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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
- “THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
- Author
- Howell, Randi
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
- Description
- Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...
- Title
- “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
- Author
- Winch, Debora
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...
- 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
- “Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
- Author
- Thomas, Christina
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...
- Title
- “Not Negroes Nor Slaves But Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade.
- Author
- Cullinan, Brian
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This thesis examines the role of free people of color in the colonial Indian trade in England’s southern American colonies, primarily Virginia and the Carolinas, from the1640s to that trade’s decline in the colonial southeast by the early 1770s. F...
- 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
- “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
- “HOW COULD LOVE BE WRONG?” GAY ACTIVISM AND AIDS IN CHARLOTTE, 1970-1992
- Author
- Wright, Christina
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Queer studies
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- “Canary in the Coal Mine”: The Relationship Between the United States and Chinese Mexicans, 1882-1933
- Author
- Telljohann, Paul
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- When the Chinese Exclusion Act barred most Chinese immigrants from entering the United States, many opted to instead settle within northern Mexico. Despite the harsh environment, Chinese migrants successfully adapted to their new homeland, where t...
- Title
- “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
- Author
- Austin, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Public health, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...
- Title
- “AN ABYSS OF ANARCHY, NIHILISM, AND DESPAIR”: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ANARCHISTS IN BRITAIN
- Author
- Jutila, Alexander
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- Studies on historical representations of anarchists tend to focus on terrorist depictions and how they compare to the actual activities of the anarchist movement. Using British print media, this thesis explores other political, cultural, and socia...
- 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
- you ain't from around here, are you? a biographical study of harry golden and history of his quest for tolerance and justice in the state of north carolina
- Author
- Sullivan, Michael
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- In the summer of 1941, a thirty-nine year old ex-convict from New York City, that just months earlier changed his name from Harry Goldhurst to Harry Golden, stepped off a bus at the main terminal in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Although he ...
- 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
- Wilmington Student Stories: Violence and Desegregation in the US South, 1968-1971
- Author
- Johnson, Sydney
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From the end of January into the beginning of February 1971, Black students led a boycott of New Hanover and Hoggard High Schools in Wilmington, North Carolina. These events resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of ten individuals who became...
- Title
- We Are Paraguayan: Construction of Paraguayan National Identity Through Guaraní Language Use, 1814-1870
- Author
- Hanna, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- This research project examines the creation of the Paraguayan national identity from 1814 to 1870 as a mestizo, Guaraní-speaking people. It explores the language ideology of the Paraguayan government, which placed importance on Guaraní versus Span...
- 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
- War in the Shadows: IRA Intimidation and Assassination, 1919-1921
- Author
- Cannady, Michael
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history, History
- Description
- This work addresses a gap in the historiography of the Irish revolution: the use of intimidation and assassination by the IRA. Although some studies have focused on whether IRA assassinations were justified, little scholarship exists about their e...