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Civil War and Reconstruction Era Cass/Bartow County, Georgia
(2009-02-23)
A "white men’s democracy" profoundly shaped aspects of pre-industrial Cass/Bartow County, Georgia’s social, economic, and political landscape. Following the removal of the Cherokee from northwest Georgia, white settlers ...
Common Cause: B. C. Goodpasture, the Gospel Advocate, and Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century
(2009-04-29)
From 1939 to 1977, Benton Cordell Goodpasture (1895-1977) edited the Gospel Advocate. Founded in 1855 and published weekly in Nashville, the paper was a crucial center of influence for Churches of Christ, a loose-knit group ...
Politics and Poverty: Women's Reproductive Rights in Arkansas, 1942-1980
(2009-05-04)
Today, many of us think of birth control and abortion in terms of women's rights and reproductive choice. But, as this study will illustrate, for much of the history of birth control and abortion in Arkansas, it simply has ...
Wiregrass: The Transformation of Southeast Alabama, 1880-1930
(2009-05-01)
The southeast corner of Alabama is popularly known as the Wiregrass. The name was originally inspired by the native grass that pioneers found growing abundantly in the region’s longleaf pine forests. However, by the mid ...
'A Fine View of the Delectable Mountains': The Religious Vision of Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland) and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
(2008-09-09)
In the past twenty-five years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the popular domestic fiction of the nineteenth century. Cultural historians have studied this literature, largely created by women, for the ...
David Schenck and the Contours of a Confederate Identity
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it serves to shed light on the life of North Carolinian David Schenck (1835-1902), whose extensive diaries have been a wellspring of information for historians for ...
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 ...
The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors
(2015-05-08)
The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II ...