Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is a unique site for studying the complex intertwining of music, race, and the American South. Exploring this region reveals how and why the music recorded in Muscle Shoals became integral to the cultural framework within 1960s and `70s America. "Making M…
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This dissertation examines how historical events and representation of those events relative to the wider historical context have allowed the media, opinion setters, and the ordinary public to use the names of San Francisco, California, Birmingham, Alabama and Las Vegas, Nevada …
The main objectives of this research focus on the testing of selected model for the development of resource frontier regions; to point out the principal implications of the different development strategies on the socio-economic conditions in the subject areas; and to propose a m…
The Great Depression of the 1930s created some of the most difficult economic times in the history of the United States, with the agricultural sector of the economy taking an especially severe hit. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs aimed to help the rural poor,…
This thesis endeavors to shed light on institutional slavery at the University of Alabama. Chapter one examines the historiographical threads which undergird the study of American slavery, particularly in the institutional context. Chapter two discusses slavery’s role in the fou…
Healthcare leaders around the United States are facing nursing shortages. It is a staffing challenge that has been cyclical throughout the decades but to date has had no resolution. The shortages are a symptom of basic economic terms, supply and demand. Nurses are retiring and n…
As school districts become increasingly racially diverse, minorities remain practically invisible in the role of superintendent; specifically, Black women. Historical analysis depicts the superintendency as a White male-dominated position and highlights significant challenges ex…
This study seeks to examine life and identity at the Perry site (1LU25) through osteological and archaeological analysis. The Perry site, located in northwestern Alabama, is a multi-component site dating to the Archaic and Mississippian time periods. To better understand life an…
Throughout the United States the debate over the appropriateness of Confederate Era imagery, such as statues and monuments, has commanded the attention of politicians, media, and the general public. One popular framework for those participating in these conversations is the hist…