This thesis charts the resurgence of handmade craft in the contemporary “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) movement illuminating its connections to past design movements. Similar to its American predecessors of past centuries, today’s ...

Traditionally, historians set out to establish a better understanding of the past. Investigations into the people, places and things that they determine to be significant or valuable drive our understanding of history. ...

In the latter half of the 1860s Mattanna Fairchild created a large memorial hair wreath, composed of the hair of those Confederate soldiers who fell during the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, which happened on her family ...

Through a close analysis of the belongings of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, in combination with supporting primary source documents, this thesis explores how an elite woman negotiated the conflicts surrounding the ...