Peachtree Valley in Clay county, North Carolina has a long history of diversity in plant, animal, and human habitation. The Cherokee, who have inhabited the valley for thousands of years, have a deep history of relationships...
Mot-clé:
Baptist, Cherokee, missionary et rattlesnake
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Cherokee Indians -- Missions -- North Carolina -- Clay County, Cherokee Indians -- North Carolina -- Clay County -- Religion et Baptists -- Missions -- North Carolina -- Clay County
Through an analysis of a variety of primary and secondary sources, this thesis outlines the malleability of “sacredness” and the importance of specific places to individual and collective identities. The first section of the...
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Cherokee Indians -- Religion, Cherokee Indians -- Folklore et Sacred space -- North Carolina
“The Politics of Place” examines the role of regionalism in Anglo-Cherokee diplomacy between 1750 and 1764. Using South Carolina’s colonial records pertaining to Indian Affairs, this thesis examines the era thematically. The...
Mot-clé:
Cherokee, Colonial South Carolina, French and Indian War, Scheflow, Seven Years' War et South Carolina
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Cherokee Indians -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century, Cherokee Indians -- Government relations, Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815, Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century et United States -- History -- 18th century
Reconstruction, with some justification, has often been viewed historically in black and white. Historians have long viewed the postwar struggle as one between racially united white southerners and their former slaves. Recent...
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Reconstruction -- North Carolina et North Carolina -- History -- 1865-
Reconstruction, with some justification, has often been viewed historically in black and white. Historians have long viewed the postwar struggle as one between racially united white southerners and their former slaves. Recent...
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Reconstruction -- North Carolina et North Carolina -- History -- 1865-
Pride in the Mountains seeks to disrupt the fixity of regional-based Appalachian and LGBTQ+ identities through the evaluation of sociocultural place-making and change over time for queer individuals and communities in...
Mot-clé:
Appalachian Region, Communities of Belonging, LGBTQ+ Communities, LGBTQ+ Identity, Placemaking et Regional Identity
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LGBTQ+ people, Appalachians (People) et LGBTQ+ communities
The ideal German, Arminius, that became mythologized in the nineteenth century was immortalized at the top of Grotenburg Hill. Arminius’s bronze statue symbolizes all of Germany’s victories against foreign invaders who wanted...
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Germany—History—1933-1945, Europe—History—1871-1918, Europe—History—1918-1945, Nazis, Human ecology—Study and teaching et Hermannsdenkmal (Detmold, Germany)
L. Nelson Bell was one of the most influential evangelicals in the United States during the post World War II and Civil Rights eras of the twentieth century. Bell was the father-in-law of famed evangelist Billy Graham, a...
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Race -- Religious aspects, Evangelistic work, Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973, Christian conservatism et Segregation
This thesis will evaluate the notion of “Black invisibility” in the Southern Appalachian region and the lack of scholarship on race rebellions in this region during the 1960s-1970s. It will look specifically at two race...
Mot-clé:
Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, Race Rebellion, Race Riot, School Integration et Southern Appalachia
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Segregation in education, Race riots, Civil rights movements—United States, Asheville High School (Asheville, N.C.) et Bluefield State College
In a special edition of the Knoxville Gazette, commemorating the memory of Tennessee’s first governor, a state historian stated that although John Sevier had faults, we should find them insignificant to his heroism. Since his...
Mot-clé:
Honor, John Sevier, King's Mountain, Masculinity, State of Franklin et Tennessee
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Sevier, John, -- 1745-1815, Governors -- Tennessee -- Biography, Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography et Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography
