Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Rebellion and Ethnicity in Colonial New York: Jacob Leisler, Nicholas Bayard and their World, Rachael Nicole Headrick
The Francophone World and the Making of an American Catholicism, Mitchell Edward Oxford
’Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions/ Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults and the Whiskey Rebellion, Connor Fenton
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
'A Land Not Exactly Flowing with Milk & Honey': Swan River Mania in the British Isles and Western Australia 1827-1832, Matthew John Niendorf
Apocalypse Now: War and Religion in Late Colonial and Early Republic America, Nicole Marie Penn
Blurring The Lines between Collaboration and Resistance: Women in Nazi Germany and Vichy and Nazi-Occupied France, Katherine Michelle Thurlow
Cabinet of Monkies: Dancing Politics in Anglo Culture, from Jacobite to Jacobin and Royalist to Republican, Amy Stallings
Cherries from the Tree: National Identity and the Hero Construction of George Washington, 1799-1829, Jack Thomas Masterson
"Dread of Elder Titles": John Haywood and the Occult Origins of the Confederacy, Charles Allen Wallace
Finding their Place in An American City: Perspectives on African Americans and French Creoles in Antebellum St. Louis, Anna K. Roberts
“I am Truly Delighted, Sir, with the Account You have Given of My Country” / “A Most Confused Feeling Inside”, Katherine Scarlett Cartwright
“Killing The Cattle, Hogs, and Fowls”/stories of Osceola, andrew Stephen Vickory
Methodism, Slavery, and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1770-1820, Christopher Cannon Jones
Muskogee Internationalism in An Age of Revolution, 1763-1818, James L. Hill
Native Americans in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Morgan McCullough
Prior Knowledge/esto Perpetua Respublica Americana, Phillip Louis Emanuel
Private Schools for Blacks in Early Twentieth Century Richmond, Virginia, Sharron Smith
Race, Sexuality, and Radicalism in the Piney Woods: The Industrial Workers of the World and the Brotherhood of Timber Workers, 1910-1916, David J. Marquis
Relationships, Credit, and Value: Analyzing Money as a Social Institution in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Subjects or Rebels: The Dominion of New England and the Roots of Anglo-American Conflict / The Right to Fortifications: American Communities and the Politics of Harbor Defense: 1794-1812, Samuel Aldred Slattery
The City at The Falls: Building Culture in Richmond, Virginia, 1730-1860, Elizabeth Cook
The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States, Laurel Richardson Daen
The Gilded South/exporting Abortion, Jenna Frances Ray
“The Improvements Made By America on The Ancient Mode”: Classicism and Nationalism in the Early American Republic, 1780-1850, Alexander Strickland
The Infusion of Stars and Stripes: Sectarianism and National Unity in Little Syria, New York, 1890-1905, Manal Kabbani
The Mind of the State and Thinking about Sex, Brandon Wayne Dylan Munda
The Myth of Unity: The Contra War, 1980–1990, Benjamin Wyatt Medina
Trans-Atlantic Elements in the Domestic Policy Attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements, 1980-1990., Samuel Inigo Packer
"Turkey is the Key": Studies on America's Relationship with the Ottoman Empire, The Turkish Republic, and Islam in the Near and Middle East, Maureen Julia Fischer
Usufruct in the Land of Tribute: Property, Coercion, and Sovereignty on Early Colonial Eastern Long Island, Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"A Mode of Correcting the Existing Evils": Swindlers, Inland Passage Tickets, and the Federalization of Immigration Policy in the Antebellum United States, Joseph Patrick Fitzgibbon
A Widow's Purview: A Microhistory of Widowhood and Gender Relations in the Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia Backcountry, Eve Bourbeau-Allard
"Distresses of Mind, Body, and Estate": The Connection between Status and Property in Colonial Virginia as Exhibited by Loyalist Claims, Kasey Marie Sease
False Emissaries: The Jesuits among the Piscataways in Early Colonial Maryland, 1634-1648, Kathleen Elizabeth Scorza
From Charlesfort to Jamestown: French and English Imperial Efforts in Early American History, Cornelia Thompson
Hawaiian Emancipation?: Slavery, Free Labor, and Indentured Labor in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Mark Thomas Guerci
"In Noe Wise Cruelly Whipped": Indentured Servitude, Household Violence, and the Law in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Caylin Elizabeth Carbonell
In the "Spirit of Investigation and Experiment": John Minson Galt II and Social Reform at the Eastern Asylum, Elise Aminta Salles
Networks in Favor of Liberty: St Eustatius as an Entrepôt of Goods and Information during the American Revolution, Sarah Marie Vlasity
Of Circuit Riders and Circuit Courts: A Case Study of the Methodist Border Conflict in Antebellum Virginia, Douglas Paul Gleason
"Pretty girls and fascinating boys" : the adolescent journey of evangelical youths, 1970-2000, Maria Alexandria Kane
Promoting Tourism, Selling a Nation: The Politics of Representing National Identity in the United States 1930-1960, Sarah Elizabeth McLennan
Sea of change : race, abolitionism, and reform in the New England whale fishery, Justin andrew Pariseau
The Brafferton Estate: Harvard, William and Mary, and Religion in the Early Modern English Atlantic World, Mark Mulligan
The Continental Army: Leadership School of the Early Republic, David Lawrence Ward
"The Pretended Riot Explained": Citizen Sovereignty and the Mashpee Revolt, Michaela Kleber
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation at the End of the Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
Exhorting or Extorting?: George Whitefield's Financial Controversies, Kristen Elizabeth Beales
From "Lying Low" to "Harmonious World": Changes in Chinese Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the 2000s, Charles Monahan Murray
From Señor Natural to Siervo de Dios: The Transition of Nahua Nobility Under Spanish Rule, 1540-1600, Shannon A. Retzbach
Liberty's Kids: Toys, Children's Literature, and the Promotion of Nationalism in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States, August M. Butler
Possessing the Holy Land: The Palestine Exploration Fund and the American Palestine Exploration Society, Ashley M. Irizarry
Powhatan's White Dog: Tsenacommacah in the English Trading World, Matthew Patrick Morrison
Spirited enterprises : Venezuela, the United States, and the independence of Spanish America, 1789-1823, Edward P. Pompeian
Surreptitious Spaces: Cabarets and the French Contest for Empire in Martinique, 1680-1720, Lynch D. Bennett
Temptress of the Stage: Whither the Widow-Woman?, Kathryn Elizabeth Snyder
"The Fatal Year": Slavery, Violence, and the Stamp Act of 1765, Joshua Fogarty Beatty
The Formation of the Russian Medical Profession: A Comparison of Power and Plagues in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Samuel Otto Schuth
The Reynolds Affair, Party Politics and Sexuality in the Early Republic, Alexandra Marie Gross
"Thus Did God Break the Head of that Leviathan": Performative Violence and Judicial Beheadings of Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century New England, Ian Edward Tonat
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Conflict at the College: William and Mary 1750-1776, andrea Lynn Williams
Deviants of Great Potential: Images of the Leopold-Loeb Case, John Carl Fiorini
Drawn Together, Drawn Apart: Black and White Baptists in Tidewater Virginia, 1800-1875, Nancy Alenda Hillman
"Exile from My Native Shore": The Loyalist Diaspora and the Epistolary Family, Cara Anson Elliott
"Friendly Fire": Free Quakers, Fatherhood and Religious Identity in the Early Republic, Samuel S. Wells
"Handing Down Remarkable and Interesting Circumstances": Elizabeth Carrington and Female Intellectual Inheritance in the Early American Republic, Hannah Emily Bailey
"Her Correspondence is Dangerous": Women in the Fashion Trades Negotiating the Opportunities and Challenges of Doing Business in the Chesapeake, 1766-75, Kaylan Michelle Stevenson
Honor from the Trenches: Why Confederate Soldiers Fought at Petersburg, Patrick John Hussey
Integrating "The Star City of the South": Roanoke School Desegregation and the Politics of Delay, Peter Carr Jones
Letters to Annie: Ordinary Women in Late Nineteenth Century Maine, Rachel Catherine Thomas
Married, but at Whose House?: Parson Rose and the Colonial Virginian Wedding, Emily Helen Wright
Narratives of Reversion: Portrayals of Haiti in the Old South, Skyler Robert Reidy
"Nothing Tame about Them": Dogs and the Symbolism of Civility in the Jamestown Settlement, Rebecca Ann Rusek
The Revolutionary Career of Louis Philippe de Ségur: Caught between Tradition and Reform, Lauren Wallace
The Schoolteacher and the Secretary: The Newspapers and Community of a Revolutionary French-American, 1754-1784, Katherine S. Madison
The Use of History in Migrating: Cases from the Haitian Diaspora, Elizabeth K. Yohn
Virtue in Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, and the Shape of Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Sylvia Schmitt
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
A Bold Promise: Black Readjusters and the Founding of Virginia State University, Leigh Alexandra Soares
Benjamin Smith Barton, "MD": The American Performance of Scientific Authority in a Trans-Atlantic World, Ryan Bartholomew Tanner-Read
Black Female Landowners in Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877, Hannah Catherine Craddock
"Cash to Corinna": Silas and Corinna Omohundro and the Politics of Public Interracial Relationships in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, Alexandra Jolyn Finley
Clockmaking Clerics and Ropemaking Lawyers: Mixing Occupational Roles in Early Modern Spain, Aaron Joshua Gregory
Down the Great Wagon Road: The Ironworking Pennybackers of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Sarah E. Thomas
Founding Fathers on Screen: The Changing Relationship between History and Film, Jennifer Lynn Garrott
Ironclad Revolution: The History, Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor, Anna Gibson Holloway
"I Will Commence with My News": Elite Youth Culture and Communities of Knowledge in Early Nineteenth Century Williamsburg, Holly Nicole Stevens
Race News: How Black Reporters and Readers Shaped the Fight for Racial Justice, 1877--1978, Frederick James Carroll
'Taken to Detroit': Shawnee Resistance and the Ohio Valley Captive Trade, 1750-1796, Anna Margaret Cloninger
The Changing Girl: Sex Education and Prescriptions of White Girlhood, Laura M. Ansley
The Death of John Pierce and the Political Culture of the Early Republic, Jennifer Leigh Petrafesa
The Ideal Marriage: Reactions to Marie Stopes' "Married Love", 1918-1935, Shannon E. Goings
The "Voice Of Virginia": WRVA and Conversations of a Modern South., Caroline C. Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell and the Politics of Display in the Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen
Authority and Consent: Politics, Power, and Plunder in Charleston, South Carolina, 1700-1745, Kristen Ann Woytonik
Bondage on the Border: Slaves and Slaveholders in Tazewell County, Virginia, Laura Lee Kerr
Building and Planting: The Material World, Memory, and the Making of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726, Catharine Christie Dann Roeber
"By Measures Taken of Men": Clothing the Classes in William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner
