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Title: "And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
Author: Wilds, Sarah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: Following World War II, eugenics became associated with Nazis abuses, leading many States to end their eugenics programs. North Carolina was a rare exception to this trend. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized over 7,600 people, the ma...

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...

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: 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: DRAFTING DISNEY FOR VICTORY: ANIMATION, PROPAGANDA, AND POLITICAL RESISTANCE, 1941-1942
Author: Gregory, John
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACTJOHN MICHAEL GREGORY. Drafting Disney for Victory: Animation, Propaganda, and Political Resistance, 1941-1942. (Under the direction of DR. MARK WILSON) History has forgotten animation, and film companies are often complicit in failing to a...

Title: FORMULATING A REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY, 1776-1788: THE INFLUENCE OF MILITARY EXPERIENCE ON THE RATIFICATION DEBATES
Author: Gann, Gregory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACTGREGORY CHARLES GANN JR. Formulating a revolutionary ideology, 1776-1788: the influence of military experience on the ratification debates. (Under the direction of DR. DANIEL DUPRE)Throughout the War of Independence, nationalist forces tra...

Title: Mary Boleyn: "A Great Whore, Infamous Above All"
Author: Plough, Christine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: This thesis is a case study that explores the life and influence of Mary Boleyn, royal mistress to King Henry VIII from 1522-1525. The intent is to present an analysis of primary documents in combination with secondary sources, which provide cruci...

Title: Swimming for the Fatherland: Journalism, Pronatalism, and Modernization in the World of Weimar Sport
Author: Gillespie, Hallie
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History, Modern, History
Description: The perplexities of the interwar era in Germany—the Weimar Republic—continue to spark scholarly intrigue. A tumultuous political atmosphere and an unstable economy coupled with societal reform and cultural advancements in film, arts, and architect...

Title: THE LION’S REDEMPTION: DECOLONIZATION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING THE SUEZ CRISIS
Author: Kunz, William
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: While Britain’s withdrawal from Empire has always been seen as a negative, this thesis focuses on the successes in British foreign policy in the post Suez Crisis of 1956 era. By examining how Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa ...

Title: Tea culture and the British Empire, 1600-1900
Author: Ashby, Brittany
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: At the end of the fifteenth century, the consumption of tea remained predominantly in the East, and only a few wealthy western aristocrats knew of the tea plant. Only one hundred years later, tea sparked the interests of many nations and consumpti...

Title: The Fighter Mafia: Vietnam, The Fighter Jet, and the Future of the Air Force
Author: Hubard, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: This thesis examines the role of fighter pilots and their shared culture in the United States Air Force. This thesis argues that as a result of the Vietnam War, fighter pilots fought back against the traditional power structures of the Air Force t...

Title: The Institute: A work of Fiction
Author: Lazzara, Mishael
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A historical fiction novel set in colonial Belgian Congo during World War II, The Institute: A Work of Fiction centers around Mary Elkhorn, an American agriculturist who travels to a farming institute located on the Congo River. En route, Mary is ...