Browsing by Department "History"
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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. ...
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 ...
Stylin' Black Power: Fashion, Dignity, and Masculinity
(2022-12-02)
This study examines Black men’s style during the shifting political terrain of the Black Power Movement in the1960s and 1970s. Through a stylistic analysis of images, film, musical albums, and advertisements, I question ...
Suburbanization and the Magic City
(2016-05-03)
Since its founding in 1871, Birmingham’s metropolitan area has experienced enormous growth. In the late-nineteenth century, the city’s industrial origins influenced neighborhood development for working, middle, and elite ...
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 ...
Taking the Stand: Theodore Bilbo's 1946 Senate Hearing and the Complexities of Mississippi's Post-War Civil Rights Struggle
(2012-04-19)
In the spring of 1946 Theodore Bilbo, campaigning for his second term as United
States Senator, called on every “Red-blooded Anglo–Saxon male” in Mississippi to use
whatever means necessary to keep African Americans from ...
A Tale of Two Markets: the People and Culture of American Flea Markets
(2013-11-01)
This thesis explores the people and culture of American flea markets from roughly the 1880s through the present day. American flea markets started in the late nineteenth century by newly arrived immigrants who utilized ...
A Teacher of Souls: Elizabeth Ann Seton, Theologian
(2019-11-15)
This thesis is an analysis of Elizabeth Anne Seton’s conversion to Catholicism. It is also a discussion of her interpretation of traditional Catholic doctrine and eventual teaching and systemization of it within the American ...
“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”: An Examination of P.T. Barnum’s Methods and Museum Controversy Today
(2014-01-09)
The purpose of this paper is to show that P.T. Barnum’s methods have been used in contemporary museums when dealing with controversial exhibits. This contention is supported by first exploring P.T. Barnum’s production of ...
A Third Option: Imperial Air Defense and the Pacific Dominions, 1918-1939
(2008-08-15)
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 ...
'This is Ground Control': The Invention of Mission Control Centers in the United States and Europe
(2012-05-14)
This dissertation examines the invention of mission control centers by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency, particularly during the Cold War. The control rooms of Johnson Space ...
Transcendent Hunger: Poor Women and Resource Raids in Civil War Georgia
(2022-08-05)
Poor women in Civil War Georgia organized and participated in resource raids of varying sizes in cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the state from 1862 to 1865. While the largest “bread riots” in cities across the ...
A Tricky Chessboard: Albert Rains, New Deal Liberalism, and Southern Progressivism in Alabama
(2018-11-15)
Alabama during the post-World War II period until the late 1960s was represented by a
group of Democratic congressmen that has been described as the most liberal and progressive in
the nation. Collectively, they were ...
Un-Living History: Programming, Interpretation, and Management at Haunted Historic Sites
(2012-07-23)
Using employee interviews and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, this thesis examines ten historic sites throughout the southeast that are considered haunted in order to explore the advantages and disadvantages ...
The United States Food Administration During World War I: The Rise of Activist Government Through Food Control During Mobilization for Total War
(2013-11-01)
Although the United States Food Administration officially existed for less than twenty-four months, it left an ineffaceable mark on the economic, political, and social fabric of the nation. The unprecedented powers contained ...
Unpopular Views of Peace: The Great War and the Transformation of Southern Religion
(2016-05-02)
The Great War erupted in Europe in 1914. Initially, most Americans viewed the war with horror, and many actively advocated the United States stay out of the conflict. Southern churches were part of this wave of opposition ...
Unruly Teachers: Florida's Political Culture During the 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
(2014-07-09)
On February 19, 1968 over 27,000 teachers in Florida resigned from their positions as educators. In doing so, these teachers created the country’s first and only statewide teachers’ strike. The teachers who went on strike ...
Unsuitable and Incompatible: Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg, Bisexuality, and the Cold War U.S. Navy
(2021-12-02)
This research introduces “the Cold War ideal of American morality” to the historiography surrounding the federal purges of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals known as the Lavender Scare. Alluded to, but never formally ...
Vanishing Georgia Photographic Collection: The Discovery of Georgia's Historical Photographs and the Expansion of Public Access
(2010-05-19)
This thesis documents the Vanishing Georgia Photographic Collection through three distinct phases: the collection of images, the publication of a book based on the collection, and the digitization of the images for broader ...
Voices From the Plains: The Black Legacies of Auburn Alabama
(2023-11-28)
This study explores the legacies of African Americans in Auburn Alabama beginning with the city’s founding and ending with desegregation of Auburn’s schools. The first section focuses on slavery, the migration of African ...