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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Japanese Canadians in World War II: Neglected Historiography, Clayton Huff
Foundation of Empire in the Tudor Era: Further Explorations of the Northeast and Northwest Passages, Richard H. Lloyd III
Powerful and Powerless: Reconfiguring the Agency and Supremacy of Women in Selected Festivals in the Yoruba Town of Isaga Orile, 1900-1958, Olusegun Olatunji
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Hope for Peace & the Case for War in the Postwar Soviet Union, Shawn Cecconi
“We Do Not Know Which Path to Take” Mahieddine Bachetarzi, Music, Theater, and Salafist Nationalism in Interwar Algeria (1919 – 1939), Philip DeVries
False Idol: The Memory of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction in Greeneville, Tennessee 1869-2022, Zachary A. Miller
Power in Portrayal: An Exploration of the Evolving Cold War Relationship Between Germany and America through Film, Kaleb Wentz
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Blitzkrieg: The Evolution of Modern Warfare and the Wehrmacht’s Impact on American Military Doctrine during the Cold War Era, Briggs Evans
The Impact of the United States Army Nurses Corps on the United States Army Fatality Rate in the Mediterranean and European Theater of Operations during World War II, Joshua Benjamin Groomes
The Medici Example: How Power Creates Art and Art Creates Power, Margaret Hayden
The Mouse Sees No Color: An Examination of the Disney Corporation’s Recent Depictions of Race in American History, Jordan Kern
The Ogoni Uprising in Nigeria: the Niger-Delta Crisis and its Impact on Nigeria’s Unity, 1980-1999, Gregory A. Odey
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Viewing History Through a Lens: The Influence of Film on Historical Consciousness, Brittany Bales
Ritualistic Equestrianism: Status, Identity, and Symbolism in Tudor Coronation Ceremonies, Keri Blair
Influential Factors on Historic Interpretation: A Case Study of Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site, Matthew Frye
The United States and Cuba: A Study of the US’s First Military Occupation and State Building Efforts, James Guillard
Pentecostal Women and Religious Reformation in the Progressive Era: The Political Novelty of Women’s Religious and Organizational Leadership, Sherry Kaye Ms.
Hangul Nationalism: Missionary and Other Outside Influences in Nineteenth-Century Korean Writing Reform, Emily Q. Lu
Talk This Way: A Look at the Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop and Christianity, Joshua Swanson
The Last Crusade: British Crusading Rhetoric During the Great War, Seth Walker
A Study of the United States Influence on German Eugenics., Cameron Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of Medieval Scandinavia, Michael David Lawson
The Life and Political Career of Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Dylan McNutt
Resistance to Statism in Frontier Era Upper East Tennessee, 1760-1820, Casey Price
"We Germans Fear God, and Nothing Else in the World!" Military Policy in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914, Cavender Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
America’s Inconsistent Foreign Policy to Africa; a Case Study of Apartheid South Africa, Olugbenga Samson Ojewale Mr
The Open Door, Dollar Diplomacy, and the Self-Strengthening Movement: The Birth of American Idealist Imperialism in China, 1890 - 1912, Frederic Poag
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Baltic German Exodus, 1939-1945: Settlement, Adaption and Disappearance, Aiko N. Bresinsky
Reformation London and the Adaptation of Observed Piety, Hannah Diaz
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Proper Cup of Tea: The Making of a British Beverage, Rachel M. Banks
Prudery and Perversion: Domination of the Sexual Body in Middle-Class Men, Women, and Disenfranchised Bodies in Victorian England, Ashley Barnett
Dead Center: Polarization and the Democratic Party, 1932-2000, Colin S. Campbell
Refuse to go Quietly: Jewish Survival Tactics During the Holocaust, John D. Caraveo
“Mere Supplicants at the Gate”: Northeast Tennessee Politics in the Antebellum Era, O.J. Early
Imagery and Objectification: A Study of Early Modern Queenship, Heather R. Geiter
The Church, State, and Literature of Carolingian France, Steffan James Geiter
That 80's Show! - The Politics, Film, and Television of the Reagan Years, Gable Hackett
King Fred: How the British King Who Never Was Shaped the Modern Monarchy, Austin W. B. Hilton
Women in the 1929 Textile Strikes in Elizabethton, Tennessee and Gastonia, North Carolina, Steven K. Knapp
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
All the King’s Men: British Codebreaking Operations: 1938-43, Andrew J. Avery
Pursuing West: The Viking Expeditions of North America, Jody M. Bryant
Big Game Cats and Defining Football’s Value: College Football’s Popularity, Controversies, and Expansion, Matthew T. Himel
If I Had a Hammer: American Folk Music and the Radical Left, Sarah C. Kerley
The Nazi Genocide: Eugenics, Ideology, and Implementation 1933-1945, Michael A. Letsinger
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Wolf Attacks: A History of the Russo-Chechen Conflict, Christina E. Baxter
The Deliberate Speed of the Tar Heel State: North Carolina’s Efforts to Resist School Desegregation, 1954-1966, Patrick S. Cash
Admiral Thomas C. Hart And The Demise Of The Asiatic Fleet 1941 – 1942, David DuBois
Comparison of Focus and Audience Between Seneca’s Natural Questions and Pliny’s Natural History, Joshua Ely
Fantastic Histories: War and American Memory in Selected Works of Joss Whedon, Ensley F. Guffey
Parallel Identities: Southern Appalachia and the Southern Concepts of Gender During the American Civil War, Maegan K. Harrell
Debating Cannae: Delbrück, Schlieffen, and the Great War, Andrew Loren Jones
The Idea of ‘Holy Islamic Empire’ as a Catalyst to Muslims’ Response to the Second Crusade, Emeel S. Lamey
“Our Weapon is the Wooden Spoon:” Motherhood, Racism, and War: The Diverse Roles of Women in Nazi Germany, Cortney Nelson
“Thank God It’s Only Maneuvers!:” Tennessee and the Road to War, Joshua G. Savage
The Commission on Religion in Appalachia and the Twentieth-Century Emphasis on Rural Identity, Joseph K. Spiker
The Evolution of Mountain Warfare in Southern Appalachia, Lucas Wilder
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Problem of Perception An Analysis of the Formation, Reception, and Implementation of National Socialist Ideology in Germany, 1919 to 1939, Derrick Angermeier
"Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain, John Wyatt Greenlee
Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars, Zachary M. Lizee
The Grass-Roots Challenges with Administration: Conscription Evasion, Contraband, and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe, Julia A. Lyle
Never Quite Settled: Southern Plain Folk on the Move, Ronald J. McCall
“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins, Aaron M. Owens
The Forgotten Footnote of the Second World War: An Examination of the Historiography of Scandinavia during World War II, Jason C. Phillips
Evil Becomes Her: Prostitution's Transition from Necessary to Social Evil in 19th Century America, Jacqueline Shelton
Barbary Pirates: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton, and the Evolution of U.S. Diplomacy in the Mediterranean, Patrick N. Teye
The Farmers’ Alliance in Western North Carolina, Aaron Thomas
From the Committee of 100 to the Committee to Re-Elect the President: The Political Campaigns of Richard M. Nixon, Niklas Trzaskowski
Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding, Kimberly D. Woodring
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
“Decades of Progress”: The Relevance of the State Supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities of North Carolina, 1865-2010, Maurice Lamont Adkins
The Invisible Enemy: The Effects of Polio on the American War Effort during World War II, 1941-1945, Jacob Owen Bryant
Forgotten Heroes: Lessons from School Integration in a Small Southern Community, Whitney Elizabeth Cate
“We Have to Record the Downfall of Tyranny”: The London Times Perspective on Napoleon Bonaparte’s Invasion of Russia, Julia Dittrich
"Tell Them I Don't Smoke Cigars:" The Making of Bonnie Parker, Anna Wills Dowell
The Role of Inflation in Soviet History: Prices, Living Standards, and Political Change, Steven M. Efremov
Uneasy Waters: The Night Riders at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, 1908, Jama McMurtery Grove
The Perception and Treatment of Insanity in Southern Appalachia, Carla Joinson
Solidarity Forever: The Story of the Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Communist Party from the Perspective of the Rank and File Autoworkers, Brandi Nicole McCloud
Party of the Century: Juárez, Díaz, and the End of the "Unifying Liberal Myth" in 1906 Oaxaca, John Radley Milstead
The Olympic Glory of Jesse Owens: A Contribution to Civil Rights and Society, Casey Aaron Nash
The Edenton Tea Party, 25 October 1774: A Patriotic Female Community in Revolutionary North Carolina, Eliza Love Shelton
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Nationalism of Joachim Meyer: An Analysis of German Pride in his Fighting Manual of 1570., William Charles Adamson
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: America Attempts to Collect its War Debts 1922-1934., James Chambers
Mapping England's Trade Through Depictions in English Emblems., Valerie J. Erickson
Thieves Apostates and Bloody Viragos: Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641., Edwin Marshall Galloway
Wired for Business: The Roebling Story., Kelley Marie Hatch-Draper
On the Imperishable Face of Granite: Civil War Monuments and the Evolution of Historical Memory in East Tennessee 1878-1931., Kelli Brooke Nelson
Studies of Editorials of Chinese Newspapers in Regard to Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945)., Kuangyi Pei
The Book of Enoch and Second Temple Judaism., Nancy Perkins
From Confederate Deserter to Decorated Veteran Bible Scholar: Exploring the Enigmatic Life of C.I. Scofield 1861-1921., D. Jean Rushing
A Community of Modern Nations: The Mexican Herald at the Height of the Porfiriato 1895-1910., Joshua Salyers
An International Reformer: Jessie Ackermann and American Progressivism., Michael Jonathan Sheffield
The Crucible of Texas Politics: An Analysis of the United States Senatorial Primaries of 1941 and 1948., Ginger McGoldrick Spradlin
The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920., Walter Joseph Stucke
Patronage Piety and Capitulation: The Nobilitys Response to Religious Reform in England., Melody Tedder
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Protest Music of the Vietnam War: Description and Classification of Various Protest Songs., Amanda Marie Carr-Wilcoxson