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After Midnight: Analyzing Legacy Business Programs' Potential To Capture Patron Perspectives Through A Case Study Of Four Charleston, Sc Nightlife Spaces, Shawnya Peterson 2025 Clemson University

After Midnight: Analyzing Legacy Business Programs' Potential To Capture Patron Perspectives Through A Case Study Of Four Charleston, Sc Nightlife Spaces, Shawnya Peterson

All Theses

Within historic preservation, Legacy Business Programs (LBPs) are increasingly popular initiatives to support and celebrate businesses that have contributed to the history and culture of their communities and reached a certain operational age. LBPs are important to their communities and are part of a growing trend towards vernacular study and democratization within the preservation field. In particular, LBP application processes have the potential to document significant aspects of these important community businesses. Different LBP application questions can capture different types of business information from a range of perspectives. Within the movement towards greater inclusivity in historic preservation, understanding and documenting …


A Tale Of Two Women, Cassady Brown 2025 University of New Orleans

A Tale Of Two Women, Cassady Brown

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Avenging Chief Sam: A Missed Opportunity In Galveston’S Commemorative Landscape, Eddie L. Brown Jr. 2025 University of New Orleans

Avenging Chief Sam: A Missed Opportunity In Galveston’S Commemorative Landscape, Eddie L. Brown Jr.

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This work centers on Chief Alfred Sam and the Oklahoma Blacks who were followers of his 1914 Back-to-Africa Movement. While public memory has portrayed return to Africa movements as disconnected moments in Black history, my work reinterprets Sam’s movement as foundational and revisits Galveston as the space utilized by nearly five hundred of his followers. It further asserts, that Galveston should be considered as the historical extraction point for the United States’ only Back-to-Africa movement of the twentieth century. While the Galveston landscape holds more than 200 historical markers and is the commemorated home of Juneteenth, no commemorative markers exist …


Public Memory Of World War Ii In Japan, Jeneva Grace Midgett 2025 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Public Memory Of World War Ii In Japan, Jeneva Grace Midgett

Honors Theses

Public memory often fails to encompass varied perspectives on past events, representing exclusively the collective understanding of one group or nation. Most nations shape history through personalized narratives, which remember their own motivations in conflicts, neglect their harms done against others, or memorialize past harms and traumas for reasons such as collective identity, nationalism, or guilt. However, while public memory is similarly controlled from nation to nation, various scholarship has illuminated changes within Japanese World War II education, and many scholars have discussed its potential impact to Japanese World War II public memory. To fully analyze Japanese public memory and …


“Mimicking Straights”: The Legacy Of Conservatism In Homophile Activism, 1950-60s, Brock Manasseri 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

“Mimicking Straights”: The Legacy Of Conservatism In Homophile Activism, 1950-60s, Brock Manasseri

History Undergraduate Honors Theses

In this thesis I explore historical misconceptions about the homophile movement that was active during the sixties and 1950s. Scholarly narratives have borrowed Gay Liberation’s perspective that narrowly defined homophiles as conservative, respectable, and tied to gendered roles. This representation only reflects the ideas of leadership, rather than the membership. Homophiles were a highly diverse group of people, both intellectually and demographically. Assumptions about their politics and practices began in straight society but did come to be repeated by their critics. In truth, homophiles included radicals and conservatives and their publications served as the stage on which to debate the …


Pedro Aceves Mfa Thesis, Pedro M. Aceves 2025 California State University - San Bernardino

Pedro Aceves Mfa Thesis, Pedro M. Aceves

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

My Work is about looking at Cruising through a queer decolonial lens. Using multiple mediums such as photo, glass, Augmented reality, and film, I explore these queer histories and aesthetics through not just an anthropological approach but also an artistic epistemological approach weaving together narratives of prehispanic and modern queer Latinidad.


Historical Preservation, Edgar Chavez Sosa 2025 California State University - San Bernardino

Historical Preservation, Edgar Chavez Sosa

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Museums and archives alike, provide a public service to anyone who holds a yearning of knowledge. This public service can help aid this thirst for knowledge, art, and fulfillment of the many characteristics that make us human. People from all walks of life can attend a museum, or archive. Whether in a military museum, or an archive the mission remains the same. Historical preservation is what is being done behind closed doors. Whether you are looking for a certain document, book, or more information on a certain artifact. It all involves some sort of historical preservation. That being said, its …


From Tragedy To Triumph: Maine’S Lgbtq+ History (1984-2005), Aidan King '25 2025 Communication and Media Studies, University of Southern Maine

From Tragedy To Triumph: Maine’S Lgbtq+ History (1984-2005), Aidan King '25

All Student Scholarship

Maine’s LGBTQ+ history may be very rich, but true acceptance was an uphill battle. For decades, queer residents of Maine fought for equal rights in the state. The Stonewall riots in 1969 in New York City were an early sign that LGBTQ+ citizens were not going to continue to let their identities be suppressed, but as the years progressed, so too did the confidence of queer people to be open about their identities, including in Maine. In 1973, at the University of Maine, the Wilde-Stein Club was established, to the deep chagrin of homophobic fundamentalist preachers whose protests against the …


A Sacrifice On The Altar Of Unity: The Loss Of Black Identity In The Unification Of Kynett And Lagrange First Umc., Rebecca Sue Wishnevski 2025 University of Louisville

A Sacrifice On The Altar Of Unity: The Loss Of Black Identity In The Unification Of Kynett And Lagrange First Umc., Rebecca Sue Wishnevski

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the 1996 merger of Kynett United Methodist Church, a historically Black church, and LaGrange First United Methodist Church, a traditionally White church in LaGrange, Kentucky. The study provides insight into nonurban Black churches, showing that while they may have smaller congregations in smaller towns, the Black church remains central to Black life and connection like its urban contemporaries. Methods for collecting primary source material relied heavily on oral histories performed by the researcher with Black and White individuals attending said churches and their experiences during the merger. The study reveals that although unification promised a modern building …


Mr. Ruben "Papa" White, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mr. Ruben "Papa" White

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Reuben--Papa--White_Jr.pdf - Funeral program for Ruben White


Louise Ward Sims, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Louise Ward Sims

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Little Andre Henry Hudson, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Little Andre Henry Hudson

African American Funeral Programs

Little_Andre_Henry_Hudson.pdf - Death notice for Andre Hudson


Mr. Joe Jackson, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mr. Joe Jackson

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Joe_Jackson.pdf - Funeral program for Joe Jackson


James Cornell Jarmond, 2025 Georgia Southern University

James Cornell Jarmond

African American Funeral Programs

James_Cornell_Jarmond.pdf - Funeral program for James Cornell Jarmond


Mrs. Ivory Davis, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mrs. Ivory Davis

African American Funeral Programs

Handwritten Announcement


Student Senate Meeting Minutes April 21, 2025, Student Senate-Winona State University 2025 Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes April 21, 2025, Student Senate-Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes

This document is the official Winona State University Student Senate Minutes for April 21, 2025.


Mrs. Sadie Glasco Nuere Bacon, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mrs. Sadie Glasco Nuere Bacon

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Sadie_Glasco_Nuere.pdf - Funeral program for Sadie Nuere


Mattie Lee Johnson, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mattie Lee Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Mattie_Lee_Johnson_DeathNotice.pdf - Funeral program for Mattie Johnson


Mrs. Mattie Bell Joyce, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mrs. Mattie Bell Joyce

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Mattie_Lee_Johnson_DeathNotice.pdf - Funeral program


Mrs. Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, 2025 Georgia Southern University

Mrs. Carrie Elizabeth Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Carrie_Elizabeth_Johnson.pdf - Obituary for Carrie Johnson


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