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Performing Race: Instances Of Color Representation In American Culture, Katrin L. Adkins Jan 2003

Performing Race: Instances Of Color Representation In American Culture, Katrin L. Adkins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Interminority Relations In The Early 1990s In California: Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, And Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato Jan 2003

Interminority Relations In The Early 1990s In California: Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, And Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Reform, Radicalism, And Royalty: Public Image And Political Influence Of Princess Charlotte And Queen Adelaide, Eileen Robin Hintz Jan 2003

Reform, Radicalism, And Royalty: Public Image And Political Influence Of Princess Charlotte And Queen Adelaide, Eileen Robin Hintz

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety Jan 2002

Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla Jan 2002

Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long Jan 2002

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 …


Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose Jan 2002

Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert Jan 2001

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.


"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn Jan 2000

"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman Jan 2000

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 Jan 2000

Warfare In Colonial America: Prelude And Promise, David Michael Corlett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll Jan 1999

African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Good Book Is A Blessing": The Life And Reading Of Frances Whittle Lewis In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger Jan 1998

"A Good Book Is A Blessing": The Life And Reading Of Frances Whittle Lewis In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Souls For The Lamb: The Puritan And Moravian Mission Towns Compared, Daniel Patrick Ingram Jan 1998

Souls For The Lamb: The Puritan And Moravian Mission Towns Compared, Daniel Patrick Ingram

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Passage To More Than India": American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism In The 1850s, Elizabeth Kelly Gray Jan 1998

"Passage To More Than India": American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism In The 1850s, Elizabeth Kelly Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff Jan 1998

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 …


Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells Jan 1997

Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy Jan 1997

North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld Jan 1996

The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld

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 Jan 1996

"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.


The Search For Completion In Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler Ncneer Jan 1996

The Search For Completion In Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler Ncneer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks Jan 1996

Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"I Rode Six Miles To Zion": The Experiences Of A Circuit Rider In Virginia, Joseph Servis Jan 1996

"I Rode Six Miles To Zion": The Experiences Of A Circuit Rider In Virginia, Joseph Servis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Visualization In The Treatment Of Substance Abusing Adolescents, Candice Jane Cook Jan 1996

The Use Of Visualization In The Treatment Of Substance Abusing Adolescents, Candice Jane Cook

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of visualization in the treatment of adolescents who abuse substances. This study measured whether the use of visualization had an impact on levels of depression, acting out behavior and ego development.;The sample consisted of 63 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who had been referred to a residential group home by the court system. The adolescents were evaluated using the Child Behavior Checklist, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. The subjects were evaluated at the beginning of the study and again at the …


A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Selected Medical Students' Perceptions Of Issues Related To Battered Women, Anita Strickland Jan 1995

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Selected Medical Students' Perceptions Of Issues Related To Battered Women, Anita Strickland

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Civilizing The Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, And The Rhetoric Of Removal, Tracey Ann Gibson Jan 1995

Civilizing The Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, And The Rhetoric Of Removal, Tracey Ann Gibson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Robert Hunter Morris And The Politics Of Indian Affairs In Pennsylvania, 1754-1755, Charles Michael Downing Jan 1995

Robert Hunter Morris And The Politics Of Indian Affairs In Pennsylvania, 1754-1755, Charles Michael Downing

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Daughter Seeks Reprieve: Charlotte Charke And Female Re/Presentation, Nolan Sinclair Marchand Jan 1994

Daughter Seeks Reprieve: Charlotte Charke And Female Re/Presentation, Nolan Sinclair Marchand

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner Jan 1994

"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

As a social history of the town and people of Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1750 to 1810, this dissertation traces the evolution of communal identity in the early American backcountry. By focusing on the growth and development of one urban community, this work details not only how and why one group of backcountry inhabitants took pride in their town's outward accomplishments and material prosperity, but also explains how Carlisle's evolutionary growth prompted the town's people to see themselves as key players in an economic and social universe that stretched far beyond the geographic boundaries of their localized realm.;Using state and county …


Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran Jan 1994

Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.