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2,000 Trees a Day: Work and Life in the American Naval Stores Industry, 1877 to 1940 

Gyllerstrom, Catherine (2014-12-10)
This project explores the lives of nineteenth and early twentieth century naval stores workers in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. After the Civil War, turpentine operators faced a high demand for their product, limited ...

Methodism, the Middle Class, and the New South, 1866-1894 

Bishop, Christopher Michael (2018-07-24)  ETD File Embargoed
This dissertation explores the relationship between the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) and the middle class within the context of the New South. Both the MECS and the southern middle class emerged from the Civil ...

Taking the Stand: Theodore Bilbo's 1946 Senate Hearing and the Complexities of Mississippi's Post-War Civil Rights Struggle 

Wakefield, Zachary L. (2012-04-19)
In the spring of 1946 Theodore Bilbo, campaigning for his second term as United States Senator, called on every “Red-blooded Anglo–Saxon male” in Mississippi to use whatever means necessary to keep African Americans from ...

Unruly Teachers: Florida's Political Culture During the 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike 

Noll, Jody (2014-07-09)
On February 19, 1968 over 27,000 teachers in Florida resigned from their positions as educators. In doing so, these teachers created the country’s first and only statewide teachers’ strike. The teachers who went on strike ...