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Martyr, Victim, Schemer, or Queen? Debating the Character of Anne Boleyn from Tudor England to the Present Day (thesis)
This thesis is structured chronologically and divided into four main chapters corresponding with historical eras. The first focuses on her persona during her rise at court and time as queen. This section utilizes pamphlets, ...
Tobacco and Jesus: The Social Impacts of Scottish and Scots-Irish Immigrants in Colonial Virginia (thesis)
To closely examine how the Scots and Scots-Irish managed to have such an impact on colonial Virginia, this study draws from primary source documents from or about immigrants during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...
Foreign Policy and the Fourth Estate: Vietnam and the Creation of the "Liberal" Media, 1954-2003 (thesis)
The term "Vietnam syndrome" emerged in the aftermath of the war, used to describe the American people's reluctance to support any potentially open-ended or prolonged military engagement. Post-Vietnam presidents argued that ...
The American Pantheon: The Competition for Civil War Era Memory in National Statuary Hall (thesis)
A history of memory in National Statuary Hall is therefore necessary to begin the process of transforming the collection from a site of memory into a site of better historical interpretation. Chapter One of this thesis ...
An Irrevocable Prejudice: Roman Impressions of Venetians and Normans in Twelfth Century Byzantium (thesis)
The Mediterranean world during the twelfth century was a rapidly shifting and evolving sphere, influenced by the growing power of the papacy, the rise of more centralized states in the previously decentralized and internally ...
Becoming Bengal: Understanding Islam as Political Technology in East Bengal and Bangladesh (thesis)
East Pakistan and Bangladesh's struggle to adequately understand the role that Islam plays within politics reflects this historical disconnect between the causes of Bengali Muslim political instability and potential solutions ...
Building an Ethos of Killing: Comparing and Contrasting the World War II Combat Motivations of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and American Soldiers in the Pacific (thesis)
On the American side, it is traditional to view World War II as a righteous war fought by soldiers inspired by freedom and democracy, as Adams succinctly defines this view in The Best War Ever. However, this conception of ...
Let Them Eat Cake
This thesis explores these four categories that emerge from popular representations of Marie Antoinette and how they have changed over time. For the theme of luxury, I describe how contemporary observers interpreted her ...
The Original Sin: English Discourses of Race and Plantation in Ireland, 1590-1625 (thesis)
Ireland experienced numerous forms of land redistribution throughout its history due to intermittent invasions. Viking and Norman groups each conquered sections of the island from the 800s to 1200s CE, and the Tudor monarchs ...
Maggie Lena Walker: Banker, Entrepreneur, and Social Activist (thesis)
Few women have achieved the stature in the black community of Richmond, and the United States, as Maggie Lena Walker. In 1903 she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, becoming the first woman, white or black, to found ...