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The Feminist Myth: Second-Wave Feminism In The Birmingham News Advertising, Yasmin El-Husari Jan 2106

The Feminist Myth: Second-Wave Feminism In The Birmingham News Advertising, Yasmin El-Husari

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 47-54


How The African American Contribution To Early American Literature Aided In Shaping The American Literary Identity, Jennifer E. Thompson Sep 2026

How The African American Contribution To Early American Literature Aided In Shaping The American Literary Identity, Jennifer E. Thompson

Masters Theses

This study argues that Jupiter Hammon’s early African American literature actively helped shape American literary identity rather than just mirroring it. By blending Christian morality with human rights, Hammon challenged Eurocentric narratives, validated Black humanity, and established a foundational tradition for anti-slavery writing. Traditional theories often contest this national inclusion through critical viewpoints. These views treat slavery as a distinct model, arguing that these texts represent separate responses to bondage rather than unified contributions to a shared national canon. This research redefines the American literary canon by showing how Hammon's historic publications dismantled eighteenth-century racist ideals about intellectual capacity. His …


Stigmatic History: The Advancement Of Accessibility In U.S. Museums, 1960-2010, Misty A. Davis Sep 2026

Stigmatic History: The Advancement Of Accessibility In U.S. Museums, 1960-2010, Misty A. Davis

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation represents an overlap between disability history and public history by examining how museums in the U.S. became more accessible between 1960 and the early twenty-first century. Utilizing an expansive cross-section of primary and secondary sources, this study unravels the complexities of social and legal pressures that resulted in accessibility becoming a priority in museums. Changes in social expectations, new legal measures, and activism contributed to a shift in the status and treatment of people with disabilities. With these changes came a need for public spaces to adapt and provide disabled peoples with the same access and experiences as …


The Ozark Historical Review, V.53, 2026 Aug 2026

The Ozark Historical Review, V.53, 2026

The Ozark Historical Review

No abstract provided.


The Method And The Machinery: Gloria Steinem, India, And The Cold War Making Of American Second Wave Feminsim, 1956-1972, Rashida Shafiq Aug 2026

The Method And The Machinery: Gloria Steinem, India, And The Cold War Making Of American Second Wave Feminsim, 1956-1972, Rashida Shafiq

History Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation argues that Gloria Steinem became one of the most visible feminists of her generation because two political inheritances — postcolonial India and the Cold War liberal United States — converged in a single career. In 1957 and 1958, on a Chester Bowles Asian Fellowship, Steinem spent eighteen months in India, where she moved from elite intellectual circles in Delhi to Gandhian and Sarvodaya peace work in the villages of Ramnad. Walking with Bhoodan fieldworkers through caste-riot-stricken communities, she absorbed a repertoire of organizing practices — listening across difference, lateral and leaderless structure, decision by consensus, and the conversion …


Historical Inquiry-Based Lessons In World History Classrooms: Creating Opportunities For Historical Thinking, Melinda Thatcher Lofland Aug 2026

Historical Inquiry-Based Lessons In World History Classrooms: Creating Opportunities For Historical Thinking, Melinda Thatcher Lofland

All Graduate Reports and Creative Projects, Fall 2023 to Present

This Plan B project creates inquiry-based lessons that help students investigate the global tapestry of World History with its vast threads of transregional connections and diverse cultures that color our contemporary world and help prepare them to participate as global citizens. This project uses primary and secondary sources to create evidence-based lesson plans that will help history teachers provide opportunities for students to practice historical inquiry skills in Utah’s world history classrooms. These plans employ current scholarship and best teaching practices while following national and state standards for World History. In addition, these lessons were developed using inquiry-based historical thinking …


On Food, Politics, And The Power Of Representation In The American History Museum, Mason A. Bright Jul 2026

On Food, Politics, And The Power Of Representation In The American History Museum, Mason A. Bright

Museum Studies Theses

This study explores the political implications of foodways-related interpretation at American history institutions, situating it within current partisan discourse. Using an “Anthropology of Museums” framework, I place literature from the fields of food history, human geography, and museum studies in conversation with interviews with three curatorial professionals from the National Museum of American History, the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and the New Mexico History Museum. I understand the ways these professionals navigate politically engaged interpretation through the lens of ethnographic refusal, a phenomenon drawn from the anthropology subfield of resistance studies. I argue that the connections between food …


History Of Education In Alabama 1702-1889, Willis G. Clark Jul 2026

History Of Education In Alabama 1702-1889, Willis G. Clark

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Information on the educational system in Alabama with the founding of LaGrange College, its president and other members of the faculty, distinguished alumni. A later chapter gives a little information about the switch over to Normal Schools in Alabama and Florence.


A History Of Methodism In Alabama, Rev. Anson West, D.D. Jul 2026

A History Of Methodism In Alabama, Rev. Anson West, D.D.

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Rev. Anson West details the events leading to the Methodist Conference and the establishment of LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama.


Beginnings...Of The University Of North Alabama The Story Of Florence Wesleyan University, William Lindsey Mcdonald Jul 2026

Beginnings...Of The University Of North Alabama The Story Of Florence Wesleyan University, William Lindsey Mcdonald

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Part I of Beginnings...of The University of North Alabama, which discusses the history of LaGrange College.


Two Hundred Years At Muscle Shoals, Nina Leftwich Jul 2026

Two Hundred Years At Muscle Shoals, Nina Leftwich

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Information of education in Muscle Shoals (Franklin County) and LaGrange College. (Parts of Chapter 3)


The Life Of Robert Paine D.D., Bishop Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, R. H. Rivers, D.D. Jul 2026

The Life Of Robert Paine D.D., Bishop Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, R. H. Rivers, D.D.

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Chapters 4-13 of The Life of Robert Paine, D.D., which discusses the events of the establishment of LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama through the removal of the college to Florence, Alabama. Robert Paine, D.D. served as president of the college as well as a professor teaching a range of subjects, from moral science to geology from 1830 until 1846, when he was elected bishop of the Methodist church at the first General conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Petersburg, Virginia.


Beginnings...Of The University Of North Alabama The Story Of Florence Wesleyan University, William Lindsey Mcdonald Jul 2026

Beginnings...Of The University Of North Alabama The Story Of Florence Wesleyan University, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Documents on Education and Progress of the University

Part II of Beginnings...of The University of North Alabama, which discusses the 13-year history of Florence Wesleyan University.


Besieged Emotions: Female Writers, Vicksburg, And The Domestic Sphere During The Civil War, Theresa Schaecher Jul 2026

Besieged Emotions: Female Writers, Vicksburg, And The Domestic Sphere During The Civil War, Theresa Schaecher

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is most often interpreted in terms of military strategy, leadership, and battlefield outcomes. While these perspectives provide important insights into the campaign, they have often placed less emphasis on the experiences of civilians who endured the forty-seven-day siege within the city. This dissertation examines the civilian experience through women's writings, arguing that their diaries and memoirs serve as analytical accounts of survival, emotional endurance, and social transformation under siege. Drawing on the writings of Mary Loughborough and other female civilians, this study employs content and narrative analyses to identify patterns of fear, grief, hope, and …


The Flor-Ala Alumni Edition, Florence State Teachers College Jul 2026

The Flor-Ala Alumni Edition, Florence State Teachers College

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The 1933 Publication of Alumni News from The Flor-Ala. This copy (folder) also includes a short bio on Beulah Young Pettey, who served as Vice President of the Senior class of 1940.


Music History 10100: A Thousand Years Of Listening, Sophia Stoyanovich Jul 2026

Music History 10100: A Thousand Years Of Listening, Sophia Stoyanovich

Open Educational Resources

A Thousand Years of Listening is an undergraduate music history course elective at Hunter College that introduces students to the history of Western art music from the medieval era to the present through focused listening and musical analysis. Designed for students with no prior musical training, the course develops critical listening skills while exploring major composers, genres, styles, and historical contexts. Through listening, discussion, writing, and a live concert experience, students learn to engage with music as informed and thoughtful listeners.


The Moorish Ambassador’S Journey To Spain: Cultural Encounters In Ahmed Ben Mehdi Al-Ghazāl’S Natījat Al Ijtihād Fi Al-Mohādana Wa Al-Jihād (1766), Lhoussain Simour Jul 2026

The Moorish Ambassador’S Journey To Spain: Cultural Encounters In Ahmed Ben Mehdi Al-Ghazāl’S Natījat Al Ijtihād Fi Al-Mohādana Wa Al-Jihād (1766), Lhoussain Simour

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article attempts to read al-Ghazāl’s travel account Natījat al Ijtihād fi al-Mohādana wa al-Jihād as a valuable archival material and an eighteenth-century subaltern narrative that offers the re-interrogation of the discourse of the Self and the Other from the perspective of the Moroccan traveler. Natījat al Ijtihād is a travel account that gives further historical evidence about one of the less discussed experiences in literature and annals of history, the abduction of Muslims in foreign lands. Such an interdependent overlap between these thematic concerns and the historical context that fuels up al-Ghazzal’s travel-inspired text would give readers the chance …


Invisible Histories: Dwarf-Women And The Material Landscape Of Tolkien’S Middle-Earth, Catherine Hall Jul 2026

Invisible Histories: Dwarf-Women And The Material Landscape Of Tolkien’S Middle-Earth, Catherine Hall

Journal of Tolkien Research

Encounters with ruins are found throughout J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth tales. These ruins—or what Deborah Sabo (2007) terms ‘archaeological sites’—serve as symbols of the passage of time and the loss of past glory. Significantly, these archaeological sites are almost exclusively oriented toward the male heroic world; from ancient battlefields to statues commemorating fallen kings, burial mounds of legendary warriors, and the remnants of once-great halls built and ruled by men. Apart from Tol Morwen, mentioned only briefly in The Silmarillion, few sites across Middle-earth offer readers material clues about women’s history. These archaeological sites thus reproduce a gendered hierarchy of …


Florence Wesleyan University Oratorical Exhibition By The Second Division Of The Junior Class, 1860, Barr Brothers, "Gazette," Office Jun 2026

Florence Wesleyan University Oratorical Exhibition By The Second Division Of The Junior Class, 1860, Barr Brothers, "Gazette," Office

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Florence Weselyan University Oratorical Exhibition of Junior Class Program, 1860.


Florence Wesleyan University Sophomore Prize Declamation, Florence Gazette Print Jun 2026

Florence Wesleyan University Sophomore Prize Declamation, Florence Gazette Print

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Florence Wesleyan University Sophomore Prize Declamation, 1857.


1891 State Normal College General Program, State Normal College Jun 2026

1891 State Normal College General Program, State Normal College

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General Program for Commencement Week Activities for State Normal College, 1891.


Thirty-Second Commencement State Normal College, 1905, State Normal College Jun 2026

Thirty-Second Commencement State Normal College, 1905, State Normal College

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1905 State Normal College Exercise of Commencement Week Programs


Nineteenth Commencement State Normal College, 1892, State Normal College Jun 2026

Nineteenth Commencement State Normal College, 1892, State Normal College

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1892 State Normal College Commencement Program


State Normal School Graduates' Day, State Normal School Jun 2026

State Normal School Graduates' Day, State Normal School

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1885 State Normal School Graduates' Day Programme


Florence Wesleyan University Sophomore Prize Declamation, 1859, Florence Gazette Office Jun 2026

Florence Wesleyan University Sophomore Prize Declamation, 1859, Florence Gazette Office

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Sophomore Prize Declamation Program, Florence Wesleyan University, 1859.


Florence Wesleyan University Exhibition Of Junor Class, Florence Wesleyan University-Printed At The American Democrat Office Jun 2026

Florence Wesleyan University Exhibition Of Junor Class, Florence Wesleyan University-Printed At The American Democrat Office

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Exhibition of Junior Class Program at Florence Wesleyan University.


Lagrange College At Florence, Alabama Exhibition Of The Junior Class, Lagrange College Jun 2026

Lagrange College At Florence, Alabama Exhibition Of The Junior Class, Lagrange College

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1855 Junior Class Exhibition Program, LaGrange College (Florence, Alabama)


Seventeenth Commencement State Normal College, 1890, State Normal College Jun 2026

Seventeenth Commencement State Normal College, 1890, State Normal College

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1890 State Normal College Commencement Program


Wesleyan University Commencement, 1857, Wesleyan University, Florence, Ala. Jun 2026

Wesleyan University Commencement, 1857, Wesleyan University, Florence, Ala.

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1857 Wesleyan University (Florence) Commencement Program


Florence Wesleyan University Exhibition Of The Junior Class, Geo. Beck, Printer, Florence, Ala. Jun 2026

Florence Wesleyan University Exhibition Of The Junior Class, Geo. Beck, Printer, Florence, Ala.

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1857 Exhibition of Junior Class at Florence Wesleyan University, 1857