Search
Now showing items 61-70 of 171
Atomic Apartheid: United States-South African Nuclear Relations from Truman to Reagan, 1945-1989
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation analyzes nuclear cooperation between the United States and South Africa from the Truman to Reagan administrations. The focus of this work is to examine how and why the United States became involved in ...
Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983
(2008-09-09)
Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...
Charles I and His Public: Religious Ideology, Political Discourse, and Ceremony, 1625-1633
(2010-07-21)
This thesis looks at public debate and ceremony in the early reign of Charles I from 1625 to 1633. It analyzes the various uses of the language of “public” and “private” in the publically aired religious and political ...
Publicizing Private Life: Criminal Conversation Trials in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2010-08-03)
The project examines the gender relationships within the household, between master and mistress, master and servant, and within the servants’ quarters, alongside gendered experiences in the courtroom and constructions of ...
Factory Children: Child Industrial Labor in Imperial Russia, 1780-1914
(2008-09-09)
Children comprised an extremely significant segment of the industrial labor force in Russia in Imperial Russia. In the mid-nineteenth century the average number of children aged sixteen and under employed in industry ...
Civil Wars and Civil Beings: Violence, Religion, Race, Politics, Education, Culture, and Agrarianism in Perry County, Alabama, 1860-1875
(2008-09-09)
The years 1860 to 1875 were of immense importance to Alabama history. Following a controversial secession debate, its residents faced a life-changing war. In the aftermath of war, Alabamians wrestled with the changes ...
Protest Activities in Southern Universities, 1965-1972
(2008-09-09)
This thesis examines the existence and character of protest movements in southern universities from the fall of 1965 through the spring of 1972, and offers an explanation for the student dissent in the South in these years ...
‘Bring God to the Negro, Bring the Negro to God’: Thomas Joseph Toolen, Archbishop of Mobile (1927-1969), His Culture, His Religion, and His Mission
(2008-09-09)
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Toolen was the Bishop of Mobile through some rather turbulent times for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mobile. One of the most frequently occurring questions he had to deal with was the question ...
Roots: From Crop Duster to Airline; The Origins of Delta Air Lines to World War II
(2010-12-06)
Delta Air Lines (Delta) is one of the great surviving legacy airlines of the first
century of flight. In the annals of American aviation history its origins are unique. Delta’s
beginning can be traced to the arrival of ...
Arbiter of Tradition and Change: The Atlanta Historical Society's Role in an Urban Landscape
(2010-04-09)
Traditional writings about historical organizations often treat their operations as independent of the community in which they are located. However, a study of the Atlanta Historical Society (AHS) reveals that, in fact, ...