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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: The New World Meets the Old: German-Americans and the Temperance Struggle in Ohio, 1870 - 1875
Author: Sorensen, Niles
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: AbstractNiles Sorensen. The New World Meets the Old: German-Americans and the Temperance Struggle in Ohio, 1870 – 1875 (Under the Direction of Dr. John David Smith) In the middle decades of the nineteenth century more than 3,000,000 immigrants arr...

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...