Browsing by Author "Israel, Charles"

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Advancing Progressive Orthodoxy: William Owen Carver and the Reconciliation of Progress and Southern Baptist Tradition

Wilson, Mark (2005-12-15)

One of the most important debates among scholars of southern religion concerns the reaction of white southern evangelical Protestantism to the modernizing influences that prevailed outside the region from the end of the ...

"Alas for the Church of God": Southern Methodist Leaders and the Quest for Ecclesiological Identity, 1844-1876

Markum, Corey (2016-08-19)

This dissertation traces the formation, development, and preservation of a distinctive “southern Methodist” identity by southern Wesleyan leaders during the Civil War era, and describes the tensions faced in seeking to ...

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 ...

Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War

Gourley, Bruce (2008-12-15)

Historians thus far have largely portrayed Baptists in the South as uniformly supportive of the Confederacy and Civil War, other than in regional pockets which exhibited widespread Union sympathy. This study focuses on ...

Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine

Duncan, Christopher (2008-12-15)

The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an updated life-and-times biography of a major religious and political figure in nineteenth-century American history, Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902). Palmer rubbed elbows ...

Choice in C57BL/6n Mice: Behavioral and Pharmacological Mechanisms of Concurrent Schedule Performance

Cummings, Craig (2016-07-25)

Evidence from clinical and laboratory studies converge on the same neurochemical and neuroanatomical substrates underlying choice behavior. The findings suggest that behavioral adjustments in choice procedures are the ...

Denomination and Dissent: Benjamin Franklin Haynes and the Travails of Methodist Identity, 1885-1925

Wood, Andrew (2016-08-05)

This dissertation explores the themes of denomination and dissent in two related denominations, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), and the Church of the Nazarene, using the life of Benjamin Franklin Haynes. A ...

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, ...

In Remembrance: Confederate Funerary Monuments in Alabama and Resistance to Reconciliation, 1884-1923

Davis, Michael (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 ...

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell's Angels: Herb Shreve, Evangelicalism, and the Christian Motorcyclists Association, 1974-1994

Giles, Christopher C. (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 ...

A Meaningful Reality: The Integration of the Opelika, Alabama City School System, 1965-1972

Bagley, Joseph (2007-05-15)

This thesis chronicles and analyzes the integration of the Opelika city school system from the institution of the freedom of choice method of desegregation in 1965 to the court-ordered total integration of the system in ...

Minimum Moral Rights: Alabama Mental Health Institutions And The Road To Federal Intervention

Belcher, Deborah (2008-12-15)

This thesis explores the history of the abuse to the patients in Alabama’s Mental Health Hospitals from 1860 to 1970. It addresses the social norms that encouraged the abuse, the legal aspects that endorsed the abuse, ...

Prophet Without Honor: Hosea Williams and the Anomalies of the Black Freedom Struggle

Rice, Rolundus (2015-05-18)

Examining the life of civil rights activist Hosea Lorenzo Williams’s life illuminates the entire landscape of the civil rights movement from a different vantage point, broadening the familiar geography and chronology of ...

Reconstructing Religious Identity: Southern Baptists and Anti-Catholicism, 1870-1920

Mitchell, David (2012-12-05)

This dissertation examines how Southern Baptists utilized anti-Catholicism to reconstruct their religious identity from 1870-1920. It documents the beliefs, rhetoric, and actions of Baptists as they encountered Catholics ...

Rethinking African American Protest: Freaknik and the Civil Rights Legacy of Atlanta

Stockus, Pete (2012-08-17)

During the late 1980s and early 90s, Atlanta played host to the spring break festival Freaknik. A gathering of Historically Black College and University students and African American youth, Freaknik came to challenge the ...

The Second Reconstruction in Local Politics: Alabama Grassroots Activists Fulfilling the Promise of the Voting Rights Act, 1960-1990

McLemore, Lawrence (2012-12-05)

In arguing that historians expand the timeline for what is considered the modern civil rights movement, this dissertation examines how grassroots Alabama activists affiliated with the Alabama Democratic Conference carried ...