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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)The 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 ... -
BRACTEATES AS INDICATORS OF NORTHERN PAGAN RELIGIOSITY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
(East Carolina University, 2012)This thesis investigates the religiosity of some Germanic peoples of the Migration period (approximately AD 300-800) and seeks to overcome some difficulties in the related source material. The written sources which describe ... -
The Canoe House in Traditional Hawaii
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CAPTAIN GODFREY CARDEN AND THE COAST GUARD'S CAPTAIN OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK IN WORLD WAR ONE
(East Carolina University, 2012)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the position of Captain of the Port of New York during World War I. This work also discusses the man who held this position, Capt. Godfrey L. Carden. During World War I the U.S. ... -
CAROLINA SUNSET, CUBAN SUNRISE: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND HISTORIC INTERSECTIONALITY IN CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Reconstruction twisted the foundations of race, class, and gender in the southern United States into knots. The changes that created a new socio-political paradigm in the aftermath of the Civil War, especially emancipation ... -
A Case of Extremest Necessity? : Baltimore and Habeas Corpus in April 1861.
(East Carolina University, 2014)Executive war powers are embedded in the United States Constitution.The circumstances in which they are used take on an even greater importance when these war powers come in conflict with an individual's constitutionally ... -
The Casks from Vasa.
(East Carolina University, 2012)When the warship Vasa was raised in 1961, wooden casks were found in nearly every area of the ship. Unfortunately, this important find category was not subject to detailed recording and study until now. This thesis explains ... -
Cedar on the reef : archaeological and historical assessments of the Eighteenth-Century Bermuda Sloop, exemplified by the wreck of the Hunter Galley
(East Carolina University, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the remains of a shipwreck lost on the reefs, near Hogfish Cut, south of Pompano Flats, approximately 600 yards off the southwest shore of Bermuda represent a Bermuda sloop. ...