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Title: Interview with Joe Schweigart – ca. 2008.
Creator: Schweigart, Joe (Interviewee), Addeo, David (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2008-02-18
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78736
Subject Headings: South Florida Water Management District (Fla.), Everglades (Fla.), Florida -- Environmental conditions, Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Florida, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Harry A. Johnston III – ca. 2008.
Creator: Johnston III, Harry A. (Interviewee), Welsh, Patrick (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2008-04-20
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT75746
Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945 --United States, Florida --Race relations, United States Congress House, Anti communist movements --United States --States --History --20th century, Palm Beach County (Fla.) --History, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Jack Pitts – ca. 2004.
Creator: Pitts, Jack (Interviewee), Miller, Christopher (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2004-02-23
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT76800
Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945, United States Army Air Corps, Pilot, B 17 bomber, Boca Raton (Fla.), Delray Beach (Fla.), Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Joe Redner.
Creator: Redner, Joe (Interviewee), Sawchyn, William (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2010-10-14
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3358425
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Review of the Boca Raton Campus Island Ecosystem: What we need to know and do.
Creator: Roberts, Charles, Petuch, Edward, Norman, Sandra
Abstract/Description: The project of reviewing our campus ecosystem arose from recognition within the faculty leadership of the Environmental Initiative that much still needs 10 be done in the ways of multidisciplinaryteam buildingand the environmental education of ourselves. Although the indoor environment has not been forgotten, the emphasis in this first review is on the outdoor environment. The notion that these 880 acres have become isolated within a sea of urbanization, so that "FAU Island" can be spoken of,...
Show moreThe project of reviewing our campus ecosystem arose from recognition within the faculty leadership of the Environmental Initiative that much still needs 10 be done in the ways of multidisciplinaryteam buildingand the environmental education of ourselves. Although the indoor environment has not been forgotten, the emphasis in this first review is on the outdoor environment. The notion that these 880 acres have become isolated within a sea of urbanization, so that "FAU Island" can be spoken of, is fundamental to the present project.
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Date Issued: 1992-04-17
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003471
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University--Ecosystem, Florida Atlantic University. Department of Geography, Aerial photographs
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2012-2013.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2012-2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007602
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2010-2011.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2010-2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007601
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2014-2015.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2014-2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007604
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2013-2014.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2013-2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007603
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2009-2010.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2009-2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007600
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2015-2016.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2015-2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007605
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review History, 2016-2017.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued: 2016-2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007606
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
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: 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.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004047
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Hawkish Dove? Robert S. McNamara in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, 1962-1968.
Creator: Giraldo, Maria Camila, Shannon, Kelly, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Robert S. McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense (SOD) for Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. McNamara participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis negotiations in 1961 and became a key formulator of Vietnam policy. This thesis challenges scholarship that characterizes McNamara as a fierce hawk who relentlessly executed military escalation in Vietnam. By drawing parallels between McNamara’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, and by exploring how McNamara’s...
Show moreRobert S. McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense (SOD) for Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. McNamara participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis negotiations in 1961 and became a key formulator of Vietnam policy. This thesis challenges scholarship that characterizes McNamara as a fierce hawk who relentlessly executed military escalation in Vietnam. By drawing parallels between McNamara’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, and by exploring how McNamara’s concept of loyalty to the presidency influenced his decisions, this thesis argues that the SOD was willing to escalate the situation militarily as a form of political communication with the adversary. To McNamara, military pressure was a means to create avenues for diplomacy. McNamara became increasingly uncomfortable – and ultimately resigned in 1968 - when the Johnson administration pursued military escalation without an organized campaign towards negotiations. He was therefore not as hawkish as other scholars have claimed.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013551
Subject Headings: McNamara, Robert S, 1916-2009, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Format: 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: 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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Date Issued: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Cinematic Portrayals of Ancient Women: Cleopatra VII, Livia Augusta, Servilia Caepionis and the Three Waves of Feminism.
Creator: Schwab, Andrea, Buller, Jeffrey, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This project examines the modern perception of ancient women, specifically through the creative (and often anachronistic) lens of film. All three women examined, Cleopatra VII, Livia Augusta, and Servilia Caepionis, all exemplify the modern influence on interpreting historical sources, resulting in all three becoming agents of feminism in their own times. Each woman did not culminate the probable influence they had in Roman society, but they are instead reflective of the patriarchal paradigms...
Show moreThis project examines the modern perception of ancient women, specifically through the creative (and often anachronistic) lens of film. All three women examined, Cleopatra VII, Livia Augusta, and Servilia Caepionis, all exemplify the modern influence on interpreting historical sources, resulting in all three becoming agents of feminism in their own times. Each woman did not culminate the probable influence they had in Roman society, but they are instead reflective of the patriarchal paradigms understood by 20th and 21st century audiences. The burgeoning feminist ideologies of the 20th century would influence the depictions of each character in an anachronistic fashion, distorting the actual control such figures had in history. While Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra capitalized on youth and sexuality as tools of powers, Siân Phillips’ Livia emphasized age and experience to advance in patriarchal Rome. Servilia, however, was an older matron who had both the experience and the sexuality to control those around her. Whileeach figure approached it in very distinct methods, their common goal of changing Roman politics was reflective of the continued (and relatively unchanged) perception of ancient Roman women: as intelligent, yet dangerous, figures that served to derail patriarchal Roman politics.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004780, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004780
Subject Headings: Feminist theory., Feminism and motion pictures., Third-wave feminism., Women--Rome--Historiography., Mistresses--Rome--Historiography.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Documenting cultural transition through contact archaeology in Tíhoo, Mérida, Yucatán.
Creator: Rogers, Rhianna C., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This dissertation is concerned with the role material culture played in transformation and/or retention of Maya authority, just prior to and after Spanish contact (A.D. 1100-1800s). The primary research data used to discuss this transition was derived from the author's analysis of precolumbian and colonial artifacts from the Ciudadela Structure (YUC 2) in Tíhoo/Mérida, Yucatán-an assemblage originally collected by John Goggin in 1956 and 1957 and currently housed at the University of Florida...
Show moreThis dissertation is concerned with the role material culture played in transformation and/or retention of Maya authority, just prior to and after Spanish contact (A.D. 1100-1800s). The primary research data used to discuss this transition was derived from the author's analysis of precolumbian and colonial artifacts from the Ciudadela Structure (YUC 2) in Tíhoo/Mérida, Yucatán-an assemblage originally collected by John Goggin in 1956 and 1957 and currently housed at the University of Florida-Florida Museum of Natural History. As one of the last standing structures in the Maya site of Tíhoo, now buried beneath the Spanish capital city Mérida, the Ciudadela collection represents a rare glimpse into a significant, yet understudied, Type 1 archaeological site. Included in this project are a general examination of Maya studies in the Northwestern Yucatán Corridor and the results of my preliminary classification and viii discussion of materials represented in the YUC 2 assemblage. I t is important to note that as a part of this project, I created the first comprehensive catalogs for the YUC 2 Ciudadela collection, entitled FMNH YUC 2: Catalog of Artifacts, FMNH YUC 2: Ceramic Stylistic Catalog and FMNH YUC 2: Non-Ceramic Catalog. Results of the archaeological component of this study illustrated that there was little change in production of indigenous pottery after the fall of Mayapan (ca. A.D. 1441-1461), as inhabitants of precolumbian Tâihoo continued to use preexisting wares from their former capital, particularly those within the Mayapan Red Ware and Mayapan Unslipped Ware classifications, well into the Colonial period. In the Post-Colonial period, a significant change in wares occurred as native inhabitants incorporated foreign ceramic types into their society., Ceramics from Spain, Italy, and England, and porcelains from China and Japan, combined with colonial Mexican Majolica and preexisting Mayapan wares, illustrate the interaction of native inhabitants with European immigrants and their import goods. Although the YUC 2 collection supported the transformation of material culture after Spanish contact, the Maya, through religious practices, militaristic resistance, and oral/written traditions, were able to retain significant aspects of their precolumbian power into the colonial era and beyond.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2312917
Subject Headings: Mayas, Antiquities, Mayas, Material culture, Culture in art, History, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: From Farm to Market: The Political Economy of the Antebellum American West.
Creator: Salcito, Matthew, Engle, Stephen D., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in...
Show moreThis thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in antebellum Iowa and Illinois as a case study and examines the cultural and social development of farmers and merchants in the marketplace. Following wheat from farm to market, both locally and regionally, helps to explain how Americans understood the commodity at each economic level. Time and place were central to the American West's economic, social, and cultural development and this thesis considers just a moment in its history. A intersect of rural, agricultural, technological, and environmental histories are at the project's core, but it also attempts to make sense of frontier capitalism and the ramifications it had on farming and the grain industry. The market revolution gradually influenced and shaped the nation’s agricultural economy and the people that preformed its labor and production.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004630, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004630
Subject Headings: West (U.S.)--History., West (U.S.)--Historiography., West (U.S.)--Social conditions--19th century., United States--Economic conditions--To 1865., United States--Civilization--1783-1865., Capitalism--United States--Social aspects--History.
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Title: Fritz Kuhn, the American Fuehrer and the rise and fall of the German-American Bund.
Creator: Kopp, Eliot A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: It is not generally known that a pro-Nazi organization, the German-American Bund, held sway among certain segments of American society during the 1920s and 1930s. The organization achieved its greatest successes after the self-proclaimed "American Fuehrer," Fritz Julius Kuhn, took up the reigns of leadership in 1936. Under Kuhn's leadership, the Bund saw a dramatic increase in its membership rolls; it is estimated that over 25,000 dues-paying members belonged to this first-ever National...
Show moreIt is not generally known that a pro-Nazi organization, the German-American Bund, held sway among certain segments of American society during the 1920s and 1930s. The organization achieved its greatest successes after the self-proclaimed "American Fuehrer," Fritz Julius Kuhn, took up the reigns of leadership in 1936. Under Kuhn's leadership, the Bund saw a dramatic increase in its membership rolls; it is estimated that over 25,000 dues-paying members belonged to this first-ever National Socialist organization created outside the environs of Nazi Germany. This thesis explores reasons why this blatantly pro-Nazi organization thrived in the bastion of democracy. While most historians attribute other reasons for the Bund's success, this thesis argues that it was the outstanding organizational skills of Kuhn that kept the movement alive in the years prior to World War II.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927303
Subject Headings: Influence, History, National socialism, White supremacy movements, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Founding Mothers and Movement Mamas: African American Women in the Depression-Era Southern Tenant Famers' Union.
Creator: Placido, Matthew, White, Derrick, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This paper explores the lives of poor, black sharecropping women, arguing that the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union provided an avenue for them to embrace civil rights activism, perform semiprofessional work, and construct a sisterhood of black female solidarity – thus making the union an organization through which lower-class African American women contributed to the Long Civil Rights movement. During the Great Depression, black and white farmwomen from the Delta region worked together to...
Show moreThis paper explores the lives of poor, black sharecropping women, arguing that the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union provided an avenue for them to embrace civil rights activism, perform semiprofessional work, and construct a sisterhood of black female solidarity – thus making the union an organization through which lower-class African American women contributed to the Long Civil Rights movement. During the Great Depression, black and white farmwomen from the Delta region worked together to fight the system of racial subjugation and exploitation. Black women represented one of the largest and most important demographic groups within the STFU, frequently serving as secretaries, local presidents, and organizers for the union. The administrative records and public literature generated from within the STFU movement show that these women made great strides in pioneering the model of gender-neutral, racially cooperative activism that would be later embraced by SNCC during the mid-twentieth century civil rights movements movement in which many of them as “movement mammas.”
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004176
Format: Document (PDF)

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