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Title: The Appalachian Regional Commission's Use of Tourism as an Economic Development Tool in Eastern Kentucky: 1965 - Present
Author: Matthews, Taylor
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, History
Description: A federal agency that was established during the War on Poverty, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to help develop the Appalachian region through economic development initiatives and improve residents’ quality of life. Critics have c...

Title: The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
Author: Kane, Sean
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Despite the plethora of works on the American Revolution and the Cherokee, few scholars have placed the Cherokee within the context of the Revolution. This thesis explores the often overlooked history of the Cherokee during last quarter of the eig...

Title: The Catholic Church and the Free Womb Law in Recife, PE, Brazil: An Analysis of Its Social Development, 1870-1878
Author: Andrade Diniz de Araujo, Maria Paula
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: This research examines the role of the Catholic Church in the Brazilian Northeastern city of Recife with the advent of the Free Womb Law, in 1871. It delves into the complex dynamics of the Church and the children the law affected. That way, this ...

Title: The Champions of Popular Rights: North Carolina’s Political Reformation, 1850-1862
Author: Holt, Bradley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In the decade before the American Civil War, North Carolina voters embarked on a path to remake state politics and government in a manner beneficial to the non-plantation owning class of white men. Politically educated and mobilized through newspa...

Title: The Chicago Resettlers' Committee and Chicago Japanese American Resettlement
Author: Kojima, Jordan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: As Japanese Americans left the World War II internment camps, many people migrated to the Midwest, and a large Japanese American community gathered in Chicago. During the early postwar years, the Chicago Resetters’ Committee assisted and helped re...

Title: The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
Author: Barnett, Melissa
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...

Title: The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Author: Del Giudice, Erin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
Description: Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...

Title: The Fighter Mafia: Vietnam, The Fighter Jet, and the Future of the Air Force
Author: Hubard, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: This thesis examines the role of fighter pilots and their shared culture in the United States Air Force. This thesis argues that as a result of the Vietnam War, fighter pilots fought back against the traditional power structures of the Air Force t...

Title: The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
Author: Stroud, Lucinda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...

Title: The Greatest Enemy? Smallpox, Elimination, and Politics in Mexico, 1942-1970
Author: Nichols, Marissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health
Description: In the 1940s, the Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA- Secretariat of Health and Welfare) hoped to unify Mexico to eliminate smallpox from within its borders. In 1952, Mexico had achieved that goal, but the year marked a significant shift i...

Title: The Jewish Problem: Anti-Semitic Admissions Quotas in Southern U.S. Medical Schools, 1920s-1960s
Author: Marks, Taylor
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Judaism--Study and teaching, History, Area studies
Description: Anti-Semitism and worldwide Jewish immigration quotas informed the implementation of Jewish quotas in medical schools around the country from the 1920s to the 1960s. While many are aware of immigration quotas and the anti-Semitism that ran rampant...

Title: The New Orleans Citizens Committee: Unheralded Activists who Challenged Jim Crow in Plessy v. Ferguson
Author: Kinny, Paul
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: The Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890 required that White and African-American passengers ride in separate railcars. Eighteen leaders of the New Orleans Afro-Creole community formed the Citizens Committee for the purpose of initiating a legal cas...

Title: The New World Meets the Old: German-Americans and the Temperance Struggle in Ohio, 1870 - 1875
Author: Sorensen, Niles
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: AbstractNiles Sorensen. The New World Meets the Old: German-Americans and the Temperance Struggle in Ohio, 1870 – 1875 (Under the Direction of Dr. John David Smith) In the middle decades of the nineteenth century more than 3,000,000 immigrants arr...

Title: The Origin and History of the Cenacle on Mount Zion: An Examination of the Textual, Artistic, and Archaeological Evidence
Author: Clausen, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, History--Religious aspects, Archaeology
Description: Scholars have, for nearly a century, theorized about the origins of the building known as the Cenacle on southwestern Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Some suggest that it represents the surviving remnants of either or both of the large-scale churches tha...

Title: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
Author: Almengor, Candie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century is a case study among many Latin American countries’ desire to display modernity in an attempt to rid of any uncivilized notoriety. This thesis juxtaposes Guatemal...

Title: The South Carolina Black Code and Its Legacy
Author: McIntyre, Larry
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In December 1865 the South Carolina State Legislature ratified a series of laws designed to control the social and economic futures of the freedpeople. Informally known as the Black Code, South Carolina’s white leadership claimed these laws protec...

Title: The Warrior and the Maiden: The Participation and Representations of Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous in the Greek Revolution
Author: Mastrokolias, Olympia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Sex role, History, Modern
Description: This thesis explores the participation and representations of two popular and exceptional heroines of the Greek Revolution of 1821-1832, Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous, and how their legacies have been used as symbols of nationalism by...

Title: The effects of urban renewal on African Americans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the case of the Brooklyn neighborhood: 1960-1974.
Author: Hijazi, Khalid
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The federal urban renewal program, which was created as part of the Housing Act of 1949, was designed to provide cities with money to rehabilitate their infrastructure by replacing old decaying buildings and blighted inner city areas. Almost in ev...

Title: Thinking About the Children: Juvenile Justice Reform and Racial Disparities in Charlotte, NC, 1990-2021
Author: Gates, Douglas
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis explores the relationship between elected officials, juvenile justice advocates, non-profit organizations, and major juvenile justice reform laws. This thesis utilizes a combination of top-down and history-from-below historical approac...

Title: This Generation Will Not Pass Away Before All These Things Take Place
Author: Cataldo, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, Religion, Theology
Description: This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by recasting it as fulfilled. Jesus’ return from heaven, also known as the Parousia,...