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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
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...
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Title
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author
Taylor, Emily
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...
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. ...
Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
Title
Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
Author
Tandy, Hannah
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
History, American literature
Description
This study asked if there was evidence of Thomas E. Watson’s (1856-1922) shifting racial views in the histories he published between 1899 and 1912. Watson is famous for his integrated populist campaigns of the early to mid-1890s, and infamous for ...