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A friendly salute: the President-Little Belt Affair and the coming of the war of 1812

Hooks, Jonathon Woodard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In May 1811, thirteen months before the start of the War of 1812, the United States frigate President and the British sloop-of-war Little Belt fought an hour-long battle approximately fifty miles off the North Carolina ...
Creating a "different citizen": the federal development of the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960

Downs, Matthew L. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This dissertation describes the process of cooperation and contestation by which residents, civic leaders, state officials, and federal politicians in the Tennessee Valley encouraged the economic development of their rapidly ...
"Liberty's great auxiliary": music and the American Civil War

McWhirter, Christian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Music was almost omnipresent during the American Civil War. Soldiers, civilians, and slaves listened to and performed popular songs almost constantly. The heightened political and emotional climate of the war created a ...
Serving two masters: Methodism and the negotiation of masculinity in the antebellum South

Carney, Charity Rakestraw (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This dissertation examines the development of a distinct southern Methodist masculinity from the 1830s to the 1860s. More than a church history, this study explores the relationship between non-religious and religious ...
The formative period of Anglo-American relations during the First World War, July 1914 - December 1915

Floyd, Michael Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

When the First World War began in August 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared that he wanted the United States to remain neutral. By avoiding the conflict in Europe he hoped to demonstrate that his country held itself ...
Welcome to South Carolina: race, sex and the rise of tourism in Myrtle Beach, 1900-1975

Hourigan, Richard R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Though scholars have long focused on the impact traditional industries had on the development of the South, few have looked at the role tourism played in the economic and cultural transformation of the region. Even in South ...

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