In July 1832, seventeen enslaved individuals and one free black man stole a whaleboat and sailed from Virginia’s Eastern Shore to New York City in search of freedom. This escape occurred months after Nat Turner’s revolt, and coincided with the rise of abolitionist ideologies and…
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Secondary narratives are most easily defined as narratives deemed non-essential to the primary interpretation goals of a historic site. Given the established significance criteria in the United States, secondary narratives are currently undervalued and are challenging to address…
A foraging guild of birds, composed of ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis), herring gulls (L. argentatus), great black-backed gulls(L. marinus), American crows ( Corvus brachyrhynchos), fish crows (C. ossifragus), European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), turkey vultures ( Catha…
This doctoral project addressed the question: How can the Cedars of Lebanon Seventh-day Adventist Church congregation have an active part in the selection of its pastor? In this project, the Allegheny East Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the focal point. Historically, th…
In 1846 Virginia courts freed 383 slaves of Roanoke plantation by ruling which will of John Randolph of Roanoke's was valid. Sent to found a free black colony in Mercer County, Ohio, these "Randolph Slaves" were refused entry by a mob of Mercer County whites. The freed people in…
Prior to 1954, blacks in Fairfax County who wanted to receive an education beyond the seventh grade were bussed by the county to Manassas Regional High School in Prince William County or independently attended Dunbar High School, Phelps Vocational Center, Cardoza High School or …
To understand the seasonal variation in phytoplankton size classes and the relative importance of microplankton, nannoplankton and picoplankton to total phytoplankton productivity, 14C photosynthetic rates and chl a of size-fractionated samples were investigated throughout the y…
Explaining the presence of cemetery stones with Igbo writing in Amherst County, Virginia, was the basis for this study. How, when and why did inscriptions called Nsibiri make the journey from West Africa to the Blue Ridge Mountains? A combination of sources and disciplines was u…
Problem. In Ezek 36:27, God foretells that he will put his Spirit within his people and he will "do" so that Israel will obey his laws. Ezekiel 36:27 indicates a close relationship between the Spirit of God and Israel in observing the statutes and judgments of God in the Babylon…
If crime stories continually pass before the public eye, a subset of those crimes become social dramas, upsetting and even transfixing a community for weeks and months at a time. Centered upon a series of murder cases in Virginia, this project charts the evolution of crime sensa…
This study examines the progressive leadership of President J. A. C. Chandler in hiring the first women faculty at the College of William and Mary and explains the relationship between his presidency and his twenty-year career in education prior to 1919. During the early heyday …
Tens of thousands of anti-secessionist Virginians joined the Union Army between 1861 and 1865, forming an organized military effort to resist the Confederate government and preserve the Union, and yet surprisingly little attention has been paid by historians to these formations …
This study explores how illicit transatlantic trade relations with the Dutch in seventeenth-century Virginia can be identified through the material record. The research was motivated by recent excavations at a seventeenth-century plantation on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Eyreville…
Awareness is the precursor to change. This research project seeks to raise awareness and the significance of the foundational elements of missional church life at King of Glory Lutheran Church in Williamsburg, Virginia. It does so by first establishing the foundational elements …
Building the White Right of Textile Work explores how racial motivations propelled the capitalist venture of textiles to the American south beginning in the 1880s. The dissertation offers a case study of the textile company Dan River Mills and its mill village of Schoolfield nea…
The goal of this project is to examine the shifting perspectives of the environment within Virginia from the attempted settlement at Roanoke until the eighteenth century, to assess how environmental thought and action changed over time. The thesis argues that early English autho…
This research evaluated the security aspects of voting systems, how they adapted to security threats, and whether or not the changes made were appropriately considered and implemented in a way that increased voting security, focusing on events in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Th…
The problem addressed in this research is low performance of secondary mathematics students in U.S. Virginia public schools. State accreditation of Virginia schools is reliant on progress based on the four core subjects outlined in the Virginia Every Student Succeeds Act applica…
The Mississippian frontier in southwestern Virginia is a relatively unexplored area. This area was occupied by Mississippian and Radford locals, creating a crossroads between the two groups. The Ely Mound site is a Mississippian frontier site that can help understand the influen…