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The study of interfaith interactions in medieval Spain often follows one of two sweeping schemes of historical explanation. One usually either subscribes to the idea of an antagonistic Clash of Cultures in the vein of Samuel Huntington...
The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, ...
When Edmund Burke declared in 1790 that the French Revolution was made up of an atheistic "cabal" of philosophers, he initiated what would remain a stereotype of the revolutionaries for not only the duration of the Revolution, but for...
The abolition of slavery during the American Civil War did not end the antislavery ambitions of many liberal Christian reformers. As four million African American slaves transitioned from bondage to freedom, Unitarian and other Christian...
"A Society in Flux: Female Education and Societal Transition in Early Nineteenth Century France, 1830" examines the identity and social constructs of women educated during the Napoleonic period and how their state-sponsored education...
Robert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as...
"Pure Religion of the Gospel…Together with Civil Liberty": A Study of the Religion Clauses of the Northwest Ordinance and Church-State in Revolutionary America
The Ordinance of 1787 provided the method for territories of the Old Northwest to become states. It set out a three-stage process that territories would pass through in order to acquire full rights of statehood. Furthermore, it contained...
This dissertation attempts to examine the role of Charles S. Johnson in his capacity as an activist and his eventual establishment of Fisk University as his base of operation. Fisk University located in Nashville, Tennessee, was founded...
Judge Pierre Crabitès was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, 17 February 1877. Like so many in New Orleans, Pierre Crabitès was a Creole. His father was a wealthy French immigrant, and his mother was a Virginian....
Public library development in Florida greatly benefited from the New Deal relief programs that emerged out of the Great Depression. Historians and librarians had advocated for expansion of state support for libraries and the creation of...
This thesis examines the role of the German Confederation in the military affairs of pre-1848 Germany, specifically the Bundesheer, or Federal Army, of the Confederation. By observing the creation of the Federal Army, the military crises...
Naval Air Station Banana River was created as a result of increased military appropriations to defend the Atlantic Coast of the United States of America. The Hepburn Board was charged with finding appropriate sites for new naval...
The historical interpretations of Claude Pepper's Senate career until now depicted a Senator who had lost touch with his constituency and the political ideas of the nation after World War II. In examining his record in the Senate and his...
This study focuses on the American liberation experiences when encountering Nazi atrocities in occupied areas, concentration camps, and prisoner of war (POW) camps. While highlighting the plight of Jewish, political, military, and other...
Pearling provided the basis for economic prosperity for the port cities in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today. However, in the light of oil wealth, pearling has been relegated to the distant past. It...
Mardi Gras Carnival balls are traditional New Orleans events when krewe organizations present their seasonal mock monarchs. Traditionally, these ballroom spectacles included tableaux vivants performances, the grand march and promenade of...
Between 1861 and 1865 Florida placed 15, 000 of its citizens under the Confederate banner. Nearly 6, 000 of these civilians-turned-soldiers, in six regiments, would see service in the Western theater, or the area encompassing the lands...
When twenty-two year old African American Lloyd Clay was strung up from an old elm tree, burned alive, and his body riddled with bullets by a white lynch mob of approximately one-thousand people on the corner of a major intersection in...
“Race in the Prairie State: Black Laws and African American Activism in Nineteenth Century Illinois” looks at Illinois’s anti-black legislation throughout the nineteenth century, tracing its evolution from pseudo-slavery and indentured...
Saint Bernardino exerted profound influences on lay piety and both the image and trajectory of the Observant movement. While there have been numerous studies on Bernardino the preacher and the Observant movement as a whole, no study has...
Utilizing the historical and cultural frameworks of Stephen Hahn and bell hooks and their scholarly predecessors and contemporaries, this study focuses on the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Early County, Georgia, as a...
Covering the period from the Ancien Régime through the turmoil of the Revolution, Consulate and early Napoleonic Empire 1804-1805, this work proposes to throw new light on the character, strength and weaknesses of the French armies...
This work explores first and foremost the nature of the Episcopal mission to the colonial Philippines from 1901 to 1918, while it was under the leadership of a missionary bishop named Charles Henry Brent. Missionaries, such as Brent, ...
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...
The French Revolution had a tremendous impact on the social, political, and cultural development of the western world. Similarly, it had a revolutionary impact on warfare in both Europe and the United States. Although the U.S. had a...
A Swiss of the French extraction, Antoine-Henri Baron de Jomini (1779-1869) received first-hand experience in the Napoleonic Wars by serving in various capcities as a staff officer beginning in 1805. He was quckly promoted, and by the...
This thesis explores the effectiveness of the French navy during the Old Regime. The maritime strategies and policies of the French navy are evaluated in an effort to determine if the French navy of the Old Regime was successful in...
This dissertation examines the importance of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. It explores briefly the history of the Olympic movement in Mexico, and the origins of the Mexican bid to host the Olympics. In winning the bid, the Mexican...
This study documents the story of James Earl "Doc" Webb and his business, Webb's City, between the years 1926-1982. Starting in 1926 as a small 17 by 28 foot store, Webb's City soon grew to a multi-million dollar business known as "The...
The United States Merchant Marine played a pivotal role in the successful conclusion of the World War II and suffered the highest casualty rate of any branch of the Armed Forces. Often labeled as draft dodgers, profiteers, Communists, ...
The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps held up to nine miles the British First Army's front in northern France between April 1917 and April 1918. On 9 April 1918, the sledgehammer blow of the German operation Georgette fell upon First Army's...
This thesis investigates the impact the Missouri controversy had on the political of slavery within Illinois. The purpose is to define whether the Missouri Compromise directly impacted the debates upon slavery in Illinois. The issue of...
Europe's dominance in the study of the Revolutionary Era obscures the era's many important non-European effects. Equally, scholars of India neglect the important role European imperial rivalry had on the British conquest of India in...
Southern quail hunting plantations emerged in the late 1800s as wealthy northerners began to buy the old cotton plantations to enjoy the temperate southern Georgia and northern Florida winters and also to indulge in the genteel sport of...
War features prominently in history, that is, in the records of literate societies. This paper addresses the issue of prehistoric warfare, whether human societies without writing fight wars, and if so how often, under what...
Painting in the Third Reich is frequently dismissed as mere propaganda, as anti-modernist kitsch, or as a homogeneous body of realist or academic "genre painting" in the tradition of nineteenth-century Munich naturalism. However, there...
This dissertation is intended as a contribution to historical studies of antiwar and anti-interventionist movements as well as domestic influences on U.S. foreign policymaking in general. It presents a comprehensive account of the...
On February 21, 1862 Colonel Thomas Green launched an assault on a fixed Union defensive position in the New Mexican Territory during the American Civil War. The charge met with success where several others failed during the war. Across...
Optimistic Liberals: Herbert Spencer, the Brooklyn Ethical Association, and the Integration of Moral Philosophy and Evolution in the Victorian Trans-Atlantic Community
The farther history has moved beyond Herbert Spencer's ideas the harder it has been for contemporary readers to understand either his thought or his striking popularity, particularly in America. As a result Spencer's ideas and his...
The "Cliveden Set" was a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats such as...
Florida's child welfare movement, a broad coalition of clubwomen, legislators, labor activists, and civic reformers, worked tirelessly to ensure that the right to a protected childhood was guaranteed to all of Florida's future citizens....
This dissertation looks at the 1874 "Vicksburg (Mississippi) Massacre" and its direct causes. Black sharecroppers, during the Reconstruction era, have been the focus of considerable scholarship that looks at black life in relation to...
This study focuses on the American anti-malaria campaign beginning in 1939. Despite the seemingly endless scholarship on World War II in the past seventy years, little has been written on the malaria epidemic on Guadalcanal. Through...
When an immigrant came to early twentieth-century America, his or her ability to naturalize was dependent on the artificial color designation assigned to his or her group. Armenian and Syrian-Lebanese immigrants, however, entered the...
As history continues to trend towards the incorporation of interdisciplinary sources, it becomes a fitting place to champion one of the "lost voices" of American culture. This thesis seeks to establish Betty MacDonald not only as a...
Following the devastation of the First World War, the British utterly rejected the idea of fighting another major war in their near future. As a result, the country's interwar policies were not geared towards maintaining a powerful...
Clergy members, intellectuals, educators, newspapermen, military personnel, and politicians worked to gain rights for free people of color and to end slavery in revolutionary Saint-Domingue. These contributions have been largely...
This work employs historical memory as a theoretical framework in which to explore racial violence in Florida in the 1920s. Focusing on Baker County and Taylor County, I explore the ways in which white memory was (and is) commemorated in...
With tourism serving as its principal industry by the end of WWII, Florida had solidified itself as the preeminent leisure paradise among America's mainstream destinations. Dubbed the "Magic City, Miami was the most popular retreat for...
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, midwives in the South--generally older African-American women--maintained traditional birthing customs while assisting disadvantaged women in their communities. By the early-twentieth...
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