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War Fought and Felt: The Influence of Interpersonal Relationships on Confederate Soldier Motivations in the American Civil War
(2020-04-22)
When white Southern men initially marched off to war, they took with them masculine and martial ideals that undergirded their romantic notions of war and the importance of their service. Soon, the astonishing brutality and ...
Cherokees, Creeks, and Charlestonians: The Colonial World of James Grant, 1757-1771
(2020-04-15)
The following study provides a revisionist interpretation of the career of James Grant, an officer in the British army during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and subsequently governor of the new colony of East Florida ...
A Symbol of American Female Equality: The United States Air Force Pilot
(2020-03-10)
The social and political climate of the 1960s and 1970s created an environment conducive to debate and reform. In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress and by the end of the year, 22 of the 38 required ...
“Companions of My Tribulation”: Transatlantic Female Preaching Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century
(2020-05-11)
As part of the pulpit in the early republic, female preachers created their own identities separate from the domestic sphere by forging successful careers as religious authorities speaking in public. Bolstered by a growing ...
"Fiery Trials:" Women and the Civil War in East Tennessee, 1850-1865
(2020-11-17)
This dissertation examines East Tennessee’s white women and their role within the Civil War. Women, often portrayed as passive victims to the violent climate, remain minor characters in Appalachian and more specifically ...
On Common Ground: The Relationship Between Negro Home Demonstration and 4-H Clubs and Rural Women’s Community Leadership, 1920-1980
(2020-11-20)
This dissertation examines how rural African-American women and girls in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi developed leadership skills through their participation in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative ...
The Starless Night of Centralism: Examining The Language of War in and outside of Revolutionary Texas
(2020-05-11)
Texian officials and American Democratic party newspapers pushed for a cause that they believed appealed to shared ideals concerning Jeffersonianism, centralism, race, liberty, slavery, nationalism, kinship, and identity. ...
Mental Models and Institutional Change in the U.S. Air Force from the Cold War through the Gulf War
(2020-07-16)
Following more than twenty years of debate, and after a bitter fight for independence from the Army, the United States Air Force was established as separate military service on September 18, 1947. The following spring, ...
The Cause Archived: Thomas Owen, the Alabama Archives, and the Shaping of Civil War History and Memory
(2020-07-23)
Thomas M. Owen's foundation and directorship of the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH), lasting from 1901 until 1920, overlapped with and reinforced the development of a southern, scholarly defense of the ...
At the Intersection of Davis and King: Heritage and Memory in Selma, Alabama
(2020-11-16)
Selma, Alabama is a small community in the Black Belt with a rich heritage and history that remains deeply divided along racial lines. Selma played an important role in both the American Civil War and the Civil Rights ...