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- Title
- "Plucking Roses from a Cabbage Patch": Class Dynamics in Progressive Era Louisville as understood through the Contested Relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice
- Author
- Hardman, James
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- American literature, History
- Description
- In 1901, Alice Hegan Rice, a wealthy socialite reformer, published the novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch which dealt her experiences working with the poor. By the end of 1902 her novel had become a national phenomenon and finished the decade a...
- Title
- COMMEMORATING QUEEN CHARLOTTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, 1750 TO 2014
- Author
- Gregory, Bethany
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sex role, History
- Description
- Despite the vast research by historians on Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a person, little research has been conducted on what she meant to the people of regions named in her honor. This thesis seeks to uncover the significance ...
- Title
- Calcutta and J.Z. Holwell, a man on the periphery
- Author
- Branch, William
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- WILLIAM ARMSTRONG BRANCH. J. Z. Holwell, a peripheral man. (Under the direction of Dr. David Johnson) In the middle of the eighteenth century the trading city of Calcutta flourished by exporting three categories of goods; textiles, opium, and salt...
- Title
- Charlotte's Airport Enters The Jet Age: Charlotte Douglas, 1954-1983
- Author
- Ross, Lucas
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- ABSTRACTLUCAS CHARLES ROSS. Charlotte’s airport enters the jet age:Charlotte Douglas, 1954-1983. (Under the direction of DR. MARK WILSON) The history of airports is a neglected topic despite the incredible economic and social changes the world has...
- Title
- Duke and Reynolds: Urban and Regional Development Through Business, Politics, and Philanthropy
- Author
- Dancy, Brianna
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The Industrial Revolution witnessed an increase in wealthy entrepreneurs who were also philanthropists. During this era, James Buchanan (Buck) Duke and Richard Joshua (R.J.) Reynolds led the tobacco production industry in North Carolina. These ind...
- Title
- Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
- Author
- Blattenberger, Philip
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...
- Title
- Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
- Author
- Ortiz, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...
- 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
- Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
- Author
- Nelson, Haley
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Economics
- Description
- From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...
- Title
- Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
- Author
- Moore, Kate
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, History
- Description
- An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
- Title
- THE SURVIVOR’S HUNT FOR NAZI FUGITIVES IN BRAZIL: THE CASES OF FRANZ STANGL AND GUSTAV WAGNER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
- Author
- McLain, Kyle
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history, History
- Description
- On April 23, 1978, Brazilian authorities arrested Gustav Wagner, a former Nazi internationally wanted for his crimes committed during the Holocaust. Despite a confirming witness and petitions from West Germany, Israel, Poland and Austria, the Braz...
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- “THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
- Author
- Howell, Randi
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
- Description
- Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...