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Title: Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author: Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description: During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...

Title: Sisterhood: The Role of Female Friendship among Allied Nurses in the Second World War
Author: Wyatt, Carter
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This paper shows how allied military nurses utilized female friendship during the Second World War. This study examines the experiences of nurses stationed in hospitals, field hospitals, ships, and prisoner of war camps. It examines how the nurses...

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: Avatar: The Last Airbender: Lessons in Recognizing and Resisting Imperialism
Author: Woodford, Kalei
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: English literature, History, Motion pictures
Description: In the modern world, we are constantly fed misinformation and biased information. The press is controlled by the state in many countries like the United States and Russia. These governments have the power to start wars, imprison whomever they deem...

Title: Jackboots, White Hoods, and the White Bible: The Fusion of the KKK, American Nazis, and Christian Identity
Author: Wood, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Political science, History
Description: During the tumultuous twentieth century, three visually and dogmatically distinct white supremacist movements came together to bring forth a mostly unified front against their common enemies—integration, miscegenation, and various elaborate fictio...

Title: More Than Just the Backbone? Women in Loyalist and Republican Paramilitary Organizations During the Northern Irish Troubles, 1969-1998
Author: Wood, Tabitha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Northern Irish Troubles lasted for almost thirty years, from 1969 to 1998. Variousscholars have studied many aspects of this conflict, but women in loyalist and republican paramilitaries are often overlooked. This thesis seeks to rectify the o...

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: “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
Author: Winch, Debora
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...

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: “PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Author: Whittington, Joseph
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
Description: In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...

Title: Separate and Unequl: Segregation in North Carolina's Asylum System 1856-1905
Author: Westpfahl, Jocelyn
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, History, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: During its 1874-1875 session, the North Carolina General Assembly founded twonew public asylums to address overcrowding in its only mental health care facility inRaleigh (Dorothea Dix Hospital). The first, in Morganton (Broughton Hospital), wasint...

Title: “WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
Author: Warlick, Tommy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...

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: 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: “Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Author: Thomas, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...

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: 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: 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: The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
Author: Stroud, Lucinda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...