Menifee County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Menifee County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Menifee County, Kentucky.
Nelson County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Nelson County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Nelson County, Kentucky.
Mason County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Mason County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Mason County, Kentucky.
Mclean County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Mclean County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of McLean County, Kentucky.
Mercer County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Mercer County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Mercer County, Kentucky.
Metcalfe County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Metcalfe County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Metcalfe County, Kentucky.
Nicholas County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Nicholas County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Nicholas County, Kentucky.
Meade County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Meade County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Meade County, Kentucky.
Morgan County - Place Names,
2016
Morehead State University
Morgan County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick
Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection
Place names of Morgan County, Kentucky.
The Modernization Of The Long Island Rail Road,
2016
CUNY La Guardia Community College
The Modernization Of The Long Island Rail Road, Derek Stadler
Publications and Research
The history of Long Island embodies what public funding contributes to transportation infrastructure. The article contextualizes the Long Island Rail Road in American railroad history both as a private company and public service. Using the Port Jefferson branch as an example, it argues that state proprietorship was essential for modernization and that recent improvements proved to be a poor investment.
Defying Convention: Atypical Perspectives Of Slavery In Antebellum New Orleans,
2016
Stephen F Austin State University
Defying Convention: Atypical Perspectives Of Slavery In Antebellum New Orleans, Amanda N. Carr
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
During the first half of the nineteenth century, slavery became a vital economic component upon which the success of the southern states in America rested. Cotton was king, and slavery was the peculiar institution that ensured its dominance in the domestic and international markets of America. Popular portrayals, however, often neglect the complicated dynamics of American slavery and instead depict the institution in simplistic terms. The traditional view has emphasized an image of white southerners as slaveholders and blacks as slaves. In New Orleans, the lives of three men—all of whom were tied to slavery in varying capacities—reveal a much …
The Crisis At Fort Sumter: The Symbolic Monument That Transformed Northern And Southern Opinions During The Start Of The Civil War,
2016
Butler University
The Crisis At Fort Sumter: The Symbolic Monument That Transformed Northern And Southern Opinions During The Start Of The Civil War, Olivia C. Cabanban
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Understanding the complexity of the Battle at Fort Sumter and the changing opinions of Northerners and Southerners acts as means of delving into the deeper roots of slavery, secession, and national discourse that laced our nation’s undeniable history. The first firings at Fort Sumter were the flashpoint of the entirety of the Civil War, triggering the four years of battle, death, destruction, and competing nationalisms that ensued between the North and South. Because the histories of the war—more specifically the battle of Fort Sumter—are biased because they are written from points of views laced with Confederate and Unionist undertones, comprehending …
Towards An Anthropometric History Of Latin America In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century,
2016
Bowling Green State University
Towards An Anthropometric History Of Latin America In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century, Amílcar E. Challú, Sergio Silva-Castañeda
History Faculty Publications
We examine the evolution of adult female heights in twelve Latin American countries during the second half of the twentieth century based on demographic health surveys and related surveys compiled from national and international organizations. Only countries with more than one survey were included, allowing us to cross-examine surveys and correct for biases. We first show that average height varies significantly according to location, from 148.3 cm in Guatemala to 158.8 cm in Haiti. The evolution of heights over these decades behaves like indicators of human development, showing a steady increase of 2.6 cm from the 1950s to the 1990s. …
Homeland, Homestead, And Haven: The Changing Perspectives Of Zion National Park, 1700-1930,
2016
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Homeland, Homestead, And Haven: The Changing Perspectives Of Zion National Park, 1700-1930, Sara Black
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Zion National Park is a landscape that the American public celebrates as a unique and beautiful wilderness. However, Zion is much more culturally layered than what most tourists perceive. Numerous Native American cultures have ties to the canyon, including the Southern Paiutes, who used and interacted with this area on a regular basis for at least the last 500 years. For them, it served both substantive and cultural roles in their communities that reinforced their understandings of themselves and their place in the world. For Mormons, who came into the area in the 1860s and quickly dominated the landscape, Zion …
From Access To Excess: Agribusiness, Federal Water Programs, And The Historical Roots Of The California Water Crisis,
2016
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
From Access To Excess: Agribusiness, Federal Water Programs, And The Historical Roots Of The California Water Crisis, Tracy Marie Neblina
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The purpose of this paper is to show the link between water use, land consolidation, agribusinesses, and the water crisis that California began to experience in 2011. In order to better understand the relationship between the growth of agribusiness in the state and the evolution of water policy, this paper explores the historical context of land policy, the growth of farming in the San Joaquin Valley, and the development of federally funded water projects in the Central Valley. Years of expanding farmland and use of surface and underground water with limited regulation played an important role in exacerbating California’s water …
Lower Prairie Creek Project Redwood National Park "Forest Owners",
2016
Cal Poly Humboldt
Lower Prairie Creek Project Redwood National Park "Forest Owners", Susie Van Kirk
Susie Van Kirk Papers
"This file addresses forest ownerships, using deeds, patents, and maps in the Humboldt County Recorder’s Office, Eureka Courthouse. Pretty boring to wade through, these records, nonetheless, document how the public domain of northwestern California—the ancient redwood forests—came to be concentrated in the hands of timber companies. ... Land in the Lower Prairie Creek Project area (plus much, much other forest lands) was obtained through fraudulent patents and deed transactions involving David Evans and his associates for transfer to Scottish investors and eventually to “legitimate” timber companies. The end result, of course, is that what once belonged to indigenous people and …
From The Hallways To The Courtroom: Struggle For Desegregation In Chattanooga, Tennessee 1954-1986,
2016
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
From The Hallways To The Courtroom: Struggle For Desegregation In Chattanooga, Tennessee 1954-1986, Kelly R. Reed
Honors Theses
Although historians have lent a great deal of attention to the Southern struggle for public school desegregation in the wake of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, a comprehensive history of desegregation in Chattanooga, Tennessee has yet to be written. My research seeks to fill this gap by examining how desegregation operated in Chattanooga throughout the twenty-six year Mapp v. Board of Education of Chattanooga litigation. The first portion of this paper focuses predominantly on the school board’s lack of action between 1955 and 1960, the subsequent demand for action from the black community in the form of the …
Reconciling The Past In Octavia Butler's Kindred,
2016
East Tennessee State University
Reconciling The Past In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Haley V. Manis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses the observations of Nancy J. Peterson on historical wounds as a springboard to discuss Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred and its use of both white and black characters to reexamine the origins of the historical wounds and why they are so difficult to deal with even today. Other scholarly works will be used to further investigate the importance of each character in the story and what they mean to the wound itself. Specifically, Dana is analyzed alongside the other main characters: Rufus, Alice, and Kevin. Though Dana’s relationships with these characters, Kindred’s version of the past can be …
French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création,
2016
Chapman University
French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
The research I have conducted for my French Major Senior Thesis is a culmination of my passion for and studies of both French language and culture and the history and practice of Visual Arts. I have examined, across the history of art, the representation of women, and concluded that until the 20th century, these representations have been tools employed by the makers of history and those at the top of the patriarchal system, used to control women’s images and thus women themselves. I survey these representations, which are largely created by men—until the 20th century. I discuss pre-historical …
Initiating Race: Fraternal Organizations, Racial Identity, And Public Discourse In American Culture, 1865-1917,
2016
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Initiating Race: Fraternal Organizations, Racial Identity, And Public Discourse In American Culture, 1865-1917, John D. Treat
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Drawing on ritual books, organizational records, newspaper accounts, and the data available from cemetery headstones and census records, this work argues that adult fraternal organizations were key to the formation of civic discourse in the United States from the years following the Civil War to World War I. It particularly analyzes the role of working-class white and African-American organizations in framing racial identity, arguing that white organizations gave up older, comprehensive ideas of citizenship for understandings of Americanism rooted in racism and nativism. Counterbalancing this development, now-forgotten African-American fraternal organizations were among the earliest advocates of Afrocentrism. These organizations, form …
