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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Jefferson Davis"”.
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Survey of Bicycle Trail-Users in New Orleans: Characteristics, Attitudes and Implications for Planning
This thesis focuses on bicyclists using the Jefferson Davis multi-use, off-street trail in the City of New Orleans. Understanding user characteristics and perceptions of bicyclists will help inform planning, policy, and design related to bicycle infrastructure. This thesis uses a review of the …
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Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: the Maryland United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Assertion of Their Identity
… monument to Confederate Maryland women, and the Jefferson Davis monument, the Maryland UDC sought to identify themselves as vital and distinct while seeking acceptance within the national organization. The Maryland Daughters vietheir monuments and projects as a means to commemorate and …
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The Battle of Gettysburg and the Response of the Press
… Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Such geographic and political groupings are not only representative of the bitterly divided times, but, more importantly for the aspirations of this project, allow for more exact and representative conclusions by not considering how …
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Impacts of the Poultry Industry In Mississippi
… South Mississippi: Wayne, Jones, Forrest, Lamar, Jefferson Davis, Marion, and Pike. Current research indicates that the poultry industry has a significant impact on the cultures and economies of rural towns throughout the United States. There is no current research that examines the effects of the …
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A Call to Arms: A Comparative Study of Mississippi and Kentucky Citizens During the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861
… of John J. Pettus and Beriah Magoffin, the Jefferson Davis papers, and Mississippi and Kentucky newspapers to compare the views of citizens from two economically and politically similar states that responded differently to secession. This thesis argues that middle-class Mississippians and …
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"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
… pensions (1888-1992), and through the Beauvoir Jefferson Davis Memorial Soldiers’ Home (1903-1957). This thesis challenges the existing historiography, showing that Mississippi began aiding indigent soldiers and families as early as 1861, and the 1888 pension law operated outside the Lost Cause …
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Motion and Emotion, Urban Dwelling in New Orleans
… This thesis proposes reopening the canal along Jefferson Davis Parkway and extending it into the French Quarter to the southern edge of Louis Armstrong Park. As many of the former apartments were damaged by flooding from Hurricane Katrina, some units will be demolished to make way for site …
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A strategic approach to assessing needs and engineering cost/performance tradeoffs for internally developed high performance assembly machines
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Two paths to command: command systems of the Union and the Confederacy, 1861-1865
… achieve a comparably effective command system. Jefferson Davis believed he could be both the political and military leader for his country and its armies, and therefore the command system devised by the Confederacy in 1861 assigned him both tasks. Throughout the war, Davis retained a firm grip …
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For Honor and Duty: The Civil War Experience of William Washington Gordon II
… of books with information on Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and William T. Sherman fill library bookshelves all over the country. In recent years, however, scholars have placed more emphasis on the war's minor combatants and their role, however small, in shaping the history of …
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
This thesis describes and analyses how the Richmond press operated as a propaganda machine during the final year of the Civil War. It argues that the newspapers of the Confederate capital regularly exploited the propaganda value of the news they reported, employing methods including distortion of …