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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 Study of Micro-Artifacts Extracted in Archaeological Flotation from the Mount Zion Excavations as the Basis for an Assessment of the Historicity of Josephus’ Description of the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
Author: Stumpff, William
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The Siege of Jerusalem 70 C.E. left the city absolutely destroyed with the remaining Jewish population fleeing the city. The siege caused famine, death, and the end of the Second Temple period. With the destruction of the city, many historical doc...

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: Two days and seventy years: sites of memories and silences from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the United States
Author: Hawks, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: My primary goal for this thesis was to investigate current American and Japanese practices of remembrance about the atomic bombings and to trace cross-cultural influences on the commemorations and narratives. On the surface, these narratives and p...

Title: Underground Circles and Clandestine Romance: Queer Resistance under the Third Reich
Author: Roberson, Keira
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, History
Description: This study proposes a framework through which to examine queer resistance and oppositional behaviors under oppression and persecution, such as the Nazi regime. Under the Weimar Republic, queer circles coalesced into communities that developed a de...

Title: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE: AL-NAKBA AS A STRUCTURE IN THE PRESERVATION OF IDENTITY AND PALESTINIAN CONCIOUSNESS
Author: Hasian, Adam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Israelis recognize the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a war of independence. For the Palestinians, it is known as al-Nakba—the "Catastrophe". The war helped create the state of Israel while displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. However, ...

Title: War in the Shadows: IRA Intimidation and Assassination, 1919-1921
Author: Cannady, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: This work addresses a gap in the historiography of the Irish revolution: the use of intimidation and assassination by the IRA. Although some studies have focused on whether IRA assassinations were justified, little scholarship exists about their e...

Title: War of the Words: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Revolutionary Mexico during the Great War
Author: Needham, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In August 1914, Mexico was between war and revolution. The defeat of Victoriano Huerta marked a turning point in the Mexican Revolution as Venustiano Carranza came to power. At the same time, Britain severed German telegraph cables to the Americas...

Title: Wilmington Student Stories: Violence and Desegregation in the US South, 1968-1971
Author: Johnson, Sydney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the end of January into the beginning of February 1971, Black students led a boycott of New Hanover and Hoggard High Schools in Wilmington, North Carolina. These events resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of ten individuals who became...

Title: Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
Author: Tandy, Hannah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, American literature
Description: This study asked if there was evidence of Thomas E. Watson’s (1856-1922) shifting racial views in the histories he published between 1899 and 1912. Watson is famous for his integrated populist campaigns of the early to mid-1890s, and infamous for ...

Title: you ain't from around here, are you? a biographical study of harry golden and history of his quest for tolerance and justice in the state of north carolina
Author: Sullivan, Michael
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In the summer of 1941, a thirty-nine year old ex-convict from New York City, that just months earlier changed his name from Harry Goldhurst to Harry Golden, stepped off a bus at the main terminal in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Although he ...

Title: ‘Worked for the Sheer Love of It’: Women’s Belonging and Adversity in the Black Mountain College Art Department, 1941-1954.
Author: Oliver, Brigitte
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, History
Description: In 1941 and 1944, two women arrived as art students at the progressive and experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. There, under the college’s mission, experienced a progressive education model influenced by John Dewey. As they moved...

Title: “AN ABYSS OF ANARCHY, NIHILISM, AND DESPAIR”: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ANARCHISTS IN BRITAIN
Author: Jutila, Alexander
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Studies on historical representations of anarchists tend to focus on terrorist depictions and how they compare to the actual activities of the anarchist movement. Using British print media, this thesis explores other political, cultural, and socia...

Title: “Canary in the Coal Mine”: The Relationship Between the United States and Chinese Mexicans, 1882-1933
Author: Telljohann, Paul
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: When the Chinese Exclusion Act barred most Chinese immigrants from entering the United States, many opted to instead settle within northern Mexico. Despite the harsh environment, Chinese migrants successfully adapted to their new homeland, where t...

Title: “HOW COULD LOVE BE WRONG?” GAY ACTIVISM AND AIDS IN CHARLOTTE, 1970-1992
Author: Wright, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History, Queer studies
Description: ABSTRACTCHRISTINA ANNE WRIGHT. "How could love be wrong?" Gay activism and AIDS in Charlotte, 1970-1992. (Under the direction of DR. CHERYL HICKS) Sustained gay activism in Charlotte, North Carolina, only emerged in response to the HIV AIDS epidem...

Title: “International House, Where Charlotte Welcomes the World:” A Case Study of an Immigrant-Serving Nonprofit in an Emerging Global Gateway City, 1980-2010
Author: Rhinehart, Madison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The city of Charlotte saw a substantial increase in international diversity beginning in the late 1980s. Since that time, the city developed into what is termed a Global Gateway City, becoming home to a population that is 16.4% foreign-born. Paral...

Title: “Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
Author: Carpenter, Layne
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Law, History
Description: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...

Title: “Not Negroes Nor Slaves But Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade.
Author: Cullinan, Brian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines the role of free people of color in the colonial Indian trade in England’s southern American colonies, primarily Virginia and the Carolinas, from the1640s to that trade’s decline in the colonial southeast by the early 1770s. F...