Browsing by Author "David Carlton"
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Hardin, William Fernandez (2013-04-16)Department: HistoryThis dissertation seeks to throw open the courtroom doors and show how ordinary people—black and white, free and enslaved—shaped the law of manumission at a critical moment in American history. It is a detailed legal, ...
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Donaldson, Rachel Clare (2011-04-06)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines a strain of Americanism, rooted in the civic ideals of cultural pluralism and democracy, that developed shortly before World War I and continued throughout the twentieth century. Among the key ...
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Thompson, Ashley Blaise (2007-07-31)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I use data from 65 in-depth interviews with black and white residents of the South to explore southern identity using three inter-related conceptualizations: 1) as an ethnic identity, rooted in a ...
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Mahla, Matthew Frederick (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2009-04-29)