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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: "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
Author: Kane, Nicholas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history
Description: NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...

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: "The Burthen Now Upon Our Hands": The Treatment of British Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781
Author: Grover, Thomas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: Casualties represent the human element destroyed by war. As such, historians use their numbers to describe the scale or aftermath of a given conflict in terms of dead and wounded. Yet, there exists a third group of casualties often not included in...

Title: 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
Author: Brown, Savannah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...

Title: CULTURE CLASH AND ADMINISTRATIVE REACTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF DISSENT AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, 1954-1970
Author: Hoverman, Louanne
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: When historians and writers explore college student protest and dissent in the 1960s, they tend to focus on the students. Historians have written rich histories of campus protests, yet there is little about collegiate administrations, and their ro...

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: From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
Author: Dixon, Kenneth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board ruled the "separate but equal" doctrine, set in place by the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896, to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s "Equal Pro...

Title: Lorain: Ohio's First Colonia - A Blueprint for Midwestern Mexican Migration
Author: King, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Within this piece, I am arguing that Mexican migration to the Midwest in the early twentieth century is highly overlooked in literature. Most often, the historiography deals with characteristics that typify the Southwest, and I assert that Mexican...

Title: Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
Author: McManimen, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...

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 ...

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 City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
Author: Barnett, Melissa
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...

Title: The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
Author: Stroud, Lucinda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...

Title: “International House, Where Charlotte Welcomes the World:” A Case Study of an Immigrant-Serving Nonprofit in an Emerging Global Gateway City, 1980-2010
Author: Rhinehart, Madison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The city of Charlotte saw a substantial increase in international diversity beginning in the late 1980s. Since that time, the city developed into what is termed a Global Gateway City, becoming home to a population that is 16.4% foreign-born. Paral...

Title: “PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Author: Whittington, Joseph
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
Description: In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...