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The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"A Bad Case Of Fossilized Tradition": The Discourse Of Race And Gender In Women's Battle For The Ballot In Richmond, Virginia 1909-1920, Melissa D. Ooten
"A Bad Case Of Fossilized Tradition": The Discourse Of Race And Gender In Women's Battle For The Ballot In Richmond, Virginia 1909-1920, Melissa D. Ooten
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Katherine Anne Porter And Her Publishers, Alexandra Subramanian
Katherine Anne Porter And Her Publishers, Alexandra Subramanian
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This biographical dissertation focuses upon Katherine Anne Porter's relationship with her literary agent, Cyrilly Abels, and her editors and publishers, Donald Brace and Seymour Lawrence, who were associated with Harcourt, Brace and Atlantic-Little, Brown respectively. The study is based upon the thousands of pages of correspondence between Porter and her professional associates housed in the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter at the University of Maryland. Porter's professional alliances are placed within the context of nineteenth and twentieth century publishing history and within a long tradition of idiosyncratic author editor/agent dependencies that can be traced throughout American literary history.;The heart of …
Strange Bedfellows: Eugenicists, White Supremacists, And Marcus Garvey In Virginia, 1922-1927, Sarah L. Trembanis
Strange Bedfellows: Eugenicists, White Supremacists, And Marcus Garvey In Virginia, 1922-1927, Sarah L. Trembanis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Shipbuilding In Maryland, 1631-1850, Ben Ford
Shipbuilding In Maryland, 1631-1850, Ben Ford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Prologue To A Life": Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years, 1926--1934, Karen Rose Veselits
"Prologue To A Life": Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years, 1926--1934, Karen Rose Veselits
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This dissertation is a bio-critical study of writer Dorothy West (1907--1998). It focuses on her apprenticeship in Harlem from 1926--1934 during the literary renaissance and lays the groundwork for a biography, long overdue. West's career extends from the Harlem Renaissance to the end of the 20 th century, but she has not received the critical recognition her work merits. The study of West's early work illuminates her later work, The Living Is Easy (1948) and The Wedding (1995); it demonstrates the continuity throughout her writing and makes clear that she struggled with the same themes and issues repeatedly during her …
A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster
A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines the life and business career of Moses Dresser Phillips (1813--1859), an important, but previously neglected, member of the Antebellum literary marketplace. If mentioned in discussions of Antebellum publishing at all, Moses Dresser Phillips is usually noted for choosing to create the Atlantic Monthly, one of his most distinguished achievements, or for deciding not to publish Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of his most costly errors. Although one of the most powerful figures in the literary marketplace, Phillips died in 1859 at age forty-six. Life dealt him a short tenure as a result of the stress caused by the …
Rethinking The Red Scare: The Lusk Committee And New York State's Fight Against Radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel
Rethinking The Red Scare: The Lusk Committee And New York State's Fight Against Radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study re-examines the Great Red Scare that followed the First World War in an effort to more accurately determine its origins, tactics, duration, and conclusion. Specifically, it analyzes the efforts of the Lusk Committee, New York State's joint legislative committee to combat radicalism, between 1919 and 1923.;Prior studies agree that the Red Scare was intense and brief in duration. Physical raids upon Socialist Party, Communist Party, and Industrial Workers of the World offices dominated the episode, culminating with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's infamous national raids in January, 1920. His heavy-handed tactics, which failed to uncover any serious revolutionary …
Friendly Meetings: The Art Of Conquest And The Mythical Origins Of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady
Friendly Meetings: The Art Of Conquest And The Mythical Origins Of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul
Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Wangunk Ethnohistory: A Case Study Of A Connecticut River Indian Community, Timothy Howlett Ives
Wangunk Ethnohistory: A Case Study Of A Connecticut River Indian Community, Timothy Howlett Ives
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Women In Blue: Women In The Us Navy During World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson
Women In Blue: Women In The Us Navy During World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins
Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Captive Women Among The Iroquois, W. Scott Ebhardt
Captive Women Among The Iroquois, W. Scott Ebhardt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
For Generations: Wills, Inventories, And Wealth In Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham
For Generations: Wills, Inventories, And Wealth In Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Slave In The Swamp: Disrupting The Plantation Narrative, William Tynes Cowan
The Slave In The Swamp: Disrupting The Plantation Narrative, William Tynes Cowan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In nineteenth-century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurrent "bogeyman" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps, the runaway, or "maroon," gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open conflict. The chattel system was dependent upon an exercise of will upon the body of the enslaved, but slaves who asserted control over their bodies, by removing them to the swamps, claimed definition over the Self. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the maroon from its untouchable, abstract state to a …
"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker
"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
African American cultural and social history has neglected to interrogate fully a crucial facet of African American political, economic, and social life: African American Freemasonry. "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia seeks to remedy this neglect. This project broadly situates African American Freemasonry in the complex and evolving relations of power, peoples, and polities of the Atlantic world. The study develops an interpretative framework that not only recognizes the organizational and institutional aspects of African American Freemasonry, but also interprets it as a discursive space in and through which articulations …
Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform From 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski
Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform From 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing In The Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing In The Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Remembering American Wars In Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, The Enola Gay, And The Vietnam Era Educational Center, Joanna E. Pleasant
Remembering American Wars In Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, The Enola Gay, And The Vietnam Era Educational Center, Joanna E. Pleasant
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Indicting Christendom: Roger Williams From The Wilderness, Thomas L. Anderson
Indicting Christendom: Roger Williams From The Wilderness, Thomas L. Anderson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
United States' Foreign Policy During The Haitian Revolution: A Story Of Continuity, Power Politics, And The Lure Of Empire In The Early Republic, Jeffrey B. Nickel
United States' Foreign Policy During The Haitian Revolution: A Story Of Continuity, Power Politics, And The Lure Of Empire In The Early Republic, Jeffrey B. Nickel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Fellow Travelers: Indians And Europeans Together On The Early American Trail, Philip A. Levy
Fellow Travelers: Indians And Europeans Together On The Early American Trail, Philip A. Levy
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The European exploration of America has traditionally conjured up images of Europeans intrepidly scanning horizons, meticulously detailing maps, and graciously offering curious natives access to God and goods. More than two decades of anthropological, historical, and ethnohistorical scholarship have tempered this heroic image and shown in great detail the complex and often contradictory role Indians played in this grand drama. Consequently, one can no longer picture colonial-era European explorers or travelers without also envisioning their Indian companions, both men and women, guiding the way, carrying the baggage, gathering the food, and providing needed information. This dissertation examines the character of …
Consolidating Power: Technology, Ideology, And Philadelphia's Growth In The Early Republic, Andrew M. Schocket
Consolidating Power: Technology, Ideology, And Philadelphia's Growth In The Early Republic, Andrew M. Schocket
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation examines the ways that moneyed Philadelphians invented corporate power in America during the first four decades of the federal republic, specifically focusing on business corporations, such as canal companies and banks, and on a public corporation, Philadelphia's municipal government. Through evidence from company and municipal records and publications, the private papers and correspondence of corporate officers, newspapers, pamphlets, and legislative acts and proceedings, this study identifies the people and the technological and financial processes that contributed to the establishment and entrenchment of corporate economic and political power.;From the 1790s to the 1830s, Philadelphia-area residents demanded cheaper transportation, a …
An Officer And A Lady, Kathleen Marie Scott
An Officer And A Lady, Kathleen Marie Scott
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hannah And Priscilla: The Education Of Slave Girls And Planters' Daughters In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amber Esplin
Hannah And Priscilla: The Education Of Slave Girls And Planters' Daughters In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amber Esplin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Vermin -Killers: Pest Control In The Early Chesapeake, Megan Haley Newman
The Vermin -Killers: Pest Control In The Early Chesapeake, Megan Haley Newman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The presence of pests and the effect of their activity emerged very early in the colonial era, from the early seventeenth century through the third quarter of the eighteenth century, as a major challenge to the financial and social success of Euro-American settlers, predominantly English, in the tidewater region of Virginia and Maryland, or the Chesapeake. Pests were not only a feature of the natural environment, they were a factor in the modified and built environments that settlers created. The problem of pests cut across ethnic, race, gender and class lines in the Chesapeake.;Euro-American, African-American and Native American residents of …
Huguenot Silversmiths In London, 1685-1715, Brooke Gallagher Reusch
Huguenot Silversmiths In London, 1685-1715, Brooke Gallagher Reusch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.