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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: DRAFTING DISNEY FOR VICTORY: ANIMATION, PROPAGANDA, AND POLITICAL RESISTANCE, 1941-1942
Author: Gregory, Carly Amie-Noelle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACT CARLY AMIE-NOELLE 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 failin...

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: 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 ...