Browsing by Author "History"
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On Duty at Wilmington: The Confederate Navy on the Cape Fear River
Combs III, Edwin L (1996-06) -
"One good port" : the Union Navy and Beaufort Harbor, NC, 1862-1865
Blair, William Danford (1999-08) -
Origins and Early Development of the North Carolina Division of Commercial Fisheries, 1822-1925
Thorson, Bradley Dean (1982-09) -
The Origins of the Minaret: A Study of the functional and formal antecedents of the Islamic Tower.
Faber, Sabrina S (1996-07) -
Out of the shadows :the women of Duke come into their own
Arthur, Robert B. -
Out of the shadows :the women of Duke come into their own
Arthur, Robert B. -
Overcoming the Spartan Phalanx : The Evolution of Greek Battlefield Tactics, 394 BC-371 BC
Hasapis, Constantinos (East Carolina University, 2012)The objective of this thesis is to examine the changes in Greek battlefield tactics in the early fourth century as a response to overthrowing what was widely considered by most of Greece tyranny on the part of Sparta. ... -
Pieces of History : Reconstructing the Past of Bassett Hall, 1650-2013
Jones, Melissa Lauren (East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis will examine the history of one of the historic homes in Colonial Williamsburg, Bassett Hall. It was home to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. while they funded the reconstruction of Williamsburg. The purpose ... -
Piracy in the Ancient Mediterranean
Byrd, Darryl L (1998-03) -
Piratical Colonization: Piracy's Role in the First English Colonies, 1550-1600
Croom, Austin F (East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)This thesis analyzes the importance of piracy to the beginnings of English overseas expansion. This study will consider the piratical climate around the British Isles in the sixteenth century, and the ways in which this ... -
Policy, Technology, and Change: The ABCD Warship Program and the Transformation of American Naval Policy in the 1880s
Thiesen, William H (1993-07) -
Portuguese Shore Whalers in Nineteenth Century California
Dickens, Robert C. G (1998-07) -
A Preliminary investigation of the Seaport, Table Bay, and shipwrecks in the vicinity of Cape Town, South Africa
Harris, Lynn B. (1988-12) -
Press Gang Revisited: Polarization, Nuance, and the Study of Impressment in the Royal Navy
Hazel, Ian (East Carolina University, 2016-12-15)Over the course of the long eighteenth century, Britain grew from an island nation with limited colonial holdings to a transatlantic imperial power. Because of this territorial expansion, the Royal Navy increased dramatically ... -
A PROFILE OF COLONIAL HALIFAX COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Sykes, Marion Parker, Jr (1964-08)The purpose of this study is to present a profile of the social, religious, economic, and political life of Colonial Halifax County. The period encompassed by this study ranges from the earliest settlements of Halifax ... -
Progressive Politics, the McMillan Plan, and the Expression of an American Identity
Dodd, Virginia (East Carolina University, 2012)The knowledge that Washington was a city for all Americans and a representative of the ideals and values of this country drove the members of the Senate Park Commission to make Washington the most beautiful, the most ...