Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 314 for “"1865"”.
-
Confederate Lynchburg, 1861-1865
… problem. The end finally came on April 12, 1865, when Mayor Branch surrendered the city to Federal troops.
-
The American Navy 1865-1882.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities. Thesis. 1973. B.S.
-
Old Capital Prison, 1861-1865
… classes of persons before its ultimate demise in 1865. Federal officials were overwhelmingly unprepared for the task of prisoner control. At no point before the outbreak of hostilities had any official advocated the maintenance of a permanent military prison system. A severe lack of planning and …
-
The Rio Grande Expedition, 1863-1865
In October 1863 the United States Army's Rio Grande Expedition left New Orleans, bound for the Texas coast. Reacting to the recent French occupation of Mexico, President Abraham Lincoln believed that the presence of U.S. troops in Texas would dissuade the French from intervening in the American …
-
Party Politics in Minnesota, 1865-1871
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1918. Major: History. 1 computer file (PDF); 84 pages.
-
Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865
… major prison compounds. From late 1863 to 1865, the Danville Prisons held over 7,000 captured Federals. The compound was used as both a permanent place of confinement and a transitory depot. The earliest captives found the prisons ill-prepared. Inadequate food, heat, and medical facilities …
-
Intercultural education in US history, 1781-1865
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
-
Religious Revivalism and British Methodism, 1855-1865
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004263.pdf: 11843470 bytes, checksum: 503d32fcf95556c2717416a1a374212d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
-
A Study of Southern Humor: 1865-1913
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6200616.pdf: 28520105 bytes, checksum: 3250e702d855b47f75722f0fedbc39ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
-
Mill, Gladstone, and Liberal politics, 1865--1873
Though many writers have described Mill and Gladstone as the two giants of mid-Victorian Liberalism, there has been no attempt systematically to compare and contrast their approaches to Liberalism and thereby clarify various shades of Liberalism as represented in Liberal politics. Mill's later life …
-
A history of Libby Prison, 1862-1865
Libby Prison ranked as one of the most notorious of Civil War compounds. Used as a transitory depot and hospital as well as a permanent place of confinement, over 125,000 Federal prisoners passed through Libby's doors. The Confederate States Military Prison headquarters located in Libby Prison made …
-
The Policies of France and Prussia 1865-1870
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1919. Major: Political Science. 1 computer file (PDF); 122 pages.
-
Gaslight, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865
<p>Despite recent interest in the efforts of antebellum southerners to modernize their society, the role of gaslight technology in the southern campaign to modernize on their own terms has remained wholly neglected in the scholarly literature. Most scholars of lighting technology are aware that in …
-
Internal Dissent: East Tennessee's Civil War, 1849-1865.
<p>East Tennessee, though historically regarded as a Unionist monolith, was politically and ideologically divided during the Civil War. The entrance of the East Tennessee and Virginia and East Tennessee and Georgia railroads connected the economically isolated region to Virginia and the deep South. …
-
Science Under Siege: Joseph Henry's Smithsonian, 1846--1865
… beginning in 1846 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. As the leading antebellum patron of the natural, physical, and social sciences in the United States, the Smithsonian exerted great force on the shape of the American scientific community. The Institution, in turn, was shaped by political …
-
Belle Isle: prison in the James, 1862-1865
… intermittently from July 18, 1862 to February, 1865. During this period the Confederate authorities confined to Belle Isle over 20,000 Federal prisoners of war. The Confederate authorities were unprepared from the very outset of the Civil War to deal with such a large number of prisoners. Due to …
Page 1 of 16