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Title: Oranges and inlets: an environmental history of Florida's Indian River Lagoon.
Creator: Osborn, Nathaniel, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Nineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels...
Show moreNineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels due primarily to the oceanic interchange following the opening and closing of natural inlets. This paper suggests that attempts to "restore" the lagoon will necessarily declare an arbitrary historical form to be normative for the system. The first and last chapters provide an overview of the system's origins and recent history, while the core of the paper focuses on human-environment interaction of the lagoon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355868
Subject Headings: History, Environmental aspects, History, Environmental aspects
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Title: Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015.
Creator: Fine, Jeffrey G., Rose, Mark H., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: From 1985 to 2015, local politicians like Kenneth G. Spillias, Jan Winters, and Nancy M. Graham reshaped downtown West Palm Beach. They promised to eliminate urban blight, and turned a crime-ridden area of the city into an upper-middle class entertainment zone frequented by wealthy pleasure-seekers from throughout Palm Beach County. However, much of this transformation was an illusion. These politicians eliminated local taxpayers from the decision-making process by circumventing their votes,...
Show moreFrom 1985 to 2015, local politicians like Kenneth G. Spillias, Jan Winters, and Nancy M. Graham reshaped downtown West Palm Beach. They promised to eliminate urban blight, and turned a crime-ridden area of the city into an upper-middle class entertainment zone frequented by wealthy pleasure-seekers from throughout Palm Beach County. However, much of this transformation was an illusion. These politicians eliminated local taxpayers from the decision-making process by circumventing their votes, but subsequently taxed them to pay for the improvements. Furthermore, blight was not eliminated downtown, merely relocated to areas surrounding the entertainment zone. This resulted in ongoing tension between the mostly white patrons and business owners in the redeveloped area, and the primarily black residents in the dilapidated neighborhoods surrounding this development.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004825, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004825
Subject Headings: Palm Beach County (Fla.)--History, Local., Palm Beach County (Fla.)--Social life and customs., West Palm Beach (Fla.)--History, Local., West Palm Beach (Fla.)--Economic conditions., West Palm Beach (Fla.)--Politics and government., Urban renewal--Florida--West Palm Beach--History.
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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: 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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Date Issued: 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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Title: THE JOHANNINE COMMUNITY, THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, AND THE TRADITIONS BEHIND JOHN’S RESURRECTION NARRATIVE.
Creator: Reiner, J. D., Lowe, Ben, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: What sources informed the resurrection narrative of Jesus in the Gospel of John? Some scholars argue that the author of John used the Synoptic Gospels along with oral traditions as sources, but others maintain that John used only independent traditions to write his resurrection story. This paper argues that John did not use the Synoptics for this narrative because the reconstructed history of the Johannine community provides an adequate basis for postulating independent traditions which...
Show moreWhat sources informed the resurrection narrative of Jesus in the Gospel of John? Some scholars argue that the author of John used the Synoptic Gospels along with oral traditions as sources, but others maintain that John used only independent traditions to write his resurrection story. This paper argues that John did not use the Synoptics for this narrative because the reconstructed history of the Johannine community provides an adequate basis for postulating independent traditions which succeed at explaining both the similarities and differences between John and the Synoptics. While it does not claim to prove that the author was unaware of the Synoptics, it maintains that the evidence for the use of those Gospels in addition to tradition is too weak, whereas independent traditions alone can account for the material.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013555
Subject Headings: Johannine community, Synoptic Gospels (Books of the New Testament), Jesus Christ--Resurrection, Gospel of John--Criticism, interpretation, etc
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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: 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.
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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: 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: 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.
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Date Issued: 1978
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13948
Subject Headings: Education, History of
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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: 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
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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: 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.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12826
Subject Headings: Biography, History, United States
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14058
Subject Headings: History, European
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Title: Neville Chamberlain, Oswald Mosley, and the historiography of appeasement revisited.
Creator: Ortiz, Michael., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis analyzes the historiography of Neville Chamberlain and appeasement through the lens of Oswald Mosley and British Fascism, arguing that an acute and unexpected convergence emerges between the ardent radicalism of Mosley and the utter rationality of Chamberlain, illustrating the uncanny degree to which appeasement as a policy dovetailed with fascism as an ideology. Beginning at the Spanish Civil War and ending in March 1939, politicians in the vein of Chamberlain - subsequently...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the historiography of Neville Chamberlain and appeasement through the lens of Oswald Mosley and British Fascism, arguing that an acute and unexpected convergence emerges between the ardent radicalism of Mosley and the utter rationality of Chamberlain, illustrating the uncanny degree to which appeasement as a policy dovetailed with fascism as an ideology. Beginning at the Spanish Civil War and ending in March 1939, politicians in the vein of Chamberlain - subsequently dubbed 'appeasers' - pursued appeasement as a means to placate German aggression. The British Union of Fascists, with Mosley at the helm, enthusiastically supported this movement and urged the British Government to intensify the appeasement campaign. Ultimately, the convergence of appeasement and fascism illustrates the severe lack of alternatives available to Chamberlain, and underscores the degree to which his pragmatic politics supported fascism abroad.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2978948
Subject Headings: Views on Germany, World War, 1939-1945, Diplomatic history, Fascism, World politics, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Foreign relations, Foreign relations
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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: 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.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13018
Subject Headings: History, United States, Music, Business Administration, Management, History, Modern
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Title: From Slaves to Subjects: Forging Freedom in the Canadian Legal System.
Creator: Halty, Nina, Engle, Stephen D., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis clarifies recent debates on the problems of territorialized freedom in the Atlantic world by examining several extradition cases involving runaway slaves in Canada, where southern slaveholders attempted to retrieve their lost property by relabeling fugitive slaves as fugitive criminals. In order to combat these efforts and receive the full protections of British subjecthood, self-emancipated people realized that they needed to prove themselves worthy of this status. To achieve...
Show moreThis thesis clarifies recent debates on the problems of territorialized freedom in the Atlantic world by examining several extradition cases involving runaway slaves in Canada, where southern slaveholders attempted to retrieve their lost property by relabeling fugitive slaves as fugitive criminals. In order to combat these efforts and receive the full protections of British subjecthood, self-emancipated people realized that they needed to prove themselves worthy of this status. To achieve this, black refugees formulated their own language of subjecthood predicated upon economic productivity, social respectability, and political loyalty. By actively working to incorporate themselves into the British Empire, Afro-Canadians redefined subjecthood from a status largely seen as a passively received birthright to a deliberate choice. Therefore, this thesis demonstrates that ways in which formerly enslaved people laid out their own terms for imperial inclusion and defined the contours of black social and legal belonging in a partially free Atlantic world.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004923
Subject Headings: Canada--Race relations--History--19th century., African Americans--Canada--History--19th century., Freedmen--Canada--History--19th century., Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada., Free African Americans--Canada--History--19th century., Postcolonialism--Southern States., Plantation life in literature., Imperialism in literature., Literature and society--Southern States--History--20th century., Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Title: The Question of a Federal Supreme Court in Germany 1806-1815.
Creator: Seleski, David, Kollander, Patricia, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The effectiveness and the sustainability of the Holy Roman Empire remained a subject of debate over the past two centuries. While nationalist historians derided the lack of centralized institutions, revisionist historians after the Second World War largely stressed the positive aspects of the Empire. The Reichskammergericht and the Reichshofrat were two of the institutions that experienced this positive reassessment. While most historians focused on the effectiveness of the Reich courts...
Show moreThe effectiveness and the sustainability of the Holy Roman Empire remained a subject of debate over the past two centuries. While nationalist historians derided the lack of centralized institutions, revisionist historians after the Second World War largely stressed the positive aspects of the Empire. The Reichskammergericht and the Reichshofrat were two of the institutions that experienced this positive reassessment. While most historians focused on the effectiveness of the Reich courts during the existence of the Empire, few have examined the perception of the courts immediately after the demise of the Empire in 1806. This thesis analyzes the perception of the courts through the eyes of leading politicians (including Humboldt, Hardenberg, and Stein) to reinforce the argument that these institutions were valued. Since the courts played a pivotal role in the Holy Roman Empire, it is more than likely that these individuals had a generally favorable view of the Holy Roman Empire as well.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013686
Subject Headings: Holy Roman Empire, Congress of Vienna
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Title: FIXING THE GAME: THE DESEGREGATION OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND THE CONTINUED FIGHT FOR EQUALITY.
Creator: Link, Zachary, Norman, Sandra L., Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: College football has long served as an apparatus for advancing racial equality, but the process by which it did so has been muddled and oversimplified. Popular histories have often reduced college football’s desegregation down to a singular event, the 1970 USC-Alabama game. Although the game was significant in its own right, it contributed very little to the desegregation of college football. Instead, the USC-Bama game gained exposure due to prominence of the teams involved rather than its...
Show moreCollege football has long served as an apparatus for advancing racial equality, but the process by which it did so has been muddled and oversimplified. Popular histories have often reduced college football’s desegregation down to a singular event, the 1970 USC-Alabama game. Although the game was significant in its own right, it contributed very little to the desegregation of college football. Instead, the USC-Bama game gained exposure due to prominence of the teams involved rather than its historical significance. The game propagated numerous myths, including the idea that the South was not ready to desegregate until Alabama lost to the desegregated USC team. This was not only untrue, but it took away from the factual history of college football’s desegregation, a process that took nearly 100 years. The story of the USC-Bama game also detracted from college football’s ongoing process of integration and African American equality, as if black players were suddenly granted legal rights and were no longer discriminated against. My overarching argument is that college football, and America’s love for the sport, uniquely placed African American players in a position which forced the country to confront racial inequality in a way that few other outlets at the time did or could.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013825
Subject Headings: College football players, Segregation, Football--History, African American football players
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Title: ETHNIC AND RACIAL CONFLICT IN MIAMI SINCE THE CUBAN INFLUX, 1960-1985 (FLORIDA).
Creator: O'HARE, PATRICK JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Miami experienced considerable ethnic and racial tension after the Cuban influx began in 1960. Large numbers of Cuban, and later Haitian immigrants altered the social complexion of the city. During this period of rapid change, the Cuban, Anglo and black communities attempted to improve their standard of living. Economic and political competition created hostility among the ethnic groups. In the twenty-five year period ending in 1985, the groups perceived that the gains of one came at the...
Show moreMiami experienced considerable ethnic and racial tension after the Cuban influx began in 1960. Large numbers of Cuban, and later Haitian immigrants altered the social complexion of the city. During this period of rapid change, the Cuban, Anglo and black communities attempted to improve their standard of living. Economic and political competition created hostility among the ethnic groups. In the twenty-five year period ending in 1985, the groups perceived that the gains of one came at the expense of the others. This attitude spawned ethnic and racial tension that prevented cooperation and adversely affected the social harmony within the city to this day.
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Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14419
Subject Headings: History, United States, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Title: MRS. FORMAN SHOT THE ALLIGATOR: WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA, 1890-1939.
Creator: Hidalgo, Isabel, Bennett, Evan, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This study argues that settler women-in the all-inclusive sense of the word rather than just white, middle-and-upper class women-were crucial in founding and stabilizing Southeastern Florida communities. Historians have focused almost exclusively on men in studying this area's development and settlement. Henry Flagler, the railroad and hotel tycoon, for example, is given much credit for his role in bringing settlers to Palm Beach and building a home there for himself. Small towns use similar...
Show moreThis study argues that settler women-in the all-inclusive sense of the word rather than just white, middle-and-upper class women-were crucial in founding and stabilizing Southeastern Florida communities. Historians have focused almost exclusively on men in studying this area's development and settlement. Henry Flagler, the railroad and hotel tycoon, for example, is given much credit for his role in bringing settlers to Palm Beach and building a home there for himself. Small towns use similar narratives. The reality was that diverse populations of women were critical for Southeastern Florida's growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study thus seeks to recover the diverse actions, narratives, organizations, and systems of early Southeastern Florida and the roles women played to create, stabilize, and later maintain these aspects. This study will also discuss how these women subverted-whether subtly or overtly-factors of gender, race, and class to build unique and diverse communities in Southeastern Florida.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013975
Subject Headings: Women colonists, Southeastern Florida, Florida--History, Women's studies
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Title: SAILORS AND SLAVES: AUTHORITY, MUTINY, AND THE POLITICS OF SUPPRESSION.
Creator: Gallo, Regina, Engle, Stephen D., Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: In 1628, the English Parliament demanded that King Charles I sign the Petition of Right, causing the English Civil War. This war led to laws that legitimized slavery and the impressment of Anglo sailors and left behind an insurrectionary ideology that American colonists adapted during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, this ideology inspired the Constitution and later inspired slave revolts, and sailor mutinies for civil liberties won during the Revolution. As the capitalist...
Show moreIn 1628, the English Parliament demanded that King Charles I sign the Petition of Right, causing the English Civil War. This war led to laws that legitimized slavery and the impressment of Anglo sailors and left behind an insurrectionary ideology that American colonists adapted during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, this ideology inspired the Constitution and later inspired slave revolts, and sailor mutinies for civil liberties won during the Revolution. As the capitalist economy grew and ensnared the new nation, this ideology entered reformer communities. American law relied on lawyers, jurists, and politicians to balance liberty, property, and a racial divide. White sailors did not face racialized slavery but experienced exploitation through American law. This relationship's intersection of economy and identity helps explain why sailors' rights helped reform American law and emancipate the slave.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014056
Subject Headings: Petition of right, Sailors, Slaves
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Title: Religious Freedom, Newspapers, and Virginians: Common People’s Responses to Separation of Church and State.
Creator: Robinson, Morgyn L., Finucane, Adrian, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The two and a half decades following the ending of the American Revolution was filled with change. The formation of government and the ratification of the Constitution at the state and federal levels created spaces where topics were hotly debated. Specifically, religion and its role in the United States government generated much discussion: how much power should religious institutions have within this new country and should this new United States have an established religion? Historians have...
Show moreThe two and a half decades following the ending of the American Revolution was filled with change. The formation of government and the ratification of the Constitution at the state and federal levels created spaces where topics were hotly debated. Specifically, religion and its role in the United States government generated much discussion: how much power should religious institutions have within this new country and should this new United States have an established religion? Historians have dissected and analyzed these topics for years. But, how informed were Americans during this period of these conversations which created the bedrock of American government? One conduit which was generally available to the masses was the newspaper. The creation of news and the dissemination of information to the expanding United States created a unique platform for newspaper printers and editors alike, touching all levels of society and politics. Using newspapers printed during this period and focusing specifically on the state of Virginia, this thesis analyzes newspaper content between 1784 – 1808 as a general guide as to what the Virginia common persons would have been exposed to regarding separation of church and state and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Based on the saturation of religion in society at this time, it is surprising to find that Americans were only minimally interested in the separation of church and state discussions happening in Virginia and the greater United States. It was when religious topics shifted into perceived morals and ethics, political campaigns, or the potential for land control through glebe land ownership that Virginians expressed their opinions and reactions to the separation of church and state.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014082
Subject Headings: Separation of church and state, Virginia, United States--History
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Title: FLYING WITH WINGS OF DETERMINATION: BRITISH, SOVIET AND AMERICAN WOMEN PILOTS DURING WORLD WAR II.
Creator: Nall, John Dale, Ganson, Barbara, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis is an international comparative analysis on the women pilots of Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary, the Soviet Union’s Aviation Group 122, and the United States’ Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, Women’s Flying Training Detachment, and the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. Women pilots in these groups were motivated by three different factors in each country to aid the war effort and that determination was a common thread among these groups that drove them to serve...
Show moreThis thesis is an international comparative analysis on the women pilots of Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary, the Soviet Union’s Aviation Group 122, and the United States’ Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, Women’s Flying Training Detachment, and the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. Women pilots in these groups were motivated by three different factors in each country to aid the war effort and that determination was a common thread among these groups that drove them to serve their countries’ militaries. What made the pilots’ efforts stand out was that they offered the Allies an advantage over the Axis Powers in terms of utilizing an additional workforce. Unfortunately, these women are widely unrecognized for this advantage and are brushed aside. It is important to recognize the significance of how these women impacted the Allies socially and militarily, and this work aims to expand the discussion in World War II studies.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014150
Subject Headings: Aviation--History, Women air pilots, World War II
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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: 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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Date Issued: 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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