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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"southern history"”.
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Laurel, Mississippi: A Historical Perspective.
<p>Laurel, Mississippi, exemplifies the new southern development that occurred in the years following Reconstruction. Coinciding with continental rail building and the depletion of northern timber resources, Laurel emerged as one of Mississippi's great industrial centers. Laurel's survival after …
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Shaping the City from Below: Urban Planning and Citizens' Battle for Control in Roanoke, Virginia, 1907-1928
… areas in the urban North. By combining urban history, women's history, and southern history, this thesis seeks to understand how diverse citizens in a small city of Southwest Virginia shaped the city. Beneath the surface of John Nolen and professional city planning, upper-class white women, …
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Maligned “Milish:” Mississippi Militiamen in the Civil War
<p>Thousands of southern men avoided regular military service in the American Civil War and enlisted or were drafted into state organized militias. In Mississippi, these units were termed Mississippi State Troops or Minute Men. This thesis argues that Mississippi militiamen’s pre-war positions and …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
… to educating white children in the “truth of southern history,” a duty they eagerly embraced. The Texas UDC proved effective in meeting its primary goal, caring for aging veterans and their wives. The members' secondary goal, being cultural shapers, ultimately proved elusivenot because the …
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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
… as the key organizing figure in the discourse on southern womanhood. My research extends and complicates that critical model. If the belle signifies an idealized and mythic South, the old maid evokes a range of threats to it, including illicit (re)production and barrenness. She becomes the symbol …
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Arkansas’s cotton plantocracy: the role of POWs in establishing postwar labor systems
… objections from labor organizations, such as the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), a biracial union of sharecroppers and farmworkers. Furthermore, Arkansas’ segregationist practices influenced labor policies, as maintaining a distinct racial hierarchy remained a priority through these years …
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Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
… When North Carolina's Department of Archives and History first adopted the former plantation into its Historic Sites System in 1967, Somerset was dedicated to memorializing the planter, Josiah Collins III; the enslaved rarely made it into the site's narrative at all, and if they did it was as …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… of shifting fields of race and class. While the Southern literary ""renaissance"" is frequently credited with debunking post-Civil War ""plantation literature's"" romanticizations of the antebellum South, it produced its own mystified versions of more recent Southern history. I argue for a link …
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Growing Up Biracial and Gay in the Deep South: Living between the Color/Gender Lines
… gender lines. Without critical self-reflections, Southerners like myself, my mother, and my daughter might not recognize our own self-loathing and internalized value systems. We might be forever haunted by the ghosts of mythologized Southern history which permeate memories. The challenge to this …
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Politics, chess, hats: the microhistory of disunion in Charleston, South Carolina
… largely undesired, yet wholly unavoidable. Southerners did not blunder into Civil War, I argue; they marched steadily, unwittingly, self-destructively into it because, at the end, fear, honor, and self-interest had invested them too heavily in the performance of that foolish act for them to …
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Marked by Valor: The “Lost” History of the 6th United States Colored Troops, Heavy Artillery
<p>“Marked by Valor: The ‘Lost’ History of the 6 th U.S.C.T., Heavy Artillery,” argues that the camaraderie of having been a Black Union soldier solidified a sub-culture of Black veterans and their families in Natchez, Mississippi, that cohered throughout the Reconstruction period using the tools …
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Cultures of Emotion: Families, Friends, and the Making of the United States
… Both families were prominent members of the southern elite with networks centered in the South that extended throughout the country and stretched across the Atlantic. Members of both networks held prominent positions in state and national government, and both networks had extensive and varied …
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Through the Heart of the City: Interstates and Black Geographies in Urban America
… supremacy. This study illuminates the how the history of modern Little Rock was deliberately hidden in plain sight, and why federal interstate construction demonstrated dynamic capacity as an instrument of state will to form urban black geographies. </p>
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We Didn't Get Famous: the Story of the Southern Music Underground, 1978-1990
This thesis examines the emergence of the Southern indie music scene in the 1980s as both a rejection of the broader punk scene that had swept America and the UK in the 1970s and the blues and country inflected Southern Rock that preceded it in the 1970s. I first had the idea of doing a project on …
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To Advance a Race: A Historical Analysis of the Intersection of Personal Belief, Industrial Philanthropy and Black Liberal Arts Higher Education in Fayette McKenzie's Presidency at Fisk University, 1915-1925
… will contribute to existing scholarship on the history of higher education in the United States (and specifically histories of Black higher education and Fisk University), industrial philanthropy in Black higher education, and presidential leadership at Black colleges and universities in the …
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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
… also known as the Know Nothing Party, rallied southerners culturally and politically around nativism, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ideology. This thesis studies nativism in the Deep South and challenges existing scholarship by Tyler Anbinder and William Darrell Overdyke. Anbinder claims …