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- Title
- "And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
- Author
- Wilds, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- Following World War II, eugenics became associated with Nazis abuses, leading many States to end their eugenics programs. North Carolina was a rare exception to this trend. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized over 7,600 people, the ma...
- 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
- 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
- Doctors in Dictatorship: An Oral History Approach to the Chilean Medical Body’s Role in Regime Change.
- Author
- Urrutia, Ana
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History, Labor economics
- Description
- From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional authority and power. Working both collectively through their professional associ...
- 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
- 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
- RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
- Author
- Winful, Olawunmi
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology, Area studies, History
- Description
- Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...
- Title
- RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
- Author
- Moore, Mary
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies, History
- Description
- This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...
- Title
- Reclaiming the Unredeemed: Irredentism and the National Schism in Greece's First World War
- Author
- Kinley, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Military history, Area studies
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- SOMBRAS EN VIDEOJUEGOS: VIRTUAL TOURISM AND COLD WAR REPRESENTATION IN TACTICAL SHOOTERS
- Author
- Hawkins, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- In 2018, Newzoo reported video games as a 135 billion USD industry selling millions of units each year around the globe which also create a response in the real world as Venezuela’s prohibition on violent video games in 2009 reveals. I argue that ...
- 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
- 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 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 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
- We Are Paraguayan: Construction of Paraguayan National Identity Through Guaraní Language Use, 1814-1870
- Author
- Hanna, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- This research project examines the creation of the Paraguayan national identity from 1814 to 1870 as a mestizo, Guaraní-speaking people. It explores the language ideology of the Paraguayan government, which placed importance on Guaraní versus Span...