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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...

Title: “WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
Author: Warlick, Tommy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...

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...

Title: “Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
Author: Carpenter, Layne
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Law, History
Description: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...

Title: ‘Worked for the Sheer Love of It’: Women’s Belonging and Adversity in the Black Mountain College Art Department, 1941-1954.
Author: Oliver, Brigitte
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, History
Description: In 1941 and 1944, two women arrived as art students at the progressive and experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. There, under the college’s mission, experienced a progressive education model influenced by John Dewey. As they moved...

Title: Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
Author: Tandy, Hannah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, American literature
Description: This study asked if there was evidence of Thomas E. Watson’s (1856-1922) shifting racial views in the histories he published between 1899 and 1912. Watson is famous for his integrated populist campaigns of the early to mid-1890s, and infamous for ...

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...

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...

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...

Title: The Jewish Problem: Anti-Semitic Admissions Quotas in Southern U.S. Medical Schools, 1920s-1960s
Author: Marks, Taylor
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Judaism--Study and teaching, History, Area studies
Description: Anti-Semitism and worldwide Jewish immigration quotas informed the implementation of Jewish quotas in medical schools around the country from the 1920s to the 1960s. While many are aware of immigration quotas and the anti-Semitism that ran rampant...

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...

Title: The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Author: Del Giudice, Erin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
Description: Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...

Title: The Embattled Lens: Looking for Perspective in Evangelical Subcultural Identity Narratives
Author: Boaz, Stephen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies, Folklore
Description: This paper primarily examines how white conservative Evangelicals engage narrative constructions of identity through the use an embattled lens. The paper does also consider two other Evangelical groups (black Evangelicals—largely civil rights lead...

Title: The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
Author: Kane, Sean
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Despite the plethora of works on the American Revolution and the Cherokee, few scholars have placed the Cherokee within the context of the Revolution. This thesis explores the often overlooked history of the Cherokee during last quarter of the eig...

Title: The Appalachian Regional Commission's Use of Tourism as an Economic Development Tool in Eastern Kentucky: 1965 - Present
Author: Matthews, Taylor
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, History
Description: A federal agency that was established during the War on Poverty, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to help develop the Appalachian region through economic development initiatives and improve residents’ quality of life. Critics have c...

Title: That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
Author: Riley, Susan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, American literature, History
Description: When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...

Title: Tate Street That Great Street: Culture, Community, and Memory in Greensboro, North Carolina
Author: Pasquini, Ian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: Tate Street represents a cultural center in Greensboro, North Carolina. This work outlines the varying social groups, organizations, and institutions that defined Tate Street’s cultural identity between 1960 and 1990. Tate’s venues and spaces acte...

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: Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Author: Moore, Kate
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...

Title: South Park's Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror
Author: Casper, Joshua
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, Ethnology, Area studies
Description: JOSHUA CASPER. South Park Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror. (Under the Direction of DR. SEAN MCCLOUD) In this thesis, I argue that Satan in South Park is portrayed as a sympathetic character who acts as both a role model o...