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'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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...
A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
Title
A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
Author
Stevens, Megan
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
History, Modern, History
Description
In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...
More Than Just the Backbone? Women in Loyalist and Republican Paramilitary Organizations During the Northern Irish Troubles, 1969-1998
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...
NOBILITY AND WITCHCRAFT IN FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Title
NOBILITY AND WITCHCRAFT IN FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Author
Frye, Lincoln
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
Between 1419 and 1536, five English noble women, including three queen consorts, stood accused of witchcraft: Joan of Navarre, queen of Henry IV; Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester; Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford and Countess River...
NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Title
NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Author
Baisley, Richard
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, History
Description
The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...
No Covenant with Sin: Unitarians and the Abolition Movement in Massachusetts, 1820-1860
Title
No Covenant with Sin: Unitarians and the Abolition Movement in Massachusetts, 1820-1860
Author
Ellingwood, Christopher
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
CHRISTOPHER ELLINGWOOD. A study of Unitarian theology prior to the American Civil War to assess its flexibility in accommodating both immediate abolitionists as well as those uninvolved in, or opposed to, the movement. (Under the direction of DR. ...
The Jewish Problem: Anti-Semitic Admissions Quotas in Southern U.S. Medical Schools, 1920s-1960s
Title
The Jewish Problem: Anti-Semitic Admissions Quotas in Southern U.S. Medical Schools, 1920s-1960s
Author
Marks, Taylor
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Judaism--Study and teaching, History, Area studies
Description
Anti-Semitism and worldwide Jewish immigration quotas informed the implementation of Jewish quotas in medical schools around the country from the 1920s to the 1960s. While many are aware of immigration quotas and the anti-Semitism that ran rampant...
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE: AL-NAKBA AS A STRUCTURE IN THE PRESERVATION OF IDENTITY AND PALESTINIAN CONCIOUSNESS
Title
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE: AL-NAKBA AS A STRUCTURE IN THE PRESERVATION OF IDENTITY AND PALESTINIAN CONCIOUSNESS
Author
Hasian, Adam
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
The Israelis recognize the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a war of independence. For the Palestinians, it is known as al-Nakba—the "Catastrophe". The war helped create the state of Israel while displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. However, ...
‘Worked for the Sheer Love of It’: Women’s Belonging and Adversity in the Black Mountain College Art Department, 1941-1954.
Title
‘Worked for the Sheer Love of It’: Women’s Belonging and Adversity in the Black Mountain College Art Department, 1941-1954.
Author
Oliver, Brigitte
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Art--Study and teaching, History
Description
In 1941 and 1944, two women arrived as art students at the progressive and experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. There, under the college’s mission, experienced a progressive education model influenced by John Dewey. As they moved...
“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
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...