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Title: "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
Author: Kane, Nicholas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history
Description: NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...

Title: "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
Author: Glynn, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...

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: "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
Author: Catton, John
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, History--Religious aspects
Description: This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...

Title: 'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Burgess, Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialize...

Title: 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
Author: Brown, Savannah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...

Title: A Dark Enlightenment: Julius Evola and the Temptation of Esoteric Fascism
Author: Johnson, Caleb
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From 1926 until 1974, the Italian scholar and spiritualist Julius Evola produced books, articles, and essays on the source of the decline of the modern world. These works showed a devotion to a long-passed Golden age, when power was absolute, hier...

Title: ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
Author: Barnes, Emma
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...

Title: An Undeveloped Picture Comes Into Focus: The Role of Women in Irish Nationalism, Suffrage, and The Easter Rising
Author: Lowenstein, Teresa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Women's studies, Sex role
Description: This thesis draws attention to the role of women in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the suffrage movement, Irish nationalism, and the Easter Rising. It contributes to historiography with the inclusion of new inf...

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: 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: 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: Beyond Religion: Liberation Theology and Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador, A Comparative Analysis
Author: Lopez de Arcia, Gabriela
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: This Master’s thesis presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical principles and actions of Liberation theology, started within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, and the Theology of the Hammer, the core of Habitat for Huma...

Title: Building La Casa de España: The Spanish Intellectual Experience in Mexico City, 1938-1941.
Author: David, Breanna
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Opened in Mexico in August 1938, La Casa de España (The House of Spain) provided Spanish intellectuals displaced by the Spanish Civil War with a location to continue their studies. Although intended to be temporary, the following years saw La Casa...

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: Crime and Punishment: Peasant Resistance in the Ukraine, 1927-1933
Author: Slawson, Larry
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: World history, History
Description: Between 1927 and 1933, the Soviet Union underwent numerous social, political, and economic changes under collectivization and the "First Five-Year Plan." In their struggle to industrialize, the Soviet regime often resorted to excessive grain-procu...

Title: Crossing The Pond: How General Winfield Scott Imported the British Model of Military Occupation for use in the United States Army in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author: Berdusis, John
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Military history, Law, History
Description: General Winfield Scott’s occupation of Mexican territory during the Mexican American War from 1846-48 is credited as the progenitor of US Army military occupation doctrine, yet historians have not investigated where and how Scott developed these p...

Title: DRAFTING DISNEY FOR VICTORY: ANIMATION, PROPAGANDA, AND POLITICAL RESISTANCE, 1941-1942
Author: Gregory, Carly Amie-Noelle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACT CARLY AMIE-NOELLE GREGORY. Drafting Disney for Victory: Animation, Propaganda, and Political Resistance, 1941-1942. (Under the direction of DR. MARK WILSON) History has forgotten animation, and film companies are often complicit in failin...

Title: Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
Author: Gaskin, Rachael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...