Theses from 2024
Iron in the new world’s veins: Government, ironworks, and community in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Abigail Adam
Living in a Barbie world: Barbie's origins and her impact on the American mother, 1959-1965, Colleen Caldwell
The world after: Central Virginia in the wake of the Civil War, Harry Caldwell
The dry bloodletting: A history of the diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders in military service members, Kevin Johnson
A reexamination of the colonization and emigration efforts of early Black Bostonians, Karen My Hien Luu
Out of print: Gay periodicals and the psa-rinting of a Gay Male World, 1969-1980, Jack Morris
Authenticity and genre in old-time music: 1958-1965, Lara Ressler-Horst
The Lincolns in Linville: A public history approach to the Lincoln homestead, Sydney Ring
From Montpelier to Fort Hill: James Mason and the defense of slavery in Virginia, 1848-1861, Zachary D. Thompson
Hatred unveiled: Femininity, masculinity, and the duality of the female Klanswoman from 1923 – 1987, Ashley Tokarz
Theses from 2023
Working for the benefit and advancement of women: Three women's organizations that commemorated the American Civil War, 1880-1920, Annette F. Guild
In search for a better south: President Johnson’s elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in the lone star state, Kade L. Kahanek
Republican party doctrine and the West Virginia coal mine wars, Thomas Kidd
From riches to rags: The price of Haitian independence, Michael Kuliasha III
The students’ army training corps in Virginia, R. Matthew Luther
American identities in Virginia education, Michael Mallery
Ladies of distinction: Examining twentieth century African American socialites and civil rights, Mackenzie Mason
I belong here too: An oral history of the immigration of Bangladeshis to New York City, Subat Matin
I belong here too: An oral history of the immigration of Bangladeshis to New York City, Subat Matin
Constructing memories of the civic-military dictatorship in La Plata, Argentina, 1976 to the present, Anna Neubauer
The Daniel Harrison house project: Heritage education programs at a historic house museum, Megan Schoeman
The ubiquitous path to war: A British perspective on their relationship with the Spanish empire from 1734-1739, Giuseppe Gerardo Vitale
Theses from 2022
Shape-note music traditions of the Shenandoah Valley, Tyler Brinkerhoff
The Child Development Act of 1971: The closest America has ever gotten to universal child care, Rory Cochran
America's Main Street misremembered: The myth of Route 66, Jessica Corsentino
A comparative analysis of Montpelier's, Monticello's, and Mount Vernon's collaborative effort with their descendant communities, Rachel Gregor
Badger state nationalism: World War I, the Ku Klux Klan, and the politics of 'Americanism' in 1915-1930 Wisconsin, William Levi
Walking the line: The legacy of the lost cause in redefining femininity at the normal, 1909-1942, Jennifer D. Page
Walking the Line: The Legacy of the Lost Cause in Redefining Femininity at the Normal, 1909-1942, Jennifer D. Page
God and reason: An intellectual religious journey through the mind of Thomas Paine, Jason R. Patterson
Praying for the south: Catholics and the Confederacy, Thomas Richardson
Theses from 2021
Military religions in Roman Dacia: Patterns of epigraphic dedications in urban centers, Jamie Bone
Stonington’s Revolution: The role of small port towns in the American Revolution, Jay Feyerabend
Immigration after the great famine: A case study of the passengers of the S.S. Canadian, Erin Kelly
“Without obscuring deeper truths:” Interpreting slavery and Jefferson at Monticello, Andrew Miles
Sleeping with Storyville: The influence of media, race, and morality in New Orleans’ red light district, Tiffany R. Nelson
Worse than Birmingham: How segregationists in Danville obstructed the civil rights movement, Lauren E. Oakes
The law and the household: Criminal courts in early twentieth century Rockingham County, Jennifer Taylor
Theses from 2020
Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America, Alexander Brooks
Serialized soldiers and the new archetype: America’s portrayal of soldiers in the Post-Vietnam Era, Rachel Childers
Mice meet world: How Disney and Nintendo allowed consumers to escape from, re-enter, and later re-envision a war torn world, Samantha Constantine
The bohemian Bolsheviks, Dale Cook
Free speech or sedition: Clement L. Valladigham and the Copperheads, 1860-1864, John Forsyth
Perceptions and identity: Poverty in 19th century Rockingham County, Kayla Heslin
"The twilight-colored smell of honeysuckle:" William Faulkner, the South, and literature as a site of memory, Emily Innes
A woman's place: Historicizing the persistence of the gender gap, Alexandra J. Kolleda
Diplomacy and the American Civil War: The impact on Anglo-American relations, Johnathan B. Seitz
Fear and rebellion in South Carolina: The 1739 Stono Rebellion and Colonial Slave Society, William Stanley
Die Kunst des Betrugs: An analysis of national socialist propaganda, Nicholas Strasser
Cuba’s use of political imagery in creating societal gender norms: 1940-1980, Matthew Wingfield
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
