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City of Racers: The Growth of the NASCAR Industry in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1949-2000
Title
City of Racers: The Growth of the NASCAR Industry in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1949-2000
Author
Gable, Bryan
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
This study explores the development of the NASCAR industry in the city of Charlotte and its surrounding region through the second half of the twentieth century. I argue that NASCAR and Charlotte were seeking the same goals in the late twentieth ce...
THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Title
THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Author
Battista, Nancy
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, Sex, History
Description
Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
The Fighter Mafia: Vietnam, The Fighter Jet, and the Future of the Air Force
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...
The New World Meets the Old: German-Americans and the Temperance Struggle in Ohio, 1870 - 1875
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...
Two days and seventy years: sites of memories and silences from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the United States
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...
War of the Words: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Revolutionary Mexico during the Great War
Title
War of the Words: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Revolutionary Mexico during the Great War
Author
Needham, Matthew
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
In August 1914, Mexico was between war and revolution. The defeat of Victoriano Huerta marked a turning point in the Mexican Revolution as Venustiano Carranza came to power. At the same time, Britain severed German telegraph cables to the Americas...
“We won’t die secret deaths anymore”: Education, Memory, and Screen Media in Public Understanding of the American AIDS Crisis, 1981-2000
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...