Browsing by Department "History"

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary: A Historic Landscape of Incarceration

Gibson, Kelli (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018)

This thesis explores the history of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary and its role in shaping the cultural and physical landscapes of Morgan County, Tennessee. It begins with the historic prison's origins and traces its ...

Building Tennessee: The McAdams Family Trade and Identity in the Southwest Backcountry

Clawson, Amber Marie (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-03-27)

Cultural historians investigate issues of identity and regionalism through objects, places, and traditions. How do pieces of history both reflect and create culture? This study focuses on the late eighteenth- and early ...

Built for the Living: African American Funeral Homes on the Tennessee Landscape

Miller, Brad Reed (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-08-19)

African American funeral homes are an understudied part of the historic built environment that provide a unique window into the African American experience from Reconstruction to the present. The extant funeral homes of ...

Can You Hear Me?: Sound-Capturing Technology and the Problem of Obsolescence

Adkins, Heather Michelle (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-10-29)

This thesis examines technological obsolescence in archival record-keeping. In part a material culture study of the Gray Audograph, a dictation machine popular from the 1940s to its discontinuation in the 1970s, and in ...

“CASTLES MADE OF SAND”: MUSICIANS WITH COMPLEX RACIAL IDENTIFICATIONS IN MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN SOCIETY

Schaefer, Samuel Frederic Heutte (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018)

In the mid-twentieth century, musicians with complex racial identification due to family backgrounds of multiple ethnicities and apparent racial ambiguity did not fit neatly into the existing racial power structure. As ...

Changed By Time: The Olive Hill Community In Tennessee

Schumann, Keith Patrick (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-03-26)

The following work evaluates the impact that state and federally funded highway projects have had, and are continuing to have, on the small rural community of Olive Hill in West Tennessee. Located in Hardin County, Olive ...

Changing Interpretations: The Homes of Tennessee's Presidents and the Issue of Slavery

Baud, Lauren (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-10-25)

Historic sites in the Southeast region of the United States have long struggled with slavery, a topic that is often ignored or marginalized in site interpretation. At a time when more and more sites are looking toward ...

China as depicted by western novels.

York, Virginia (Middle Tennessee State University, 1991)

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the use of novels to supplement reading lists for American undergraduates studying the history of China. This study advocates that professors should seriously consider ...

Coats of Many Colors: The Colonial Revival and the Pursuit of Accuracy through Architectural Finishes

Hayes, Annabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018)

Since the mid-twentieth century, historians have studied the Colonial Revival, often emphasizing its origins in the nineteenth century, influential figures like Wallace Nutting and Fiske Kimball, and the style’s lasting ...

Cold Spring Farm: A Place Over Time

Bandel, Jessica (Middle Tennessee State University, 2012-11-30)

The history of Cold Spring Farm in Sumner County, Tennessee, is a case study of how public historians must decode the layers of history within a place to understand its significance. The farm's 600 acres has three significant ...

College textbooks on the American West : 1910-1997.

Lowman, Michael (Middle Tennessee State University, 1998)

This dissertation examines frontier and western history undergraduate college textbooks published between 1910 and 1997 to determine to what extent and in what manner textbooks reflected the historiographical thought current ...

Comparative feudalism: feudalism in Western Europe, Japan and the Ottoman Empire.

Pimentel, George (Middle Tennessee State University, 2002)

Over the centuries, the term feudalism has come to encompass a variety of definitions. This has led to numerous works concentrating on the subject of feudalism, with a majority of them focusing on western European feudalism. ...

A comparison of the traditional and pass/fail grading systems in selected university physical edition activity courses.

Glass, Allen (Middle Tennessee State University, 1973)

The contributions of Carl D. Perkins on higher education legislation 1948-1984.

Damron, Donald (Middle Tennessee State University, 1990)

Carl D. Perkins was the representative from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky. At the time of his death on August 3, 1984, he was among the top three in seniority in the House of Representatives having served ...

Countering the Lost Cause: Examining Civil War Commemoration in Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Kane, Alissa (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

The history of the Civil War has been a point of contention across the nation and in academia, regarding how it is remembered as well as who controlled this memory in years past. This thesis utilizes frameworks from ...

CREATING A COMMEMORATIVE SITE ON THE HERITAGE AND MEMORY OF COTTON PICKERS IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: A COMMUNITY DRIVEN HISTORICAL PRESERVATION MOVEMENT

Turnipseed, Cassie Sade (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-06-22)

Interpreting the economic impact of the cotton pickin’ culture in the Mississippi Delta presents challenges few scholars have taken on without trepidation and few public historians have ever addressed. Cotton pickers of ...

Crossing the rivers of the state : the role of the ferry in the development of South Carolina, circa 1680-1920s /

Salo, Edward (Middle Tennessee State University, 2009)

Often overlooked by historians and archaeologists, ferries played an important part in the transportation network that developed during the colonial period and continued to operate until the twentieth century. Ferries in ...

A Decisive Level of Command: Brigade Leadership in the Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1864

White Jr., Paul Richard (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-01-08)

The American Civil War is too often studied from the top down, focusing on the lives of army commanders and politicians. More recent scholarship has focused on the men in the ranks and their view of the war. Left out in ...

Democracy in colonial America, a study with particular reference to its treatment in historiographic source materials, and to its educational implications /

Williams, Arthur (Middle Tennessee State University, 1975)

Does Lack of Communication Regarding Pay Negatively Affect Perceived justice in the Workplace?

Fletcher, Kyera (Middle Tennessee State University, 2019)

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the role communication plays on perceived justice within an organization. This study utilized an experimental 3x2 between-subjects factorial design to examine the effects ...

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