Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The private Navy of the United States: The effects of Privateers on the War of 1812, Anthony Green
Memorializing Men of the Lost Cause: Public Opinion of Confederate Monuments in Virginia 1900-Present, Morgan Brittany Pendleton
Prohibition in Rockingham County: Exploring a Digital Archive, Craig Schaefer
Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870, Naomi Ulmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Music in unconventional spaces: The changing music scene of Great Depression America, 1929-1938, Rachel Carey
One great and noble source: The development of Democratic thought in Early America, 1776-1787, Kelly Coats
Middle-class millions: The creation of Atlantic City's "modern" image, 1890-1910, Trevor Cooper
The Devil in Cartagena: Slavery, religion and resistance in seventeenth-century Caribbean Colombia, Daniel James Dawson
The Presbyterian Enlightenment: The confluence of evangelical and enlightenment thought in British America, Brandon S. Durbin
The land beyond the mountains: The Trans-Appalachian frontier and the formation of Appalachian identity, Joshua Goodall
Where no fandom has gone before: Exploring the development of fandom through Star Trek fanzines, Jacqueline Guerrier
The Ku Klux Klan in early twentieth century Virginia, James Lamb
Consolidation: Race, politics, and suburbanization in the Newport News-Warwick merger, David Le Moal
Arab nationalism in interwar period Iraq: A descriptive analysis of Sami Shawkat’s al-Futuwwah youth movement, Saman Nasser
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Inventing Saladin: The role of the Saladin legend in European culture and identity, Brian C. David
Mitigating munitions: The consequences of using technology during counterinsurgency campaigns, Pake L. Davis
Teaching hate in the name of good, Constance A. Dorn
Defying civility: Female writers and educators in nineteenth-century America, Tess Evans
Hard times; Hard duties; Hard hearts; The Volksgemeinschaft as an indicator of identity shift, Kaitlin Hampshire
Form over function: How the Confederate oligarchy's pretense of conventional military legitimacy abandoned the legitimate American military spirit, Jacob D. Harris
God’s silent witnesses: Protestant chaplains in the Canadian Military, 1939-1945, John M. MacInnis
Forced upon the account: Pirates and the Atlantic World in the Golden Age of Piracy, 1690-1726, Nathan Ray
The shifting dynamics of midwifery in urban seventeenth-century England, Virginia E. Taylor
Coolidge against the world: Peace, prosperity, and foreign policy in the 1920s, Joel Webster
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
We need a little Christmas: The shape and significance of Christmas in America, 1945-1950, Ellen D. Blackmon
Stonewall on the Potomac: Gay political activism in Washington, DC, 1961-1973, Peter Bonds
Richmond's urban crisis: Racial transition during the Civil Rights Era, 1960-1977, Marvin T. Chiles
Germany in Afghanistan: The German domestic dispute on military deployment overseas, Nils Martin
An appointment with Dr. Joseph DeJarnette: An analysis of a leading eugenics advocate and how his legacy has been rewritten, 1906-1943, Brianna Melchione
Good Union people: Enduring bonds between black and white Unionists in the Civil War and beyond, James Schruefer
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract society: How Jehovah’s Witnesses denounced and resisted the Nazi regime, Elena Sorchiotti
Their swords, our plowshares: "Peaceful" nuclear weapons, propaganda, and Cold War memory expressed in film: 1959-1989, Michael A. St. Jacques
In search of Askia Mohammed: The epic of Askia Mohammed as cultural history and Songhay foundational myth, Joe Wilson
Fort Hunt's P.O. Box 1142, Lindsey Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
American identity crisis, 1789-1815: Foreign affairs and the formation of American national identity, George E. Best
The struggle in the Shenandoah: The relationship between tactics and attrition in the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864, Joseph A. D'Arezzo
‘Our sentiments of sympathy for the late unwarranted, cruel, and barbarous massacre’: The American Jewish response to the Damascus Affair, Matt B. Darroch
"Ruin and desolation scarcely paralleled" : An examination of The Virginia Flood of 1870’s aftermath and relief efforts, Paula Fielding Green
Her Majesty's dignity: Secularization in the age of Reformation, Catherine Larson
Memory as torchlight: Frederick Douglass and public memories of the Haitian Revolution, James Lincoln
Drive toward freedom: African American: The story of black automobility in the fight for Civil Rights, Xavier Macy
Stokesville, Virginia: An enduring depot for an ephemeral town, MaryAnn A. Mason
Educating the modern woman: Girls’ college preparatory schools in Virginia, 1900-1930, Eliza McGehee
Ang Buhay sa Nayon-Life in the Valley: An oral history project with the Shenandoah Living Archive, Hannah Moses
Norris Dam: To build or not to build? A museum outreach program, Jeanette Patrick
The Monroe Doctrine as the transparent veil of isolation during the League of Nations debate, Luther D. Roadcap
Cultivating capitalism: Sea Island Cotton, planter identity, and Atlantic connections in Antebellum Beaufort County, South Carolina, Cameron M. Shirley
Interpretation training manual for the Frontier Culture Museum, Megan T. Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Basra's high hope: An American missionary school in Iraq during the World War Era, Israa Alhassani
"Young bloods of the South:" The Confederate use and efficacy of irregular warfare in the American Civil War, Lucas Allamon
The science of charity: The social network that restructured law and order in Baltimore, 1881-1901, Hope Elizabeth Byers
Haunted by Hitler: German film of the 2000s and the discourse of Germans as victims, Christopher John Carlberg
From swamps to swamping: The usage and perceptions of swamps by African-Americans in Antebellum and Postbellum Arkansas and Louisiana, Tessa Annette Neblett Evans
Utopia for the mind: American treatment of insanity in the nineteenth century, Lauren Fleming
Envisioning the apocalypse: (Dis)Order, progress, and Brazil’s Canudos War, 1896-1897, Gray Fielding Kidd
Congressional sovereignty: Imperialism in a Republican Union, Casey Jack Musselman
Demon rum in the City of Churches: A spirited fight for alcohol reform in Danville, Virginia, 1883-1933, Evelyn Dawn Riley
Elias Boudinot and the missionaries to the Cherokee, Gregory McDonald Siron
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
"We long for a home": American discourses on Jewishness after the Second World War (1945-49), Samantha M. Bryant
"Rooted deeply in our past": A landscape history of Brunswick, Maryland, Alyssa R. Fisher
Giant ants and killer children: Fear and popular culture in 1950s America, Kathleen Elizabeth Ford
The Wrong track: Errors in American tank development in World War II, Jacob Fox
Citizens of the empire: A molding of Victorian childhood identity, Christopher B. Gallagher
“This is a cause worth dying for:” Sarah and Angelina Grimké and the development of a political identity, Erin K. Gillett
Retaliation with restraint: Destruction of private property in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Jeannie Cummings Harding
Lost Cause campuses: Confederate memory and Lost Cause rituals at the University of Mississippi and University of Virginia, Jeffery Hardin Hobson
For Dixie children: Teaching students what it meant to be Confederate Americans through their textbooks, Nathan Richard Samuel Ryalls
A culture of anatomy: The public writings of American Anatomists, 1800-1870, Mary Patricia Schwanz
Failure of imagination: Gender integration and negotiated identities at the United States Air Force Academy, Amelia Frances Underwood
Formulaic women?: The disparity between the 12th century reality of noblewomen in England and the 12th century chronicles' depiction of English noblewomen, Kimberly Wharton
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Signs of the times, Felicia Hersh
A question of Indian identity in the Plecker Era: The Monacan Indian Nation in the twentieth century, Jennifer Marie Huff
"The American Canaan": Eighteenth century Trans-Appalachian migration, Lauren C. James
One nation under salary: Business, critics, and the body in the 1950s, Thomas Andrew Joyce
Celts and Romans: The transformation from natural to civic religion, Matthew Taylor Kennedy
“Endangering the stability of slavery”: Black freedom in the Upper South, 1820-1850, Ashley K. Schmidt
"A cosmic Rorschach test": The origins and development of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, 1959-1971, Sierra E. Smith
"All I could to save Our state" Black Virginians' participation in the Great War, Derick Stackpole
Political aspirations of Colonial women: The correspondence of Mercy Otis Warren and Abigail Smith Adams, Jillian LaRue Viar
Capturing a complex moment: Pictorial representations of the Shenandoah Valley in the mid-twentieth century, Angela Lee Walthall
Soldiers in an all volunteer force, Joshua Aaron Webster
Interior vs. war: The development of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and The Transfer Debates, 1849–1880., Eric M. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Building a better Brit: Imperialism and masculinity in the lives and works of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, Zachary David Cady
The Virginia Iron, Coal, and Coke company and the growth and decline of Southern Appalachia’s iron industry: 1880-1930., Patrick Dalton Dickerson
An insult to authority: The Jewish means to a Nazi end, Samuel Joseph Preston Anno di Stefano
The wounds of the Dakota War, Sara Louisa Flint
Preservation of the Old Dominion: The role of national security concerns in the Virginia Ratification Debates, Joseph Harrington
The logic of aid: American foreign policy and USAID in Rwanda, Ariel F. Hendrickson
The supreme brother-in-law: Ramón Serrano Suñer and Spanish Fascism during the Franco Regime, Brian David Hill
Life in the open air: The persistence of outdoor air treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis patients in America from the Industrial Revolution to the 1950s, Tara Darlene Mastrangelo
From individual salvation to social salvation: Why evangelist B. Fay Mills changed his revival message, Constance P. Murray
"For the fracture of good order," The Catonsville Nine protest and legacy, Timothy Joseph Stefonowich
And the showmen cried, “Spirit!”: Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s search for the truth behind modern Spiritualism, Stefanie Marie Strosnider-Hollis
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The advent of universal public education in Virginia and its Valley: Reconstruction through the Progressive Era, 1865-1920, Paul N. Belmont III
