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“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...
Southern Intrusions: Native Americans and Sovereignty in the Early Republic" examines the meaning and contests over power, authority, and state building in the American South. It contends that Native Americans turned to and then...
Bonds of Empire: The Politics of Penal Colonies in the Founding of America and Australia, is a transnational study of convict transportation, a method of exile typically accompanied by forced servitude that existed in Britain's early...
Steven Conn recently argued that as museums change from warehouses of artifacts focused on public instruction to a different model of education by engagement, their emphasis on objects will become less necessary. This dissertation...
The historiography of the early American navy and, more definitively, the USS Constitution's role in American consciousness revolve around the valorous acts associated with the naval engagement between the Constitution and the HMS...
Focusing on the period from approximately 1800-1865, this thesis uses a historical conceptualist perspective to examine how psychiatric history intersects with the lived experience of slaves in the antebellum south. Unlike previous works...
When conservative politicians captured Washington in the 1980s and 1990s, they brought with them a style of rhetoric rooted in the South of the 1950s and 1960s. The three core elements of this Southern style are clear: * Strong beliefs -...
"‘Our Bonaparte’: Republicanism, Religion, and Paranoia in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, 1789-1830," examines how American politicians used the idea of Napoleon Bonaparte to reflect (or distort) contemporary political issues in the...
This work examines the historical memory of slavery in the tourism industry of the Red Hills and explores the enduring legacy of white northern and midwestern tourists-turned- transplanters after the Civil War and into the twenty-first...
This study examines the creation, growth, and peak of the mythology surrounding theBattle of the Alamo, a manufactured mythology that has extricated the event and its participants from the historical context of the Texian Revolution that...
At the end of the twentieth century, southern states boasted the largest number of private schools of any region within the United States, accounting for thirty percent of the nation’s independent elementary and secondary institutions.[1...
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