Reconstruction

This dissertation is a historical study of a nineteenth-century teacher of mathematics of African descent, Edgar Joseph Edmunds (“E. J. Edmunds”). The study traces the life and career of Edmunds, which spanned a period of social upheaval in the South–from the pre-Civil War era, …

1990's Beirut was a space marked by gaping holes where buildings once used to be, mountains of rubble and debris that ended as landfill in the sea, and towering cranes, massive bulldozers, and innumerable construction workers, trying to rebuild what the 1975–1990 Civil War—local…

This work is an ethnography of place and memory in post war Beirut. It examines the rebuilding project of downtown Beirut in terms of the competing discourses surrounding and driving the process. After the end of a long civil war, Beirut is rebuilding its decimated downtown, onc…

For over two hundred years the U.S. military has conducted operations other than "major war." Rarely, however, has the institution translated the experience to doctrine, education, or training, leaving each generation with only personal experience, ingenuity, and initiative to a…

In the early 1980s Bulgarian archaeologists of the newly established Centre for Underwater Archaeology at Sozopol discovered the remains of a post-medieval ship in the southern Bay of Kitten, in the lee of Cape Urdoviza. Between 2000 and 2003, the Institute of Nautical Archaeolo…