One of the fundamental changes in the modern era was the coming of the “dying of death” throughout the Western World. Coined by historian James Farrell, this term is used to explain how mourners moved away from sentimental death mores that domesticated the dead body and encourag…
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Intense Civil War anti-Semitism sharply altered both Gentile views of Jews and Southern Jewish self-perception. Southern Jews lost the sanctity of their name and saw their antebellum status as white insiders rapidly eroded. The memory of wartime anti-Semitism alongside Reconstru…
The objective of this thesis is to investigate and understand why and how consent is manipulated in societies where severe coercion seems to be effective in securing power. This text therefore analyses the role and nature of coercion and consent – of armed conflict and news prod…
This thesis examines patterns of mortality in interwar south Wales and assesses the relative influences of various social factors in determining those patterns. Chapters on income, expenditure, housing, environment, diet and medical services describe and evaluate the material co…
This dissertation asks what the history of African American beaches and resorts can teach us about the politics of leisure in the Jim Crow South (ca. 1890-1965). Through five case studies, this project examines the creative measures black Southerners adopted to secure and defend…
Numerous scholars and historians have illuminated the importance of baseball within American society from the end of Reconstruction to the Great Depression. Yet their gaze has often been turned to the northern professional game. Very little has been written about how the game pl…
This thesis connects late nineteenth-century southern Democrat and former Confederate L.Q.C. Lamar to the status politics of the Northeastern “small imperialist elite.” Moreover, this work traces Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Associate Justice Lamar’s legacies in Ameri…
Over the course of three decades, white southern Methodist women took on issues of labor and poverty through their national women’s organization, the Woman’s Missionary Council (WMC). Between 1909 and 1939, the WMC focused their work on five groups of people they viewed as in ne…
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…
In 1906, Ralph Nace Cohen left the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean for the United States. After sailing across the Atlantic, Cohen made his way to Montgomery, Alabama. Cohen was the first of hundreds of Ottoman Sephardi Jews to immigrate to the southern United Stat…
Eudora Welty’s memoir One Writer’s Beginnings conveys the author’s childhood enchantment with reading and education. Critical engagement with the text often centers its impact on readings of her fiction or Welty’s relationship to other memoirists. I argue, however, that One Writ…
During the era of Reconstruction, (1863-1877) African American women across South Carolina enthusiastically joined the political scene in alliance with the Republican Party. The Rollin sisters represented a tiny group of elite black women who were born free in Antebellum Charles…
This thesis discusses how the military, economic, and humanitarian priorities of US foreign policy in South Korea evolved over the nearly twenty-year leadership of Park Chung-hee, whose admittedly authoritarian leadership enabled the economic reform that transformed South Korea …
This research draws on Clifford Geertz’s understanding of ethnography as “thick description” and applies it through David Bodenhamer’s notion of “deep mapping” in order to analyze societal and political structures framing the music making of prisoners in the South from 1933–1940…
The history of the Civil War has been a point of contention across the nation and in academia, regarding how it is remembered as well as who controlled this memory in years past. This thesis utilizes frameworks from regionalized studies of Civil War commemoration and applies it …
To a large degree, America has adopted African American culture as its own. One may hear and see African American influence in popular music, grammar, fashion and art, but rarely are the sources of these influences divined, in no small part to difficulties inherent in interdisci…