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The Distaff Side: The Williamsburg Civic League, 1907-1937, Megan Elaine Schneider Jan 1991

The Distaff Side: The Williamsburg Civic League, 1907-1937, Megan Elaine Schneider

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Senator Harry F Byrd And The New Deal Reform Policy In Virginia, 1933-1938, Chitose Sato Jan 1991

Senator Harry F Byrd And The New Deal Reform Policy In Virginia, 1933-1938, Chitose Sato

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


James Mcgready: Son Of Thunder, Father Of The Great Revival, John Thomas Scott Jan 1991

James Mcgready: Son Of Thunder, Father Of The Great Revival, John Thomas Scott

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation is a biography of James McGready (c.1760-1817), a Presbyterian revivalist minister who lived and worked primarily in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Indiana. He is best known as the Father of the Great Revival, an evangelical revival that spread throughout the southeastern United States between 1800 and 1805, and the creator of the camp meeting, which soon became an institutional part of American revivalism. Historians have generally described McGready as an innovator in matters of doctrine and revivalist methodology. This study argues that McGready is better understood as a traditionalist. This interpretation follows several recent works that have …


The Ceramics From 44jc298: A N Undocumented Late-Eighteenth Century Domestic Site, James City County, Virginia, Esther Celeste White Jan 1991

The Ceramics From 44jc298: A N Undocumented Late-Eighteenth Century Domestic Site, James City County, Virginia, Esther Celeste White

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No abstract provided.


The Equipment Of The Virginia Soldier In The American Revolution, Andrew John Gallup Jan 1991

The Equipment Of The Virginia Soldier In The American Revolution, Andrew John Gallup

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Archipelago Of Coal Pits: Predicting Archeological Features In The Richmond, Virginia Coalfield, Jacqueline Louise Hernigle Jan 1991

An Archipelago Of Coal Pits: Predicting Archeological Features In The Richmond, Virginia Coalfield, Jacqueline Louise Hernigle

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No abstract provided.


The Monetary Material Culture Of Plantation Life: A Study Of Coins At Monticello, Cynthia Ann Whitley Jan 1991

The Monetary Material Culture Of Plantation Life: A Study Of Coins At Monticello, Cynthia Ann Whitley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson Jan 1991

Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A New People In An Age Of War: The Kahnawake Iroquois, 1667--1760, Gretchen Lynn Green Jan 1991

A New People In An Age Of War: The Kahnawake Iroquois, 1667--1760, Gretchen Lynn Green

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study focusses on the Kahnawake Iroquois Indians, a collection of individuals who emigrated from the Iroquois homeland to a Jesuit mission community, or reserve, outside of Montreal, starting in 1667.;Their history and development as a people is traced from the beginnings in 1667 up to the end of the French power in Canada, at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1760. Through the topics of diplomacy, warfare, and trade, these Kahnawake Indians are examined and it is determined that they were important players in the power politics and military balance between the English, the French, and the …


Smallpox, The Continental Army, And General Washington, Fritz Hirschfeld Jan 1991

Smallpox, The Continental Army, And General Washington, Fritz Hirschfeld

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"An Instrument For Awakening": The Moravian Church And The White River Indian Mission, Scott Edward Atwood Jan 1991

"An Instrument For Awakening": The Moravian Church And The White River Indian Mission, Scott Edward Atwood

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Republican Abroad: John Adams And The Diplomacy Of The American Revolution, Robert Wilmer Smith Jan 1991

A Republican Abroad: John Adams And The Diplomacy Of The American Revolution, Robert Wilmer Smith

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Artisans In The Carolina Backcountry: Rowan County, 1753-1770, Johanna Carlson Miller Lewis Jan 1991

Artisans In The Carolina Backcountry: Rowan County, 1753-1770, Johanna Carlson Miller Lewis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Artisans played an important role in the social and economic life of Rowan County, North Carolina beginning with its creation in 1753. Whether they came individually with their families to obtain land and establish new lives, or they were chosen by the Moravian Church to settle the 100,000 acre Wachovia Tract, all of these artisans were part of the huge wave of immigration to the backcountry of North Carolina which occurred during the third quarter of the eighteenth century.;The development of the artisan population paralleled the growth of Rowan County. In the early 1750s a handful of artisans produced objects …


The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton Jan 1991

The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Inspired by the concept of culture as expressed in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, this dissertation traces the roots of modern perceptions of slavery and race by analyzing three sites each of which is associated with a distinct cultural pattern and social ideology. The first, Penshurst in Kent England is described as feudal, organic, vernacular, and popular. The second, Westover in tidewater Virginia is classical, rational, and elite. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the Virginia piedmont, the third site, is described as romantic, liberal, and bourgeois. It is only at this third site, the locus for a distinctly modern family type, …