Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Passing into print: Walt Whitman and his publishers, Charles B. Green
Montpelier: The history of a house, 1723-1998, Matthew Gantert Hyland
Seeking the Living among the Dead: African American Burial Practices in Surry County, Virginia, Deanda Marie Johnson
Calming minds and instilling character: John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843--1860, Bettina Jean Manzo
"I Like Things Simple, but it Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
The blues and jazz in Albert Murray's fiction: A study in the tradition of stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
Spousal Abuse in the Army, James Palmer
Re-Evaluating Sentimental Violence in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Dred", Kristen Beth Proehl
Colonial Williamsburg, National Identity, and Cold War Patriotism, Luke Edward Roberts
Cherokee Royalties: The Impact of Indian Tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee Identity, Annette Bird Saunooke
(at)america.jp: Identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
Picturing home: Domestic painting and the ideologies of art, Mark E. Sprinkle
Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction of Adolescence for the 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
Postbellum Education of African Americans: Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester, Benjamin andrew Swenson
Re-shaping documentary expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Performing Race: Instances of Color Representation in American Culture, Katrin L. Adkins
Colonial Williamsburg's Slave Auction Re-Enactment: Controversy, African American History and Public Memory, Erin Krutko Devlin
Washington in glory, America in tears: The nation mourns the death of George Washington, 1799-1800, Gerald Edward Kahler
Christian Parenting: Baptists and the Birds and Bees, Fumie Kobayashi
Food fight! America's ideological battle over lunch, Julie Lynn Lautenschlager
Saints and Soldiers of Humanity: Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Sarah Jaggi Lee
Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer from Toast to Gangsta Rap, andrea L. D. Symons
"Father Wasn't De Onlies' One Hidin' in De Woods": The Many Images of Maroons Throughout the American South, Angela Alicia Williams
Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California: Conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624: "A Delicate and Necessary Seat for a City or Chief Fortification", John Michael Cobb
The still life: Domesticity, subjectivity, and the bachelor in nineteenth-century America, Matthew Cohen
1500 by 1939 by 1998---These Are the Measurements of Malinche's Body: An Analysis and Review of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Nationality, Ella Maria Diaz
In Parisian Salons and Boston's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", David W. Lewes
Anguilla and the art of resistance, Jane Dillon McKinney
Bill Hicks: A Study in National Character, Adam Gardner Osborn
Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe and the Manufacturing of a New Social Reality in Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission and Servanthood in Rhetoric of the Promise Keepers, Erica J. Smith
American Identity and the Wild West Show, 1880-1910, Susan Ann Stark
"Our Street-Strutting Language": Asian American Rappers in a Hip-Hop Nation, Helen Ye-Hua Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The slave in the swamp: Disrupting the plantation narrative, William Tynes Cowan
"Gershwin Gone Native!": The Influence of Primitivism and Folk Music on "Porgy and Bess", Katherine Dacey
Two steps from the blues: Creating discourse and constructing canons in blues criticism, John M. Dougan
Race Relations: A Family Story, 1765-1867, Wendy Gonaver
A publisher's hand: Strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in Antebellum America, MaryKate McMaster
The vermin -killers: Pest control in the early Chesapeake, Megan Haley Newman
Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
The Proper Role of Religious Conviction in Moral-Political Discourse, Jerry Owens
Remembering American Wars in Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center, Joanna E. Pleasant
An officer and a lady, Kathleen Marie Scott
Friendly Meetings: The Art of Conquest and the Mythical Origins of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771, James O'Neil Spady
The Squared Circle and that Household Box: The Relationship between Wrestling, Television and American Culture, Brian Stewart
Katherine Anne Porter and her publishers, Alexandra Subramanian
"Prologue to a life": Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years, 1926--1934, Karen Rose Veselits
"The freemasonry of the race": The cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Far from "everybody's everything": Literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction, Crystal Suzette anderson
"Faithful Child of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876, Judith Bledsoe Bailey
Mysterious Messages: Masonic Imagery in Baltimore Album Quilts, Anne Bayne Battaile
A Social History of the Private Fence in Nineteenth-Century America, Lisa Brenner Bishop
The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
Authorship and individualism in American literature, Valerie Ann DeBrava
"Neither bedecked nor bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and women's leadership and organizing in the struggle for freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
Notions of Refinement and Displays of Dignity in African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935, Roxane Victoria Pickens
A World of Goods: The Printer's Economy in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
How gardening pays: Leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture, Robin Veder
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Intertexual [sic] Cadences, "When Wants and Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot": Excavating Phillis Wheatley's Transcending Voice of Accent, Antonio T. Bly
African American History at Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
"The Poet, the Poem, and the People": Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics, Sam Chaltain
"C" is for Cookie, Culture, and Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon in the United States, Nicole B. Cloeren
Eying Italians: Race, romance, and reality in American perception, 1880--1910, Joseph Peter Cosco
Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and the Cultural Politics of Stardom, Amy L. Howard
Luxury Consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg, Virginia: Gender, Race, and the Personal Property Tax, Shannon Lynn Hughes
The Fashionable Set: The Feasibility of Social Tea Drinking in 1774, Samantha M. Ligon
The Ainu in United States-Japan relations, Yujin Yaguchi
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
From within the frame: Storytelling in African-American fiction, Bertram Duane Ashe
The Enduring Villain: Germans as Nazi Stereotypes in American Cinema, Christine Lokotsch Aube
"To Go with an Ungloved Hand Was Impossible": A History of Gloves, Hands, Sex, Wealth, and Power, Karen Northrup Barzilay
A War of Words: Satire and Song in the Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes, Mark Hunter Howell
Generational Revolt and the Spirit of Capitalism : Fanny Fern's Confrontation with Calvinism, Class, and Gender Ideology in Ruth Hall, Catherine Lunt
A Dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770, Mollie C. Malone
"A more perfect sympathy": College students and social service, 1889-1914., Emily Mieras
Let us now praise famous men: A history the American World War II personal narrative, 1942-1945, Hildy Michelle Neel
A Robe of Eloquence: Speech and Power in the Life and Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Nelson
Keeping Up Appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774, Virginia Barrett Price
Preserving Virginia's Vision of the Past, Karen Merry Reilley
Producing the Past: Museums, Reproductions, Consumers, and Authenticity, Melinda Grace Talbot
Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" and Virginia Woolf: A Study in Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite
Charlatans, embezzlers, and murderers: Revolution comes to Virginia, 1765-1775, William E. White
The domestication of history in American art: 1848-1876, Jochen Wierich
"Traveling the White Man's Road" : The Quest for Identity in Hampton's Indian Newspaper, 1886 1907, Eli T. Winkler
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind the Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit of the Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude
The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, and the Prisonaires, John M. Dougan
Lost Chances in Sino-American Relations: The Burden of Myth, Culture, and Ideology, 1949-1953, Kai Yin Allison Haga
"I Claim Not to have Controlled Events": Abraham Lincoln and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in the Secession Crisis, Deborah Rae Huso
Sites of Southern memory: The autobiographies of Katharine Dupre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray, Darlene O'Dell
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Unstable Compounds: Progressive and Regressive Impulses in Four Contemporary American Documentaries and the Prospect for Social Change, Stephen Henry Bransford
Beyond Telling the News: The Mission of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Wild, Wearable, and Seaworthy, Frances Evelyn Davey
Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman", Kristin Margaret Edmonds
Ship of wealth: Massachusetts merchants, foreign goods, and the transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
A Distinctive Chest of Drawers: using Material Culture to Interpret the Past and the Present, Jessica Williams Johnston
"The road to ruins and restoration": Roland W Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
A Parlor in the Penitentiary: Prisons and Reading in Victorian America, Jennifer D. Luff
The Other Faces of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, and the Commodity of Experience, Jill Angela McNutt
