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Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The concept of “warrior” has become a centerpiece of the twenty-first century US Army identity. The term “warrior” dominates the Army’s various initiatives and programs and is central to the service’s values and ideals. Since the Army deploys the term so liberally, the term has been used in seemingly contrasting ways: sometimes in strict relation to ground combat positions and other times in reference to soldiers in nontraditional domains like cyber- and drone-warfare. In a similar vein, the Army uses the term both as an honorific for exemplary soldiers and as a generic substitute for the term “soldier.” This dissertation …
Virginia Society's Response/ Fancy Fantasy, Peighton Lynsey Young
Virginia Society's Response/ Fancy Fantasy, Peighton Lynsey Young
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Virginia Society’s Response to Revolution Era Manumission and Emancipation Legislation Through Petitions, 1782-1806 Using manumission petitions filed by or on behalf of enslaved Virginians seeking freedom, pro-manumission and emancipation petitions proffered by religious organizations, and anti-emancipation petitions submitted by local enslavers and politicians, this study examines how Virginians, both White and Black, free and enslaved, responded to Virginia’s 1782 manumission act. This law facilitated the liberation of thousands of people in bondage during the first twenty-four years of the early republic period. My analysis highlights a contentious period in Virginia’s early history – a period that began with tenuous hopes …
Ulysses S. Grant In Popular Memory / Jewish Quotas At Elite Universities, Shea Simmons
Ulysses S. Grant In Popular Memory / Jewish Quotas At Elite Universities, Shea Simmons
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Ulysses S. Grant in Popular Memory. The time period from the 1880s (beginning shortly after his death) to the 1930s was crucial in regards to the popular memory of general and president Ulysses S. Grant. Accessible writings made available both to the public and historians cemented his image among informed readers as an incompetent president and simple-minded general. These included biographies, novels, popular histories and even academic writings, many taking heed of the Dunning School of thought in regards to Reconstruction. Through tracing his journey in popular memory, it becomes clear that many characterizations of Grant owed more to political …
Credit Is Due: African Americans As Borrowers And Lenders In Antebellum Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Credit Is Due: African Americans As Borrowers And Lenders In Antebellum Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation analyzes the credit arrangements of Black Virginians, enslaved and free, from the American Revolution to the Civil War. As democracy assured new rights for white men, Black Virginians, and especially Black women, saw the erosion of their legal access to civil and political rights. At the same time a new system of banks provided the capital for the expansion of enslavement. This dissertation examines different forms of debt at the moment when changing ideas about race and freedom and relationships of debt began to evolve into the “modern” banking system. Free and enslaved African Americans were active borrowers …
“Fighting Without Firing”/ “My Fellow Slaves”, Kevin Michael Fowler
“Fighting Without Firing”/ “My Fellow Slaves”, Kevin Michael Fowler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
“Fighting Without Firing”: Massacre, Tactical Development, and Propaganda at Paoli and Tappan This essay examines the effects and tools of the American Revolutionary massacres at Paoli in 1777, and Tappan in 1778. These massacres were ordered by the same officer, Major General Charles Grey, and committed by the same soldiers. The essay argues that committing massacres and defining battles as “massacres” served British and American patriot causes during the American Revolution. Committing massacres provided models for tactical innovation and defining battles as massacre was a powerful propaganda tool for American revolutionaries. The essay secondarily argues that bayonets, night attacks, and …
The Intersection Of Activism And Black Memory: Space, Memory, And Resistance In John Mitchell, Jr.’S Woodland Cemetery And Remembering Emancipation In Hampton Roads, 1917-1963, Timothy Allen Case
The Intersection Of Activism And Black Memory: Space, Memory, And Resistance In John Mitchell, Jr.’S Woodland Cemetery And Remembering Emancipation In Hampton Roads, 1917-1963, Timothy Allen Case
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
“Emancipation is an Act, Freedom is a State of Being”: Remembering Emancipation in Hampton Roads, 1917-1963. This paper traces the centralized organization and an activist turn in the commemoration of emancipation in the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. While considerable scholarship exists on African American freedom commemorations from the Civil War through its semi-centennial, the story told of twentieth-century emancipation memory is mostly one of marginalization and decline. Accounts of these celebrations in the local Black press reveals their persistence well into the twentieth century. Jim Crow and racial violence haunted the celebratory culture of …