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Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear
Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Exploring Current Approaches To Status Variability In The Seventeenth Century Chesapeake, Pegeen Amy Mclaughlin
Exploring Current Approaches To Status Variability In The Seventeenth Century Chesapeake, Pegeen Amy Mclaughlin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Forging A New Indian Religion In Seventeenth-Century Huronia, David John Silverman
Forging A New Indian Religion In Seventeenth-Century Huronia, David John Silverman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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.
Ship Of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, And The Transformation Of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Ship Of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, And The Transformation Of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines capitalism and cultural change in early New England. The research focuses on leading merchants in Boston and Salem, Massachusetts from the last third of the seventeenth century to 1760. During this period, merchants, royal officials, and professionals formed a prominent influential elite that refashioned the town landscape and social structure of colonial ports. Merchants adopted a new Anglo-American worldview that gradually supplanted Puritan spiritual and providential understanding of the world and, instead, emphasized visible, material characteristics as the source of value in science, commerce, and consumption. The resultant "world of goods," created a social marketplace where identity, …
"Preserving Their Form And Features": The Role Of Coffins In The American Understanding Of Death, 1607-1870, Brent Warren Tharp
"Preserving Their Form And Features": The Role Of Coffins In The American Understanding Of Death, 1607-1870, Brent Warren Tharp
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially with regard to its role in the integration of death in American society before 1870. Coffins have generally been ignored by material culture studies primarily because of our society's cultural uneasiness with the topic of death. Current American funeral and burial practices seem bizarre and ahistorical and have often been characterized as the result of twentieth-century commercial greed. However, coffins have a long history as important artifacts which American society has used to legitimize death in subtly different ways for generations. This study examines the …
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1807, Charles Fraser lauded fellow miniature artist Edward Greene Malbone's ability to produce "such striking resemblances, that they will never fail to perpetuate the tenderness of friendship, to divert the cares of absence, and to aid affection in dwelling on those features and that image which death has forever wrested from it." The explanations traditionally given for the commissioning of portraits--the perpetuation of family or institutional memory--correspond with Fraser's comments. Yet these explanations rarely incorporate the social context: the communities in which images were produced and the individual, familial, or group meanings of portraits.;"Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions of …
Bridging The Cultural Divide: American Indians At Hampton Institute, 1878-1923., Jon Larsen Brudvig
Bridging The Cultural Divide: American Indians At Hampton Institute, 1878-1923., Jon Larsen Brudvig
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Puritan Town And Gown: Harvard College And Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636--1800., John Daniel Burton
Puritan Town And Gown: Harvard College And Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636--1800., John Daniel Burton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Other Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, And The Commodity Of Experience, Jill Angela Mcnutt
The Other Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, And The Commodity Of Experience, Jill Angela Mcnutt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Work And Play: Recreation And Reality In A Southern Female Textile World, Beth Anne English
Work And Play: Recreation And Reality In A Southern Female Textile World, Beth Anne English
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.
Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann
Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this interview based qualitative study was to explore the influence that a plurality of social contexts, represented through United Methodist congregations in the Virginia Conference, have on the formation of ministers' occupational activities.;The study used a typology developed by Larry Blazer (1987) to identify the occupational activities practiced by parish ministers. The investigation weighted clergy's professional practice using Judith Hackman's (1985) concepts of power and centrality in her study institutions of higher education's budgeting process. Congregational representatives identified occupational activities that were central and peripheral to their congregation's mission. Clergy identified the occupational activities that received more …
A Distinctive Chest Of Drawers: Using Material Culture To Interpret The Past And The Present, Jessica Williams Johnston
A Distinctive Chest Of Drawers: Using Material Culture To Interpret The Past And The Present, Jessica Williams Johnston
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Female Instruction And Improvement": Education For Women In Maryland, Virginia, And The District Of Columbia, 1785-1835., Mary Carroll Johansen
"Female Instruction And Improvement": Education For Women In Maryland, Virginia, And The District Of Columbia, 1785-1835., Mary Carroll Johansen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Roland W. Robbins helped to pioneer the profession of historical archaeology. as the discipline professionalized, he found himself increasingly excluded. This study analyzes Robbins's career within the context of the disciplines of archaeology and historic preservation and considers the professionalization process, current cultural resource management practice, the value of early data, and the importance of public archaeology.;The study also explores archaeology as Robbins's solution to his long personal crisis of vocation. He reacted to his coming of age during the Depression by searching for personal foundations and also responded to larger cultural needs, including a quest for the roots of …
"So That I Get Her Again": African American Slave Women Runaways In Selected Richmond, Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, And The Richmond, Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843, Leni Ashmore Sorensen
"So That I Get Her Again": African American Slave Women Runaways In Selected Richmond, Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, And The Richmond, Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843, Leni Ashmore Sorensen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson
Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Sugar Chests In Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton Mcpherson
Sugar Chests In Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton Mcpherson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Beyond Telling The News: The Mission Of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Beyond Telling The News: The Mission Of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Working With Tools: Work, Identity, And Perception Communicated Through The Material Culture Of Work In The Context Of The Rideau Canal Construction 1826-1832, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella Plousos
Working With Tools: Work, Identity, And Perception Communicated Through The Material Culture Of Work In The Context Of The Rideau Canal Construction 1826-1832, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella Plousos
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Marston Parish 1654-1674: A Community Study, Jane Dillon Mckinney
Marston Parish 1654-1674: A Community Study, Jane Dillon Mckinney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Archaeology Goes To School: A Cooperative Approach To Teaching History Through Archaeology, Paul David Schuster
Archaeology Goes To School: A Cooperative Approach To Teaching History Through Archaeology, Paul David Schuster
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Trains, Trucks, And Traffic Jams: The Rise Of Automotive Transportation, 1880-1956, Anthony Roland Destefanis
Trains, Trucks, And Traffic Jams: The Rise Of Automotive Transportation, 1880-1956, Anthony Roland Destefanis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.