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Gaming Among Enslaved Africans In The Americas, And Its Uses In Navigating Social Interactions, Katrina Ann Christiano Jan 2010

Gaming Among Enslaved Africans In The Americas, And Its Uses In Navigating Social Interactions, Katrina Ann Christiano

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Through The Veil: Double Consiousness And Labor In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Southern New England, Frederick William Lumb Jan 2009

Through The Veil: Double Consiousness And Labor In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Southern New England, Frederick William Lumb

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Pamunkey Pottery And Cultural Persistence, Ashley Atkins Jan 2009

Pamunkey Pottery And Cultural Persistence, Ashley Atkins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Propagating Status: Gentlemen Planters And Their Greenhouses In The Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake, Sarah Jane Chesney Jan 2009

Propagating Status: Gentlemen Planters And Their Greenhouses In The Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake, Sarah Jane Chesney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Places Of Power: The Community And Regional Development Of Native Tidewater Palisades Post A.D 1200, Christopher J. Shephard Jan 2009

Places Of Power: The Community And Regional Development Of Native Tidewater Palisades Post A.D 1200, Christopher J. Shephard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Afro-Barbadian Healthcare During The Emancipation Era, Kathleen Elizabeth Mocklin Jan 2009

Afro-Barbadian Healthcare During The Emancipation Era, Kathleen Elizabeth Mocklin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"The Coffee House (Where I Occasionally Sometimes Go)": Examining Diversity In The Urban Meat Diet Of Williamsburg In The Mid-Eighteenth Century, Kelsey J. Noack Jan 2009

"The Coffee House (Where I Occasionally Sometimes Go)": Examining Diversity In The Urban Meat Diet Of Williamsburg In The Mid-Eighteenth Century, Kelsey J. Noack

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Shop In The Back Street: Late Eighteenth Century Williamsburg Through The Ledgers Of Blacksmith James Anderson, Kathleen Marie Child Jan 2009

A Shop In The Back Street: Late Eighteenth Century Williamsburg Through The Ledgers Of Blacksmith James Anderson, Kathleen Marie Child

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Breaking The Mold: Sugar Ceramics And The Political Economy Of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller Jan 2008

Breaking The Mold: Sugar Ceramics And The Political Economy Of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Clay Landing: A Nineteenth Century Rural Community On The Florida Frontier, Jill Catherine Principe Jan 2008

Clay Landing: A Nineteenth Century Rural Community On The Florida Frontier, Jill Catherine Principe

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Hospitality, Civility, And Sociability: Taking Tea In Colonial Barbados, Meredith Ashley Holaday Mahoney Jan 2007

Hospitality, Civility, And Sociability: Taking Tea In Colonial Barbados, Meredith Ashley Holaday Mahoney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Graine Of Marveilous Great Increase": A Political Landscape Approach To Powhatan Maize Production And Exchange In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Danielle Christine Risse Jan 2007

"A Graine Of Marveilous Great Increase": A Political Landscape Approach To Powhatan Maize Production And Exchange In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Danielle Christine Risse

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Wild Animals And Domesticated Landscapes: A Case Study Of Human-Animal Relationships In The Middle And Late Woodland Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Nadejda Levine Jan 2007

Wild Animals And Domesticated Landscapes: A Case Study Of Human-Animal Relationships In The Middle And Late Woodland Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Nadejda Levine

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Tuscarora Trails: Indian Migrations, War, And Constructions Of Colonial Frontiers, Stephen D. Feeley Jan 2007

Tuscarora Trails: Indian Migrations, War, And Constructions Of Colonial Frontiers, Stephen D. Feeley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Over a century before the Cherokees' Infamous "Trail of Tears," uprooted refugees already made up a majority among Indians in many regions of the American backcountry. Using the Tuscarora Indians as a case study, I take a new look at the role of refugee Indian groups in the construction of colonial frontiers and examine the ways that Indians thrown together from varying regional and cultural backgrounds wrestled with questions of collective identity. Although the Tuscaroras had once been eastern North Carolina's most influential Indian nation, after devastating military defeat, in the words of one contemporary, they "scattered as the wind …


Cultural Legitimacy In Surry County, Virginia: The Edwards Family Of Chestnut Farms, Donald Lee Sadler Jan 2007

Cultural Legitimacy In Surry County, Virginia: The Edwards Family Of Chestnut Farms, Donald Lee Sadler

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring The York County Free Black Register As A Means Of Social Control, 1798-1831, Andrew Jefferson Butts Jan 2006

America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring The York County Free Black Register As A Means Of Social Control, 1798-1831, Andrew Jefferson Butts

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Boat-Wrights In A Port Of Black Diamonds: Waterfront Landscapes Of The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal's Cumberland, Maryland Terminus, Oliver Maximilian Mueller-Heubach Jan 2006

Boat-Wrights In A Port Of Black Diamonds: Waterfront Landscapes Of The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal's Cumberland, Maryland Terminus, Oliver Maximilian Mueller-Heubach

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


In The Crucible Of The Frontier: The Emergence And Decline Of A Trading Site In Early Colonial Virginia, Patrick Brendan Burke Jan 2006

In The Crucible Of The Frontier: The Emergence And Decline Of A Trading Site In Early Colonial Virginia, Patrick Brendan Burke

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Fostering Pride And Badges Of Oppression: A Contextual Study Of British Military Buttons From Paget Fort, Bermuda, 1778-1820, Paul M. Nasca Jan 2005

Fostering Pride And Badges Of Oppression: A Contextual Study Of British Military Buttons From Paget Fort, Bermuda, 1778-1820, Paul M. Nasca

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Predator Management And Colonial Culture, 1600-1741: A Study In Historical Ecology, Samuel Taylor Elswick Jan 2005

Predator Management And Colonial Culture, 1600-1741: A Study In Historical Ecology, Samuel Taylor Elswick

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The New Orleans Free People Of Color And The Process Of Americanization, 1803-1896, Camille Kempf Gourdet Jan 2005

The New Orleans Free People Of Color And The Process Of Americanization, 1803-1896, Camille Kempf Gourdet

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Mount Pleasant Service Complex: Salvaging Interpretations From Previously Acquired Data, Megan Elizabeth Grow Jan 2005

The Mount Pleasant Service Complex: Salvaging Interpretations From Previously Acquired Data, Megan Elizabeth Grow

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Coming Of Age In America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction Of Adolescence For The 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens Jan 2004

Coming Of Age In America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction Of Adolescence For The 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Space And Power In Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett Jan 2004

Space And Power In Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"After Me Cometh A Builder": The Symbolic Landscape Of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown Estate And Its Transformation, Hank D. Lutton Jan 2004

"After Me Cometh A Builder": The Symbolic Landscape Of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown Estate And Its Transformation, Hank D. Lutton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Everyday Life Of War: A Reflexive Analysis Of American Civil War Soldiers In The Military Environment Through A Prism Of Context, Practice, And Power, Valerie Renee Auger Jan 2003

Everyday Life Of War: A Reflexive Analysis Of American Civil War Soldiers In The Military Environment Through A Prism Of Context, Practice, And Power, Valerie Renee Auger

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


'Profanely And In Great Scandall': Deviance, Authority, And Social Control In Middlesex And Surry Counties, Virginia, 1672-1682, Matthew Adrian Thurlow Jan 2003

'Profanely And In Great Scandall': Deviance, Authority, And Social Control In Middlesex And Surry Counties, Virginia, 1672-1682, Matthew Adrian Thurlow

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


For Profit And Function: Consumption Patterns And Outward Expression Of Quakers As Seen Through Historical Documentation And 18th Century York County, Virginia Probate Inventories, Darby O'Donnell Jan 2002

For Profit And Function: Consumption Patterns And Outward Expression Of Quakers As Seen Through Historical Documentation And 18th Century York County, Virginia Probate Inventories, Darby O'Donnell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross Jan 2002

Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Hitched To A Steam Engine": Marriage And Crises Of Gender At Park Church In Nineteenth-Century Elmira, New York, Bridget Louise Reddick Jan 2002

"Hitched To A Steam Engine": Marriage And Crises Of Gender At Park Church In Nineteenth-Century Elmira, New York, Bridget Louise Reddick

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.