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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 ...
  • A legacy of care: Hesse and the Alice Frauenverein, 1867-1918 
    Smith, Kara (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    Although scholars have considered the role of secular nursing associations in nineteenth-century Germany, they have focused on these organizations through the lens of nationalism and state-building or modernization and ...
  • 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 ...
  • Abner McGehee 
    Williams, Clanton Ware (University of Alabama Libraries, 1928)
    It so happens in the course of events that many men live and labor, often unknown and more often unheeded as they toil onward across the stream of life. They die and are soon forgotten. A few days and the ripple they ...
  • The Abolition of the Convict Lease System in Alabama, 1913-1928 
    Clark, Elizabeth Boner (University of Alabama Libraries, 1949)
    Almost from the first day of its organization, the penitentiary system of Alabama was a source of trouble to the state, and for years its operation was unprofitable in every sense. From the beginning, penology in Alabama ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company 
    Scudder, John Ralph (University of Alabama Libraries, 1951)
    The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company was formed in December, 1868, out of the purchase of the North East and South West Alabama Railroad by the Wills Valley Railroad Company to build a railroad diagonally across ...
  • Albert Taylor Goodwyn 
    Mustin, Louise Goodwyn (University of Alabama Libraries, 1936)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Basil Manly and His Administration at The University of Alabama, 1837-1855 
    Pate, James August (University of Alabama Libraries, 1955)
    Basil Manly II was born January 29, 1798, in Chatham County, North Carolina, near Pittsboro. His father, a farmer who had settled in Bladen County and had spent most of his early life there, had led a band of homeguards ...
  • "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 ...
  • Community and Government of Tuscaloosa, Alabama 
    Dorsey, John T. (University of Alabama Libraries, 1950)
    There has been an increasing realization in recent years that no one of the various disciplines concerned with the study of man and his society, ranging from biology through the social sciences to philosophy, is sufficient ...
  • Confederate Diplomacy in Mexico 
    Maisel, Jay Max (University of Alabama Libraries, 1949)
    Long before the Civil War, the southern states had realized the importance of state sovereignty. The infringement upon the rights of state sovereignty was a perpetual source of discontent and animosity between the North ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Disease, Disuse, and Disappointment: The Volunteer Experience and the Modernization of the American National Guard, 1898-1902 
    Boyd, Kari Lee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    This dissertation combines an intimate study of the common volunteers during the Spanish American War with a look into larger institutional changes within the American military at the turn of the Twentieth Century and the ...

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