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"And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
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...
"Downright Roguish Practices of Ignorant and Unworthy Men": The North Carolina Regulator Rebellion, 1768-1771
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...
"The Burthen Now Upon Our Hands": The Treatment of British Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781
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...
CULTURE CLASH AND ADMINISTRATIVE REACTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF DISSENT AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, 1954-1970
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...
From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
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...
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 ...
“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
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...