Browsing by Author "Sippial, Tiffany"

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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 ...

‘The Best of Friends and Neighbors’: USIA and American Public Diplomacy Strategy in Cuba, 1953-1962

Montford, Hector (2016-05-06)

This dissertation examines the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) public diplomacy strategy in Cuba from 1953 to 1962 through both the agency’s United States Information Service (USIS) field office on the island and ...

Inmates Make War: Convict Labor at State Penitentiaries in the Antebellum and Civil War South, 1796-1865

Derbes, Brett (2018-11-08)

Throughout the antebellum period, Southern state legislators sought to create financially self-sustaining penitentiaries that also reflected modern practice by encouraging inmate rehabilitation through silent reflection ...

Memory’s Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910

Pettus, Ian (2024-04-29) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation focuses on elite ex-Confederates who relocated to New York City after the Civil War, arguing that they demonstrate the importance of post-war migrations to the spread of the Lost Cause. Industrialization ...

Mental Models and Institutional Change in the U.S. Air Force from the Cold War through the Gulf War

Swartzer, Andrew (2020-07-16) ETD File Embargoed

Following more than twenty years of debate, and after a bitter fight for independence from the Army, the United States Air Force was established as separate military service on September 18, 1947. The following spring, ...

S(ex)pression: Sexuality and Gender Oppression in Dirty War Argentina

Burns, Kaitlin (2011-07-28)

The period of conflict known as the Dirty War was a pointedly sexual oppression inflicted on the people of Argentina by their fledgling militant government. For these adolescent powers that lacked political legitimacy, ...

Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996

Pequignot, Jennifer (2019-04-23)

In 1947 “a diamond is forever” became the official slogan of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited and is to date one of the most recognizable slogans in the history of American advertising. This dissertation utilizes ...

Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood: Twentieth Century Black Female Intellectuals and the Development of Intersectional Thought

London, Gwendolyn (2023-08-03) ETD File Embargoed

“Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood” seeks to create an intellectual genealogy for the theory of intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influential articles, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black ...