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Browsing by Department "History"
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“100 Dollars and Other Valuable Considerations”
(2022-04-20)Land and homeownership are topics of much debate, concern, and intervention in modern Black political thought. Discussion of Black land loss, while longitudinal in scope, often places the origins of Black land ownership ... -
A Constitutional Crisis: The Kentucky Court of Appeals Schism, 1824-1826
(2010-04-23)This thesis examines Kentucky’s tumultuous political history from 1824 to 1826. Prompted by power struggles between the legislature and judiciary, a court schism ensued. Dueling judicial bodies, the “Old Court” versus ... -
A Diplomatic Sequel to the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870): United States President Rutherford B. Hayes' 1878 Arbitration for Paraguay and Argentina
(2022-04-20)Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), the 19th United States (U.S) President, served as arbiter in 1878 for Paraguay and Argentina when the countries’ governments disputed a portion of the South American Grand Chaco after the ... -
"A New England in All But Name"
(2022-04-20)“Settler colonialism” emerged as an analytical tool in the twentieth century as scholars attempted to both understand and reckon with the history of colonization. It describes a distinct means of conquest that relies on ... -
"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
(2014)Between 1890 and 1965, the ideology of government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy ... -
A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1940
(2012)This dissertation is a legal history of debt and economic life in the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It draws on materials from Bahrain, Muscat, Bombay, Zanzibar and London to examine how ... -
"A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote": Street Protest and Electoral Politics in Caracas, Venezuela before Hugo Chavez
(2009)On 23 January 1958, Marcos Pérez Jiménez was ousted in a "democratic revolution" whose emblematic images featured a vast public housing project built by the dictator in the heart of in downtown Caracas, next to the Presidential ... -
Actions and Receptions of the Knights Templar from 1118-1192
(2019-04-15)In 1118, a quasi-monastic military order known as the Knights Templar was founded in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. Church leaders saw this organization as an opportunity to inspire the religiosity of the crusading movement. ... -
All in the Same Boat: Fighting for Capital in Gadsden, Alabama, 1900-Present
(2020)Following World War II, in the estimate of the Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (CIO), one out of every six people in the city of Gadsden, Alabamabelonged to the union, making it the “best organized CIO city in the US.” ... -
“All War Arrangements are but Schools in Patience”: The North Carolina Council of Defense and the Associational State, 1917-1919
(2022)This dissertation explores the creation, structure, activities, and impact of the North Carolina Council of Defense during the First World War. Its story, while particular to a single state and its people, also illuminates ... -
American Perceptions of Sino-Soviet Relations: 1944 - 1963
(2018-04-13)For the first half of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and China were perceived by many within the U.S. government to be a monolithic communist bloc. However, the development of the Sino-Soviet Split proved monolithic communism ... -
An Army of the Willing: Fayette'Nam, Soldier Dissent, and the Untold Story of the All-Volunteer Force
(2015)Using Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, North Carolina, as a local case study, this dissertation examines the GI dissent movement during the Vietnam War and its profound impact on the ending of the draft and establishment of ... -
Anticipating Freedom: Slave Rebellion, Amelioration, and Emancipation in Barbados, 1816-1838
(2022)Anticipating Freedom explores the numerous ways enslaved and freedpeople shaped the politics and policies of gradual emancipation in the British Empire, using Barbados as a case study. It binds antislavery debates, legislative ... -
'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977
(2013)The US Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an organization of the Black Power Movement, a cultural and a political nationalist movement central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black Panthers' ... -
Automating Violence: A History of United States Drone Warfare, 1900-1970
(2022)Drones may appear a recent technology whose future may have just barely started. But drone technology’s development and the rationales for their adoption extend back over a century ago to weapons called “pilotless airplanes” ... -
Babel On the Hudson: Community Formation in Dutch Manhattan
(2007-05-10)This dissertation focuses on New Amsterdam, the small port town at the tip of Manhattan Island that became the capital for the Dutch colony of New Netherland. It addresses two of the most entrenched stereotypes regarding ... -
Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Trials in Early Modern Spain, 1525-1675
(2016)This dissertation challenges depictions of witchcraft as a sensational or disruptive phenomenon, presenting witch beliefs instead as organically woven into everyday community life, religious beliefs, and village culture. ... -
Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
(2015)My dissertation examines the presence of enslaved prisoners in local jails and workhouses of antebellum South Carolina from 1730-1850 with a particular focus on the 1790s as a transformative period. Those sites expose the ...
