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Timothy Swan: Yankee Tunesmith
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
This study uses Mississippi from 1860 to 1865 as a case-study of Confederate nationalism. It employs interdisciplinary literature on the concept of loyalty to explore how multiple allegiances influenced people during the Civil War. Historians have generally viewed Confederate nationalism as weak or …
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Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black American Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787--1827
… the accepted theory that the vogue for Yankee Theatre in the nineteenth-century developed primarily in response to negative English stereotypes and stage representations of the Yankee character. I argue that the swift rise of the English abolitionist movement in conjunction with the …
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Set A Light In A Dark Place: Teachers Of Freedmen In Florida, 1863-18
… Reformers, politicians, literate blacks, and Yankee businessmen intent on socially, politically, and economically transforming Florida joined educators in reconstructing Florida. Florida's educational system transformed during Reconstruction, and an examination of the reciprocity between …
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Subsistence whaling in Alaska
… throughout the year. Commercial exploitation by Yankee whalers made heavy inroads on the Bowhead whale stocks of the north Pacific Ocean. Half a century of commercial exploitation of the Bowhead whale by Yankee whalers not only made heavy inroads on the whale stocks, it also made a heavy imprint …
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A Connecticut Yankee At The Gates Of Heaven: A Study Of The Rites Surrounding The Death Of A Christian In The Connecticut Conference, United Church Of Christ, At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century
This dissertation examines the rites that members and churches of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ perform when a member of the community dies. A distinction between a “funeral” and “memorial service” is established, with a funeral defined as a rite provided by the Church …
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Republic of Shade : the emergence of the American elm as a cultural and urban design element in nineteenth-century New England
… which made the elm a ubiquitous feature of the Yankee scene, and a core element in the identity and image of the region. The historical narrative begins with a description of the tree in the pre-European era, and explains how cultural disturbance by both native Americans and colonists amplified …
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
… that to help create a demonized portrait of the Yankee and the North.
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"Then Came the Peaceful Invasion of the Northerners": The Impact of Outsiders On Plantation Architecture in Georgetown County, South Carolina
<p>The 'Second Yankee Invasion' of South Carolina was at its height in Georgetown County between 1890 and 1935, as wealthy Northerners came South seeking winter homes. Northern attraction to the South was based upon growing interest in outdoor recreation, the romanticization of the Southern past, …
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Conservatism and liberalism in the American Congress : a selected study of congressional voting ratings, 1947-1972
… transitions were apparent in the behavior of the Yankee Zone and Sun Belt geopolitical subregions. The conservative Republican Yankee Zone revolved into a bastion of liberal Democracy while the solidly Democratic Sun Belt conservatized and trended Republican.The depopulation of rural areas and …
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I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, And Popular Song
… surrender and containing lines like, “I hate the Yankee Nation / And everything they do; / I hate the Declaration / Of Independence, too,” the “Good Old Rebel” typifies a certain brand of white southern identity that refuses Confederate defeat and sounds a call to arms for continued rebellion …
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"""They Have Made a Nation"": Confederates and the Creation of Confederate Nationalism"
… were the ""innocent Southron,"" the ""demon Yankee other,"" the ""silent slave,"" and a sense of ""true Americanism."""
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Ballparks as America: The Fan Experience at Major League Baseball Parks in the Twentieth Century
… century. I examine the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium in the first half of the twentieth century, what I call the classic ballpark era, Dodger Stadium and the Astrodome from the 1950s through the 1980s, what I call the multi-use ballpark era, and Camden Yards in the retro-chic ballpark …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… became more important than ever for men battling Yankee armies. The war, nevertheless, tested Confederate soldiers’ idealized view of human bondage. Federal armies wrecked havoc on masters’ farms and plantations, seized hundreds of thousands of slaves, and eventually armed African Americans. Rebel …
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The Usefulness of Criticism in Accounting
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Environmental determinants of greater flamingo foraging behaviour in an estuarine intertidal sandflat
The impact of flamingo predation on the benthic community has been well researched through the use of caging and exclusion experiments. However, there is still very little known about flamingo spatial foraging preferences and the environmental cues that determine them. The purpose of this study was …
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Writing for numbers: The Cultural Production of Good Writers in the Time of High Stakes Writing Assessments
… a socio-historical analysis of the setting, Yankee City, and its schools from the Great Depression when James Conant first identified the SAT as a vehicle to a classless society to the current era when neo-liberal policies assert that standardized testing will ensure that all students receive …
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The world of Kavanagh and Cottril: A portrait of Irish emigration, entrepreneurship, and ethnic diversity in mid-Maine, 1760-1820
… as exemplified by inter-ethnic marriages between Yankee and Hibernian, the conversion of native New Englanders to the Roman faith, and the movement of prominent Irish into the public sphere. In large part this cultural acceptance was molded by the positive example of Irish elite such as James …
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Last breath, first pulse: an experiment in modernization, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823 - 1857
… atmosphere of friction among the predominantly Yankee work force. The later introduction of French-Canadians to the Lowell mills only served to create additional tension. Mill owners found themselves refereeing interminable arguments regarding different and divergent interpretations of social …
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Reporting Race and Resistance In Dixie: The White Mississippi Press and Civil Rights, 1944-1964
… with their frequent attacks on blacks and the "Yankee" federal government. They were not the only voices, however, because Mississippi had a host of progressive editors that fought against the "closed society" mentality, with three Pulitzer Prize winners and a few other astonishingly moderate …
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