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Bottomless Pits: The Decline Of Subfloor Pits And Rise Of African American Consumerism In Virginia, Danny Brad Hatch
Bottomless Pits: The Decline Of Subfloor Pits And Rise Of African American Consumerism In Virginia, Danny Brad Hatch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Friendship Fest: Perfecting Friendship Through Transnational Musical Performance, Nancy Leanne Thompson
The Friendship Fest: Perfecting Friendship Through Transnational Musical Performance, Nancy Leanne Thompson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Re-Taking It To The Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence In The Spaces Of Late Capitalism, Kevin Waide Kosanovich
Re-Taking It To The Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence In The Spaces Of Late Capitalism, Kevin Waide Kosanovich
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Blurring Boundaries: The Rorschach Idea In Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture, James Edward Rainey
Blurring Boundaries: The Rorschach Idea In Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture, James Edward Rainey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Revolutionary Writings Of Mary And Royall Tyler: Marital, Medical, And Political Discourse In An Early-Nineteenth-Century Family, Elizabeth Anne Bond
The Revolutionary Writings Of Mary And Royall Tyler: Marital, Medical, And Political Discourse In An Early-Nineteenth-Century Family, Elizabeth Anne Bond
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Celebrity And The National Body: Encounters With The Exotic In Late Nineteenth-Century America, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
Celebrity And The National Body: Encounters With The Exotic In Late Nineteenth-Century America, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This project uses the remarkable careers of anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, stunt reporter Nellie Bly, anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, and war correspondent Richard Harding Davis, as well as literary texts by Davis and Henry James, to frame a set of questions about the politics and implications of cultural crossover at the end of the nineteenth century. Through their work as participant observers of racial, ethnic and social Others, these reporters, reformers, and authors were gradually transformed into charismatic exotics. More than simply mediating between a mainstream (usually white, middle-class) audience and a more exotic people or place, these individuals …
Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware And The Deregulation Of Consumer Credit, Carolee Anne Klimchock
Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware And The Deregulation Of Consumer Credit, Carolee Anne Klimchock
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Performances Of Black Female Sexuality In A Hip Hop Magazine, Tova Joanna Johnson
Performances Of Black Female Sexuality In A Hip Hop Magazine, Tova Joanna Johnson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Religious Philosophy Of Richard M Nixon, Robert Benjamin Abel
The Religious Philosophy Of Richard M Nixon, Robert Benjamin Abel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Degrees Of Relatedness: The Social Politics Of Algonquian Kinship In The Contact Era Chesapeake, Buck W. Woodard
Degrees Of Relatedness: The Social Politics Of Algonquian Kinship In The Contact Era Chesapeake, Buck W. Woodard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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 …
Harem Fantasies And Music Videos: Contemporary Orientalist Representation, Maya Ayana Johnson
Harem Fantasies And Music Videos: Contemporary Orientalist Representation, Maya Ayana Johnson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reevaluating The Carnegie Survey: New Uses For Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive, Sarah Eugenie Reeder
Reevaluating The Carnegie Survey: New Uses For Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive, Sarah Eugenie Reeder
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"In Praise Of Bishop Valentine": The Creation Of Modern Valentine's Day In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
"In Praise Of Bishop Valentine": The Creation Of Modern Valentine's Day In Antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"In Praise of Bishop Valentine" is a cultural history of Valentine's Day in the American antebellum Northeast. By the middle of the nineteenth century, residents of England and North America had been observing February 14th with various folk customs for centuries. In the early 1840s, however, Northern businessmen and women discovered an enthusiastic and consumptive market for their ready-made valentines. Within a matter of years these merchants' efforts to sell printed cards fundamentally changed the way saint's day was marked. Valentine's Day had become one of the most celebrated holidays of the year and an occasion, specifically, for buying and …
More Or Less Than Kind: Brothers And Sisters In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Jennifer P. Blanchard
More Or Less Than Kind: Brothers And Sisters In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Jennifer P. Blanchard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation investigates the under-examined relationships between sibling characters in nineteenth-century American literature (1852-1900). Focusing on the depictions of siblinghood in such works as Herman Melville's Pierre, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, and Edith Wharton's Bunner Sisters, I explore how nineteenth-century American authors construct, comment on, and use the sibling bond as an attempt to reconcile tensions of personal and collective identity and the competing drives for family ties and individual experience. In these fictions and others, I argue, siblinghood is a space where the rules of relation are negotiable and unfixed---where brothers …
Powerful Spirits: Social Drinking In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah Elizabeth King Pariseau
Powerful Spirits: Social Drinking In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah Elizabeth King Pariseau
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory, And The Creation Of A National Monument, Seth C. Bruggeman
Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory, And The Creation Of A National Monument, Seth C. Bruggeman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The National Park Service's (NPS) George Washington Birthplace National Monument has commemorated Washington and his life for over seventy-five years. For much of that time, the NPS worked closely with the memorial's progenitors, the 'ladies' of the Wakefield National Memorial Association (WNMA). Although equally committed to the preservation of Washington's legacy, these two groups clashed over questions of authenticity, historical authority, and proper commemorative strategy. This dissertation explores their relationship for what it reveals about the rise of public history in this country and Federal involvement therein.;We witness at Washington's birthplace a collision between old-order Colonial Revivalists (led for a …
Screening The Revolution: "Williamsburg, The Story Of A Patriot" As Historic Artifact, History Film, And Hegemonic Struggle, Jenna Anne Simpson
Screening The Revolution: "Williamsburg, The Story Of A Patriot" As Historic Artifact, History Film, And Hegemonic Struggle, Jenna Anne Simpson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pleasure And Peril: Shaping Children's Reading In The Early Twentieth Century, Wendy Korwin
Pleasure And Peril: Shaping Children's Reading In The Early Twentieth Century, Wendy Korwin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
'Like The Spider From The Rose': Colonial Knowledge Competition And The Origins Of Non-Elite Education In Georgia And South Carolina, 1700s--1820s., James O'Neil Spady
'Like The Spider From The Rose': Colonial Knowledge Competition And The Origins Of Non-Elite Education In Georgia And South Carolina, 1700s--1820s., James O'Neil Spady
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"Breaking with Tradition" is a study of slave literacy in eighteenth-century British North America, the era of the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution. Instead of highlighting the work of a few northern slave authors (the present emphasis in African American literary history), it focuses on the relationship between slave education in colonial Virginia and the social and political circumstances in which slaves acquired a knowledge of letters. A social history of life in the slave quarters, the "great house," and in towns, "Breaking with Tradition" is at once a case study of slaves reading and writing in the …
Society Of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, And The Antebellum Reform Imagination, Robert Kent Nelson
Society Of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, And The Antebellum Reform Imagination, Robert Kent Nelson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study explores the central role that a spiritualized friendship played in the thought and writings of antebellum reformers. It identifies a spiritual sensibility that was widely shared by many radical New England activists of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s regardless of their specific denominational beliefs, and argues that this sense of spirituality motivated them to become activists who labored to transform their society.;Specifically, this dissertation analyzes the work and writings of a variety of reformers who believed that spirit or soul could serve as a mechanism for leveling some of the most dominant cultural and institutional power hierarchies of …
"They Opened The Door Too Late": African Americans And Baseball, 1900-1947, Sarah L. Trembanis
"They Opened The Door Too Late": African Americans And Baseball, 1900-1947, Sarah L. Trembanis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
During Jim Crow, the sport of baseball served as an important arena for African American resistance and negotiation. as a (mostly) black enterprise, the Negro Leagues functioned as part of a larger African American movement to establish black commercial ventures during segregation. Moreover, baseball's special status as the national pastime made it a significant public symbol for African American campaigns for integration and civil rights.;This dissertation attempts to interrogate the experience and significance of black baseball during Jim Crow during the first half of the twentieth century. Relying on newspapers, magazines, memoirs, biographies, and previously published oral interviews, this work …
Nathaniel Jocelyn: In The Service Of Art And Abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway
Nathaniel Jocelyn: In The Service Of Art And Abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Through my dissertation, I embark on a biographical, cultural and historical study of artist and abolitionist Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796-1881), primarily known as a nineteenth-century portrait painter and engraver in New Haven, Connecticut. Although Jocelyn received little formal training, he sought to become a preeminent portrait painter. Together with his younger brother, Simeon Smith Jocelyn (1799-1879), he established a successful engraving firm designing banknotes, maps, atlases, and book illustrations.;Jocelyn lived in an age of evangelical revivalism commonly called the Second Great Awakening. He was a devout Congregationalist and saw the various aspects of his life embedded in his religious convictions. Jocelyn's …
Consumer Under Fire: The Military Consumer And The Vietnam War, Evan Cordulack
Consumer Under Fire: The Military Consumer And The Vietnam War, Evan Cordulack
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Facing Independence: American Revolutionary Portraits Within The Context Of British Identity, Susan Jensen Rawles
Facing Independence: American Revolutionary Portraits Within The Context Of British Identity, Susan Jensen Rawles
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This paper examines the content of eighteenth-century American and British portraits within the ideologically-expanding context of eighteenth-century British identity. It explores the ways in which Britons and Americans negotiated who they were and, consequently, their claims on society, in the era preceding and including the American Revolution. It does so for three reasons: to advance a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of American portraiture; to motivate further dialogue on the relationship between American and British portraits; and to invoke the potential for American portraits as documentary evidence of social history.;Through historical examination of philosophical influences informing the development of …
Blue Notes And Brown Skin: Five African-American Jazzmen And The Music They Produced In Regard To The American Civil Rights Movement, Benjamin Park Anderson
Blue Notes And Brown Skin: Five African-American Jazzmen And The Music They Produced In Regard To The American Civil Rights Movement, Benjamin Park Anderson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Subconscious Influences: The Leopold-Loeb Case And The Development Of An American Criminal Archetype, John Carl Fiorini
Subconscious Influences: The Leopold-Loeb Case And The Development Of An American Criminal Archetype, John Carl Fiorini
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Down Where The South Begins": Virginia Radio And The Conversation Of Nationhood, Caroline Chandler Morris
"Down Where The South Begins": Virginia Radio And The Conversation Of Nationhood, Caroline Chandler Morris
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.