Stories From 2011
Tragic Pragmatism: Liberia and the United States, 1971-1985
Casper, Clifford. “Tragic Pragmatism: Liberia and the United States, 1971-1985.” (Under the direction of Dr. Nancy Mitchell.) The thesis focuses on the US-Liberian relationship from 1971-1985, a time when the cold war entered Africa. In 1975, Cuban troops poured into […]
The Polish Desk: Radio Free Europe, Zbigniew Brzezinksi, and Jimmy Carter’s Polish Policy 1976-1977
Trenor, Brian. “The Polish Desk: Radio Free Europe, Zbigniew Brzezinksi, and Jimmy Carter’s Polish Policy 1976-1977.” (Under the direction of Dr. Nancy Mitchell.) This thesis focuses on Jimmy Carter’s US-Polish policy as developed in the 1976 presidential campaign and employed […]
Historian Explores the Consequences of Silver Mining
History lecturer Nicholas Robins, an expert on the environmental history of South America, exposes modern day consequences of silver-mining practices used by 16th century Spanish conquistadors in his guest blog series on NC State’s Abstract. In “Spanish Colonialism’s Environmental Legacy,” […]
NC State, UNC, Duke launch Japanese Studies Center
Three universities have launched a Triangle Center for Japanese Studies that will support fellowships, research, seminars, travel, guest speakers, and library development. North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University will cooperate in […]
History Professor’s Award-Winning Book Explores Kentucky’s Frontiers
If you’ve been looking for some critically-acclaimed reading material on the darker side of Kentucky’s history, look no further than Professor Craig Thompson Friend’s award-winning book Kentucke’s Frontiers. Friend recently won the 2011 Kentucky Governor’s Award for Kentucke’s Frontiers. The […]
Jessica Gillespie – CHASS Thesis Award
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences selected Jessica Gillespie’s “Loved to stayed on like it once was’: Southern Appalachian People’s Responses to Socio-Economic Change–the New Deal, the War on Poverty, and the Rise of Tourism,” written under the direction […]
Reynoldstown: Race, Blight, Disease, Highway Construction and the Transformation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Cruise, Shane. “Reynoldstown: Race, Blight, Disease, Highway Construction and the Transformation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.” (Under the direction of Dr. Blair Lynne Kelley.) Reynoldstown: Race, Blight, Disease, Highway Construction and the Transformation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, contributes to the historiography […]
An Ever Closer Union? European Integration in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Popowycz, Jennifer. “An Ever Closer Union? European Integration in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.” (Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Ort.) In the 1970s three countries from Southern Europe applied to become members of the European Economic Community […]
Vindicating the Confederacy: Confederate Female Spies and their Memoirs 1863-1876
Matthews, Melissa. “Vindicating the Confederacy: Confederate Female Spies and their Memoirs 1863-1876.” (Under the direction of Dr. Susanna Lee.) Belle Boyd, Rose O‟Neal Greenhow and Loreta Velazquez were all Confederate female spies that risked their lives to support the Confederacy. […]
The Twelfth Century Renaissance and the Religion of Intent: Interiority and the Emergence of Selfhood Across Religious Boundaries
Elliot, Serena. “The Twelfth Century Renaissance and the Religion of Intent: Interiority and the Emergence of Selfhood Across Religious Boundaries.” (Under the direction of Dr. Julie Mell.) This thesis explores the emergence of faith statements in both Jewish and Christian […]