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President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
(2016-05)
In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ...
South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
One little, two little, three little stereotypes: A history of native culture and imagery in American cinematic cartoons
(2017-12)
The first depiction of Native Americans in American cinematic animation appeared in 1924. Over the course of the near one hundred years since that first depiction, federal Indian policy and the portrayal of Indians in ...
Hallowed path: An historical analysis of the mutable perspectives on interpretations of Mississippian Period iconography
(2017-05)
Interpreting Mississippian Period iconography has been an ongoing process for the last five hundred years. As early European explorers moved into the Southeastern United States, only the remnants of the once great Mississippian ...
King Hussein and the presidents: Jordan and American relations since 1967
(2016-07)
The following examines the relationship between the United States and Jordan after 1967. It focuses on the leadership of the US starting with the Nixon administration and ending with King Hussein of Jordan's death during ...
Old Right and its influence on the development of modern American conservatism
(2014-07)
In November of 1955, William F. Buckley published the first issue of National Review. His journal defined modern American conservatism as a mix of anti-Marxism, tradition, and a belief in limited government. These three ...
Green means green, not asphalt gray: State parks and development of the Raleigh metropolitan area, 1936-2016
(2017-05)
State parks are a ubiquitous presence on the American landscape with thousands of units in all fifty states that attract far more visitors than the U.S. National Park System. While the sheer diversity and number of state ...
Politics of race in a free and a slave society: Free black issues in the legislatures of Antebellum Ohio and Tennessee
(2010-12)
Scope and Method of Study: An examination of legislative proceedings and roll-call voting behavior on free black issues in the antebellum general assemblies of Ohio and Tennessee.
Cortes after the conquest of Mexico: Constructing legacy in New Spain
(2013-12)
This dissertation examines an important yet woefully understudied aspect of Hernan Cortes after the conquest of Mexico. The Marquisate of the Valley of Oaxaca was carefully constructed during his lifetime to be his lasting ...
Cracked Up Sentencing: The Establishment and Maintenance of Discrepancies in Federal Cocaine Sentencing Structures in the 1980s and 1990s
(2017-12)
During his tenure in office, Ronald Reagan mounted a punitive war against drug use in the United States. This crusade included the vast sentencing discrepancy between powder and crack cocaine, which is the focus of this ...