Digital Commons Network^™

Spire And Tower: The History, Architecture And Art Of Two Norfolk, Virginia Churches, Judith L. Smith

Institute for the Humanities Theses

While St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church and Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church are dissimilar in origin, religious practices, and architectural style, when taken together, their periods of construction in their respective revival styles span and define an important era in Norfolk, Virginia's urban history.

Original research in the sparse records of several Catholic parishes identifies the previously known name of the architect of St. Mary's church. The study also offers additional information on that church's stained glass window.

The author presents the heretofore scattered history of Epworth Church in chronological order. The study develops new information concerning …

Reconstruction In Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly

History Theses & Dissertations

Blacks were the passive victims in Kemper County, Mississippi, the scene of violence and murder in Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan, the Order of '76, and a continuing animosity between scalawag Radical Republicans and white-line Democrats were instrumental in perpetuating a frontier atmosphere wherein the pistol and Bowie knife were commonplace. Shooting or killing was an acceptable method of settling one's differences with another. Freedom and new rights for the majority black population of the county and seven years of Radical rule in the county provoked night-riding violence, murder and finally, the Mississippi Plan, successful revolution at the ballot box …

Containment, Cliency And The Revolution In Vietnam, Deborah Tompsett-Makin

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis addresses the question, why does U.S. foreign policy contribute to political instability in developing nations? To ascertain the answer, it analyzes the post-World War II administrations from Truman through Johnson. One mode of containment, cliency, a foreign policy relationship between a major power and a weaker state, is developed within the framework analyzing containment. The cliency model provides a theoretical basis for explaining how the domestic structure of the client state is systematically distorted by the patron's actions in pursuit of its global interests. The cliency model is also linked to the pattern of development and stability of …

Race Of The Century : Guy Vs. Young, 1974 North Dakota U.S. Senate Election, Allan C. Young

Theses and Dissertations

As the 1972-1974 election cycle began, Republican incumbent Milton Young, who had served in the U.S. Senate for twenty-seven years, decided to run for another term with realistic confidence in his ability to repeat prior election victories. His initial optimism began to erode as national Republican leaders questioned his ability to defeat his apparent opponent, former North Dakota Governor William L. Guy. Results of public opinion surveys added credibility to the perception of Young's weakness. Guy saw an opportunity to achieve his long-held goal of becoming a U.S. Senator and cautiously laid the groundwork for his campaign. As the two …

The 316th Air Division (Defense) In Morocco: Operations Section 1957-1960, Michael W. Price

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Michael W. Price in February of 1989.

A Rejection Of Order: The Development Of The Newspaper Comic Strip In America, 1830-1920, Elsa A. Nystrom

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Anglo-Siouan Relations On Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732, Joseph Benjamin Jones

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Greater Jacksonville's Response To The Florida Land Boom Of The 1920s, Philip Warren Miller

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Florida land boom was an orgy of real estate speculation and development that swept the state during the period 1924 through 1926. The few books and articles that deal with that event rarely mention Jacksonville, although it was Florida's largest city and its chief commercial and transportation center. This could lead one to the conclusion that the North Florida city did not become caught up in the boom. Yet scattered throughout the Jacksonville area are the remains of a number of real estate projects that date from that period.

Therefore, this thesis examines the effects of the boom on …

John Humphrey Noyes, 1811-1840 : A Social Biography, Susan Adams Dubay

Dissertations and Theses

John Humphrey Noyes was the founder of the Oneida Community, one of the most successful utopian ventures in nineteenth-century America. Early in his life, Noyes was a deep religious thinker, but he founded Oneida as an ideal society based on extending the family unit, and not as a church. Noyes's social theories eventually overwhelmed his former religious concentration.

The purpose of this thesis is to locate in Noyes's religiously-oriented youth the sources of his social interests. Few scholars have studied in depth the childhood and young manhood of John Humphrey Noyes, but that is where the roots of his social …

Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment Of Cruise Missiles In The United Kingdom And The Post-1945 Anglo-American Special Relationship In Defense, Colin James Donald

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Peopling The Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders In York County, Virginia 1699-1780, Linda Hunter Rowe

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Life In Williamsburg, Virginia: 1891-1921, Kari Lauralyn Sessoms

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Joseph E Johnston And The Defense Of Richmond, Steven H. Newton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study examines Confederate military operations in Virginia from February 17-May 31, 1862, focusing specifically on the role of Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Department of Northern Virginia. It includes a detailed consideration of Confederate grand strategy, Johnston's withdrawal from the Potomac River, the redeployment of the army to Yorktown, the siege of Yorktown, and the Battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines.;In February, 1862, following the surrender of Fort Donelson, President Jefferson Davis reoriented strategy in Virginia from a defense of the frontiers to a closer defense of Richmond; he also recalled General Robert E. Lee from South …

Horace Mann: A Comparison Of A Traditional And A Revisionist Biography, George C. Whiting

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to compare a traditional biography, Burke A. Hinsdale's Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States (1900), and a revisionist biography, Jonathan Messerli's Horace Mann: a Biography (1972), within a "neutral" frame of reference to determine which author made the more logical use of evidence to support his argument.;David H. Fischer's Historians' Fallacies (1970) and Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May's Thinking in Time (1986) were used to formulate a "neutral" frame of reference within which to analyze the two biographies.;Hinsdale's explanation was found to consist of a series of …

A Social Historical Exploration Of The Popularity Of "The Rockford Files", Mary Frances Taormina

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

In Pursuit Of Urban Property: Lot Holders In Colonial Yorktown And Williamsburg, Julie Caroline Julia Richter

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Privateering In The Colonial Chesapeake, David Alan Lester

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

White Democracy, Racism, And Black Disfranchisement: North Carolina In The 1830'S, Elizabeth Hathhorn Mcgehee

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Women, Work, And The Civil War: The Effect Of The Civil War On The Women Working In Richmond, Virginia, Between 1860 And 1870, Elizabeth Ann Holmes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Private Land Development In Williamsburg, 1699-1748: Building A Community, Cathleene Betz Hellier

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Be Ye Friend Or Foe?: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century North Carolina Sites, Anna Lois Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Inter-Colonial Trade Of Domestic Earthenwares And The Development Of An American Social Identity, Carl R. Steen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Cabinetmakers And Related Tradesmen In Norfolk, Virginia: 1770-1820, Ronald Leroy Hurst

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Trials Of Len Small, William R. Harshbarger

Masters Theses

Len Small, governor of Illinois from 1921 to 1929, was a politician associated with the Lorimer-Lundin-Thompson political machine which influenced Illinois politics from 1897 until the late 1920s. During that era, Small held offices in the county and in the state Senate. He served one appointed term as United States subtreasurer, two terms as state treasurer, and two terms as governor. Small ran six times for governor: 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936. He came to the governorship in 1920 following a bitter feud between his patron, William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson and Frank O. Lowden. As a result, …