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"By The Dear, Immortal Memory Of Washington"/The Baptists, Culture, And The Law In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Douglas Breton
"By The Dear, Immortal Memory Of Washington"/The Baptists, Culture, And The Law In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Douglas Breton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"By the Dear, Immortal Memory of Washington" Americans have long used the Founding Fathers as symbols of patriotism, invoking their names and using their images whenever they wish to demonstrate that a particular way of thinking or acting is true to American ideals. The vague patriotic image of the founders tends to eclipse their actual character, allowing diverse and competing movements to all use them. This has been especially true of George Washington, who long enjoyed a preeminent and almost mythic status among the founders. During the 1860s, both secessionists and unionists claimed him as their own in order to …
The Francophone World And The Making Of An American Catholicism, Mitchell Edward Oxford
The Francophone World And The Making Of An American Catholicism, Mitchell Edward Oxford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Although historians have long understood the importance of France to the institutional development of the Catholic Church in British North America, this portfolio is an attempt to demonstrate the significant role played by the Francophone world in shaping a distinctly American Catholicism in the United States. It does so by looking at two moments in the history of the American republic. The first is the attitude of the Continental Congress toward Quebec, which culminated in the invasion of Canada in 1775. In their attempt to sway Canada to the Patriot cause, Congress slowly reconciled themselves to guarantee religious liberty to …
From Charlesfort To Jamestown: French And English Imperial Efforts In Early American History, Cornelia Thompson
From Charlesfort To Jamestown: French And English Imperial Efforts In Early American History, Cornelia Thompson
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No abstract provided.
Temptress Of The Stage: Whither The Widow-Woman?, Kathryn Elizabeth Snyder
Temptress Of The Stage: Whither The Widow-Woman?, Kathryn Elizabeth Snyder
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Peopling The Cloister: Women's Colleges And The Worlds We've Made Of Them, Caroline Simmons Leigh Hasenyager
Peopling The Cloister: Women's Colleges And The Worlds We've Made Of Them, Caroline Simmons Leigh Hasenyager
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No abstract provided.
Peripheral Vision: Mimesis And Materiality Along The James River, Virginia, 1619-1660, Kathryn Lee Mcclure Sikes
Peripheral Vision: Mimesis And Materiality Along The James River, Virginia, 1619-1660, Kathryn Lee Mcclure Sikes
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Applying the concepts of mimesis and "third space" to Virginia's early colonial settlements, this study presents a comparative examination of documentary, pictorial, cartographic, and material evidence surrounding City Point's Site 44PG102 and contemporary James River plantations. By considering archaeological site data that are possibly contemporaneous, but previously have been segregated by archaeologists into "prehistoric" (Native Virginian) and "historic" (European) categories, I investigate the evidence for interethnic interactions as well as the social conventions surrounding 17th-century object and landscape use. This thesis argues that people of European, West Central African, West African, and Algonquian-speaking Native Virginian backgrounds endowed shared objects, buildings, …
"History Written With Lightning": Religion, White Supremacy, And The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Dixon, Jr, David Michael Kidd
"History Written With Lightning": Religion, White Supremacy, And The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Dixon, Jr, David Michael Kidd
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Baptist minister and author of novels, plays, sermons, and essays, Thomas Dixon, Jr. today remains most known as the storyteller behind the 1915 D. W. Griffith Film The Birth of a Nation. I argue that Thomas Dixon crafted a white supremacist rhetoric and narrative of modern whiteness indebted to the structures of Fundamentalist Christianity. With varying degrees of success, later writers struggled with the legacy the Dixonian cultural narrative bequeathed them.;Fundamentalist theology offered a whole host of tropes, metaphors, and arguments to its users. In short, Fundamentalism presented a rhetorical stance that was, in the hands of an ambitious and …
The Commissioners For Detecting And Defeating Conspiracies: Albany County, New York:1778-1781, Jade Mara Leszkowicz
The Commissioners For Detecting And Defeating Conspiracies: Albany County, New York:1778-1781, Jade Mara Leszkowicz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Alfred Thayer Mahan And The Making Of The Superior Other, John William Mcglashan
Alfred Thayer Mahan And The Making Of The Superior Other, John William Mcglashan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Sarah's Song: How Folk Music Shattered Slaveholding Ideology In Antebellum Alabama, Charles Allen Wallace
Sarah's Song: How Folk Music Shattered Slaveholding Ideology In Antebellum Alabama, Charles Allen Wallace
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A World In Miniature: James Butcher And The Transformation Of African American Politics & Society In Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane
A World In Miniature: James Butcher And The Transformation Of African American Politics & Society In Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane
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No abstract provided.
A Second Eden: The Promotion And Perception Of Virginia, 1584-1624, Jennifer Lynn Blahnik
A Second Eden: The Promotion And Perception Of Virginia, 1584-1624, Jennifer Lynn Blahnik
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No abstract provided.
The Art Of The Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal And The Rise Of Public Confession, Susan Wise Bauer
The Art Of The Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal And The Rise Of Public Confession, Susan Wise Bauer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Between 1969 and 2002, three American politicians (Edward Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton) and three ordained clergymen (Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and Cardinal Bernard Law) made public confessions of wrongdoing to national audiences. These public confessions reveal that Protestant religious culture, particularly the neoevangelical culture of the twentieth century, had changed the expectations of many who did not consider themselves within neoevangelicalism's sphere of influence. By tracing the historical development of public confession from its medieval roots to its use in twentieth-century entertainment programming, this dissertation shows that Protestant confessional practice affected both secular American political discourse and American …
Ambiguous Alliances: Native American Efforts To Preserve Independence In The Ohio Valley, 1768-1795, Sharon M. Sauder Muhlfeld
Ambiguous Alliances: Native American Efforts To Preserve Independence In The Ohio Valley, 1768-1795, Sharon M. Sauder Muhlfeld
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"Ambiguous Alliances" examines the revolutionary era in the Ohio Valley from a Native American perspective. Rather than simply considering them as British pawns or troublesome mischief-makers, this account describes how Wyandots, Shawnees, Ottawas, Delawares, Miamis, and their native neighbors made decisions about war and peace, established alliances with Europeans, Americans, and distant Indian nations, and charted specific strategies for their political and cultural survival. They also suffered devastating personal and property loss and encountered significant disruption to their societal routines. Yet much about their daily lives remained unchanged, and their communities continued to foster a strong Indian identity.;This dissertation explores …
Petticoat Flag: The Actions Of Confederate Women In Missouri During The Civil War, Jill Pesesky
Petticoat Flag: The Actions Of Confederate Women In Missouri During The Civil War, Jill Pesesky
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No abstract provided.
"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
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No abstract provided.
French And Hessian Impressions: Foreign Soldiers' Views Of America During The Revolution, Cosby Williams Hall
French And Hessian Impressions: Foreign Soldiers' Views Of America During The Revolution, Cosby Williams Hall
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No abstract provided.
Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety
Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety
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No abstract provided.
Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long
Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In the early 1730s, small groups of settlers started moving into the Valley of Virginia, beginning the movement into the southern backcountry. By the late 1740s Scots-Irish, English, and German settlers pressed into North Carolina's western Piedmont, and the small trickle of migrants quickly turned into a flood which persisted for the next three decades. This is a study of mid-eighteenth-century migration to the backcountry South.;The purpose of this study is to describe the process of eighteenth-century southern backcountry migration and to determine migrants' underlying motivations and considerations as they went about this process. It explores the experiences of settlers …
The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Warfare In Colonial America: Prelude And Promise, David Michael Corlett
Warfare In Colonial America: Prelude And Promise, David Michael Corlett
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No abstract provided.
Souls For The Lamb: The Puritan And Moravian Mission Towns Compared, Daniel Patrick Ingram
Souls For The Lamb: The Puritan And Moravian Mission Towns Compared, Daniel Patrick Ingram
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No abstract provided.
"A Good Book Is A Blessing": The Life And Reading Of Frances Whittle Lewis In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
"A Good Book Is A Blessing": The Life And Reading Of Frances Whittle Lewis In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
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No abstract provided.
"Passage To More Than India": American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism In The 1850s, Elizabeth Kelly Gray
"Passage To More Than India": American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism In The 1850s, Elizabeth Kelly Gray
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No abstract provided.
Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff
Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study explores the promotion, population and settlement of the Carolina lowcountry and evaluates the colony's pioneer years, the period before an English-dominated plantation society achieved supremacy. Many designers participated in the construction of proprietary South Carolina's social and geographical landscapes. The explorers and propagandists who first characterized the colony for European audiences developed the region in the minds of potential emigrants. their recruitment campaigns determined in part the people who colonized the province. The Lords Proprietors and their agents, who devised an elaborate settlement program set forth in the Fundamental Constitutions and other land policies, influenced how Carolina evolved …
North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy
North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"As If I Were A Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee And The Civil War She Waged In Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps
"As If I Were A Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee And The Civil War She Waged In Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks
Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks
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No abstract provided.
"I Rode Six Miles To Zion": The Experiences Of A Circuit Rider In Virginia, Joseph Servis
"I Rode Six Miles To Zion": The Experiences Of A Circuit Rider In Virginia, Joseph Servis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.