Browsing by Subject "History"
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(2006-07-28)Department: HistoryHISTORY PERMANENT WAR ON PERU’S PERIPHERY: FRONTIER IDENTITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONFLICT IN 17TH-CENTURY CHILE EUGENE CLARK BERGER Dissertation under the direction of Professor Jane Landers This dissertation argues ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)In October of 1736, in the small colony of Antigua, a group of enslaved persons plotted to overthrow the white planter class, abolish slavery, and declare independence from British rule. Four free Black men were accused ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
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(2021-05-03)From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)This thesis creates and captures a twenty year history of the suppression liberation theology in Latin America. This suppression was aimed at Gustavo Gutierrez, one of the founders of liberation theology, and was lead by ...
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(2015-11-30)Department: ReligionThe long-running schism of African Christianity in Late Antiquity and the polemical literature between Donatists and Caecilianists that it produced placed the understanding of bishops and their ministry among the issues ...
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(2014-06-09)Department: HistoryThis dissertation studies the Northeastern region of Brazil by contemplating its interactions with the world around it. It sets out from the assumption that Northeastern regional identity is in constant transformation due ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-09-15)My comprehensive essay will address the beneficial use of primary sources in history instruction for upper elementary grades. History textbooks emphasize breadth over depth, generalizations of historical events, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2024-04-24)
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(2019-04-29)On May 4, 1965, two months after the first Marines landed in Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a dinner meeting with the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. “So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam," he famously announced, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-28)The global geopolitical history of the late 20th century was defined by the Cold War between the United States and the USSR, which through alliances, involved many countries across the world. Large swaths of the world ...
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(2019-04-29)It was April 28th 1965, and the ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in New York City was filled to capacity. Outside, successful stockbrokers and other well-dressed figures walked down the sidewalk in an orderly fashion holding ...