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Saints And Savages: American Religion And The Construction Of Victory Culture, Jacob Tyler Hayes
Saints And Savages: American Religion And The Construction Of Victory Culture, Jacob Tyler Hayes
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
"Fare Well To All Radicals": Redeeming Tennessee, 1869-1870, William Edward Hardy
"Fare Well To All Radicals": Redeeming Tennessee, 1869-1870, William Edward Hardy
Doctoral Dissertations
On February 10, 1869, Tennessee Governor William G. “Parson” Brownlow tendered his resignation as he prepared to take his seat in the United States Senate, to which his Radical allies in the General Assembly had elected him in the aftermath of the 1867 state election. On resigning, Brownlow expressed full confidence in DeWitt C. Senter, the man who would succeed him. Stunningly, six months later Brownlow’s Radical party verged on collapse after its Conservative rivals captured control of the General Assembly in the August 1869 state election. The new legislature speedily repealed many of the enactments of the five years …
To The Indian Removal Act, 1814-1830, Kyle Massey Stephens
To The Indian Removal Act, 1814-1830, Kyle Massey Stephens
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation offers a history of Indian removal as a political issue from the War of 1812 to the signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Its central argument is that federal removal policy emerged and evolved due to a precise and largely unforeseen sequence of events. Drawing on Indian treaties, journals of negotiations, minutes of cabinet meetings, Congressional debates, personal memoirs, and a variety of other sources, the dissertation charts and elucidates the evolution of United States Indian policy from a diplomatic to a domestic concern. One of the central themes of the dissertation is how most white …
Christian Heroes And Blood-Stained Villains: The Civil War In Historic Peace Church Memory, 1865-1915, Aaron Duane Jerviss
Christian Heroes And Blood-Stained Villains: The Civil War In Historic Peace Church Memory, 1865-1915, Aaron Duane Jerviss
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the Civil War memory of the three historic peace churches (the Society of Friends, the Mennonites, and the German Baptist Brethren) in the years between 1865 and 1915. It argues that these three groups, in their Civil War remembrance, challenged the culturally prevalent definition of heroism as militaristic in nature, an expression found in military monuments, Decoration Day observances, and Blue-Gray veterans’ reunion. The study looks at periodicals, books, and biographies produced by these three religious bodies (and letters and diaries written by individual members) in the fifty years after the war to uncover both their narratives …
Annie Oakley, Gender, And Guns: The "Champion Rifle Shot" And Gender Performance, 1860-1926, Sarah Russell
Annie Oakley, Gender, And Guns: The "Champion Rifle Shot" And Gender Performance, 1860-1926, Sarah Russell
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.