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Browsing by Subject "American history"
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A Beautiful Noise: A History of Contemporary Worship Music in Modern America
(2015)How did rock and roll, the best music for worshipping the devil, become the finest music for worshipping God? This study narrates the import of rock music into church sanctuaries across America via the rise of contemporary ... -
After Eden: Religion and Labor in the American West, 1868-1914
(2018)Variously romanticized as the repository of American Protestantism, free market capitalism, and self-sufficient individualism, or defined by material actions of conquest and colonization, the history of the Rocky Mountain ... -
“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 ... -
'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' ... -
At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz
(2015)At the Vanguard of Vinyl investigates the jazz industry's adoption of the long-playing record (LP), 1948-1960. The technological advancements of the LP, along with the incipient use of magnetic tape recording, made it feasible ... -
Caring for Korea: Engendering War and Aid in the American Century
(2021)“Caring for Korea” examines American relief work during and following the Korean War (1950-1953), and the way that humanitarianism shaped American Cold War approaches to empire. Centering aid workers, I highlight the lives ... -
Conservatism, Culture, and the Military: The U.S. Army 1973 to 1991
(2019)This dissertation explores the revitalization of the U.S. army during the two decades following the Vietnam War. It questions how the army went from a nearly broken institution in the early 1970s to, arguably, one of the ... -
Cultures of Emotion: Families, Friends, and the Making of the United States
(2018)“Cultures of Emotion: Families, Friends, and the Making of the United States” explores the centrality of families to the new republic’s economy and governing institutions in the post-Revolutionary period. In so doing, my ... -
Designer Science: A History of Intelligent Design in America
(2021)Designer Science: A History of Intelligent Design in America undertakes the first full-length historical overview of the intelligent design movement (ID), a popular and influential antievolutionary ideology prominent at ... -
Eruditio et Religio: A Comparative History of Religious Life on Four Campuses
(2018)This dissertation examines the relationship between religion and higher education in the United States through analyses of the religious histories of four distinct educational institutions in North Carolina’s Research ... -
From Wastelands to Wetlands: The Story of Coastal Wetlands in the United States
(2023-04-26)Covering about 40 million acres of the United States, coastal wetlands are incredibly important ecosystems for humans and non-humans alike. Each year, coastal wetlands provide significant benefits due to their ability to ... -
Gatecrashers: The First Generation of Outsider Artists in America
(2015)Although interest in the work of untrained artists has surged recently, appearing everywhere from the Venice Biennale to The New Yorker, the art world’s fascination with American autodidacts began nearly a century ago. My ... -
GIs and 'Jeep Girls': Sex and American Soldiers in Wartime China
(Journal of Modern Chinese History, 2019)This article examines how sex affected the larger politics of the Sino–US alliance during World War II. By early 1945, Chinese from across the social spectrum resented the US military presence, but just one issue sparked ... -
If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
(2014)In Selma, Alabama in 1965, local African Americans partnered with civil rights organizations to stage a movement for voting rights. The beating of peaceful black marchers by white state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... -
"Into the Mainstream and Oblivion": Julian Mayfield's Black Radical Tradition, 1948-1984
(2018)“Into the Mainstream and Oblivion” is a study of the intellectual and political biography of the African American writer and political activist Julian Hudson Mayfield. As a member of the black Left, Mayfield’s life of activism ... -
Knowledge and Conversion in the Making of Western History, a Philosophical Investigation
(2023)In academia in general, and in the humanistic social sciences in particular, there is a problem. The "cruel optimism" of concepts is a problem faced by every specialization, and every discipline (Berlant 2011). In the social ... -
Learning (Re)formation: An Ethnographic Study of Theological Vision and Educational Praxis at Grand Rapids Christian Schools
(2015)The West Michigan Dutch enclave of the Christian Reformed Church has made private, Christian education a centerpoint of its tradition. While Horace Mann was advocating for national common schools, forming youth into civil ... -
National Crimes and Southern Horrors: Trans-Atlantic Conversations about Race, Empire, and Civilization, 1880-1900
(2011)National Crimes and Southern Horrors examines the contested meanings of the terms civilization, race, and empire in trans-Atlantic conversations during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that understanding ... -
Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in Nineteenth-Century America
(2017)“Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in Nineteenth-Century America” examines how daily practices of food production and distribution shaped the development of New Orleans’ public culture in the long nineteenth ... -
Photography Otherwise: Denaturing Colonial Visualities in Contemporary Native American Art
(2023)The visual representation of Indigenous North American peoples in contemporary visual culture continues to rely on romanticized images drawn from early twentieth century salvage ethnography surveys, presenting Indigenous ...
