Browsing by Author "Carter, David"

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Asphalt Politics in the Deep South: Race, Housing, and the Interstate Highway System in Atlanta and Birmingham

Robinson, Maurice (2012-05-21)

This thesis explores how the Interstate Highway System was partially responsible for the transition of the American South from a rural agrarian-based society into a more urban industrialized society. With this cultural ...

At the Tip of the Pyramid: The Iconography of Early Astronauts and Cosmonauts

Peterson, Tyler (2012-04-19)

The first American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts became household names in the midst of proving that human beings could live and work beyond planet Earth. How and why did these men (along with one Soviet woman) achieve ...

Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War

Gourley, Bruce (2008-12-15)

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 ...

‘The Best of Friends and Neighbors’: USIA and American Public Diplomacy Strategy in Cuba, 1953-1962

Montford, Hector (2016-05-06)

This dissertation examines the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) public diplomacy strategy in Cuba from 1953 to 1962 through both the agency’s United States Information Service (USIS) field office on the island and ...

‘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

Claridy, Keith (2006-05-15)

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 ...

The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001

Hall, Richard (2011-08-04)

“The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001” represents a comprehensive examination of Captain America comic books as a primary source for the study ...

David Schenck and the Contours of a Confederate Identity

Steward, Rodney (2007-08-15)

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 ...

An Examination of Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Innovative Social Studies Curriculum Materials

Farmer, Charles (2008-05-15)

Although many studies have been conducted that analyze social studies curricula, there is a need for further investigation into the dynamics of social studies curriculum reform projects. This should facilitate an ...

Fragging in the Vietnam War: Myth, Media, and Memory

Campbell, Daniel M. (2023-12-06) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation examines the memory and media presentation of the phenomenon of fragging in the Vietnam War. Soldiers have attacked officers throughout history, but this study focuses on the rash of incidents in the ...

From Pre-Civil War to Post-Civil Rights: The Political Lives of African-Americans

Burnes, Valerie (2012-08-16)

African Americans have played a major role in the history of Perry County almost since the first white settlers arrived in the area with their black enslaved laborers. In a county known for its pre-Civil War cotton wealth, ...

Futureproof: Computer Enthusiasts and the PC (R)evolution

Wallace, Steven (2024-05-02) ETD File Embargoed

This project is a study of the establishment of the ‘PC Master Race’ identity within the larger personal computer/desktop computer enthusiast and gamer communities. This group (and its associated ideology) is traceable ...

The GI Coffeehouse Movement, 1968-1972: Class-Based Activism in the Vietnam War

Miles, Ashley (2020-04-20)

This work examines the GI coffeehouse movement of the Vietnam era in the United States from the years 1968 to 1972 by analyzing the underground newspapers that the coffeehouses produced. From one perspective this work ...

A Hollow Inheritance: The Legacies of the Tuskegee Civic Association and the Crusade for Civic Democracy in Alabama

Smith, Gabriel (2016-08-01)

This thesis examines and analyzes the Tuskegee Civic Association’s “Crusade for Citizenship” in Alabama. In 1957, the Crusade encouraged black citizens to boycott businesses owned and operated by segregationist whites in ...

The Intent and Fulfillment of the Morrill Act of 1862: A Review of the History of Auburn University and the University of Georgia

Wade, Kathryn (2005-12-15)

What was the intent of Morrill Act, and what does it mean to be a land grant university? The principal purpose of the Morrill Act, as relevant to the twenty-first century land grant institutions, was to increase the ...