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Title: A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
Author: Hunt, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Slavs--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The United States has been involved in humanitarian assistance missions since the late nineteenth century. However, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration (ARA) was the first organization that combined the abilities of several smaller org...

Title: City of Racers: The Growth of the NASCAR Industry in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1949-2000
Author: Gable, Bryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study explores the development of the NASCAR industry in the city of Charlotte and its surrounding region through the second half of the twentieth century. I argue that NASCAR and Charlotte were seeking the same goals in the late twentieth ce...

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...