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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...
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...
This dissertation examines southern political culture and reform through the evolving temperance and prohibition movement in Middle Florida. Though scholars have long held that liquor reform was largely a northern and mid-Atlantic...
Radie Britain (1899-1994) was a successful American composer by almost any measure. Despite her long and productive career, Britain remains on the periphery of scholarly literature. In part this could be a result of Britain's...
Marriage and family relations underwent a dynamic change during the French Revolution. However, seeds of change can be detected in eighteenth century marital trends. Changing ideals were not only for the elite of French society but...
Scholars have not explored in depth the subject of women's grief as a result of their losses in the Civil War. The loss experienced by southern white women of their husbands and sons was compounded by their sense that they had also lost...
In 1875, citizens throughout the recently formed German nation were for the first time allowed to intermarry without conversion. Over the course of the next fifty years, German Jews marriages to German non-Jews increased to such a level...
Between the years 1900 and 1923, women in Ireland played an integral role in the nationalist movement. While several nationalist groups had female members, the women also founded their own nationalist organizations, Inghindhe na hEireann...
This thesis focuses on Cuban emigration as a driving force behind the transnational relationship existing between Cuba and the United States, as it has served as the basis for relations between the two countries since 1959. This thesis...
This Thesis analyzes the culture clash that occurred after rural white Southerners moved into Southern cotton mill villages. In these new industrial settings, which were often in close proximity to small urban centers, the culture of...
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