History
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/64
2024-03-19T06:58:58Z"...They do what they know" :: assessing the impact of geography upon the strategy, operations, and tactics of two American military campaigns in South Vietnam
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/12917
"...They do what they know" :: assessing the impact of geography upon the strategy, operations, and tactics of two American military campaigns in South Vietnam
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.
“GUNS AND SHIPS AND SO THE BALANCE SHIFTS”: USING ARTIFACT PATTERNING TO CONTEXTUALIZE A SALVAGED ASSEMBLAGE DATED TO THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, 1781
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/12884
“GUNS AND SHIPS AND SO THE BALANCE SHIFTS”: USING ARTIFACT PATTERNING TO CONTEXTUALIZE A SALVAGED ASSEMBLAGE DATED TO THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, 1781
Schuler, Jillian Michele
Before General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781, he scuttled a portion of his shipping fleet along the Yorktown riverbank to defend the town from a Franco- American amphibious attack. An environment rife with maritime material culture, the river has been subject to formal and informal salvage, including a joint effort in the 1930s by the Mariners’ Museum and the National Park Service that produced a significant artifact assemblage with minimal archaeological context. This thesis will attempt to contextualize the 1930s salvaged assemblage of York River through an artifact pattern developed from four case studies: HMS Invincible (1758), HMS Swift (1770), General Carleton (1785), and Betsy (1781). The artifact pattern presents potential archaeological distinctions between British naval and merchant vessels during the second half of the 18th century.
2023-05-03T00:00:00ZExploring the Maritime Task System of Somerset Place
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/12878
Exploring the Maritime Task System of Somerset Place
Tabeling, Mackenzie Mirre
Eastern North Carolina’s maritime industry was dependent on the labor of free and enslaved maritime workers. These maritime laborers contributed to maritime development in a multitude of ways, from working on large seagoing vessels to preparing flatboats to carry plantation produce along canals. This thesis examines the personal characteristics, social relationships, and cognitive understandings which fabricated maritime tasks of an enslaved community belonging to the Collins family living in Edenton, in Chowan County and Somerset Place in Washington County, North Carolina from 1786 to 1864. This research analyzes the historical documents of the plantation owners and businessmen in the area to understand the motivation of task assignment within the maritime industry of northeastern North Carolina.
2023-05-03T00:00:00ZThe War For Southern Minds: The Battles For Lost Cause History Books In North Carolina Schools
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/12873
The War For Southern Minds: The Battles For Lost Cause History Books In North Carolina Schools
Melville, Auston Lee
The United Daughters of the Confederacy set about to enshrine the ideology of the Lost Cause in the school literature of the South. Due to political upheaval in the 1890s, the Daughters had an extraordinary foundation upon which to begin their work. Throughout the following decades the Daughters fought to keep literature antithetical to their position out of schools. However, during this same time the Division had several factors hindering their work such as a reduction in numbers and a split focus. This thesis examines the beginning of the Daughters’ power, major victories, and traces their decline in the literary war from the period of 1890-1976.
2023-05-04T00:00:00Z