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"Fiery Trials:" Women and the Civil War in East Tennessee, 1850-1865 

Bocian, Meredith (2020-11-17)  ETD File Embargoed
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 ...

The Fifth Border State: Slavery and the Formation of West Virginia, 1850-1868 

MacKenzie, Scott (2014-06-30)
Civil War historians unfairly treat West Virginia as an oddity. They tend to see it as the dissident part of Virginia that resisted its secession in 1861 to protest decades of economic neglect. Some explain this process ...

The Fighting Five-Tenth: One Fighter-Bomber Squadron's Experience during the Development of World War II Tactical Air Power 

Hodgin Bruce, Adrianne Lee (2013-12-04)
During the years between World War I and World War II, many within the Army Air Corps (AAC) aggressively sought an independent air arm and believed that strategic bombardment represented an opportunity to inflict severe ...

'A Fine View of the Delectable Mountains': The Religious Vision of Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland) and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson 

Frear, Sara (2007-08-15)
In the past twenty-five years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the popular domestic fiction of the nineteenth century. Cultural historians have studied this literature, largely created by women, for the ...

The Forgotten Fountain Pen: The historical significance of the fountain pen in twentieth-century American society 

Busby, Charles (2017-04-17)
This thesis addresses the adoption, popularity, decline, and revival of the fountain pen in American culture and society over the twentieth century. It examines how the World Wars and Great Depression interacted to influence ...

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 New South to Sunbelt: Greenville, South Carolina 

Baker, Andrew Harrison (2020-07-21)  ETD File Embargoed
Greenville County, South Carolina is the Palmetto State's most populous county and exert's substantial influence on the state's politics and economy. Spaces such as Greenville have largely been omitted from the narrative ...

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, ...

From Rolling Bungalows to Mobile Mansions: The Origins of America’s Obsession with the Recreational Vehicle 

Burel, David (2017-04-19)
This dissertation studies the rise of the recreational vehicle technology in America. It argues that recreational automobility required the achievement of mass automobility and long distance roads to become a viable travel ...

A Garden for the Living and a Gallery for the Dead: Consuming Animal and Preserved Specimen Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century London 

Humphrey, Neil (2018-04-18)
Throughout the nineteenth century, a diverse array of wildlife arrived in London, the center of both a nation and a global empire. Once in Britain, live animals were exhibited for adoring, middle- and upper-class audiences ...

Genealogical Research, Ancestry.com, and Archives 

Garrett, Christine (2009-12-17)
Genealogy is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Until the 1990s, genealogical research was conducted either by visiting at or corresponding with physical repositories. The rise of the Internet, ...

Getting the News and Getting Ahead: Correspondence and News Culture in Early Stuart England 

Jones, Yvette (2015-05-11)
In early seventeenth-century England, court politics and the spread of news were closely connected. Many outside of James I’s inner political circle were deeply concerned with what was happening at the center of power. ...

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 ...

“Girls” in Name Only: A Study of American Red Cross Volunteers On the Frontlines of World War II 

Ramsey, Julia (2011-05-09)
This thesis reviews the wartime contributions and achievements of the women who volunteered for the American Red Cross during World War II driving Clubmobiles along the frontlines in the European theatre. The work posits ...

Globalization and the Auto Industry in the U.S. South 

Mohr, John (2018-07-19)
Since the early 1980s, numerous foreign automakers have built plants to manufacture motor vehicles in the American South. Mercedes, Honda, and Hyundai in Alabama and Kia Motors in Georgia are some examples of this ...

The Gospel Horse in the Valley: Evangelical Slavery and Freedom in the Chattahoochee Valley, 1821-1877 

Barber, Stephen Presley (2011-05-05)
This dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and ...

A “Gruesome Business”: Collecting and Repatriating Pacific Theater War Trophies 

Scheurer, Heather (2015-05-18)
While serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II, American servicemen collected a variety of souvenirs. Some men collected skulls and bones. Other men collected flags, photographs, binoculars, or other personal ...

The History of Alabama State College 

Franklin, Harold (2021-06-04)  ETD File Embargoed
Alabama State College, now Alabama State University, has played an instrumental part in providing exceptional educational opportunities for generations of African Americans in Alabama and beyond. The university has ...

Hoeing out the New South: The Material Culture of the Hoe and the Segregation of Progress 

Kline, Ryan (2020-05-04)
In the New South, the hoe became a symbol, utilized by white southerners, that attempted to primitivize blackness and segregate progress before the solidification of the Jim Crow. The historical relationship curated between ...

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 ...