Browsing by Author "Blair, Melissa"

As part of the pulpit in the early republic, female preachers created their own identities separate from the domestic sphere by forging successful careers as religious authorities speaking in public. Bolstered by a growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an attempt to fill a void in the historical literature on gay rights, student activism, and the South by examining the recognition of and responses to gay and lesbian focused student organizations at Alabama state ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...