The argument illustrated in the thesis outlines Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ability to manipulate himself and his agenda to top priority as the national security advisor to President Carter. It further argues that Brzezinski deserves more blame for the failure of American foreign policy towards Iran; not President Carter. The sources include primary sources such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and President Jimmy Carter’s memoirs as well as information from President Carter’s library in Atlanta, Georgia. Secondary sources include historians who focus on both presidential policy and President Carter and his staff. The thesis is organized as follows: the introduction of Brzezinski, then the focus turns to his time in the White House, Iran, then what he is doing today.

No scale provided. Researched by Dr. Nat E. Hyder and Midred Kozsuch. Cartography and illustration by Alan Park in 1980. Overmountain Press. Indicates mills, forges, and places of interest. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1120/thumbnail.jpg

Hand drawn map by Susan Patrick of the Woman's Civic Club (no. 435 out of 500), with a handwritten date of 1976. Includes drawings of Sinking Creek Baptish Church, covered bridge, Roan Mountain, Seeger Memorial Chapel, Fort Watauga, the Monument, and the Mansion. No scale provided. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1124/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 2 miles. Prepared by the Tennnessee State Highway Department Highway Planning Survey Division in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Public Roads. Highway map of Carter county with zoomed in areas of interest. Field data obtained un 1954 and field examination made in 1955. Includes a population census from 1950. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1160/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 2 miles. Prepared by the Tennessee Department of Highways Research and Planning Division in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Bureau of Public Roads. Highway map of Carter County with zoomed in areas of interest. Field data was obtained in 1968 and field examination was made in 1969. Includes a 1969 population census. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1161/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 2 miles. Prepared in 1938 by the Tennessee State Highway Department in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Public Roads. Data obtained from statewide highway planning survey. Highway map with zoomed in areas on interest within Carter County. Part of the legend is missing. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1164/thumbnail.jpg

Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Tennessee Valley Authority. US Department of Agriculture. Soils surveyed 1940-1942. Map compilation by Cartographic Section, Division of Soil Survey, BPISAE, from TVA planimetric maps, TVA controlled mosaics, and aerial photographs. H.W. Whitlock, Engineer in Charge. Polyconic projection. 1927 North American datum. Scale 1 in = 2000 ft. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1165/thumbnail.jpg

Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Tennessee Valley Authority. US Department of Agriculture. Soils surveyed 1940-1942. Map compilation by Cartographic Section, Division of Soil Survey, BPISAE, from TVA planimetric maps, TVA controlled mosaics, and aerial photographs. H.W. Whitlock, Engineer in Charge. Polyconic projection. 1927 North American datum. Scale 1 in = 2000 ft. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1166/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 inch = 4 miles. Undated map drawn by Paul J. Bishop, highlighting areas of interest in Carter County and Elizabethton TN. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1117/thumbnail.jpg

As one of antebellum Tidewater's most prominent planters, Hill Carter and the world he and his slaves made at Shirley occupy an important place in Virginia history. Few scholars, however, have analyzed their roles adequately. Previous studies' overwhelming concentration on the architectural and material culture history of the plantation has left Carter's role as one of Virginia's preeminent agricultural reformers virtually unexplored. Assuming ownership of Shirley in 1816, Carter quickly established himself as a leading proponent of agricultural improvement, both embracing and building on the ideas of other reformers like John Taylor and Edmund Ruffin. He diversified his crops and changed their rotations, used new equipment and improved methods of cultivation, reclaimed poor or unproductive lands, and employed a variety of fertilizers and manures to resuscitate his soils. Significantly, Carter efforts to improve Shirley transformed not only the physical landscape of the plantation. The changes produced in the work and lives of his slaves also were considerable. This study, then, investigates the relationship between agricultural reform and slavery. Instead of looking at reform in terms of how slavery affected (or inhibited) it, this work argues that reform must also be understood in relation to how it affected slavery, for changes manifested in attempts to improve lands had important ramifications on slave work routines, which, in turn, affected slave life in important ways. / Master of Arts