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Powerful Spirits: Social Drinking In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah Elizabeth King Pariseau
Powerful Spirits: Social Drinking In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah Elizabeth King Pariseau
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Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory, And The Creation Of A National Monument, Seth C. Bruggeman
Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory, And The Creation Of A National Monument, Seth C. Bruggeman
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The National Park Service's (NPS) George Washington Birthplace National Monument has commemorated Washington and his life for over seventy-five years. For much of that time, the NPS worked closely with the memorial's progenitors, the 'ladies' of the Wakefield National Memorial Association (WNMA). Although equally committed to the preservation of Washington's legacy, these two groups clashed over questions of authenticity, historical authority, and proper commemorative strategy. This dissertation explores their relationship for what it reveals about the rise of public history in this country and Federal involvement therein.;We witness at Washington's birthplace a collision between old-order Colonial Revivalists (led for a …
Screening The Revolution: "Williamsburg, The Story Of A Patriot" As Historic Artifact, History Film, And Hegemonic Struggle, Jenna Anne Simpson
Screening The Revolution: "Williamsburg, The Story Of A Patriot" As Historic Artifact, History Film, And Hegemonic Struggle, Jenna Anne Simpson
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Pleasure And Peril: Shaping Children's Reading In The Early Twentieth Century, Wendy Korwin
Pleasure And Peril: Shaping Children's Reading In The Early Twentieth Century, Wendy Korwin
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'Like The Spider From The Rose': Colonial Knowledge Competition And The Origins Of Non-Elite Education In Georgia And South Carolina, 1700s--1820s., James O'Neil Spady
'Like The Spider From The Rose': Colonial Knowledge Competition And The Origins Of Non-Elite Education In Georgia And South Carolina, 1700s--1820s., James O'Neil Spady
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Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
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"Breaking with Tradition" is a study of slave literacy in eighteenth-century British North America, the era of the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution. Instead of highlighting the work of a few northern slave authors (the present emphasis in African American literary history), it focuses on the relationship between slave education in colonial Virginia and the social and political circumstances in which slaves acquired a knowledge of letters. A social history of life in the slave quarters, the "great house," and in towns, "Breaking with Tradition" is at once a case study of slaves reading and writing in the …
Society Of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, And The Antebellum Reform Imagination, Robert Kent Nelson
Society Of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, And The Antebellum Reform Imagination, Robert Kent Nelson
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This study explores the central role that a spiritualized friendship played in the thought and writings of antebellum reformers. It identifies a spiritual sensibility that was widely shared by many radical New England activists of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s regardless of their specific denominational beliefs, and argues that this sense of spirituality motivated them to become activists who labored to transform their society.;Specifically, this dissertation analyzes the work and writings of a variety of reformers who believed that spirit or soul could serve as a mechanism for leveling some of the most dominant cultural and institutional power hierarchies of …
"They Opened The Door Too Late": African Americans And Baseball, 1900-1947, Sarah L. Trembanis
"They Opened The Door Too Late": African Americans And Baseball, 1900-1947, Sarah L. Trembanis
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During Jim Crow, the sport of baseball served as an important arena for African American resistance and negotiation. as a (mostly) black enterprise, the Negro Leagues functioned as part of a larger African American movement to establish black commercial ventures during segregation. Moreover, baseball's special status as the national pastime made it a significant public symbol for African American campaigns for integration and civil rights.;This dissertation attempts to interrogate the experience and significance of black baseball during Jim Crow during the first half of the twentieth century. Relying on newspapers, magazines, memoirs, biographies, and previously published oral interviews, this work …
You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
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