The air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period demonstrates the difficulty of applying changing military technology to the defense of the global empire and provides insight into the nature of the ...
Pieces of Peace: An Evaluation of the Nixon Administration's Response to the Rise of Arab Radicalism in the Persian Gulf, Libya and Jordan
(2008-09-09)
This thesis is an examination and evaluation of the Nixon Administration’s response to the emergence of Arab radicalism in three areas: the Persian Gulf, Libya and Jordan. It examines the foundations of the Nixon ...
'A Louse For A Portion': Early-Eighteenth-Century English Attitudes Towards Scots, 1688-1725
(2008-09-09)
This thesis examines and analyzes Englishmen’s perceptions of Scots during the years between the Revolution of 1688 and the Shawfield Riots of 1725. In 1707, the Scottish Parliament convened for the last time and Scottish ...
In Remembrance: Confederate Funerary Monuments in Alabama and Resistance to Reconciliation, 1884-1923
(2008-09-09)
This thesis will examine Alabama Confederate monuments in terms of their style
and location. In so doing, it explores their connection to the greater memory of the Civil
War in the South. Scholars writing on southern ...
The Presidential Records Act of 1978: Its Development From the Right to Know and the Public's Demand for Federal Records Ownership
(2008-09-09)
The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 established public ownership of presidential records, erasing the previous tradition of presidents retaining records ownership. In 1974, Richard Nixon broke with tradition by ...