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SEAFARING WOMEN : An Investigation of Material Culture for Potential Archaeological Diagnostics of Women on Nineteenth-Century Sailing Ships
(East Carolina University, 2014)
During the 19th century, women went to sea on sailing ships. Wives and family accompanied captains on their voyages from New England. They wrote journals and letters that detailed their life on board, adventures in foreign ...
A Determination Worthy of a Better Cause : Naval Action at the Battle of Roanoke Island 7 February 1862
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The Battle of Roanoke Island, during the American Civil War, was one of the first major amphibious landing operations in U.S. military history. As the Union Army landed troops on the island, an accompanying Union Naval ...
The Infamous Convict Museum Ship Success : an Archaeological Investigation of Material Culture and Identity Formation Processes
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This thesis examines the relationship between material culture and the formation of cultural identity through an analysis of the artifact assemblage from the former traveling museum ship, Success. Before sinking near Port ...
Searching for the Schooner Rob Roy: An Historical Archaeological Analysis of a Civil War Blockade Runner
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
The American Civil War spanned four years of bloody fratricide that divided the country. During those years, President Lincoln declared a blockade on all Southern ports hoping to cut supplies to the Confederacy in an attempt ...
MANILA GALLEONS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURAL IMPACTS ON SANTA MARGARITA AND NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Spain prospered as a dominant trading empire with the help of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade network. While Spain's empire grew with the trade network, some disasters struck Manila ...
From Luxury Liners to Aircraft Carriers: USS Wolverine and USS Sable
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This thesis details the complex conversions of two Great Lakes passenger ships into flattop aircraft carriers in 1942 and 1943, and the subsequent training of thousands of pilots aboard the carriers. The entire US naval ...
GOD GOES WITH YOU: THE ROLE OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM ONBOARD SPANISH COLONIAL VESSELS
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
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 the coasts of North America. This colonialist spirit was ...
FLOATING AIR BASES AND FLYING BOATS: AN HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE TWO SEADROMES ESTABLISHED AT SAIPAN
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
The use of seaplanes and seaplane bases in a military capacity numerically peaked during the Second World War in the Pacific Theater where they were ideally suited for that arena of vast ocean dotted with specks of land. ...
The Hull Remains of Helen C.: A Comparative Analysis of Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle-Pamlico Skipjack Shipbuilding Traditions
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Little is known about how skipjack oyster trawlers were designed, constructed, and utilized within North Carolina territorial waters. A similar dearth of information exists with regard to the wider cultural dynamic that ...
A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF USCG VESSEL LILAC: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF ACCESS ANALYSIS
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This thesis examines the relationship between society and space by analyzing the perceptual structure, placement, or arrangement of space (i.e., spatial patterning) onboard Lilac, a lighthouse and buoy tender that operated ...