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Genealogical Research, Ancestry.com, and Archives 

Garrett, Christine (2009-12-17)
Genealogy is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Until the 1990s, genealogical research was conducted either by visiting at or corresponding with physical repositories. The rise of the Internet, ...

The Intent and Fulfillment of the Morrill Act of 1862: A Review of the History of Auburn University and the University of Georgia 

Wade, Kathryn (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 ...

Letting Teachers Speak: The National History Standards Project and Its Consequences 

Siebenthaler, Donna (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, ...

The Presidential Records Act of 1978: Its Development From the Right to Know and the Public's Demand for Federal Records Ownership 

Burge, Kevin (2008-05-15)
The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 established public ownership of presidential records, erasing the previous tradition of presidents retaining records ownership. In 1974, Richard Nixon broke with tradition by ...

Setting the Table With Bibles: A History of the Non-Aligned, Non-Class Churches of Christ 

Chandler, Dana (2008-12-15)
This study seeks to explore the non-aligned, non-class Church of Christ, a particular movement within the Churches of Christ\Disciples of Christ, which has never been recognized as a separate and independent part of the ...

Vanishing Georgia Photographic Collection: The Discovery of Georgia's Historical Photographs and the Expansion of Public Access 

Frazier, Robin (2010-05-19)
This thesis documents the Vanishing Georgia Photographic Collection through three distinct phases: the collection of images, the publication of a book based on the collection, and the digitization of the images for broader ...