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Title: Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author: Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description: During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...

Title: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm
Author: Feemster, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description: ABSTRACTDr. RYAN BENSON FEEMSTER: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm (Un...

Title: Indigenous Rights at the Crossroads of Development and Environmental Protection in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
Author: Walton, Leah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: On September 25, 2011, Bolivia garnered international attention when federal police violently attacked the camp of indigenous protestors marching against the construction of a highway through the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécur...

Title: Jackboots, White Hoods, and the White Bible: The Fusion of the KKK, American Nazis, and Christian Identity
Author: Wood, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Political science, History
Description: During the tumultuous twentieth century, three visually and dogmatically distinct white supremacist movements came together to bring forth a mostly unified front against their common enemies—integration, miscegenation, and various elaborate fictio...

Title: Lorain: Ohio's First Colonia - A Blueprint for Midwestern Mexican Migration
Author: King, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Within this piece, I am arguing that Mexican migration to the Midwest in the early twentieth century is highly overlooked in literature. Most often, the historiography deals with characteristics that typify the Southwest, and I assert that Mexican...

Title: MEMORIAL CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA: FILMIC DEPICTIONS OF THE DIRTY WARS IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO
Author: PAIVA DE ARAUJO, SOFIA
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Motion pictures, Area studies, History
Description: Notably, the authoritarian regimes of Latin America during the Cold War have been discussed not only in the academy but also by the arts. The conflicts and violence of the period have been depicted in several plays, performances, testimonios, memo...

Title: Man's Best Friend: Britain, the Great War, and the Making of the Modern Dog
Author: Brotze, Blake
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The long nineteenth century and World War I greatly changed people's lives across Europe. The birth and subsequent rise of the middle class in industrialized nations significantly altered societies and cultures. In countries such as the British Em...

Title: Mary Boleyn: "A Great Whore, Infamous Above All"
Author: Plough, Christine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: This thesis is a case study that explores the life and influence of Mary Boleyn, royal mistress to King Henry VIII from 1522-1525. The intent is to present an analysis of primary documents in combination with secondary sources, which provide cruci...

Title: Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author: Taylor, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...

Title: Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
Author: McLain, Denise
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In 1851, the North Carolina Lutheran Synod (NCLS) selected the small, remote village of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina as its center for secondary education. Mount Pleasant Female Academy’s future was uncertain, at best, when it opened as a finish...

Title: Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Blattenberger, Philip
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
Description: For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...

Title: More Than Just the Backbone? Women in Loyalist and Republican Paramilitary Organizations During the Northern Irish Troubles, 1969-1998
Author: Wood, Tabitha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Northern Irish Troubles lasted for almost thirty years, from 1969 to 1998. Variousscholars have studied many aspects of this conflict, but women in loyalist and republican paramilitaries are often overlooked. This thesis seeks to rectify the o...

Title: NOBILITY AND WITCHCRAFT IN FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Author: Frye, Lincoln
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Between 1419 and 1536, five English noble women, including three queen consorts, stood accused of witchcraft: Joan of Navarre, queen of Henry IV; Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester; Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford and Countess River...

Title: NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Author: Baisley, Richard
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, History
Description: The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...

Title: Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Author: Marshall, Sylvia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description: On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on public transportation, Parks' arrest sparked a carefully organized thirteen-month ...

Title: Opposition and Reaction: The Union of Democratic Control, The Press, and the British Government's Suppression of Dissent During The First World War
Author: Steigerwald, Alison
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Union of Democratic Control (UDC) formed after Britain entered the First World War against the Central Powers on August 4, 1914. The British government argued that it joined the war to uphold international laws and prevent Germany from taking ...

Title: PERSECUTION AND PERSEVERANCE: BLACK-WHITE INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Moore, Casey
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Although black-white interracial marriage has been legal across the United States since 1967, its rate of growth has historically been slow, accounting for less than eight percent of all interracial marriages in the country by 2010. This slow rate...

Title: Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
Author: Ortiz, Nicholas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...

Title: Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
Author: Doss, Henry
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
Description: ABSTRACTThis thesis examines the claim that the 14th century experienced a dramatic change in how poverty is understood and addressed in society. This shift can be understood as a long-term social dialectic – one that arcs toward synthesis, but te...

Title: Popular Purity: Change Over Time in the Racial Views of H.P Lovecraft, and the Spectrum of Racial Ideas as Promoted by Popular Culture: 1917-1936
Author: Nance, Logan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, Literature
Description: Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a prominent horror author of the 1920s and 1930s, who helped pioneer the cosmic horror genre. Lovecraft’s racism is well known, but most of the literature on Lovecraft is from literary scholars, not historians, and th...