Browsing by Author "History"
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Violent Frauen: Manhood and Womanhood on Trial For Nazi Atrocities at Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Stimits, Megan Lynn (East Carolina University, 1/13/16)Chaos ensued after the Second World War. Investigations of Nazi atrocities took center stage throughout Europe. Britain, France, the United States, and Russia. Each held their own war crimes tribunals in their zone of ... -
VISUALIZING PORT HISTORY: AN HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA’S HISTORIC WATERFRONT
Lowe, Matthew (East Carolina University, 2022-04-29)The purpose of this thesis is to combine new techniques of archaeological inquiry with established methods of data collection to gain a new understanding of the ways in which ports adapt over time. Ports and harbors have ... -
War Career of the Union Gunboat Louisiana and the fall of Fort Fisher
Coogan, Michael P (1997-06) -
"War Is War, And I Must Carry Out My Duty": A Geospatial And Statistical Analysis of North Carolina's First World War Battlescape
Knutson, Janie Rose (East Carolina University, 2018-11-27)Although the United States was late to enter the First World War, the waters of the nation became a battlefield from 1917 onward. Ships operating along North Carolina's coast recurrently fell victim to the unrestricted ... -
WAR ON THE CHESAPEAKE: ARTIFACT ANALYSIS OF A WAR OF 1812 FLOTILLA SHIP
Nelson-DeLong, Nicholas J (5/16/2016)The purpose of this thesis is to examine and evaluate the material culture recovered from an early nineteenth-century vessel that operated in the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812. The shipwreck site, designated ... -
War-Time New Bern: Union Occupation of a Confederate Town
Hill, Steven J (1989-10) -
WARSHIPS OF THE FIRST PUNIC WAR: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION AND CONTRIBUTORY RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EGADI 10 WARSHIP FROM THE BATTLE OF THE EGADI ISLANDS (241 B.C.)
Polakowski, Mateusz (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)Oared warships dominated the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age down to the development of cannon. Purpose-built warships were specifically designed to withstand the stresses of ramming tactics and high intensity impacts. ... -
Waterways of Innovation: The Marine Technological Advancements of America's Prohibition Era
Bowdoin, Charles Samuel (East Carolina University, 2016-04-19)Prohibition opened the door to the United States for individuals or groups to smuggle alcohol by waterways. These people came from all walks of life and were known as rumrunners. The United States Coast Guard was charged ... -
Wayne County, North Carolina :a place and a people : 1860-1880
Crews, Coletta A. -
Wayne County, North Carolina :a place and a people : 1860-1880
Crews, Coletta A. -
Were they liable? :comparing the Johnstown Flood Museum and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Moore, Katherine Jean O'Connor. -
WHAT LIES BENEATH AT THE PINE STREET BARGE CANAL BREAKWATER SHIP GRAVEYARD: SITE FORMATION PROCESSES AS A DOCUMENT OF CHANGE IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT (C. 1830-1960)
Gates, Paul Willard (East Carolina University, 2019-11-14)The Pine Street Barge Canal Breakwater Ship Graveyard in the waterfront of Burlington, Vermont contains a small assemblage of abandoned vessels along the shores of Lake Champlain. Representing a span of time dating from ... -
Who Are You? An Archaeological Examination of the Human Remains Associated with Vasa
Miller Simonds, Allison Nicole (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)When the Swedish warship Vasa sank in 1628, approximately 30 lives were lost. The ship was raised and fully excavated in the 1950s and 1960s, and through the course of the excavation, over 1,500 human bones were recorded ... -
William F. Halsey and the Exercise of Command: The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
Poupore, Darren L. (2004-07) -
William S.W. Ruschenberger: A Study of an American Naval Officer in the Nineteenth Century
Kestler, Jessica Rogers (East Carolina University, 2017-12-07)This is a case study of a naval surgeon whose experience as surgeon and diplomat demonstrates the intentional expansionist efforts of the United States in the early nineteenth century, much earlier than emphasized in the ... -
Wings and Wrenches : The History of the 6th Air Commando Squadron 1967 to1969
Halliday, Arthur R. (East Carolina University, 2010)This thesis examines the history of a United States Air Force fighter squadron created during the Vietnam War. It focuses on the circumstances prior to the squadron's creation, the selection of what was considered to be ... -
With All Deliberate Speed : The Pearsall Plan and School Desegregation in North Carolina, 1954-1966.
Carlson, Arthur Larentz (East Carolina University, 2011)The decision of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. the Board of Education legally ended the operation of segregated schools in the South. In North Carolina, a series of legal challenges began under the Pupil ... -
WOOD AND STEEL: USING MODELING TO ANALYZE SITE FORMATION OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY VESSEL FRATERNITÉ
Smith, Tim (East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)The purpose of this thesis is to decipher the signatures of archaeological site formation processes occurring at an early-twentieth century wooden sailing vessel (specifically, Fraternité, 1918-1919) shipwreck site. Using ...