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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
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
Moonshining in Rockingham County: A case study on oral traditions and folkways, Tiffany W. Cole
The talented Mr. Littlepage & The Spirit of ’76: An American character study, Chris R. Pullen
"Just before a mighty earthquake:" Three southwest Georgia counties during the Secession Crisis, November 1860-January 1861, Thomas William Robinson
Asserting Republican manhood and bringing the Bashaw to reason: The evolution and defense of Republican ideology during America's Tripolitan War, 1801-1805, Richard Trevor Smith
European views on Ottomans: Beyond religious and military polemics, Kurt F. Vossler
"Neither the hue of their complexion nor the blood of Afrik have any connection with cowardice:" The impact of British Slave emancipation in the American Revolution, Murphy MacDuffey Wood
The river and the factory: Momentum and shifting dynamics between the Shenandoah River and Avtex Fibers, 1939-1989, Christina Wulf
