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What explains why and how America fought the civil war? This thesis argues that industrial modernization can be a useful analytical tool for understanding the causes of the American Civil War. The argument is developed by analyzing the...
Escaping the Mechanism: Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War, contributes to the rich scholarship on Civil War soldiers because one cannot fully understand the nature of the war experience, without also knowing how...
This dissertation is about the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) and its role in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, with a special emphasis on the men and women who manned and operated the civilian aircraft. This is the first time the history of...
Civil Rights related newspaper clippings and correspondence
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Newspaper articles which detail efforts toward civil rights including interracial marriage and segregation. There are also news clippings pertaining to FAMU and FSU student actions during this time, desegregation plans, and various other...
Correspondence sent from constituents to Claude Pepper opposing the Civil Rights Act for its provisions on fair housing. Included is a letter to Claude Pepper from the NAACP.
Civil Rights related newspaper clippings and correspondence
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Newspaper articles, both originals and copies, which detail different trials and cases that were racially based and those pertaining to FAMU and FSU student actions during this time. This folder also includes correspondence pertaining to...
Rape had been a much feared, but rarely prosecuted consequence of war in the early history of the United States. Since America was relatively isolated from its enemies, and its soldiers usually interacted with non-Americans, this...
This thesis covers two critical time periods of the history of Pensacola, Florida. The first examines the Civil War and the second covers Reconstruction. The study begins with the Union's occupation of Fort Pickens located on Santa Rosa...
Frequently dismissed in popular culture, civil defense conjures images of Bert the Turtle cheerfully retreating into his shell after a cartoon explosion. Though Bert's advice was meant for children, there were countless versions of the...
Roman Catholics lived in the antebellum South, fought for the Confederate States of America, and participated in the postwar Lost Cause tradition. They encountered a Protestant-dominated South, but retained their minority religious...
This thesis examines the portrayal of the Salvadoran Civil War in two popular U.S. films, Salvador (1986) and Romero (1989). Using a variety of sources as well as the films, this thesis is a cultural study of the images and words used by...
This dissertation examines American-Egyptian relations from 1962 to 1967 during the Yemeni civil war. The central question that is raised here is: how did Nasser's security and political dilemma cause a breakdown in American-Egyptian...
The purpose of this study is to explore the forms in which the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation are commemorated, celebrated, and remembered in Tallahassee. It will further investigate how or if these events within Tallahassee...
This is a study of the strategic and tactical use of ironclad warships during the American Civil War. The project seeks to examine why the naval administration on both sides (led by Gideon Welles for the Union and Stephen Mallory for the...
Love is a battlefield: the marriages of Confederate soldiers and their wives in Florida during the Civil War
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In the nineteenth century, elite urban Americans embraced the concept of companionate marriage. This relationship was based on romantic love between a husband and wife. Prescribed gender roles also defined these Americans' daily lives....
This dissertation is a comparative study of the leadership of two Confederate governors, John Milton of Florida and Joseph E. Brown of Georgia. It examines their relations with the Confederate government as well as relations between the...
Correspondence from constituents sent to Claude Pepper opposing the Civil Rights Act for perceived provisions granting the Federal Government more power.
This dissertation analyzes the role of the American Legion in the mobilization of World War II, focusing on its civilian defense and salvage programs. These programs demonstrate the contest between voluntary associations and the federal...
Before the final political division of Union and Confederacy leading to the Civil War, the people of the United States had already begun to separate on idealogical levels along geographical lines. In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention...
In the summer of 1936, a civil war erupted in Spain and changed the course of the nation’s history, laying bare the worst-case scenario of partisanship, factionalism, and religious zeal. As much as the conflict affected Spain, however, ...
This thesis examines an assemblage of artifacts recovered from the U.S. Army Transport Maple Leaf. This assemblage was part of a cargo of baggage from three regiments of Union Army troops sent to Florida in 1864. The U.S. Sanitary...
This dissertation explores the recollection of historical memory in a number of significant literary and cinematic texts produced during the first thirty years of the Francoist dictatorship. Ironically, the first quarter-century of post...
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