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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: Crossing The Pond: How General Winfield Scott Imported the British Model of Military Occupation for use in the United States Army in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author: Berdusis, John
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Military history, Law, History
Description: General Winfield Scott’s occupation of Mexican territory during the Mexican American War from 1846-48 is credited as the progenitor of US Army military occupation doctrine, yet historians have not investigated where and how Scott developed these p...

Title: Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
Author: Gaskin, Rachael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...

Title: Following in the Footsteps of Homer, Plato, Caesar and Augustus: French-British Competition to Re-Claim Ancient Egypt After the Napoleonic Wars
Author: Mitchell , Jillian
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, Museums--Study and teaching
Description: Napoleon’s disastrous campaign in Egypt was a military and political failure; however, it opened up Egypt to European attention and competition. The campaign's aftermath yielded two significant developments, the Capitulation of Alexandria and the ...

Title: Jackboots, White Hoods, and the White Bible: The Fusion of the KKK, American Nazis, and Christian Identity
Author: Wood, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Political science, History
Description: During the tumultuous twentieth century, three visually and dogmatically distinct white supremacist movements came together to bring forth a mostly unified front against their common enemies—integration, miscegenation, and various elaborate fictio...

Title: Seeking an Identity: Kabul's Enduring Struggle with Modernization (1960-1979)
Author: Durani, Qaisara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis analyzed the Kabul Times archive to assess what modernization meant to the elite in Kabul. By examining the period of modernization this paper highlights why Afghans did accept modernization efforts, but shows why Afghan leaders failed...

Title: The Champions of Popular Rights: North Carolina’s Political Reformation, 1850-1862
Author: Holt, Bradley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In the decade before the American Civil War, North Carolina voters embarked on a path to remake state politics and government in a manner beneficial to the non-plantation owning class of white men. Politically educated and mobilized through newspa...

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: Underground Circles and Clandestine Romance: Queer Resistance under the Third Reich
Author: Roberson, Keira
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, History
Description: This study proposes a framework through which to examine queer resistance and oppositional behaviors under oppression and persecution, such as the Nazi regime. Under the Weimar Republic, queer circles coalesced into communities that developed a de...

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 ...