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Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
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Author
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McLain, Denise
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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In 1851, the North Carolina Lutheran Synod (NCLS) selected the small, remote village of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina as its center for secondary education. Mount Pleasant Female Academy’s future was uncertain, at best, when it opened as a finish...
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Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
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Author
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Doss, Henry
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
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Description
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ABSTRACTThis thesis examines the claim that the 14th century experienced a dramatic change in how poverty is understood and addressed in society. This shift can be understood as a long-term social dialectic – one that arcs toward synthesis, but te...
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Separate and Unequl: Segregation in North Carolina's Asylum System 1856-1905
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Author
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Westpfahl, Jocelyn
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mental health, History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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During its 1874-1875 session, the North Carolina General Assembly founded twonew public asylums to address overcrowding in its only mental health care facility inRaleigh (Dorothea Dix Hospital). The first, in Morganton (Broughton Hospital), wasint...
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THE 1986 WORLD CUP AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING MEXICO’S “LOST DECADE”
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Author
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Pliego Campos, Noe
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Using newspapers from Mexico City, Ciudad Nezahualcotyl, Queretaro, and other cities throughout Mexico and outside of Mexico alongside official documents and publications, I argue that the Mexican government led by President Miguel de la Madrid su...
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The Chicago Resettlers' Committee and Chicago Japanese American Resettlement
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Author
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Kojima, Jordan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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As Japanese Americans left the World War II internment camps, many people migrated to the Midwest, and a large Japanese American community gathered in Chicago. During the early postwar years, the Chicago Resetters’ Committee assisted and helped re...
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“HOW COULD LOVE BE WRONG?” GAY ACTIVISM AND AIDS IN CHARLOTTE, 1970-1992
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Author
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Wright, Christina
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Queer studies
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Description
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ABSTRACTCHRISTINA ANNE WRIGHT. "How could love be wrong?" Gay activism and AIDS in Charlotte, 1970-1992. (Under the direction of DR. CHERYL HICKS) Sustained gay activism in Charlotte, North Carolina, only emerged in response to the HIV AIDS epidem...