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American Identity And The Wild West Show, 1880-1910, Susan Ann Stark
American Identity And The Wild West Show, 1880-1910, Susan Ann Stark
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission And Servanthood In Rhetoric Of The Promise Keepers, Erica J. Smith
Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission And Servanthood In Rhetoric Of The Promise Keepers, Erica J. Smith
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla
Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Men In Green: African Americans And The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942, Michael Shane Hoak
The Men In Green: African Americans And The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942, Michael Shane Hoak
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Struggle For Community In Revolutionary Newport, Joshua Fogarty Beatty
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Struggle For Community In Revolutionary Newport, Joshua Fogarty Beatty
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Wyoming Valley Battle And 'Massacre': Images Of A Constructed American History, Lisa A. Francavilla
The Wyoming Valley Battle And 'Massacre': Images Of A Constructed American History, Lisa A. Francavilla
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, And The Bachelor In Nineteenth-Century America, Matthew Cohen
The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, And The Bachelor In Nineteenth-Century America, Matthew Cohen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"The Still Life" explores debates over single manhood in the culture of the nineteenth-century United States. Until recently, the "bachelor" was less an identifiable social type than a battleground for discourses of privacy and intimacy, sympathy and sentiment, and labor and leisure. Representations of the bachelor tended to excite readers' concerns about the relationships among emotion, public behavior, and intellectual prowess. Concentrating on constructions of the bachelor within specific discursive arenas, this dissertation examines "bachelorhood" as a way culture organized a wide range of ideologies and experiences. Though the bachelor's particular significance faded in the twentieth century, a conceptual roadblock …
Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety
Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Evaluating Music Teachers In Virginia: Practices And Perceptions, Charles Maranzano
Evaluating Music Teachers In Virginia: Practices And Perceptions, Charles Maranzano
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate current evaluation practices in Virginia and to assess the impact of public school evaluation upon teachers of music. Traditional methods for the evaluation of teachers appear to have limited applicability for the majority of elementary and secondary school educators engaged in the field of performing arts, due primarily to the specialized nature of their respective teaching disciplines. Educational administrators charged with the responsibility for evaluating personnel confront an additional challenge when compelled to apply general models that are not suited to the highly complex world of performing arts instruction. Music teachers and …
The Texture Of Contact: European And Indian Settler Communities On The Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1780, David L. Preston
The Texture Of Contact: European And Indian Settler Communities On The Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1780, David L. Preston
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is a comparative study of cultural relationships between European and Indian settler communities along the Six Nations' borders with New York and Pennsylvania from 1720 to 1780. It particularly examines "everyday encounters" between ordinary peoples---a dimension of colonial social and economic life that has usually escaped historians' attention. Palatine, Scots, Irish, Dutch, and English colonists not only lived close to Indian villages but also frequently interacted with Iroquois, Delawares, and other natives. Frontier farms, forts, churches, and taverns were scenes of frequent face-to-face meetings between colonists and Indians. My dissertation explores the dynamics of settler-Indian encounters and how …
Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Measure Of Independence: From The American Revolution To The Market Revolution In The Mid -Atlantic, Richard Smith Chew
The Measure Of Independence: From The American Revolution To The Market Revolution In The Mid -Atlantic, Richard Smith Chew
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study explores the social and economic changes in the mid-Atlantic region generally, and Baltimore City and its hinterlands specifically, between the late colonial period and the dawn of the Jacksonian era. Baltimore foundered as a colonial entrepot until wheat emerged as an important export commodity in the 1740s. Between the mid-1740s and the 1770s, the town grew steadily within the British mercantilist world. its trade was deeply dependent on Atlantic commerce, its social structure reflected the mercantile orientation of the town and the staunchly deferential colonial household economy. The Revolution threatened to overturn this world with the promise of …
Anguilla And The Art Of Resistance, Jane Dillon Mckinney
Anguilla And The Art Of Resistance, Jane Dillon Mckinney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study begins with two premises. The first is that American Studies needs to move beyond the borders of the United States to examine the ideological, cultural and economic effects our country has had on others. The United States has historically been deeply involved in Anguilla's economy, revolution and ideology. The second is that history is a commodity that is selectively deployed in the creation of personal and national cultural values in Anguilla. I use Sherry Ortner's concept of serious games and James Scott's theory of the arts of resistance to analyze how Anguilla's contemporary culture is a product of …
Bill Hicks: A Study In National Character, Adam Gardner Osborn
Bill Hicks: A Study In National Character, Adam Gardner Osborn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Our Street-Strutting Language": Asian American Rappers In A Hip-Hop Nation, Helen Ye-Hua Wang
"Our Street-Strutting Language": Asian American Rappers In A Hip-Hop Nation, Helen Ye-Hua Wang
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Study Of Transition In Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799, Anna Catherine Borden Anderson
A Study Of Transition In Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799, Anna Catherine Borden Anderson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Political Reconstruction Of The Southern Lady: A Case Study, 1856-1907, Laura Jean Odendahl
Political Reconstruction Of The Southern Lady: A Case Study, 1856-1907, Laura Jean Odendahl
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The First Dissenter: Richard B Russell And The Warren Commission, Dani E. Biancolli
The First Dissenter: Richard B Russell And The Warren Commission, Dani E. Biancolli
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Phenomenological Investigation Of Women's Experience In Family Counseling: Interviews With Ten Mothers, Sharon Wilson Krumpe
A Phenomenological Investigation Of Women's Experience In Family Counseling: Interviews With Ten Mothers, Sharon Wilson Krumpe
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Fair Visions: Elkanah Watson (1758--1842) And The Modern American Agricultural Fair, Mark A. Mastromarino
Fair Visions: Elkanah Watson (1758--1842) And The Modern American Agricultural Fair, Mark A. Mastromarino
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The modern American agricultural fair, an annual harvest-time celebration at which livestock, produce, and handicrafts are exhibited for premiums, originated as an innovative response to conditions in rural New England at the time of the War of 1812. This study explains the birth of the institution by scrutinizing the motives and methods of its founders. In particular, it traces the intellectual journey from Puritan youth to Jeffersonian promoter of Plymouth, Massachusetts, native Elkanah Watson (1758--1842), its chief publicist. This dissertation also examines the specific social, economic, and political forces that shaped Pittsfield, Massachusetts---to which he retired from a mercantile career …
American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism, 1815--1860, Elizabeth Kelly Gray
American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism, 1815--1860, Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation explores American attitudes toward British imperialism between 1815 and 1860 to determine what Americans thought of imperialism before the United States became an imperial power. It addresses the debate of whether the United States's acquisition of an empire in the 1890s was intentional or was, as many historians have characterized it, an accidental acquisition by a people long opposed to empire. This study also explores the benefits of incorporating American culture and society into the study of American imperialism.;This era connects the time when Americans re-established their independence from Great Britain---with the War of 1812---to the eve of …
The Jesus People Movement And The Awakening Of The Late 1960s, Christina Barnes Williams
The Jesus People Movement And The Awakening Of The Late 1960s, Christina Barnes Williams
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp
Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pig Remains At The Ashbridge Estate, Toronto: The Importance Of Swine In The Settlement Of Upper Canada, Joanna Elizabeth Reading
Pig Remains At The Ashbridge Estate, Toronto: The Importance Of Swine In The Settlement Of Upper Canada, Joanna Elizabeth Reading
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Living On The Periphery: A Study Of An Eighteenth-Century Yamasee Mission Community In Colonial St Augustine, Andrea Paige White
Living On The Periphery: A Study Of An Eighteenth-Century Yamasee Mission Community In Colonial St Augustine, Andrea Paige White
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross
Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Between Slavery And Freedom: African Americans In The Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf
Between Slavery And Freedom: African Americans In The Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long
Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In the early 1730s, small groups of settlers started moving into the Valley of Virginia, beginning the movement into the southern backcountry. By the late 1740s Scots-Irish, English, and German settlers pressed into North Carolina's western Piedmont, and the small trickle of migrants quickly turned into a flood which persisted for the next three decades. This is a study of mid-eighteenth-century migration to the backcountry South.;The purpose of this study is to describe the process of eighteenth-century southern backcountry migration and to determine migrants' underlying motivations and considerations as they went about this process. It explores the experiences of settlers …
The Shaping Of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624: "A Delicate And Necessary Seat For A City Or Chief Fortification", John Michael Cobb
The Shaping Of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624: "A Delicate And Necessary Seat For A City Or Chief Fortification", John Michael Cobb
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.