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1	Survey of Bicycle Trail-Users in New Orleans: Characteristics, Attitudes and Implications for Planning Judge, Coleen 17 December 2010 (has links) This thesis focuses on bicyclists using the Jefferson Davis multi-use, off-street trail in the City of New Orleans. Understanding user characteristics and perceptions of bicyclists will help inform planning, policy, and design related to bicycle infrastructure. This thesis uses a review of the relevant literature, intercept surveys of bicyclists, and automatic bicycle counts to understand how user characteristics can influence successful bicycle design, policies, and planning. The user characteristics of the bicyclists on the Jefferson Davis Trail provide us with information on who is using the trail, how often, why, and what users would like to see improved. Planners need to understand the motivations of the current and potential trail users. Making bicycling a safe mode of travel in an urban area involves influencing citizens at both the socialecological level and the travel-behavioral level, providing the culture around bicycling and the facilities available to do so. Bicycle planning bicycle facilities off-street trail Jefferson Davis Trail
2	Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865 Berler, Anne K. 01 January 2007 (has links) This thesis describes and analyses how the Richmond press operated as a propaganda machine during the final year of the Civil War. It argues that the newspapers of the Confederate capital regularly exploited the propaganda value of the news they reported, employing methods including distortion of facts and libelous personal attacks. They displayed a seemingly total disregard for veracity in their zeal to convince their readership that the cause was not lost, and created a false picture of the real situation to a population which was war-weary and desperate for reassurance that victory was still possible. Defeats were minimized and even the tiniest victory in the most insignificant skirmish was magnified. When the Northern army began its strategy of hard war, the Richmond press seized on that to help create a demonized portrait of the Yankee and the North. Civil War Virginia press propoganda public opinion Jefferson Davis civilian morale Yankee Confederate mass communication Arts and Humanities History
3	Legislating the Danville Connection, 1847-1862: Railroads and Regionalism versus Nationalism in the Confederate States of America Stanley, Philip 01 January 2014 (has links) This thesis examines the effect regionalism had upon North Carolina and Virginia during the 1847-1862 legislative battles over the Danville, Virginia, to Greensboro, North Carolina, railroad connection. The first chapter examines the rivalry between eastern and western North Carolina for internal improvement legislation, namely westerners’ wish to connect with Virginia and easterners’ desire to remain economically relevant. The second chapter investigates the Tidewater region of Virginia and its battle against the Southside to create a rail connection with North Carolina. The third chapter examines the legislation for the Danville Connection during the American Civil War in the Virginia, North Carolina, and Confederate legislatures. Through an examination of voting patterns and public opinion, this thesis finds that, despite Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s designation of the Danville connection as a military necessity, regionalism overcame Confederate nationalism during this instance. Confederate States of America American Civil War Virginia North Carolina General Assembly Danville Greensboro Piedmont Southside Virginia Tidewater Virginia Richmond Railroads Nationalism Regionalism Piedmont Railroad North Carolina Railroad Richmond and Danville Railroad John Motley Morehead Lewis Harvie Jefferson Davis United States History
4	"That That Nation Might Live" - Lincoln's Biblical Allusions in the Gettysburg Address Griffith, Joseph K., II 15 December 2014 (has links) No description available. Political Science History American Studies Religion Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address the Declaration of Independence all men are created equal Harry Jaffa the Civil War John Calhoun Alexander Stephens Jefferson Davis Ronald White

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