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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: 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: 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: FROM COTTON FIELDS TO COBWEBS: A CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY AND PRESERVATION IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF BELMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Miller, Allyson
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The oldest mill in Belmont, North Carolina still stands today. Almost one hundred and fifteen years old, the Chronicle Mill has made a legacy for the small town of Belmont, establishing a sense of community and identity for its people. At one time...

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: 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...