Browsing by Author "History"
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"Symbolic History and Sailors: Image Development Through Song at Sea
McCracken, Peter H (1999-03) -
Tar Kilns of Goose Creek State Park : History and Preservation
Harrup, Matthew J. (East Carolina University, 2013)Tar kilns are found throughout the Coastal Plain of North and South Carolina, remnants of a flourishing and important industry that exported tar across the Atlantic world. Tar production is the extraction of terpene from ... -
Target of Assassins: The American Merchant Marine During the Vietnam War, 1964-1975
Mercogliano, Salvatore R (1997-07) -
Technical Considerations and Cultural Context: Archaeological Management of Prehistoric and Historic Wooden Canoes
Reisner, Alyssa Danielle (East Carolina University, 2018-03-29)Cultural resource managers often encounter historic and prehistoric wooden canoes during their field investigations or inventory processes. There is considerable variation in methods used by state entities and research ... -
TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE: Comparing Dutch and British Maritime Technologies During the Napoleonic Era (1792–1815)
Mollema, Ivor (East Carolina University, 2015-12-10)The two ships, Bato (1806) and Brunswick (1805) wrecked in Simons Bay, South Africa, provide an opportunity to compare British and Dutch maritime technologies during the Napoleonic Era (1792–1815). The former was a Dutch ... -
The 'Loose Dreadnoughts': South America's Struggle for Naval Preeminence
Erhart, Edward Samuel (East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)Near the beginning of the twentieth century, the three prevailing powers in South America--Argentina, Brazil, and Chile--engaged in a naval arms race centered around the revolutionary "dreadnought" warship type, which were ... -
The Anderson Sisters
Rangar, Amrina (East Carolina University, 2023-05-03)The novel is largely fantasy but has heavy elements of historical fiction since the story takes place between the years 1934-1959 and incorporates a few significant historical events allowing me to apply my knowledge as a ... -
The Boer War and the British Press
Cook, Thomas (East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)This thesis analyses the connection between political affiliation, regional identities and coverage of the Boer War in British newspapers. The notion that a 'jingoist' popular culture made dissent impossible is challenged ... -
"The Bower Yet Remains": Historical and Archaeological Technomic Analysis of Anchor Design Trends in The Long Nineteenth Century
Marlowe, Elizabeth P. (East Carolina University, 2017-09-22)In the course of undertaking maritime archaeological research, archaeologists often find that anchors are without context or provenance and that the only potential identifying features lie in an anchor's design. This study ... -
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRUCK GUN CARRIAGE: HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND DESIGN
Bunyard, Katrina (East Carolina University, 2019-04-17)Truck carriages represented the primary naval gun mounting of European and American navies throughout the Age of Sail. Developed during the early to mid-16th century, truck gun carriages were found upon armed ships for ... -
The dish ran away with the spoon : revisiting unprovenienced foodways artifacts from eighteenth century Spanish fleet shipwrecks
Thomas, Olivia L. (East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)The Spanish empire was the first European power to establish permanent settlements that flourished as New World colonies on several of the Caribbean islands and coasts of North America. The distance between Spain and the ... -
The effects of the GI Bill at East Carolina Teachers College, 1946-1952
King, DeAnn Nichole. -
The Establishment of Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Brantley, Kristi (East Carolina University, 2016-12-15)This thesis examines the land acquisition process used during the creation of Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS). It analyzes the role of both North Carolina's state government and the federal government in the creation ... -
The evolution of Confederate ironclad design
Holcombe, A. Robert. -
The False Dichotomy: Jamaican Maroons as Resistance Fighters and Colonial Enforcers
Pierce, Morgan (East Carolina University, 2017-01-03)Over the course of the eighteenth century, the maroons of Jamaica developed an independent identity that was separate both from the slave community from which they originated and from the colonial community. The maroons ... -
The Health and Medical Care of Enslaved African Americans at Somerset Place, 1839-1863
Menees, Jay Colin (East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)Somerset Place was one of the largest plantations in North Carolina at the end of the Antebellum period. The owner of Somerset Place, Josiah Collins III, owned the third largest slave plantation in the state. Slaves at ... -
The Importance of Children on the American Frontier: A Comparative Study in Nineteenth Century Western Migration and Settlement
Jackman, Kimberly (East Carolina University, 1/13/16)This thesis examines the various roles that children played in the long journey westward that many brave families made to frontier settlements during the middle and late nineteenth century. It also analyzes the influences ... -
"The Japanese and U.S. Fought the War, We Ended Up Paying the Price": The Indigenous Experience on Saipan During World War II
Soder, Stephanie (East Carolina University, 2019-04-26)During World War II in the Pacific, the Battle for Saipan became one of the pivotal successes of the United States (U.S). military to turn the tide of war against the Japanese Empire. Unfortunately, this success came at a ... -
The Lake Chapel at Somerset Plantation and Religious Instruction in the Antebellum South
Lewis, William G. (East Carolina University, 2016-07-22)This thesis is a study of the history and use of one of Somerset Place's most notable structures, the Lake Chapel. Although no longer standing today, it was one of the most important and widely used buildings, not only by ...