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Picturing Home: Domestic Painting And The Ideologies Of Art, Mark E. Sprinkle
Picturing Home: Domestic Painting And The Ideologies Of Art, Mark E. Sprinkle
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation describes domestic painting in Atlanta, Georgia between 1995 and 2004 as a market defined by its intentional connection of the ideologies and spaces of art with those of bourgeois domesticity. The first half of the work seeks to contextualize the market's various objects and texts within public and academic discourses on culture that commonly posit an antithesis between the practices of bourgeois women (especially decoration) and "high" or avant-garde art, as suggested by the sentiment, "GOOD ART WON'T MATCH YOUR SOFA." Thus, Chapter 1 addresses the promises and pitfalls of sociological approaches to understanding art in general, Chapter …
In Honor Of God And Country: The Clergy Of Occupied Virginia During The Civil War, Michael Thomas Sclafani
In Honor Of God And Country: The Clergy Of Occupied Virginia During The Civil War, Michael Thomas Sclafani
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Confronting Democracy: Edward Coles And The Cultivation Of Authority In The Young Nation, Suzanne Cooper Guasco
Confronting Democracy: Edward Coles And The Cultivation Of Authority In The Young Nation, Suzanne Cooper Guasco
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Born in 1786, Edward Coles came of age as Americans attempted to define this nation's character. Convinced of his generation's responsibility to ensure the survival of the republican experiment, Coles emerged from the College of William and Mary determined to assume a position of authority. Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, he left Williamsburg persuaded that slavery was morally and ideologically wrong. Burdened by a conflict between a sense of duty to serve his nation and a commitment to eliminate slavery, Coles embarked on a public career that took him from the seat of national power in Washington City, to …
Guarding Capital: Soldier Strikebreakers On The Long Road To The Ludlow Massacre, Anthony Roland Destefanis
Guarding Capital: Soldier Strikebreakers On The Long Road To The Ludlow Massacre, Anthony Roland Destefanis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation examines the cultural politics of military strikebreaking. By focusing on the contest between striking southern and eastern European and Mexican immigrant coal miners and their employers during the 1913--14 coal strike in southern Colorado, the dissertation demonstrates how the intersection of politics with issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity shaped the miners' rebellion and the state and corporate responses to it. The Colorado National Guard was an integral part of how the state and capital reacted to the strike, and makes an ideal focus for this study because it was a prolific strikebreaker during the late nineteenth …
Colonial Williamsburg, National Identity, And Cold War Patriotism, Luke Edward Roberts
Colonial Williamsburg, National Identity, And Cold War Patriotism, Luke Edward Roberts
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"I Looked To The East---": Material Culture, Conversion, And Acquired Meaning In Early African America, Jason Boroughs
"I Looked To The East---": Material Culture, Conversion, And Acquired Meaning In Early African America, Jason Boroughs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Chickahominy Stylistic Expression: Preliminary Motif Analysis Of Ceramics Of The Chickahominy River Drainage, Jennifer Honora Ogborne
Chickahominy Stylistic Expression: Preliminary Motif Analysis Of Ceramics Of The Chickahominy River Drainage, Jennifer Honora Ogborne
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
St Eustatius And The Caribbean Trade System: A Study Of Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Coins From The Caribbean, Maria Fernanda Salamanca-Heyman
St Eustatius And The Caribbean Trade System: A Study Of Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Coins From The Caribbean, Maria Fernanda Salamanca-Heyman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Emasculation: The Caning Of Charles Sumner And Elite Southern Manhood On The Brink, James Corbett David
The Politics Of Emasculation: The Caning Of Charles Sumner And Elite Southern Manhood On The Brink, James Corbett David
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Origins Of The Presidential Election: The Creation Of The Electoral College Through The First Federal Elections, Giacomo Mazzei
The Origins Of The Presidential Election: The Creation Of The Electoral College Through The First Federal Elections, Giacomo Mazzei
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Optical Instruments Used With Prints In The Eighteenth Century, Laura Pass Barry
Optical Instruments Used With Prints In The Eighteenth Century, Laura Pass Barry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"I Like Things Simple, But It Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
"I Like Things Simple, But It Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
White Squaws: Work As A Factor In Choosing Indian Life, Karen L. Hines
White Squaws: Work As A Factor In Choosing Indian Life, Karen L. Hines
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Building "The Machine": The Development Of Slavery And Slave Society In Early Colonial Virginia, John C. Coombs
Building "The Machine": The Development Of Slavery And Slave Society In Early Colonial Virginia, John C. Coombs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Historians have, of course, long been aware of the importance of Virginia's seventeenth-century conversion from white to black labor. But while scholars have devoted considerable effort to explaining why this pivotal transition occurred, a detailed analysis of how it happened does not exist, nor by extension have scholars ever fully considered the repercussions of what one might call the "process of conversion.";Although Virginia's black population remained small throughout much of the seventeenth century, it was heavily concentrated on the estates of a relatively small circle of wealthy planters. By the middle decades of the century some members of the gentry …
Montpelier: The History Of A House, 1723-1998, Matthew Gantert Hyland
Montpelier: The History Of A House, 1723-1998, Matthew Gantert Hyland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This architectural history of Montpelier focuses on lives of the people who have lived and worked there between 1723 and 1998. It is not limited to the Madisons and the duPonts. Montpelier's history provides further insight into a range of moments in America's cultural history: plantation slavery in piedmont Virginia, the crisis of authority in the early American republic and the age of Jackson, ante-bellum sectionalism, Reconstruction, lifestyles of industrial magnates in the Gilded Age, and the development of historic preservation in twentieth-century America.;This study traces Montpelier's evolution as a cultural landscape composed of layered historical activity---lives, values, and choices …
(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
" america.jp" explores identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet between 1969 and 2000 through a cultural analysis of Internet code and the creative processes behind it. The dissertation opens with an examination of a real-time Internet Blues jam that linked Japanese and American musicians between Tokyo and Mississippi in 1999. The technological, cultural, and linguistic uncertainties that characterized the Internet jam, combined with the inventive reactions of the musicians who participated, help to introduce the fundamental conceptual question of the dissertation: is code a cultural product and if so can the Internet be considered a distinctly "American" technology?;A comparative …
Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman And His Publishers, Charles B. Green
Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman And His Publishers, Charles B. Green
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Few scholars have attempted to conduct a close examination of Whitman's relationship to his publishers in the context of Leaves of Grass. In their "Typographic Yawp: Leaves of Grass , 1855--1992," Megan and Paul Benton present a minimal, but interesting examination of the typographic story of Leaves, but they ignore three of the editions and deal with author-publisher relations only superficially. Other articles examine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, but none really explore what Whitman's complicated relationships with the publishers of his time tell us about the conditions for his work and for authorship in mid-nineteenth-century America. Most studies …
Calming Minds And Instilling Character: John Minson Galt Ii And The Patients' Library At Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843--1860, Bettina Jean Manzo
Calming Minds And Instilling Character: John Minson Galt Ii And The Patients' Library At Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843--1860, Bettina Jean Manzo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1843, two years after assuming the superintendency at Eastern Asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia, John Minson Galt II established a patients' library. It was not unique. Other asylum superintendents across America were building libraries for their patients as well, an essential component, they felt, of the broader moral management program borrowed from Europe and Great Britain for the cure of insanity. Along with other asylum activities, the library would help insane residents remain calm, recover stability by distraction from their delusions, and acquire mental habits of self-discipline. and in many cases libraries and reading would assist in restoring virtues that …
A Study Exploring The Educational Needs Of African-American Pastors' Wives Within Baptist Congregations, Jocelyn Georgette Henry-Whitehead
A Study Exploring The Educational Needs Of African-American Pastors' Wives Within Baptist Congregations, Jocelyn Georgette Henry-Whitehead
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
For many years, the role of the pastor's wife has been an emerging role in American religious history (Sweet, 1983). While on their journey in building and nurturing their relationship with God, supporting their husbands, families, congregations, and communities, pastors' wives have experienced joys and blessings as well as challenges and issues. A tremendous joy for some pastors' wives has been the privilege, the opportunity, and the honor to serve, minister to, assist and care for others. However, one major challenge for many pastors' wives has been preparedness, or the lack of preparedness, knowledge, and instruction (Obleton, 1996). Wives of …
Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber
Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
New Journalism and Direct Cinema reflect a unique conjoined moment in the evolution of nonfiction writing and filmmaking in the United States. I argue that these movements developed as a specific response to the shift from a modern to a postmodern aesthetic, a shift away from faith in a coherent reality at a historical moment, the 1960s. In an attempt to capture reality using new methods that would raise the status of nonfiction, writers and filmmakers in these movements call attention to process and "style." at first glance, these experiments with new styles appear radical; instead, New Journalism and Direct …
The Blues And Jazz In Albert Murray's Fiction: A Study In The Tradition Of Stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
The Blues And Jazz In Albert Murray's Fiction: A Study In The Tradition Of Stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The use of the blues as a critical theory and as a literary model for the crafting of fiction opens new possibilities for both intellectual and artistic exploration. Reflecting the power of human agency amidst antagonism, the blues is the music of personal triumph over the brutality of circumstances despite any change in condition. The music's emphasis on improvisation reveals human agency because through instrumentation, singing, stylistic nuances, audience participation and/or venue individuals transform perceived or imagined woefulness into hopefulness. Studying the blues and its cultural legacy is significant in identifying the mechanisms by which individuals and ultimately entire communities …
Childhood, Colonialism And Nation-Building: The Role Of Childhood In The Construction Of Race, Class And Gender In Seventeenth, Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Virginia, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Childhood, Colonialism And Nation-Building: The Role Of Childhood In The Construction Of Race, Class And Gender In Seventeenth, Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Virginia, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"They've All Come To Look For America": Constructing Self And Nation In Women's Travel Narratives 1870-1890, Sarah Elizabeth Mclennan
"They've All Come To Look For America": Constructing Self And Nation In Women's Travel Narratives 1870-1890, Sarah Elizabeth Mclennan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Qualitative Study Of Clergy Career Satisfaction, Functioning, And Clergy-Congregant Relations, Brian R. Mcdonald
A Qualitative Study Of Clergy Career Satisfaction, Functioning, And Clergy-Congregant Relations, Brian R. Mcdonald
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Kulikoff Versus Buttenhoff-Lee [Sic]: An Evaluation Of African-American Populations In The Chesapeake 1740-1800, Beresford R. Callum
Kulikoff Versus Buttenhoff-Lee [Sic]: An Evaluation Of African-American Populations In The Chesapeake 1740-1800, Beresford R. Callum
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Postbellum Education Of African Americans: Race, Economy, Power, And The Pursuit Of A System Of Schooling In The Rural Virginia Counties Of Surry And Gloucester, Benjamin Andrew Swenson
Postbellum Education Of African Americans: Race, Economy, Power, And The Pursuit Of A System Of Schooling In The Rural Virginia Counties Of Surry And Gloucester, Benjamin Andrew Swenson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Domestic Brick Architecture In Williamsburg: A Comparative Study Of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses In Williamsburg, Annapolis, And Charleston, Andrew Craig Barry
Domestic Brick Architecture In Williamsburg: A Comparative Study Of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses In Williamsburg, Annapolis, And Charleston, Andrew Craig Barry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Archaeology Of Opequon Creek: Religion, Ethnicity, And Identity In The Material Culture Of An Eighteenth-Century Immigrant Community, Frederick County, Virginia, Ann Schaefer Persson
The Archaeology Of Opequon Creek: Religion, Ethnicity, And Identity In The Material Culture Of An Eighteenth-Century Immigrant Community, Frederick County, Virginia, Ann Schaefer Persson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Cherokee Royalties: The Impact Of Indian Tourism On The Eastern Band Cherokee Identity, Annette Bird Saunooke
Cherokee Royalties: The Impact Of Indian Tourism On The Eastern Band Cherokee Identity, Annette Bird Saunooke
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.