Browsing by Department "History"
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War Eagles: Auburn University’s Tradition of Training Soldiers
(2014-05-02)
As a land-grant university, Auburn University maintains a tradition of training American soldiers. Its Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) unit was once central to campus life, but in 1969 the university eliminated ...
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 ...
War in the Pine Barrens: The Civil War Era in South-Central and Southeastern Alabama
(2014-12-04)
When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, the eight counties that comprised south-central and southeastern Alabama responded by sending thousands of men to fight in southern armies. This corner of the Confederacy, and ...
What to Wear to a Protest: The Look of the Movement in the Long 1960s
(2022-12-09)
Hidden “I was there”-style pictures in drawers of photos help tell a more complete story of events in the struggle for civil rights in “the long 1960s,” one in which “the look” of those protests and the clothing worn by ...
When Hiding isn't Enuf: How the Expression of Queerness within Black Feminism Change Over Time?
(2023-04-28)
The relationship of queerness and Black feminism works as an unbalanced scale. Within the transformative era of the 20th century, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, and Audre Lorde both created and expressed radical Black ...
Where No One Stands Alone: Harvey Gantt and the Civil Rights Movement in the Carolinas, 1943-1987
(2017-11-30)
As the first African American student to enroll at Clemson University and the first African American mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, Harvey Gantt served as a trailblazer. Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, ...
Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996
(2019-04-23)
In 1947 “a diamond is forever” became the official slogan of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited and is to date one of the most recognizable slogans in the history of American advertising. This dissertation utilizes ...
Wild by Design The Technological Construction of Authenticity, Wilderness, and Nature in America's National Parks, 1860-1945
(2019-05-16)
This dissertation explores the origins of American national park experiences. It explores how several social groups attempted to make the national parks conform to their expectations and desires using political power, ...
Wiregrass: The Transformation of Southeast Alabama, 1880-1930
(2009-05-01)
The southeast corner of Alabama is popularly known as the Wiregrass. The name was originally inspired by the native grass that pioneers found growing abundantly in the region’s longleaf pine forests. However, by the mid ...
A Woman’s Good Works: The Life of Inez Jessie Turner Baskin and Her Fight for Civil and Human Rights in the Cradle of the Confederacy
(2009-11-16)
Inez Jessie Turner Baskin (1916-2007) was an African-American, female, journalist who covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 in Alabama’s capital for the Montgomery Advertiser as well as functioning as a central ...
'Women in a Changing World': The International Council of Women, Global Power, and the Boundaries of Sisterhood, 1888-1966
(2021-08-04)
This dissertation explores the first seventy-eight years of the International Council of Women (ICW) – the first multipurpose international women’s organization – through the lens of global structures of power, specifically ...
Women, the Family, and the "Search for Stability" in Thermidorian France
(2020-07-21)
The Revolutionary Tribunal trials of Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville played a central role in the Thermidorian government’s “search for stability”. In these trials, the Thermidorians sought to ...
Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood: Twentieth Century Black Female Intellectuals and the Development of Intersectional Thought
(2023-08-03)
“Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood” seeks to create an intellectual genealogy for the theory of intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influential articles, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black ...
Writing, Religion, and Women's Identity in Civil War Alabama
(2009-04-14)
This dissertation deals with middle and upper class, literate, Protestant, white Alabama women during the Civil War and their construction of personal identity through their religious beliefs. How did women cope with the ...