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To Win the Hearts and Minds: The Combined Action program During the Vietnam War
(2019-04-29)
On May 4, 1965, two months after the first Marines landed in Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a dinner meeting with the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. “So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam," he famously announced, ...
The Origins of Christian Democracy in Chile: The Path of the Moral Center
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
“Benign Negligence: U.S.-South Korean Relations at the End of the Carter Administration”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)
President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
“In Short, I am a West Indian": Planters, Performance, Anxiety, and Abolition in Georgian Britain
(2018)
Kathleen Wilson writes that the domestic elite of Georgian Britain sought a psychological "disavowal" of the West Indian planting class because elite flaws were reflected in the perceived degeneracy and excess of the ...
Missionary Girls’ Schools Yearbooks in Republican China: Navigating Youth, Gender and Nation, 1917-1948
(Vanderbilt University. Department of History, 2018)
This thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students ...
Constructing God’s Community: Umayyad Religious Monumentation in Bilad al-Sham, 640-743 CE
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
In the early 7th Century CE, the Umayyad dynasty formed the first Islamic empire, marking a crucial moment in the emergence of Islam. As in many empires of Late Antiquity, religious monumentation played a central role in ...
Who Saved the Passenger Train? The Role of Public Advocacy in Amtrak's Creation: 1958 to 1971
(2019-04-29)
It was April 28th 1965, and the ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in New York City was filled to capacity. Outside, successful stockbrokers and other well-dressed figures walked down the sidewalk in an orderly fashion holding ...
When Birds of a Feather Do Not Flock Together: The Failure of Democratic India and Democratic America to Ally During the Cold War
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-28)
The global geopolitical history of the late 20th century was defined by the Cold War between the United States and the USSR, which through alliances, involved many countries across the world. Large swaths of the world ...
"The Hatay belongs to us": Defining Community in the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1915-1940
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
In 1936, the Republic of Turkey and French-mandate Syria were at odds over the future of a province on the Turkish-Syrian border called the Sanjak of Alexandretta. This thesis explores the Turkish annexation of Alexandretta, ...
Using the Living as Proxies in the Politics of the Dead: U.S. Grave Exhumation in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1953
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)