“That smoke means money.” This is what Devra Davis’s mother said when Davis complained about the soot-filled smoke that blanketed their Donora home. In good times, 4,000 [...]

This thesis examines the institutional factors that shaped the academic reception of Professor Moses Wharton Young's neuroscience contributions, challenging the prevailin[...]

Using Strawbery Bank as a case study, this thesis examines the benefits of rehabilitation of unprofitable spaces in house museums in order to create rentable housing unit[...]

This dissertation examines the citrus industries of Florida (United States) and São Paulo (Brazil) between 1960 and 1995, during which these two states emerged as the wor[...]

As the Modern Olympic Movement has progressed, the games have grown more complex. In recent years, the International Olympic Committee has received criticism over the ga[...]

This dissertation challenges the way historians think about interracial political movements in the post-Reconstruction South. It argues that, rather than the presumably i[...]

Between 1933 and 1947, Southern politicians and officials tied to the cotton sector significantly reshaped the American state to benefit American cotton interests. By emp[...]

This thesis employs oral interviews as a primary source to explore the experiences of women real estate agents during the liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The[...]

This dissertation contemplates the complex dynamics and long-term legacy of Atlanta’s Black mayors in office for the past six decades beginning in 1974. I focus primarily[...]

This thesis explores the connections between the turn-of-the-century American smallpox anti-vaccination movement and the larger Progressive Era debates about the governme[...]

Following the Dakota War of 1862, photographers in Minnesota created dozens of cartes de visite from pictures they took of non-combatants and participants in the war. The[...]

At the beginning of the United Nations’ response to the Palestinian refugee crisis in 1948, UN field workers in Jordan and Palestine sought to implement and improve an ai[...]

This dissertation examines legal and social actions and beliefs regarding mixed race and interracial marriage and relationships in the Deep South from Reconstruction thro[...]

The culture of the United States includes a strong and persistent component of "American Exceptionalism,"? the belief that American society is morally superior to other n[...]

This dissertation attempts to provide an understanding of the widespread anxiety, vigilantism, suppression of dissent, and violation of civil liberties that took place in[...]

Approximately 250,000 Confederate soldiers died in the American Civil War, creating thousands of widows. And yet, the stories, experiences, and impact of these women rem[...]

Following the ratification of the Constitution, the U.S. Treasury Department became the central force of American state-building. This institution tasked itself with the [...]

British officers based their Southern strategy on their ability to retain loyalist support. Sectional hostility between the lowcountry and backcountry colonists that had[...]

The Freedmens Bureaus main task was to provide former slaves a smoother and more prosperous transition into economic freedom after the end of the Civil War in April 1865.[...]

This thesis explores the intersections and mutually dependent developments of, on one hand, medical and scientific advancements in the control and prevention of infectiou[...]

Rebecca Latimer Felton, 1835-1930, was the first female senator in the United States. In 1922, when Felton was 87, the governor of Georgia appointed her to fill the posit[...]

This dissertation investigates the complicated interplay of white supremacist thought, nationalist politics, and segregationist impulses that influenced everyday whites t[...]

In 1892, Seb Doyle, an African American preacher allegedly under the threat of death by a Democratic lynch mob for supporting Populist Congressman Tom Watson, became the [...]

Juxtaposing Mussolinis Italy with Britains struggle to comprehend the chaos of the Interwar period lends readers a fresh understanding the interwar period. In particular,[...]

The present paper portrays British colonial India in the late nineteenth century at a moment in which the anxieties inherent in ruling an empire have been maximized and e[...]