This thesis is about the changing gender roles for women after the Civil War. The subjects of this thesis focuses on a small group of wealthy white women whose wills were filled in the Fulton County Courthouse in the city of Atlanta between 1880–1920.
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This thesis evaluates changes in the fugitive slave provision of the Constitution. Additionally, the study looks at proposed changes to the federal fugitive slave policy, and how individual states approached the topic of fugitive slaves. The research covers the absence of the fu…
Between June 1863 and May 1865, almost seven thousand Union prisoners were held in two Confederate prisoner of war camps in Texas: Camp Groce near Hempstead, Texas, and Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas. While both camps had their share of misery, Camp Ford was considered a “model cam…
While numerous historians have studied and written about the lives and deeds of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, fewer have conducted analyses of these three individuals’ popular memories. This study considers how the memory of these three Confederate leade…
This dissertation examines the writings and literature surrounding elite, white South Carolina women from 1859 and 1861 to trace their increasing political consciousnesses surrounding their state’s secession and the threat of civil war. Their diaries and letters reveal that thou…
Civil War Reenactment has become a popular pastime for the past fifty years. Thousands of people done Civil War era clothing, march on national battlefields in military units, and fire muskets at one another in order to celebrate the men who fought and died at these battles. The…
The following application for the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Programs grant will explain the intention behind planning The Peculiar Institution: Religion, Politics, and Geography, a temporary exhibit to be held at the Kentucky Historical Society. Presently, mus…
Many small local history museums in the Mid-Atlantic United States have added exhibits narrating the story of slavery. In this thesis, I used a material-rhetorical analytical lens to read the spatial texts of three history museums. I found that the built space of the museum and …
Before, during, and after the Costa Rican Revolution of 1948 and the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Crisis of 1948-1949, the Truman Administration maintained a posture of strict neutrality and helped to isolate, and bring a quick end to, both conflicts. This thesis attempts to revise the …
The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revealed that the Civil War affected …
Earthen military fortifications at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park have experienced a tremendous amount of stress since the Civil War. Erosion of the earthworks at the battlefield is the result of this stress. Current national and international research strongly sugg…
For hundreds of years the French horn was a symbol of aristocracy in Europe, not for its affiliation with concert music, but for its use by huntsmen. When American sons of European immigrants sponsored hunting parties on their estates, enslaved persons performed the duties of hu…
The Lost Cause ideology of the Civil War has created a distorted collective memory that established a pattern of lawful inequality and disenfranchisement that continues to exist today. The distortion of the legacy of the Confederacy was planted with heritage, honor, and patrioti…
This examination criticises some of the main textual efforts within the self-identified politiography of Algeria that have attempted to help make the last twenty years of violent conflict in Algeria intelligible to Western audiences. It attends to the way in which particular rep…
The aim of this thesis is to provide a study ofpolitical conflict and local-national relations during theEnglish Revolution, in the context of the county of Surrey, acounty in which a moderate parliamentarian administration wasable to survive until 1649. The thesis concentrates …
The contemporary decentralization trend in a number of SouthEuropean states has been an object of scientific research on numerousoccasions. By focusing on the analysis and interpretation ofdecentralization in Greece, in the post-dictatorial period (1974-1989), acountry on which …
Soon after the end of the Civil War, Lebanon witnessed the birth of its first audio-visual law: the Broadcasting Act of 1994. This Act was, according to the Document of National Reconciliation that ushered in the end of the Civil War, considered to be crucial in ending civil str…
This dissertation explores the role of the Guatemalan National Police, from 1954 to 1985, as an institution that in the context of the country’s armed conflict and dirty war, became a key part of the machinery of brutality and violence of the Guatemalan State. The work approache…