O'Brien, Greg

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Amid Hostilities and Destruction: North Carolina Women and Their Impact on the American Revolution 2012 2565 The War for American Independence affected North Carolina women with the war’s brutality and hardship, and the disruption of their lives. During the years of 1780-1781, the British and American armies foraged for supplies on small farms, involved wo...
“The three rivers have talked”: the Creek Indians and community politics in the Native South, 1753-1821 2016 4702 This dissertation is a political history of the Creek Indians spanning the years between the conclusion of the Creek-Cherokee War in 1753 and the Creek Redstick migration to Florida. That migration came to a conclusion in 1821, when the United States...
"O’er mountains and rivers": Community and commerce in the Greenbrier Valley in the Late Eighteenth century 2018 3481 In the eighteenth-century Greenbrier River Valley of present-day West Virginia, identity was based on a connection to “place” and the shared experiences of settlement, commerce, and warfare as settlers embraced an identity as Greenbrier residents, Vi...
Little Tallassee: a Creek Indian colonial town 2019 1378 This dissertation explores the role of the Upper Creek Indian town of Little Tallassee in Creek History, beginning with the town’s origins during the 1740s and 1750s and ending with its decline in the late 1780s and early 1790s. Little Tallassee is a...
Troubled voices : Choctaws in mass deportation and ethnic cleansing 2021 1637 This dissertation is a re-examination of the removal of the Choctaws from Mississippi during the 1830s, through an ethnohistorical lens. It traces the removal process through the divergent perspectives, voices, and experiences of the Choctaws themsel...
Crime, justice, and order in the North Carolina Piedmont, 1760-1806 2019 1454 This dissertation examines crime and disorder in the North Carolina Piedmont between 1760 and 1806, exploring the ways that criminal justice and the law were enforced in the region. It is rooted in an analysis of the colonial and state Superior Court...