James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator -- Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom -- Free labor and wage slavery: the labor and antislavery movements -- Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision -- Ashley in Congress, 1859-1863 -- The Thirteenth Amendment and a ne…
This thesis advocates for landscape architecture to mitigate risk and plan for adaptation to catastrophic climate events. It develops an adaptive response and critique of Tacloban, the Philippines, as it responded to Typhoon Yolanda in 2013. As government authorities displaced p…
Between 1861 and 1885, the emancipation of African American slaves led to debates within white communities and within the United States government over what to do with the newly freed. The colonization of black Americans in lands such as Liberia through the American Colonization…
Measuring political change at the cultural level is a process that has long divided political scientists and historians. By focusing on two socially, economically, and culturally distinct Texas counties during Reconstruction, this thesis presents an example of political change. …
This paper analyzes the editorials of two St. Louis newspapers during the Civil War (1861–1865), the Daily Missouri Democrat and the Daily Missouri Republican. It argues that the two papers attempted to create different definitions of loyalty to the Union and contrasting visions…
After Congress took control of Reconstruction in 1866, thousands of former Confederates migrated into the Republican Party. Though nowhere near a majority of former Confederates, these “reconstructed rebels” exerted an outsized influence on Congressional Reconstruction. Few have…
Edward A. Pollard’s The Lost Cause first appeared in 1866. Although it established the Myth of the Lost Cause, it was widely read, not as myth, but as history, especially in the South. Then, after 1900, it was largely forgotten. However, starting in the early 1970s, historians b…
This paper is a discursive expansion on a condition report and treatment proposal for an incomplete day and evening ensemble, made by the house of Worth & Bobergh circa 1866-1868 and now held by the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (2019.1602.1A-R).…
The Bonner families and other enslaved African Americans from Carroll County, Georgia became accustomed to a new life after the Civil War. They broke away from their former enslavers; some acquired land and wealth, took steps to educate themselves and their children, established…
The history of domestic science often begins in the Progressive Era, with the stalwart figures of Ellen Richards and Fannie Farmer. It was a movement that emphasized the professionalization of housework and scientific principles. While both are facets of domestic science, a deep…
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.
As Federal Troops began pulling out of the South in 1877, steps made towards full enfranchisement of black southerners, competitive elections, and representative democracy collapsed. Over the course of the next fifty years, white "Redeemers" established a sub-national authoritar…
This dissertation engages with the legal crisis leading up to and following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) through an analysis of law, prohibition, and taboo in the works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sutton E. Griggs, and Pauline E. Hopkins. In order to unders…
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…
JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. “What’s Past is Prologue”: North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH)
This thesis contributes towards the knowledge of post conflict crafts of Kashmir and the role women play in this sector. It proposes crafts to be a culturally relevant activity which could generate income for people living in Kashmir. It analyses the impact of the conflict on th…