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Baseball diplomacy, baseball deployment: the national pastime in U.S.-Cuba relations

Turner, Justin W. R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

The game of baseball, a shared cultural affinity linking Cuba and the United States, has played a significant part in the relationship between those nations. Having arrived in Cuba as a symbol of growing American influence ...
Creating the modern South: political development in the Tar Heel State, 1945 to the present

Menestres, Daniel Paul (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This dissertation describes the process of political development in North Carolina during the twentieth century. Beginning with the creation of the "solid South" in the early twentieth century, North Carolina's unique ...
Factors in the History of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1816-1846

Boucher, Morris Raymond (University of Alabama Libraries, )

The history of Tuscaloosa as a town goes back beyond the history of the state of which it forms a part. From a purely technical standpoint, it became an incorporated town one day earlier than Alabama became a state. ...
Freeing the slaves: an examination of emancipation military policy and the attitudes of Union officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War

Teters, Kristopher Allen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This dissertation examines the policies and attitudes of Union officers towards emancipation in the western theater during the Civil War. It looks at how both high-ranking and junior Federal officers carried out emancipation ...
"Getting right with Reagan: conservatives and the fortieth president, 1980-2016"

Witcher, Marcus M. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This project examines the evolution of conservatives’ relationship with President Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 2016. The first half demonstrates that conservatives were often displeased with the Reagan administration’s fiscal, ...
New York transformed: committees, militias, and the social effects of political mobilization in revolutionary New York

Williams, Colin Jay (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Social mobilization during the American Revolution rapidly, fundamentally, and permanently changed the way New Yorkers related to government. By forcing residents to choose sides and regulating their access to commodities ...
Objects of confidence and choice: professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861

Reidy, Thomas Edward (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Objects of Confidence and Choice considered the centrality of professional communities in Alabama, from1804 to 1861. The dissertation highlighted what it meant to be a professional, as well as what professionals meant to ...
Paradise reclaimed: the end of frontier Florida and the birth of a modern state, 1900-1940

Suarez, Scott (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

The question of whether Florida remained a frontier region well into the twentieth century is examined. For the purposes of this study, the concept of a frontier is not based on geography, but on social perception and ...
Recasting the image of God: faith and identity in the Deep South, 1877-1915

Chapell, Colin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Individuals construct their own identity in large part through their conceptions of gender. Few historians, however, have explored how religion shaped gender construction in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia during the New ...
The home front as battlefront: interactions between union soldiers and southern women during the American Civil War

Mammina, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Union soldiers and southern women’s interactions during the American Civil War were more than passing exchanges between strangers. This project argues that their relationships had real effects on the battlefield and on the ...
The remembered war: the Korean war in American culture, 1953-1995

Merritt, Jonathan Clay (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

After three years of bitter fighting, the Korean War ended on July 27, 1953. It profoundly shaped and directed American Cold War policy for the next four decades. Korea’s place in American culture and memory, however, has ...
To live and dine in Dixie: foodways and culture in the twentieth-century South

Cooley, Angela Jill (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This dissertation explores the transformation of food culture in urban areas of the American South during the first part of the twentieth century. From 1900 to 1964, southern culinary practices became more public and more ...
Virginia's wilderness: investigating the landscape of war

Petty, Adam (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This work reconsiders the myth surrounding the Wilderness, a forest in Virginia, which played host to three Civil War campaigns. This Wilderness myth has several components. First, the Wilderness was a battlefield unlike ...
War is a terrible enemy to temperance: drinking, self-control, and the meaning of loyalty in the Civil War era

Bever, Megan Leigh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

When the American Civil War began in 1861, people on both sides of the conflict believed that the conduct of soldiers and civilians would shape if not determine the war's outcome. In this context, the nation-wide temperance ...

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Browsing Theses and Dissertations - Department of History by Subject "American history"

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