Browsing by Author "Braund, Kathryn"

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The Baptist Frontier: Isaac McCoy, Indian Missions, and the Making of a Denomination

Williams, Daniel (2017-10-30)

This dissertation explains how the missions to Native American tribes run by Isaac McCoy in the Old Northwest (Indiana and Michigan Territory) shaped the development of the Baptist denomination in the early American republic ...

Between a Nation and a Country: the Creek Nation, the United States, and the Life of James Moore

Robinson, Matthew (2019-04-18)

This thesis examines the life of James Moore, an Indian countryman who lived nearly fifty years in the Creek Nation. A study of Moore’s life offers insight into the massive changes that the Creek Nation endured in the first ...

Cherokees, Creeks, and Charlestonians: The Colonial World of James Grant, 1757-1771

McGaughy, Joseph T (2020-04-15) ETD File Embargoed

The following study provides a revisionist interpretation of the career of James Grant, an officer in the British army during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and subsequently governor of the new colony of East Florida ...

Civil War and Reconstruction Era Cass/Bartow County, Georgia

Hebert, Keith (2007-05-15)

A "white men’s democracy" profoundly shaped aspects of pre-industrial Cass/Bartow County, Georgia’s social, economic, and political landscape. Following the removal of the Cherokee from northwest Georgia, white settlers ...

Drawn Into Unknown Lands: Frontier Travel and Possibility in Early American Literature

Spradlin, Derrick (2005-12-15)

This dissertation explores the symbolic meanings contained in literary depictions of journeys to the American frontier written during the late 1700s and early 1800s. I argue that these depictions work to create and advance ...

The Impact of Authentic Pedagogy on Student Learning in Tenth Grade History Courses

Maddox, Lamont (2012-02-27)

This mixed-methods study examined the impact of varying levels of authentic pedagogy on student learning in 9th and 10th grade history classrooms. The sample included four junior high teachers and four high school teachers. ...

"In Time of Iron-Age: The Choctaw Civil War and the Southern Frontier

Sparacio, Matthew (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 ...

Indianness and Womanhood: Textualizing the Female American Self

Rex, Cathy (2008-08-15)

This dissertation focuses on the intricate relationship between Indianness and the formation of a uniquely new identity in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—that of the American woman writer. ...

The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors

Klein, John (2015-05-08)

The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II ...

'My goal will ever be to make history popular': Peter Brannon's Quest for Alabama History

Neeley, Graham (2018-04-23)

Peter Alexander Brannon (1882-1967) was a noteworthy figure in Alabama history during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Throughout his fifty-year career at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Brannon ...

Patriarchy on the Gallows

Trevino, Ethan (2007-12-15)

One of the most telling ways to examine society in the early modern era is to read the pleadings of the indicted. Typically taking the form of written petitions to the monarch, the pleadings are indicative of the place ...

The Removal of the Creek Indians from the Southeast, 1825-1838

Haveman, Christopher D. (2009-08-07)

This dissertation examines the removal of approximately twenty-three thousand Creek Indians from Alabama and Georgia to present-day Oklahoma between 1825 and 1838. At its height, the Creek Nation encompassed most of the ...

The Scottish Episcopal Church: Religious Conflict in the Late Stuart Period

Fox, Paul, II (2013-07-17)

In 1689 the Scottish Parliament overthrew the Church of Scotland’s Episcopal government and replaced it with a Presbyterian church structure. Traditionally, historians have interpreted these events as evidence of the ...

The Sehoy Legacy: Kinship, Gender, and Property in a Tensaw Creek Community, 1783-1851

Colvin, Mary Alexandrea (2019-04-18)

In 1783, Alexander McGillivray and his sister, Sophia Durant, migrated to the Tensaw Delta with a herd of cattle and forty enslaved laborers to establish a plantation on the periphery of Creek territory adjoining Spanish ...

"Souls in the Treetops:" Cherokee War, Masculinity, and Community, 1760-1820

Abram, Susan Marie (2009-07-31)

This dissertation focuses upon the rapid changes Cherokees underwent during the early national period in American history. They dealt with challenges that presented in a variety of ways but did not always agree upon ...

Stitching Individuality Through Conformity: Reading Samplers from the Sarah Stivours Embroidery School

Bowden, Antonia (2007-05-15)

From the years 1778 to 1794 Sarah Stivours taught Salem, Massachusetts girls the art of sampler-making. Sent to the school to hone their embroidery skills, these affluent young women created needleworks that are wholly ...

"Yr most obedt. Servt.": Eliza Lucas's Epistolary Voice and the Construction of a Southern Female Identity

Iden, Kirsten (2010-04-08)

Since the first publication of her Letterbook in 1972, Eliza Lucas Pinckney has become one of the most anthologized southern women of America’s early history. In addition to making an appearance in almost every historical ...