Browsing by Department "History"
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Hoodoo in the Gulf Coast: Empowerment and Protection during the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Black cat bone and Snakes
(2016-05-06)
Hoodoo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provided African Americans with knowledge, protection, and power. Although previous scholarship has focused on the role of different charms and herbal treatments, this ...
In Remembrance: Confederate Funerary Monuments in Alabama and Resistance to Reconciliation, 1884-1923
(2008-05-15)
This thesis will examine Alabama Confederate monuments in terms of their style
and location. In so doing, it explores their connection to the greater memory of the Civil
War in the South. Scholars writing on southern ...
"In Time of Iron-Age: The Choctaw Civil War and the Southern Frontier
(2018-04-23)
This dissertation is the first extended ethnohistorical study of the Choctaw civil war that occurred between 1746 and 1750 CE. Using gender as a primary lens of inquiry, it outlines the mutual intelligibility of Choctaw ...
Inmates Make War: Convict Labor at State Penitentiaries in the Antebellum and Civil War South, 1796-1865
(2018-11-08)
Throughout the antebellum period, Southern state legislators sought to create financially self-sustaining penitentiaries that also reflected modern practice by encouraging inmate rehabilitation through silent reflection ...
The Intent and Fulfillment of the Morrill Act of 1862: A Review of the History of Auburn University and the University of Georgia
(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 ...
Invincible Arrows: Soviet Development and Global Cold War Proliferation of Strela-2/2M Shoulder-Fired Surface-to-Air Missile Technology, 1956-1988
(2023-11-17)
This dissertation offers a comprehensive technological history of the Soviet Strela-2 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile from 1956 to 1988. Part I analyzes the origins of the Strela-2 program in the Soviet Military ...
“It’s Not My History:” The White Counter-Narrative of Selma, Alabama, 1965-2015
(2017-04-20)
Almost immediately after the dust had settled behind the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March, forces within Selma began competing for control of the march’s historical legacy. After the successful passage of the 1965 ...
Jim Crow in the City: Spatial Segregation in Columbus, Georgia, 1890-1944
(2016-05-06)
Between 1890 and 1944 thousands of African Americans moved to Columbus in search of greater economic and social opportunities. Despite Jim Crow laws and the threat of violence, African Americans built a thriving black ...
"Larceny in My Heart": The Abscam Political Scandal, 1978-1983
(2012-11-06)
After the Watergate scandal, the FBI underwent major internal changes. As a result of some of those changes, the organization shifted its focus towards white-collar crime. As Operation Abscam progressed, it seemed as ...
The Law of Love: The Christian Commonwealth Colony, a Utopian Experiment
(2013-11-08)
The Christian Commonwealth Colony existed as a utopian experiment from 1896 to 1900. The group of Christian socialists sought to live by the tenets of Jesus Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. Members gave up their possessions ...
Laying their own Track: Provincial Cities and Urban Development in France, 1851-1918
(2013-05-16)
This thesis examines the role of the railway station in the development and transformation of the provincial city in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, in terms of its effect on the relationship of ...
Letting Teachers Speak: The National History Standards Project and Its Consequences
(2008-05-15)
This thesis examines the National History Standards Project within the context of successive cycles of educational reform. It attempts to illustrate why and how the National History Standards were developed in the 1990s, ...
“Looking for a City”: Community, Politics, and Gay and Lesbian Rights in Atlanta, 1968-1993
(2018-12-03)
“‘Looking for a City’: Community, Politics, and Gay and Lesbian Rights in Atlanta, 1968-1993,” explores the evolution of gay and lesbian communities and the development of lesbian and gay rights in Atlanta, Georgia, from ...
The Lord of the Air: Winston Churchill and the Technocratic British State, 1917-1922
(2018-12-03)
This dissertation examines the evolution of Winston Churchill’s efforts at technocratic reform within the British military from 1917 to 1922. It seeks to understand the roots of Churchill’s technocratic tendencies in the ...
Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)
(2007-08-15)
Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...
'A Louse For A Portion': Early-Eighteenth-Century English Attitudes Towards Scots, 1688-1725
(2008-05-15)
This thesis examines and analyzes Englishmen’s perceptions of Scots during the years between the Revolution of 1688 and the Shawfield Riots of 1725. In 1707, the Scottish Parliament convened for the last time and Scottish ...
Managing the New Deal: Administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
(2012-05-16)
This thesis explores the management and organization of the CCC, the relationship between the participating federal departments, and the development of the administration in the Fourth Corps Area, defined as the geographical ...
A Manifesto of Impossibilities? Workers, Politics, and the History of the Luxembourg Commission, February-May 1848
(2019-05-02)
The Luxembourg Commission was the response of the provisional government of France during the Revolution of 1848 to demands by workers of Paris that the government do something to help alleviate the harsh conditions under ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell's Angels: Herb Shreve, Evangelicalism, and the Christian Motorcyclists Association, 1974-1994
(2016-05-11)
Abstract
Postwar America can be defined as a time of cultural warfare. The Civil Rights Movement, expansion of the federal government, debates on contraceptives, abortion, pornography, and homosexuality are only a few ...
The Master’s Tools Will Do Just Fine: Booker T. Washington, Racial Capitalism, Immigration, and the Utility of Differentiation
(2022-06-23)
Booker T. Washington understood capitalism quite well. It was a system that not only promoted uneven social terrain but depended on such conditions to sustain itself. Washington had an acute grasp on the reality that ...