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The Revolt of the Majors: How the Air Force Changed After Vietnam
(2008-09-09)
During the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force had performed inconsistently and after the war was faced with a number of challenges. Many of the Air Force senior leadership felt that the challenges could be resolved ...
Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
(2009-02-23)
Historians thus far have largely portrayed Baptists in the South as uniformly supportive of the Confederacy and Civil War, other than in regional pockets which exhibited widespread Union sympathy. This study focuses on ...
Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine
(2009-02-23)
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an updated life-and-times biography of a major religious and political figure in nineteenth-century American history, Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902). Palmer rubbed elbows ...
Slave Missions and Membership in North Alabama
(2008-09-09)
As white landowners settled the North Alabama towns of Florence, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa with their slaves, they began to create missions for the religious education of blacks. Many did so out of a desire to share their ...
Sound at Heart and Right in Hand: Mobile’s Road to Secession
(2009-02-23)
This study traces Mobilians’ road from moderation to secessionism and analyzes the factors that influenced their decision-making. Mobile’s commercial path of development differentiated it from most of the rest of a rural ...
Books in the Public Sphere: New York Libraries and the Culture-Building Enterprise, 1754-1904
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation examines the role that libraries played in the development of
culture during the colonial period and throughout the nineteenth century. Focusing on a
group of libraries in New York City, it seeks to ...
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 ...