Browsing by Department "History"
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Regulating a Global Technology within the American Federalist System: The Ideological Origins of the 1926 Air Commerce Act
(2014-05-02)
The 1926 Air Commerce Act represented the institutionalization of a specific
mental model for aviation regulation within the United States. This dissertation focuses
on how individuals and groups responded to three ...
The Removal of the Creek Indians from the Southeast, 1825-1838
(2009-08-07)
This dissertation examines the removal of approximately twenty-three thousand Creek Indians from Alabama and Georgia to present-day Oklahoma between 1825 and 1838. At its height, the Creek Nation encompassed most of the ...
Rethinking African American Protest: Freaknik and the Civil Rights Legacy of Atlanta
(2012-08-17)
During the late 1980s and early 90s, Atlanta played host to the spring break festival Freaknik. A gathering of Historically Black College and University students and African American youth, Freaknik came to challenge the ...
The Revolt of the Majors: How the Air Force Changed After Vietnam
(2006-12-15)
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 ...
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 ...
The Scottish Episcopal Church: Religious Conflict in the Late Stuart Period
(2013-07-17)
In 1689 the Scottish Parliament overthrew the Church of Scotland’s Episcopal government and replaced it with a Presbyterian church structure. Traditionally, historians have interpreted these events as evidence of the ...
The Second Reconstruction in Local Politics: Alabama Grassroots Activists Fulfilling the Promise of the Voting Rights Act, 1960-1990
(2012-12-05)
In arguing that historians expand the timeline for what is considered the modern civil rights movement, this dissertation examines how grassroots Alabama activists affiliated with the Alabama Democratic Conference carried ...
Segregation Academies in Rural Alabama: White Resisters’ Final Stand Against School Integration in Wilcox County
(2022-04-29)
This paper examines the series of events leading to the establishment of segregation academies in Wilcox Academy, Alabama, followed by a brief analysis of how white resisters founded and built these white private schools. ...
The Sehoy Legacy: Kinship, Gender, and Property in a Tensaw Creek Community, 1783-1851
(2019-04-18)
In 1783, Alexander McGillivray and his sister, Sophia Durant, migrated to the Tensaw Delta with a herd of cattle and forty enslaved laborers to establish a plantation on the periphery of Creek territory adjoining Spanish ...
Senators Hill and Sparkman and Nine Alabama Congressmen Debate National Health Insurance, 1935-1965
(2008-12-15)
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 ...
Setting the Table With Bibles: A History of the Non-Aligned, Non-Class Churches of Christ
(2008-12-15)
This study seeks to explore the non-aligned, non-class Church of Christ, a particular movement within the Churches of Christ\Disciples of Christ, which has never been recognized as a separate and independent part of the ...
“She Can Never Be Happy Without All or Some of the Family with Her”: Women’s Lives on the Early National Frontier
(2018-04-18)
When it comes to the early American frontier, a great deal is known about the men who moved to form the first permanent settlements. Much less has been told about the women they brought with them, the fundamental role these ...
“The Skeleton in America’s Own Cupboard”: Mississippi’s Theodore G. Bilbo and the Shaping of Racial Politics, 1946-1948
(2017-04-26)
In the summer of 1946, Theodore Bilbo, a politician from rural southeast Mississippi, ran for election as a United States Senator. Fearing that a large number of newly-enfranchised blacks in his state would work to have ...
Slave Missions and Membership in North Alabama
(2006-12-15)
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 ...
Sliding Under the Radar: The Illegal Slave Trade in the United States
(2020-05-15)
The Slave Importation Act of 1808 legally prohibited the transport enslaved persons from Africa but failed to prevent illegal smugglers from continuing to import slaves. Before 1808, the Atlantic Slave Trade had been a ...
"Souls in the Treetops:" Cherokee War, Masculinity, and Community, 1760-1820
(2009-07-31)
This dissertation focuses upon the rapid changes Cherokees underwent during the early national period in American history. They dealt with challenges that presented in a variety of ways but did not always agree upon ...
Sound at Heart and Right in Hand: Mobile’s Road to Secession
(2006-08-15)
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 ...
Southern Devices: Geology, Industry, and Atomic Testing in Mississippi's Piney Woods
(2010-05-04)
This work centers on the two underground atomic tests conducted in south central Mississippi on September 22, 1964, and December 3, 1966. The region, known as the “Piney Woods,” hosted the two blasts, conducted by the ...
Southern Progress and Southern Honor: Slavery and Jim Crow at Auburn University
(2022-04-22)
Slavery built Auburn University physically, ideologically, and monetarily. After emancipation, slavery’s impact on Auburn does not vanish, instead it transforms into the violence of the Jim Crow South. Auburn played a key ...
The Standoff: First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Georgia, Robert McNeill, and Racial Equality
(2011-08-17)
The civil rights movements of the mid-twentieth century touched every segment
of American society. American churches were one central battle ground with opponents
and supporters of integration leveraging biblical ...