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Item Open Access Master at Sea: Navigation Aboard La Concorde/Queen Anne's Revenge(East Carolina University, May 2024) Baker, NicholasThe La Concorde/Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck has a diverse assemblage with research potential that offers valuable insight into life under the pirate Edward Thatch as well as its previous purpose for the transportation of slaves across the Atlantic. As new artifacts continue to be exposed through conservation efforts, the ship’s navigational instruments and possible surveying tools present an opportunity for a unique material culture study that reflects not only their origin and functionality in terms of broader 18th-century navigation methods for pirates, but also how French sailing crews aboard slave ships operated on extended voyages. Included in this collection are instruments such as lead sounding weights, writing slates, a sector, dividers, compass components, and equipment believed to be associated with coastal or terrestrial surveying. These instruments are conserved at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory before being curated and exhibited in the North Carolina Maritime Museum: Beaufort. Each of these instruments were evaluated to determine the navigational needs and training of the pirates who may have used them as well as the French sailors who operated the vessel before its capture by Edward Thatch.Item Open Access The Interconnection of Foodways: An Investigation of Artifacts and the Connections of Three Individual Groups Throughout the Life of La Concorde/ Queen Anne’s Revenge(East Carolina University, May 2024) Hoots, Michaela C.Artifacts recovered archaeologically from La Concorde/ Queen Anne’s Revenge (31CR314) represent three distinct social groups that lived, worked, and were enslaved aboard this vessel, the French La Concorde crew, enslaved Africans, and pirates. Each of these groups acquired, prepared, and ate their food in diverse ways, both on land and at sea. These relate to variables like culture, rank, and time period. This research will focus on the material culture representing foodways, like fragments of brick stoves, faunal remains, cauldrons, pewter sadware, stemware, and cutlery excavated from the wreckage site. It will also compare foodways artifacts to archaeological collections from other slave and pirate shipwrecks. This research initiative aims to add further information and analysis to understanding experiences aboard 18th-century pirate and slave vessels that sailed across the Atlantic. It will contribute towards other themes such as health, slave trade, 18th century piracy, and French maritime history.Item Restricted "...They do what they know" :: assessing the impact of geography upon the strategy, operations, and tactics of two American military campaigns in South Vietnam(East Carolina University) Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.Item Open Access “GUNS AND SHIPS AND SO THE BALANCE SHIFTS”: USING ARTIFACT PATTERNING TO CONTEXTUALIZE A SALVAGED ASSEMBLAGE DATED TO THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, 1781(East Carolina University, 2023-05-03) Schuler, JillianBefore 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.Item Open Access Exploring the Maritime Task System of Somerset Place(East Carolina University, 2023-05-03) Tabeling, Mackenzie MirreEastern 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.Item Embargo The War For Southern Minds: The Battles For Lost Cause History Books In North Carolina Schools(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04) Melville, AustonThe 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.Item Open Access From USS Stars and Stripes to Metropolis (1861-present): Modeling the Life, Loss, and Archaeological Site Formation of a Currituck Beach Shipwreck (Corolla, North Carolina)(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04) Pawelski, MatthewThe steamship Metropolis went aground off Currituck Beach, North Carolina, on 31 January 1878. The disaster led to loss of life and subsequent reformation of the United States Life-Saving Service. In the years since, there has been an ongoing interest in correlating an archaeological site to the historical vessel. This thesis employs behavioral archaeological approaches to reconstruct the vessel in its historic and archaeological contexts using computer aided design (CAD) software named Rhinoceros 3D. Completed historical models were then compared to the historical accounts of the wreck to account for wreck deposition and potentially identifiable debris. In addition, fieldwork was carried out at the proposed site of the disaster to study exposed beach wreckage and create a detailed inventory of potential shipwreck sites, both exposed and buried.Item Open Access Black Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: An Exploration of Shipwreck Search Modeling in the Search for SS William Rockefeller(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04) Detlie, John EdwinThe waters off the North Carolina coast are home to a veritable graveyard of shipwrecks. Many were destroyed by the eternal enemies of all ships--storms, fire, and grounding--but many others have fallen victim to the ravages of war. Between 1941 and 1945, 87 ships were lost off North Carolina; 52 of these were casualties of the Battle of the Atlantic. Many of these wrecks have been found, and their last resting places marked for posterity. Some, however, remain lost. This thesis will explore the possibility of locating one of these missing wrecks, the oil tanker William Rockefeller. Rockefeller is historically significant for three reasons. First, from the time of its launch in 1921 to its sinking on 28 June 1942, it was one of the largest oil tankers in the world. Second, it earned the unfortunate distinction of being the largest ship lost off the North Carolina coast during the Battle of the Atlantic of WWII. Third, it is one of the last of these WWII-era wrecks whose location is not known. Ships like HMT Bedfordshire, Bluefields, Caribsea, Dixie Arrow, Papoose, and U-576 have all been found, but Rockefeller remains elusive, due to the circumstances of its sinking. Because of its cargo of heavy fuel oil, it is also a potential risk for severe pollution of the Eastern seaboard, so locating it is crucial in order to begin planning potential mitigation strategies. This thesis will seek to establish the most promising areas in which to search for the wreck through a combination of historical research, probability mapping, and computer modeling. If successful, this methodology may be of use in the creation of search models for other lost shipwrecks.Item Restricted "A fair return for the investment in money and labour" :slavery from 1695 to 1802 in North Carolina's Albemarle region(East Carolina University) Thompson, Robert S.Item Restricted Conflict and commerce :maritime archaeological site distribution as cultural change on the Roanoke River, North Carolina(East Carolina University) Price, Franklin Haines.Item Restricted Archaeological and historical site investigation/thesis of the John's Island wreck (EDS0001)(East Carolina University) Neidinger, Adriane Askins.Item Restricted Anatomy of a 17th century slave ship :historical and archaeological investigations of "The Henrietta Marie 1699".(East Carolina University) Moore, David D.Item Restricted Return to the Stone Age :the maritime history and nautical archaeology of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin's Dolomite Industry(East Carolina University) Moore, James D.,III.Item Open Access Were they liable? :comparing the Johnstown Flood Museum and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial(East Carolina University) Moore, Katherine Jean O'Connor.Item Restricted Prince Rupert :a controversial general in the English Civil War, 1642-1645(East Carolina University) Lawson, Dean F.Item Restricted Shipwrecked swords :an examination of edged weaponry recovered from Spanish colonial vessels and archaeological sites, 1492-1733(East Carolina University) Lusardi, Wayne R.Item Restricted The effects of the GI Bill at East Carolina Teachers College, 1946-1952(East Carolina University) King, DeAnn Nichole.Item Restricted Material culture of nineteenth century steamboat passengers on the Bertrand and Arabia(East Carolina University) Kjorness, Annalies Corbin.Item Open Access Black angels of the ice :the history of chartered ice breaking on the Great Lakes by the rail ferries Sainte Marie and Chief Wawatam(East Carolina University) Jaeschke, Brian S.Item Open Access The evolution of Confederate ironclad design(East Carolina University) Holcombe, A. Robert.