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A luscious fruit: America's annexation of Hawaii

Bruce, Becky L. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This dissertation argues that the annexation of Hawaii was not the result of an aggressive move by the United States to gain coaling stations or foreign markets, nor was it a means of preempting other foreign nations from ...
A struggle against fate: the opponents of manifest destiny and the collapse of the continental dream, 1846-1871

Burge, Daniel Joseph (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Over the last century, historians have fleshed out the reasons why individuals supported the ideology of manifest destiny in the nineteenth-century. In contrast to these studies, this dissertation examines the opponents ...
Acts of war: the Southern seizure of Federal property, 1860-1861

Deale, Rachel Katlyn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

The Civil War began before shots were fired on Fort Sumter. During the four months between Lincoln’s election on November 7, 1860, and his inauguration on March 4, 1861, the Deep South seceded from the Union, seized all ...
Andrew jackson and the Indians, 1767-1815

Ray, Jonathan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Andrew Jackson's experience with the Indians was an ambivalent relationship. From his childhood along the South Carolina-North Carolina border through his two terms as president, he had extensive interaction with both ...
Antislavery violence and secession, October 1859 – April 1861

White, David Jonathan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This dissertation examines the collapse of southern Unionism between October 1859 and April 1861. This study argues that a series of events of violent antislavery and southern perceptions of northern support for them caused ...
"Charlie Brown's america: Peanuts and the politics of wishy-washy, 1950-1989"

Ball, Blake Scott (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

The long 1960s is often considered to be a period of extreme polarization in American politics. This study of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts franchise (comic strips, television programs, films, and merchandise), however, ...
Colonial Pennsylvania's peace experiment on the frontier, 1631-1786

Cecil, Patrick William (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This dissertation explores the maintenance of peace in Pennsylvania during the colonial era. When other colonies along the Atlantic seaboard experienced warfare in the early decades of settlement, Pennsylvania presents an ...
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. ...
"Fightin' Johnnies, fevers, and mosquitoes": a medical history of the Vicksburg Campaign

Privette, Lindsay Rae (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

In late spring of 1863, with New Orleans and Memphis firmly in Union control, the river town of Vicksburg, Mississippi was all that stood between the Union Army and its unobstructed use of the Mississippi River. Situated ...
"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, ...
Hell fighters, black devils, and one wick-ed ma-an: how martial imagery in black popular culture helped define manhood during the World War I era

Amron, Andrew David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This dissertation explores the popularization of modern black masculinity during the World War I era. Focusing on mass media representations of black soldiers before, during, and after the war, it reveals a near-total ...
James H. Devotie, leading the transformation and expansion of Baptists in Alabama and Georgia: 1830-1890

Peters, Christopher Morgan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Southern Baptist pastor, James H. DeVotie, led Baptists to establish, expand, and entrench in Alabama and Georgia from the 1830s to the 1890s. He directed Baptists to become one of the most numerous and influential religious ...
Not just following orders: avoiding and reporting atrocities during the Vietnam War

Levesque, Christopher James (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This dissertation develops a history of soldiers' efforts to report war crimes over the course of the Vietnam War. Previous scholarship that addressed this issue largely dismissed GIs who alleged war crimes as political ...
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 ...
Redrawing the "blueprints" for the early Church: historical ecclesiology in and around the Stone-Campbell Movement

Young, John Marvin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

Members of the Stone-Campbell Movement, a loosely organized collective of restorationist Christians which arose alongside the fervor of the Second Great Awakening, are often criticized for a purported apathy or even antipathy ...
"the best notes made the most votes": race, politics, and spectacle in the South, 1877-1932

Johnson, Mark A. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, black southerners influenced local, state, and national politics and challenged white supremacy by performing at political spectacles. ...
The globe and anchor men: U.S. Marines, manhood, and American culture, 1914-1924

Folse, Mark Ryland (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This dissertation argues that between 1914 and 1924, U.S. Marines made manhood central to the communication of their image and culture, a strategy that underpinned the Corps’ effort to attract recruits from society and ...
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 New Deal, rural poverty, and the south

Roberts, Charles Kenneth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This dissertation examines the political and administrative history of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and its predecessors, the New Deal agency most directly associated with eliminating rural poverty. In addition, ...

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