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Title: 1948 and the Bounding of Thought: Zionist Discourse, The New Historians, and American Jewish Public Intellectuals, 1950-2020
Author: Mefferd, Zebulon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Political science, History
Description: The following thesis analyzes American Jewish public intellectuals and their use of the Zionist narrative, the New Historian scholarship, or a mixture of the two in their writing. The political leanings of the public intellectuals, authors, schola...

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: 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: Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Author: Marshall, Sylvia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description: On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on public transportation, Parks' arrest sparked a carefully organized thirteen-month ...

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: The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Author: Del Giudice, Erin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
Description: Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...

Title: The New Orleans Citizens Committee: Unheralded Activists who Challenged Jim Crow in Plessy v. Ferguson
Author: Kinny, Paul
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: The Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890 required that White and African-American passengers ride in separate railcars. Eighteen leaders of the New Orleans Afro-Creole community formed the Citizens Committee for the purpose of initiating a legal cas...

Title: The Warrior and the Maiden: The Participation and Representations of Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous in the Greek Revolution
Author: Mastrokolias, Olympia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Sex role, History, Modern
Description: This thesis explores the participation and representations of two popular and exceptional heroines of the Greek Revolution of 1821-1832, Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous, and how their legacies have been used as symbols of nationalism by...

Title: Wilmington Student Stories: Violence and Desegregation in the US South, 1968-1971
Author: Johnson, Sydney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the end of January into the beginning of February 1971, Black students led a boycott of New Hanover and Hoggard High Schools in Wilmington, North Carolina. These events resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of ten individuals who became...

Title: “We won’t die secret deaths anymore”: Education, Memory, and Screen Media in Public Understanding of the American AIDS Crisis, 1981-2000
Author: Chadwick-Schultz, K.M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Despite the obvious devastation of the American AIDS crisis—the period of time from 1981 to 2000 when the United States experienced social, cultural, and political repercussions directly related to the presence of AIDS—educated collective memory o...