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Title: Bastion of the Dispossessed: The Free People of Color's Fluid Identities Across the Haitian Revolution
Author: Hill, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: Take a step back in time to the western half of the island named Saint Domingue in the 1780s, a place we now call Haiti. In 1785, the island produced more sugar and coffee than any other colony in the western hemisphere. French colonial administra...

Title: BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Author: Gallemore, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...

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: FORMULATING A REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY, 1776-1788: THE INFLUENCE OF MILITARY EXPERIENCE ON THE RATIFICATION DEBATES
Author: Gann, Gregory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACTGREGORY CHARLES GANN JR. Formulating a revolutionary ideology, 1776-1788: the influence of military experience on the ratification debates. (Under the direction of DR. DANIEL DUPRE)Throughout the War of Independence, nationalist forces tra...

Title: "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author: Ervin, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...

Title: BOHEMIAN NATIONALISM AND THE IMPACT OF CZECH AND SLOVAK NATIONALS ABROAD ON THE EMERGENCE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Author: Stouse, Eugene
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines the emergence of Czechoslovakia in Central Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes the nationalist views of the expatriates who immigrated to the U.S. from Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesi...

Title: Battle of the Press: The Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, 1828-1833
Author: Pack, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study focuses on the role of the press during the Nullification Crisis in SouthCarolina. It examines how the Charleston Mercury and the Charleston Courier usedideas centered around economics, states’ rights and honor to convince South Carolin...

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: 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: That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
Author: Riley, Susan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, American literature, History
Description: When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...

Title: Tate Street That Great Street: Culture, Community, and Memory in Greensboro, North Carolina
Author: Pasquini, Ian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: Tate Street represents a cultural center in Greensboro, North Carolina. This work outlines the varying social groups, organizations, and institutions that defined Tate Street’s cultural identity between 1960 and 1990. Tate’s venues and spaces acte...

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...