Browsing by Author "History"
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PROPRIETARIES, PRIVATEERS, AND PIRATES: America’s Forgotten Golden Age
Brooks, Baylus C. (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)Scholars have usually treated all pirates as the same, regardless of class and education. Gentleman privateers and merchants from Jamaica, Bermuda, and other English cities of the West Indies, however, varied in cultivation, ... -
The pulse of Petersburg: A multidisciplinary investigation of a submerged tobacco town in Georgia
Elliott, Rita Folse (1998-12) -
Pushing the Paradigm: The Devotional Medals of El Buen Consejo in a Historical and Archaeological Context
Whitfield, Elizabeth H (2005-05)Devotional medals have a long, but quiet history. With little written about the production, purpose, and distribution of theses religiously themed objects, scholars studying them must piece together bits of information ... -
Reading Between the Iron Lines: An Analysis of Cannon Arrangement on Caribbean Shipwrecks.
Ball, Tyler Woodson (East Carolina University, 2019-05-10)The aim of this study was to explore patterns of cannon distribution on shipwreck sites using primary historical sources and archaeological case studies. This archaeological data set comprised ten shipwreck sites with ... -
REASSESSING THE CAPE HATTERAS MINEFIELD: AN EXAMINATION OF NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL DEFENSES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Freitas, Mitchell Campbell (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)In response to the German U-boat attacks on Allied Atlantic merchant shipping during the Second World War, Ernest King, the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, approved construction of a defensive wall of naval mines ... -
Reconstructing Buffalo City (1887-1986): Applying Archaeological Site Reconstruction Techniques to a North Carolina Maritime Entrepot
Parkin, Sara Mackenzie (East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)The intent of this study is to digitally reconstruct the maritime community of Buffalo City, North Carolina in order to understand and articulate the architectural and spatial transformations that may have occurred due to ... -
Reconstructing the waterfront : an historical and archaeological examination of the ninetenth century port of Washington, NC
Nassif, William T (East Carolina University, 2020-11-05)The purpose of this project is to gather historical and archaeological data to illuminate potential relationships between economic and social trends in the construction of wharf structures and enhance our understanding of ... -
The Representation of Women at Old Salem Museums and Gardens
Taylor, Sarah E. (East Carolina University, 2014)Old Salem Museums and Gardens is an open air museum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that presents the history of the city's original settlement. The museum contains one of the first official historic districts in the ... -
Representations of Queen Victoria's Agency in Films and Miniseries
LeGrand, Maggie (East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)This thesis examines the representations of Queen Victoria's agency through films and miniseries. For the selection of the films and miniseries had to be released in the twentieth century and present Queen Victoria in a ... -
THE ROLE OF ROYAL POWER IN THE FORMATION OF AN ANGLO-SAXON STATE, CIRCA 400-900 AD
Goodman, Ryan Thomas (East Carolina University, 2012)This thesis explores the formation of a state in Anglo-Saxon England from the period of Roman withdrawal from Britain in the early fifth century to the tenth century. It argues that the key factor in the development of the ... -
Rosie the Riveter and the Kitchen Soldier : Fighting the Second World War from Wilmington, North Carolina
Whitfield, Victoria (East Carolina University, 2015)The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether or not traditional gender norms remained standing at the conclusion of World War II in Wilmington, North Carolina. This topic would have been impossible to cover on a ... -
The Royal Navy Advice Boat Swift and the Potential of Unrated Warships
Mather, I. Roderick (1990-11) -
S.S. Monumental City: A Historical and Archaeological Survey of the Transpacific Screw Steamship
Warren, Daniel J (1998-04) -
Samuel A'Court Ashe :North Carolina redeemer, 1840-1894
Faulkner, Ronnie Wayne. -
The San Jose Y Las Animas: An Analysis of the Ceramic Collection
Logan, Patricia Ann (1977-06) -
Science and British Seapower in the age of Sail: The Search for Longitude
Ashley, Raymond E (1994-11) -
SCREW PROPELLER DESIGN IN THE 19TH CENTURY GREAT LAKES: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF RICHARD F. LOPER’S PHILADELPHIA WHEEL
Robbins, Montana Darby (East Carolina University, 2022-04-21)Over the course of the mid- to late-1800s, screw propulsion emerged as an economically viable competitor to sail- and sidewheel-propelled commercial vessels in the United States' coastal and interior maritime industries. ... -
Search For Adventure
Overfield, Michael L (2002-07) -
Search to Recover: Simulating the Site Formation Process of the 1733 Fleet
Cox, Sean (East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)Archaeological surveys and interpretive efforts rely upon personal observations and second-hand sources--historical documentation, oral histories, and eye-witness accounts-- for information about shipwreck events. These ...