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Man's Best Friend: Britain, the Great War, and the Making of the Modern Dog
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Author
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Brotze, Blake
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...
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Mary Boleyn: "A Great Whore, Infamous Above All"
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Author
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Plough, Christine
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History
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Description
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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...
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Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
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Author
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Taylor, Emily
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
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Author
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McLain, Denise
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...
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NOBILITY AND WITCHCRAFT IN FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
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Author
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Frye, Lincoln
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...
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NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Author
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Baisley, Richard
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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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...
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Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
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Author
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Doss, Henry
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
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Author
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McManimen, Rachel
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...
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Reclaiming the Unredeemed: Irredentism and the National Schism in Greece's First World War
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Author
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Kinley, Christopher
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Military history, Area studies
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Description
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Greece’s role in the First World War, although short, was characterized by political and social tumult that tore the small country in half, splitting it into two political camps both with their own public supporters. This divide is known as the Na...
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Seeking an Identity: Kabul's Enduring Struggle with Modernization (1960-1979)
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Author
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Durani, Qaisara
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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This thesis analyzed the Kabul Times archive to assess what modernization meant to the elite in Kabul. By examining the period of modernization this paper highlights why Afghans did accept modernization efforts, but shows why Afghan leaders failed...
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Separate and Unequl: Segregation in North Carolina's Asylum System 1856-1905
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Author
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Westpfahl, Jocelyn
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mental health, History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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During its 1874-1875 session, the North Carolina General Assembly founded twonew public asylums to address overcrowding in its only mental health care facility inRaleigh (Dorothea Dix Hospital). The first, in Morganton (Broughton Hospital), wasint...
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Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
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Author
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Moore, Kate
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History
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Description
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An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...