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- Title
- Between the lines: The politics of passenger rail service, 1958--1970.
- Creator
- Alcorn, Aaron Luke, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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For many modern Americans, the passenger train is but a distant memory, an artifact of the past. In the postwar United States, the status of passenger rail service deteriorated significantly. There were many reasons for this decline, but large subsidies enabled by federal highway and air transportation policies greatly favored alternate forms of traffic at the passenger train's expense. Realizing that rail service in this country was either on the verge of extinction or nationalization,...
Show moreFor many modern Americans, the passenger train is but a distant memory, an artifact of the past. In the postwar United States, the status of passenger rail service deteriorated significantly. There were many reasons for this decline, but large subsidies enabled by federal highway and air transportation policies greatly favored alternate forms of traffic at the passenger train's expense. Realizing that rail service in this country was either on the verge of extinction or nationalization, Congress and President Richard M. Nixon sought to preserve a modest network of passenger trains through the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, which created the publicly subsidized corporation Amtrak. This study looks at changing transportation policies following World War II and ultimately identifies the role that politics played in the decline of the passenger train and the creation of Amtrak.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12785
- Subject Headings
- History, United States, Political Science, Public Administration, Transportation
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Alan Alford, 2013.
- Creator
- Alford, Alan (Interviewee), Belotto, Nick (Interviewer), Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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The interview recounts Mr. Alfords early life and his childhood memories. After joining the military he enrolled at the University of Miami to study Business Administration. At the age of twenty-eight, he became the first assistant city manager of Boca Raton and eventually moved up to the official city manager position in 1966 which he held for 6 years. Having gained respect and support from the community, Mr. Alford was elected mayor of Boca Raton in 1972.
- Date Issued
- 2013 - 02 - 06
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007800p
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- GERMAN OCCUPATION OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 1940-1945.
- Creator
- ALVAREZ, JOSE EUSEBIO, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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My thesis is that the extraordinarily heavy occupation and fortification of the British Channel Islands by German forces, during the Second World War, proved to be a strategic error. The number of troops necessary to defend the Islands and the amount of fortification was more than was required, when their size and importance is considered. Enormous quantities of weapons, building supplies, equipment, and manpower went into the construction of the Island defenses. After the Battle of Britain...
Show moreMy thesis is that the extraordinarily heavy occupation and fortification of the British Channel Islands by German forces, during the Second World War, proved to be a strategic error. The number of troops necessary to defend the Islands and the amount of fortification was more than was required, when their size and importance is considered. Enormous quantities of weapons, building supplies, equipment, and manpower went into the construction of the Island defenses. After the Battle of Britain had decided that the invasion of Great Britain was not to be, the importance of the Channel Islands was greatly diminished. In the end, Hitler's obsession with occupying British soil was to cost the German army dearly in the later stages of the war.
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- 1981
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14058
- Subject Headings
- History, European
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Liberty Billings, Florida's forgotten radical Republican.
- Creator
- Asarch, Rhonda V., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Unitarian preacher and Union Army officer Liberty Billings arrived in Florida in 1863 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Billings settled in Fernandina and became active in Florida Reconstruction politics as a Radical Republican. Most ot the rhetoric regarding Billings focuses on his participation in the 1868 Florida Constitution Convention even though he went on to be State Senator and an influential citizen in Fernandina. This thesis examines the life of Liberty Billings...
Show moreUnitarian preacher and Union Army officer Liberty Billings arrived in Florida in 1863 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Billings settled in Fernandina and became active in Florida Reconstruction politics as a Radical Republican. Most ot the rhetoric regarding Billings focuses on his participation in the 1868 Florida Constitution Convention even though he went on to be State Senator and an influential citizen in Fernandina. This thesis examines the life of Liberty Billings focusing on events preceding and following the Convention. In doing so, it argues that Billings' participation in Reconstruction politics derived from his experiences prior to the Civil War as did his transition from emancipationist to reconciliationist. By examining the earlier years of Billings' life as well as the evidence of his campaigns during 1867, his term as State Senator and Supreme Court cases, it will be demonstrated that Billings abandoned racial equality for class supremacy.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356895
- Subject Headings
- Influence, History, Political parties, History, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Caudill Under El Caudillo: Southern Baptists, Cuba, and the Origins of Conservatism, 1959-1979.
- Creator
- Babbitt, Colton, Shannon, Kelly, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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In 1965, the Cuban government arrested two Southern Baptist missionaries and several Cuban Baptists and charged them with multiple crimes, including espionage. Almost immediately, a backlash to the arrests swept across Baptists in the United States. During the four years between the missionaries’ imprisonment and their release, W.A. Criswell, conservative pastor of the massive First Baptist Church of Dallas, incorporated the missionaries’ testimonies into his own agenda. This thesis examines...
Show moreIn 1965, the Cuban government arrested two Southern Baptist missionaries and several Cuban Baptists and charged them with multiple crimes, including espionage. Almost immediately, a backlash to the arrests swept across Baptists in the United States. During the four years between the missionaries’ imprisonment and their release, W.A. Criswell, conservative pastor of the massive First Baptist Church of Dallas, incorporated the missionaries’ testimonies into his own agenda. This thesis examines Herbert Caudill’s experiences as a part of rising conservatism in the Southern Baptist Convention in the late nineteen sixties and explains the role of anti-communism and the Cold War as a subject of Baptist debate. It also places the U.S. South in a global context by examining the transnational nature of the Cuban Baptist mission and in Herbert Caudill’s identity.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013181
- Subject Headings
- Southern Baptist Convention, Caudill, Herbert, 1903-, Cuba, Criswell, W A (Wallie A ), 1909-2002
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The rise and fall of the Boca "Pops".
- Creator
- Bako-Devant, Maximillion Alexander, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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The history of the Boca Pops, so named because it performed popular rather than classical music, began in 1951 with a modest municipal band of 20 volunteer musicians who performed at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Boca Raton's Sanborn Square. Yearly, the Pops grew in size and popularity, dominating the local cultural scene, and, as success bred success, the Boca Pops grew into a Titanic. By the late 1980s, the Pops had blossomed into a 95-piece professional orchestra with an annual...
Show moreThe history of the Boca Pops, so named because it performed popular rather than classical music, began in 1951 with a modest municipal band of 20 volunteer musicians who performed at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Boca Raton's Sanborn Square. Yearly, the Pops grew in size and popularity, dominating the local cultural scene, and, as success bred success, the Boca Pops grew into a Titanic. By the late 1980s, the Pops had blossomed into a 95-piece professional orchestra with an annual budget of $2.6 million. Obtaining funds from the state, corporations, ticket sales and wealthy social leaders, the Pops seemed to hum along successfully. However, unbeknownst to anyone outside the board room, financial problems surfaced and were left untreated, growing with each passing year. Huge amounts of debt snowballed out of control and ultimately sank the waterlogged organization in 2001.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13018
- Subject Headings
- History, United States, Music, Business Administration, Management, History, Modern
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The age of William A. Dunning: the realm of myth meets the yellow brick road.
- Creator
- Barsalou, Kathleen P., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Stripped of the intent of its author, L. Frank Baum, the children's fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was left to be understood only within a changing cultural construct. Historian Hayden White, arguing that the similarities between a novel and a work of history were more significant than their differences, insisted that history was preeminently a subsection of literature. According to White, historical narratives were manifestly verbal fictions, and the only acceptable grounds upon which...
Show moreStripped of the intent of its author, L. Frank Baum, the children's fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was left to be understood only within a changing cultural construct. Historian Hayden White, arguing that the similarities between a novel and a work of history were more significant than their differences, insisted that history was preeminently a subsection of literature. According to White, historical narratives were manifestly verbal fictions, and the only acceptable grounds upon which the historian should choose his historical perspective were the moral and the aesthetic. White conflated historical consciousness with myth and blurred the boundary that had long divided history from fiction. Just as changing cultural concerns infused the Dorothy of Baum's children's literature with meaning so social, cultural, and moral imperatives came to dictate the content of historical stories particularly in the historiography of the Reconstruction era. The twenty first century conception of Reconstruction is different from the conception influential at the start of the twentieth. In assessing the scholarship of William A. Dunning, contemporary historians have adopted a new paradigm when describing the scholar's Reconstruction accounts. Modern commentators reject Dunning's authorial intention and the contextual framework needed to define it. Thus, Dunning has receded into the "realm of myth." Careful attendance to Dunning's historical context, contemporary audience, and his authorial intent, will reposition the perspective for analysis of Dunning's work. Removing Dunning from abstract analysis will allow historians to arrive at an understanding of his work, and view the importance of the real Dunning, rather than the fabricated image constructed from a partial and even fragmented reading of his work., Taking Dunning on his own terms restores a meaningful past and brings into bas-relief the tremendous advances the U. S. of twenty first century has made in reshaping social and political patterns.Taking theReconstruction era on its own terms impels historians to move beyond Dunning and return in their research to revisit primary records and documents as they work to clear the grisly ground of Reconstruction historiography for further fruitful examination.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/107801
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Political and social views, Criticism and interpretation, Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character), Oz (Imaginary place), Politics and literature, Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- William A. Dunning revisited: The mind or malice of Reconstruction?.
- Creator
- Barsalou, Kathleen P., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Historian William A. Dunning was responsible for the first scholarly treatment of the Reconstruction era. The terms which his contemporaries used to describe him differ strikingly from those historians may choose today. Since the 1930s, American historiography has reflected the new emphasis on sociology and psychology with a radical shift in subject matter away from the traditional political focus. Surely, certain truths are known to the modern historian which were not known to those who...
Show moreHistorian William A. Dunning was responsible for the first scholarly treatment of the Reconstruction era. The terms which his contemporaries used to describe him differ strikingly from those historians may choose today. Since the 1930s, American historiography has reflected the new emphasis on sociology and psychology with a radical shift in subject matter away from the traditional political focus. Surely, certain truths are known to the modern historian which were not known to those who lived earlier. However, to discard the insights of one generation of historians is, perhaps, to ignore some of history's most important resources.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12826
- Subject Headings
- Biography, History, United States
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Power and legitimacy in the medieval Muslim world: the career of Imad al-Din Zengi (1085-1146).
- Creator
- Belotto, Nicholas D., Hanne, Eric J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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While known for his accomplishments surrounding the Fall of Edessa in 1144, the career of Imad al-Din Zengi receives little coverage in the modern Historiography on the Crusades. Even though the careers of other famous Muslim warriors during the Crusading period tend to overshadow his accomplishments, Zengi had a remarkable career which provided him the opportunities to advance his own agenda within the larger Saljuq political structure. This structure allowed Zengi the opportunity to...
Show moreWhile known for his accomplishments surrounding the Fall of Edessa in 1144, the career of Imad al-Din Zengi receives little coverage in the modern Historiography on the Crusades. Even though the careers of other famous Muslim warriors during the Crusading period tend to overshadow his accomplishments, Zengi had a remarkable career which provided him the opportunities to advance his own agenda within the larger Saljuq political structure. This structure allowed Zengi the opportunity to establish power within the Levant (modern day Syria, Iraq). Zengi succeeded in further stabilizing his own military position through manipulation of both political relationships and religious practices, specifically the calling for and waging of jihad, both of which allowed him to build toward developing his own independence from the Saljuq sultanate.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004266
- Subject Headings
- Crusades, Islamic civilization, Jihad -- History, Muslims -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500, Seljuks -- Turkey -- History, Turkey -- History -- To 1453, War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, War -- Religious aspects -- Islam, Zengi, Imad al Din -- 1085-1146
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CRISIS, 1965: IMPERIALISM OR BENIGN INTERVENTION?.
- Creator
- BIELENBERG, DOUGLAS GEORG, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines United States intervention in the Dominican Crisis of 1965, against the backdrop of this question: imperialism or benign intervention? The initial chapters comment upon Dominican history, imperialism, and attempt to acquaint the reader with the "land Columbus loved." The remaining chapters are self-explanatory: Prelude to Crisis, Seven Days in April: April 24-30, 1965, and Concluding Comments: Why Intervention.
- Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13636
- Subject Headings
- History, Latin American, History, United States, History, Modern, Political Science, International Law and Relations
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH EDUCATION ACT OF 1944.
- Creator
- BILLINGS, JOAN ANN, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this Master's Thesis is to refute the accepted belief that the English Education Act of 1944 was truly revolutionary as many historians would have es believe. By way of explanation, during World War II, the National Board of Education in England, under the guidance of Herwald Ramsbotham, began the tedious process of developing a thoroughly democratic system of education for England. In the end, leading politicians and writers of the decade claimed that the Board's reforms truly...
Show moreThe purpose of this Master's Thesis is to refute the accepted belief that the English Education Act of 1944 was truly revolutionary as many historians would have es believe. By way of explanation, during World War II, the National Board of Education in England, under the guidance of Herwald Ramsbotham, began the tedious process of developing a thoroughly democratic system of education for England. In the end, leading politicians and writers of the decade claimed that the Board's reforms truly revolutionized the overall system of education in England. Yet, the average child attending one of the state or religious schools in England after the so-called reforms of 1944, was offered little, if any more than had been offered in prior years. This study examines the structure and evolution of the English educational system, concentrating on the Education Act of 1944, to determine why the English Education Act of 1944 was not the revolutionary act it is claimed to be by historians.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13948
- Subject Headings
- Education, History of
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Unintended alliances: Kennedy, Israel, and Arab nationalism.
- Creator
- Bocco, Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis will explore the origins of the U.S.-Israeli alliance during the Kennedy administration. John F. Kennedy provided Israel with the first U.S. weapons sale, issued the first informal security guarantee, and established the first joint security consultations between both nations. Ironically, Kennedy gave these concessions to contain Israel, not to establish closer relations. His primary objective for the Middle East was to improve U.S. relations with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel...
Show moreThis thesis will explore the origins of the U.S.-Israeli alliance during the Kennedy administration. John F. Kennedy provided Israel with the first U.S. weapons sale, issued the first informal security guarantee, and established the first joint security consultations between both nations. Ironically, Kennedy gave these concessions to contain Israel, not to establish closer relations. His primary objective for the Middle East was to improve U.S. relations with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, seeing Nasser as the path for gaining pro-American sentiments among the Arab population in the region to the detriment of the Soviets. Kennedy unintentionally laid the foundations of the U.S.-Israeli alliance while trying to restrain Israel, fearing Israeli actions would impede his plans. The Palestinian refugee issue, the regional arms race between Egypt and Israel, and Israel's secret nuclear weapons program became three pivotal concerns for Kennedy that unintentionally led to the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/107804
- Subject Headings
- Arab-Israeli conflict, Nationalism, Foreign relations, Foreign relations, Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- "A spirit of benevolence": Manchester and the origins of modern public health, 1790-1834.
- Creator
- Boxen, Jennifer L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by...
Show moreThis thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by predominantly philanthropic funding. The Manchester movement predated Chadwick's efforts by at least half a century and bore a greater resemblance to the modern idea of an organized public health system than that advanced by Chadwick and his contemporaries. This is because the Manchester movement emphasized not only those sanitary ideas ascribed to Chadwick but also included a broader spectrum of public health measures, including but not limited to ; preventative medicine, occupational health, and the reduction of contagious diseases.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360766
- Subject Headings
- Public health, History, History, Social conditions
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Maureen Brennan, 2013.
- Creator
- Brennan, Maureen (Interviewee), Oliver, Cheyenne (Interviewer), Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Mrs. Brennan speaks about her family background, growing up in New York in the 1930s, and gives a detailed account of her time as an airline stewardess.
- Date Issued
- 2013 - 02 - 16
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007801p
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Steamboat jack: the degenerate scion of a noble line? Cultural representations of the American sailor and the meaning of maritime in the nineteenth century great lakes maritime world.
- Creator
- Brown, Dana S., Norman, Sandra, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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By the nineteenth century, ships and sailors were firmly entrenched as symbols of American progress and nationalism; however, the development of the Great Lakes maritime world challenged the meaning of “maritime” and the cultural symbolism of the American sailor. A growing anxiety that the influence and power of New England traditions would diminish as the nation moved westward resulted in a shared discourse between religious reformers and influential leaders of Cleveland, Ohio. Their...
Show moreBy the nineteenth century, ships and sailors were firmly entrenched as symbols of American progress and nationalism; however, the development of the Great Lakes maritime world challenged the meaning of “maritime” and the cultural symbolism of the American sailor. A growing anxiety that the influence and power of New England traditions would diminish as the nation moved westward resulted in a shared discourse between religious reformers and influential leaders of Cleveland, Ohio. Their language ascribed the symbolism of Jack Tar as essential for maintaining cultural hegemony. This thesis examines how this power struggle transpired at the intersection of race, class and geopolitical rivalry, altering the depiction of Jack Tar to Steamboat Jack.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004242
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The discourse of the divine: radical traditions of black feminism, musicking, and myth within the black public sphere (civil rights to the present).
- Creator
- Carter, Issac Martel, White, Derrick, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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The Discourse of the Divine: Radical Traditions of Black Feminism, Musicking,and Myth within the Black Public Sphere (Civil Rights to the Present) is an exploration of the historical precursors and the contemporary developments of Black feminism in America, via Black female musical production and West and Central African cosmology. Historical continuity and consciousness of African spirituality within the development of Black feminism are analyzed alongside the musical practices of two Black...
Show moreThe Discourse of the Divine: Radical Traditions of Black Feminism, Musicking,and Myth within the Black Public Sphere (Civil Rights to the Present) is an exploration of the historical precursors and the contemporary developments of Black feminism in America, via Black female musical production and West and Central African cosmology. Historical continuity and consciousness of African spirituality within the development of Black feminism are analyzed alongside the musical practices of two Black female musicians, Nina Simone and Me’shell Ndegéocello. Simone and Ndegéocello, The High Priestess of Soul and the Mother of Neo-Soul, respectively, distend the commodified confines of Black music and identity by challenging the established norms of music and knowledge production. These artists’ lyrics, politics, and representations substantiate the “Signifyin(g)” elements of West and Central African feminist mythologies and music- making traditions.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004434, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004434
- Subject Headings
- African American women -- Social conditions, African American women -- Spirituality, African American women in popular culture, Feminist theory, NdegéOcello, Me'Shell -- 1969- -- Music -- Influence, Simone, Nina -- 1933-2003 -- Music -- Influence, Womanist theology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Anthony J. Catanese, 2013.
- Creator
- Catanese, Anthony J. (Interviewee), Shibley, Gregory J. (Interviewer), Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Anthony J. Catanese gives an account of his tenure as the president of Florida Atlantic University between 1990 and 2002.
- Date Issued
- 2013 - 01 - 30
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007802p
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with John Charlton, 2010.
- Creator
- Charlton, John (Interviewer), Wilkie, Carson Aden (Interviewer), Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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Mr. Calton, a B-24 pilot in the Second World War, is discussing his family history, childhood memories, adult life and involvement in the war.
- Date Issued
- 2010 - 10 - 07
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007803p
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN: RACE AND URBANIZATION IN THREE NEW JERSEY CITIES.
- Creator
- Cox, Reilly D., Bennett, Evan P., Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Newark, Asbury Park, and Paterson all suffered in the second half of the 20th century due to the failure of city governments to begin to remedy decades of racism and discrimination and respond to the causes of the 1960s riots. The history of racism and discrimination in New Jersey informed the riots that occurred across the state in the 1960s and 1970s. After the riots, local governments misunderstood or ignored the driving causes and attempted urban renewal projects that either did not work...
Show moreNewark, Asbury Park, and Paterson all suffered in the second half of the 20th century due to the failure of city governments to begin to remedy decades of racism and discrimination and respond to the causes of the 1960s riots. The history of racism and discrimination in New Jersey informed the riots that occurred across the state in the 1960s and 1970s. After the riots, local governments misunderstood or ignored the driving causes and attempted urban renewal projects that either did not work or were never built. While the 21st century has seen these three cities bring in new investment and attractions, those developments may hurt lower-income and minority residents as rents rise.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013876
- Subject Headings
- Racism, Urbanization--New Jersey, Riots
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Nation of Outsiders: Industrialists, African Americans, and Veterans in East Tennesee During Reconstruction.
- Creator
- Dahlstrand, Katharine, Engle, Stephen D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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With the end of the American Civil War, the nation created entire populations of outsiders seeking acceptance and participation in the rebuilding of the country. Northern industrialists, African Americans, and veterans returning from military service demonstrated the failures of Reconstruction in their efforts to reconcile their position with the white southern inhabitants of East Tennessee. This region represents a unique place to explore Reconstruction and exclusionary citizenship because...
Show moreWith the end of the American Civil War, the nation created entire populations of outsiders seeking acceptance and participation in the rebuilding of the country. Northern industrialists, African Americans, and veterans returning from military service demonstrated the failures of Reconstruction in their efforts to reconcile their position with the white southern inhabitants of East Tennessee. This region represents a unique place to explore Reconstruction and exclusionary citizenship because of its distinct relationship with both the Union and the Confederacy during the war. This thesis examines the people who lived the life of an outsider because of their background, skin color, or military service. By focusing on those who failed at successfully entering, or reentering, society, this thesis illustrates the informal fight for acceptance that began when the formal battles of the Civil War ceased.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004047
- Format
- Document (PDF)