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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 ...
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, ...
“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 ...
"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)
“The Shaft is in the Stone”: The Emergence of Confederate Memory through Early Monumentation in South Carolina, 1866-1904
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
A Precarious Freedom: the Foundation and Justifications of Acts of Attainder for Enslaved and Free Persons of Color in the 18th Century British Caribbean
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)
In October of 1736, in the small colony of Antigua, a group of enslaved persons plotted to overthrow the white planter class, abolish slavery, and declare independence from British rule. Four free Black men were accused ...
Landscapes of Modern India
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-05)