- History (x)
- Challenges (x)
- Search results
Search results
- 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
- "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
- "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
- Author
- Glynn, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...
- Title
- "Plucking Roses from a Cabbage Patch": Class Dynamics in Progressive Era Louisville as understood through the Contested Relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice
- Author
- Hardman, James
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- American literature, History
- Description
- In 1901, Alice Hegan Rice, a wealthy socialite reformer, published the novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch which dealt her experiences working with the poor. By the end of 1902 her novel had become a national phenomenon and finished the decade a...
- Title
- "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
- Author
- Ervin, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
- 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
- "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
- Author
- Catton, John
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, History--Religious aspects
- Description
- This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...
- Title
- 'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Author
- Burgess, Laura
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialize...
- 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
- 1948 and the Bounding of Thought: Zionist Discourse, The New Historians, and American Jewish Public Intellectuals, 1950-2020
- Author
- Mefferd, Zebulon
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Political science, History
- Description
- The following thesis analyzes American Jewish public intellectuals and their use of the Zionist narrative, the New Historian scholarship, or a mixture of the two in their writing. The political leanings of the public intellectuals, authors, schola...
- Title
- A Dark Enlightenment: Julius Evola and the Temptation of Esoteric Fascism
- Author
- Johnson, Caleb
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From 1926 until 1974, the Italian scholar and spiritualist Julius Evola produced books, articles, and essays on the source of the decline of the modern world. These works showed a devotion to a long-passed Golden age, when power was absolute, hier...
- Title
- A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
- Author
- Stevens, Megan
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Modern, History
- Description
- In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...
- Title
- A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
- Author
- Hunt, David
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Slavs--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The United States has been involved in humanitarian assistance missions since the late nineteenth century. However, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration (ARA) was the first organization that combined the abilities of several smaller org...
- Title
- ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
- Author
- Barnes, Emma
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...
- Title
- An Examination of Judicial and Legislative Documents on Indigenous Tribute and Indigenous Strategies used in Negotiations in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, 1782-1820
- Author
- Harnach, Emily
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This study shows the importance of indigenous communities by analyzing judicial and legislative documents involving indigenous tribute and indigenous strategies used in negotiations in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, during the late colonial p...
- Title
- An Undeveloped Picture Comes Into Focus: The Role of Women in Irish Nationalism, Suffrage, and The Easter Rising
- Author
- Lowenstein, Teresa
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Women's studies, Sex role
- Description
- This thesis draws attention to the role of women in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the suffrage movement, Irish nationalism, and the Easter Rising. It contributes to historiography with the inclusion of new inf...
- Title
- And the Categories Are: Sexual “Realness”, Individualism, and the Paradox of Categories in Ball Culture
- Author
- Grey, Gabrielle
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Sex, History
- Description
- Ball culture has been a Black/Latinx gay subculture overlooked by historians. Ball culture served as a safe space for young gay Black/Latinx men and trans-people to express themselves. The competition categories held an equally significant role in...
- Title
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Lessons in Recognizing and Resisting Imperialism
- Author
- Woodford, Kalei
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, History, Motion pictures
- Description
- In the modern world, we are constantly fed misinformation and biased information. The press is controlled by the state in many countries like the United States and Russia. These governments have the power to start wars, imprison whomever they deem...
- Title
- BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
- Author
- Gallemore, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...
- Title
- BOHEMIAN NATIONALISM AND THE IMPACT OF CZECH AND SLOVAK NATIONALS ABROAD ON THE EMERGENCE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- Author
- Stouse, Eugene
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This thesis examines the emergence of Czechoslovakia in Central Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes the nationalist views of the expatriates who immigrated to the U.S. from Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesi...