Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Comparing Terrors: State Terrorism in Revolutionary France and Russia, Anne Cabrié Forsythe
Determining Reliability in Indian Captivity Narratives, Heather Nicole DiAngelis
Eavesdropping on History: Olmstead v U.S and the Emergence of Privacy Jurisprudence during Prohibition, Anna Leslie Krouse
Ellen Churchill Semple and American geography in an era of imperialism., Ellen Elizabeth Adams
For their Maintenance and Education: An Analysis of Children Entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Gardy
From Astoria to Annexation: The Hawaiian Diaspora and the Struggle for Race and Nation in the American Empire, Amanda Lee Heikialoha Savage
Ghent Gayland: A Case Study of the Gay and Lesbian Community and Media of Norfolk, Virginia, Michael Anthony Lusby
Jealous neighbors: Rivalry and alliance among the native communities of Detroit, 1701--1766, andrew Keith Sturtevant
Liberty, Bondage, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law and Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1806--1864, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf
Mobutu and Nyerere, 1960-1979: Trajectories and Creativity in Re-Imagining the Nation, Jonathan Edwards Shaw
National Remedies for National Evils: The Problem of Universal Reform and Race in the American Moral Reform Society, 1835-1841, Kristina Elizabeth Poznan
On the Backs of Horses: The Great Epizootic of 1872, Jeffrey Michael Flanagan
Particular and Purposeful Visions: How the Richmond School of Social Work Engaged the Nation and World from 1917 to 1939, Kelly Finefrock-Creed
Steadfast in their ways: New England colonists, Indian wars, and the persistence of culture, 1675-1715, David Michael Corlett
The "Extraordinary" Case of James Allen: A Study of Gender and Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Maria Dale Booth
The North American Peltry Exchange: A Comparative Look at the Fur Trade in Colonial Virginia and New Netherland, Laura Ann Norbut
The Political Imaginings of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts of the 1710 Slave Conspiracy in Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas
The Wondrous Chain of Providence: Thomas Prince, the Puritan Past, and New England's Future, 1660-1736, Thomas Joseph Gillan
Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem': Identity and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English and Colonial American Theatre, 1752-1776, Abigail Calvert Fine
Towns in Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, and Empire in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
Transpacific Internments: Constructing "Little America" and Dismantling "Little Tokyo", Jack Edward Cohen
Unsung Heroes: Lesbian Activists in the AIDS Epidemic in North Carolina and California, 1981-1989, Maggie Shackelford
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A Blueprint for the Colony: The Virginia Company Charters and the Role of Religion at Jamestown, Sarah Ellen McCartney
A Legacy of Inaction, Robert Gordon Menna
Art, Mystery, and Occupation: Building Culture in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia, Elizabeth Cook
Beyond the Text: Finding Anne Askew, Lindsay Watkins Zurawski
Beyond Words: Nonverbal Communication, Performance, and Acculturation in the Early French-Indian Atlantic (1500--1701), Celine Carayon
Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796, James Corbett David
"Hearty Damnations" and "Ordered Resistance": Protest, Profit, and Power in Colonial Charleston, 1769, Molly FitzGerald Perry
Heresy and Simony: John Wyclif and Jan Hus Compared, April Marie Brinker
Honor, Gender and the Law: Defense Strategies during the Spanish Inquisition, 1526-1532, Katy Iverson
Just Where Do You Think You're Going?: Maternalism and Social Work of the Travelers' Aid Society of Virginia, Kathryn Louise Hill
Keep on keeping on: The NAACP and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia, Brian James Daugherity
Neither United States Citizens Nor British Nationalists: A Postwar Loyalist Trade Diaspora, Justin Clement
The Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies: Albany County, New York:1778-1781, Jade Mara Leszkowicz
The Right of Petition: Cases of Indentured Servants and Society in Colonial Virginia, 1698-1746, Brandon Paul Righi
The Wayward Priest of Atondo: Violence, Vocation, and Religious Reform in a Navarrese Parish, Amanda Lynn Scott
"To Learn the Trade of a Potter": Apprenticeship, Emulation, and Deviance in the Wachovian Tradition, Jessica Lauren Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Agrarian Reform and the Slave System: A Case Study of James Galt's Point of Fork Plantation, 1835-1865, Stephen John Legawiec
Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other, John William McGlashan
"--All United Like Sisters--": Education, Friendship, and the Bonds of Womanhood at Litchfield Female Academy, 1782--1833, Amy E. Whelan
American languages: Indians, ethnology, and the empire for liberty, Sean Patrick Harvey
An Outsider's View: British Travel Writers and Representations of Slavery in South Africa and the West Indies: 1795-1838, Benjamin Joseph Hurwitz
Anthony Burns and the north-south dialogue on slavery, liberty, race, and the American Revolution, Gordon S. Barker
Blood from a Stone: Inuit Captives and English National Destiny, 1576-1580, Seth David Archer
"Dance, Dance Revolution": The Function of Dance in American Politics, 1763-1800, Amy Catherine Green
"For All Men Love to See the Country as Well as to Heare of It": Views of Unsettled Virginia, 1649-1676, Sarah Zella Bowden Page
From Torbay to Cambridge: William III, George Washington, and the use of Propaganda in Revolution, Michael Peter Charles Smith
Guarding the Other Frontier: The Virginia State Navy and its Men, 1775-1783, Margaret Elizabeth Owen
Next to the Man, and Not Forgotten: Gay McDougall and the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-1994, Myra Ann Houser
Patronage and Courtiership in Sixteenth-Century Spain: A Case Study of Fernando de Valdés, Inquisitor-General, Katie Melissa Ross
Sarah's Song: How Folk Music Shattered Slaveholding Ideology in Antebellum Alabama, Charles Allen Wallace
The Image of a Woman's Authority: Representations of Elizabeth I in Portrait and Film, Heather Armstrong McLees-Frazier
The Rise of Modern Richmond and the Fall of Electric Transit, Earl Ferdinand Glock
Toleration and Reform: Virginia's Anglican Clergy, 1770-1776, Stephen M. Volpe
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Accounting for Political Virtue: Consumer Choice and the Non-Consumption Movement in Revolutionary New York City, Melissa Faith Gray
A Second Eden: The Promotion and Perception of Virginia, 1584-1624, Jennifer Lynn Blahnik
A Stranger in the Land?: Reassessing the Political Writings of Gershom Bulkeley, Jeffrey W. Kuckuck
A World in Miniature: James Butcher and the Transformation of African American Politics & Society in Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane
Conflict Amid Conversion: Mormon Proselytizing in Russian Finland, 1860-1914, Zachary R. Jones
Forgotten masters: Institutional slavery in Virginia, 1680--1860., Jennifer Bridges Oast
In the pale's shadow: Indians and British forts in eighteenth-century America, Daniel Patrick Ingram
Negotiating the Companionate Ideal: Religion, Emotion, and Power in the Courtships of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
Puzzles of the Past: The Life of Josiah Parker (1751-1810) and the Revolutionary Generation, William Mark Hains
Rise of the "Indian Doctors": Charity Shaw and the Marketing of Indian Medicine, Jason Peter Zieger
The CIA & the cult of secrecy, David Shamus McCarthy
The Drug Trade in Early North America, Laura Elizabeth Passic
The Farthest Post: Fort Astoria, the Fur Trade, and Fortune on the Final Frontier of the Pacific Northwest, Bronwyn M. Fletchall
The Militarization of Agriculture: Cold War, Foreign Aid, and the Expansion of the American Agricultural Welfare System Under President Eisenhower, Alan Herbert Matzner
The Religious Philosophy of Richard M Nixon, Robert Benjamin Abel
The Revolutionary Writings of Mary and Royall Tyler: Marital, Medical, and Political Discourse in an Early-Nineteenth-Century Family, Elizabeth Anne Bond
The shadow of the revolution: South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the evolution of modern American labor relations, John William Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Ambiguous alliances: Native American efforts to preserve independence in the Ohio Valley, 1768-1795, Sharon M. Sauder Muhlfeld
An overlooked dimension of the Korean War: The role of Christianity and American missionaries in the rise of Korean nationalism, anti -colonialism, and eventual civil war, 1884-1953, Kai Yin Allison Haga
"From eager lips came shrill hurrahs": Women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865--1900, Kate Fraser Gillin
Indian Woman and Revolutionary Men: Representing the Body Politic in the Satirical Prints of the American Revolution, andrea Kathleen Westcot
"In praise of Bishop Valentine": The creation of modern Valentine's Day in antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
"Miraculously Saved": Richmond and the 1811 Theater Fire, Meredith Margaret Henne
Philip Fithian's Private Journals and Personal Journeys: Self-Improvement, Fidelity, and Rebellion, 1766-1776, Edward P. Pompeian
Roses in December: Black life in Hanover County, Virginia during the era of disfranchisement, Jody Lynn Allen
The Bucktrout Funeral Home, a Study of Professionalization and Community Service, Kelly Marie Brennan
The Impact of Paternalism on the Interactions of Women in the Plantation South, Jessica Lynn Walsh
The Struggle for the South Carolina Backcountry, 1775-1776, Pierson J. Bell
Trading lives: Mapping the pathways and peoples of the southeastern deerskin trade, 1732-1775, Robert Edward Paulett
Tuscarora trails: Indian migrations, war, and constructions of colonial frontiers, Stephen D. Feeley
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Anglo -Spanish rivalry and the development of the colonial Southeast, 1670--1720, Timothy Paul Grady
Charleston's Artisans and their Tea Parties: Popular Action and Empowerment in the Colonial South's Largest Seaport, 1773-1774, Liam Joseph Paskvan
Conflict, Coexistence, and Community: Settlement Politics and the Emergence of a Social Network in Proprietary South Carolina, 1670-1700, Paul Philip Musselwhite
"Costing Not Less Than Everything": Yorktown, Virginia, and the Price of War, Margaret Susan Tilley
Keeping Up Appearances: British Identity and 'Prestige' in South America, 1910-1925, Matthew Elliott Street Butler
Our Great Physicist: Professor Joseph Henry of Princeton and the Rise of Science in the Antebellum College, Sarah Swords
Powerful Spirits: Social Drinking in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah Elizabeth King Pariseau
The Honorable Women of Williamsburg: Resistance to Union Occupation and Female Honor, Rebecca Sommers
The Inner Audience: Fisher Ames and the Politics of Speech and Print, Nathaniel Clayton Green
"They opened the door too late": African Americans and baseball, 1900-1947, Sarah L. Trembanis
Union Deserter Executions and the Limits of State Authority, Aaron Michael Bachmann
Yorktown, Tobacco, and Slaves: The Rise and Decline of a Colonial Port in Virginia, Kimberly Suzanne Renner
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
"A Nation's Wail their Requiem!": Memory and Identity in the Commemoration of the American Civil War Dead, 1865-1870, Diana Williams Bell
