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Title: "Downright Roguish Practices of Ignorant and Unworthy Men": The North Carolina Regulator Rebellion, 1768-1771
Author: Croot, Mitchell
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From 1768 to 1771 in North Carolina, backcountry farmers in Orange, Rowan, and Anson Counties stood defiant against their local officials and the colonial government. Calling themselves Regulators for their desire to regulate the government’s auth...

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: 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. ...