Theses/Dissertations from 2005
A Schoolhouse Behind Every Cannon: Freedpeople's Education and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1864-1876, Justin andrew Pariseau
Between Black and White: The Religious Aftermath of Nat Turner's Rebellion, Nancy Alenda Hillman
Continuity and Change in a Southern Community: Commercial and Occupational Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Orange County, North Carolina, andrew Hunter Heffner
"Down Where the South Begins": Virginia Radio and the Conversation of Nationhood, Caroline Chandler Morris
Flag Planting and Mapmaking: English Claims to North America, andrew Keith Sturtevant
King Bacca's throne: Land, life, and labor in the Old Bright Belt since 1880, Evan Patrick Bennett
Marketing to the 'liberated' woman: Feminism, social change, and beauty culture, 1960--2000, Elizabeth A. Kreydatus
Petticoat Flag: The Actions of Confederate Women in Missouri during the Civil War, Jill Pesesky
Screen strife: Race, gender, and movie censorship in the New South, 1922--1965, Melissa D. Ooten
Subconscious Influences: The Leopold-Loeb Case and the Development of an American Criminal Archetype, John Carl Fiorini
The Jeffersons at Shadwell: The social and material world of a Virginia family, Susan A. Kern
The Rising of 1798 and the Political Foundation of Irish-American Identity, William A. Sullivan
Three peoples, one king: Loyalists, Indians, slaves and the American Revolution in the Deep South, 1775-1782, James R. Piecuch
Treasonous Patriots: The Secret Committee of Six and Violent Abolitionism, Kristen Kimberly Epps
Williamsburg and Urbanization in Antebellum Virginia: "A Place--a Process--a Parade of Change that Continues Forward", Elisabeth Frederick Butler
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
"An Object Best Worthy of Succor": White Virginia Women and the African Colonization Movement, 1825-1840, Caroline Simmons Hasenyager
Building "the machine": The development of slavery and slave society in early colonial Virginia, John C. Coombs
Confronting democracy: Edward Coles and the cultivation of authority in the young nation, Suzanne Cooper Guasco
Guarding capital: Soldier strikebreakers on the long road to the Ludlow massacre, Anthony Roland DeStefanis
In Honor of God and Country: The Clergy of Occupied Virginia during the Civil War, Michael Thomas Sclafani
"of More Consequence Than the President": Frances Folsom Cleveland and the Role of First Lady in the Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
Practicing Piety: Sarah Jones and Methodism in 1790s Virginia, Chad Sandford
The Origins of the Presidential Election: The Creation of the Electoral College through the First Federal Elections, Giacomo Mazzei
The Politics of Emasculation: The Caning of Charles Sumner and Elite Southern Manhood on the Brink, James Corbett David
"They've All Come to Look for America": Constructing Self and Nation in Women's Travel Narratives 1870-1890, Sarah Elizabeth McLennan
White Squaws: Work as a Factor in Choosing Indian Life, Karen L. Hines
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
A common thread: Labor, politics, and capital mobility in the Massachusetts textile industry, 1880-1934, Beth Anne English
"Caretakers of the Color Line": Southern Sheriffs of the Twentieth Century, Grace Earle Hill
Feast of souls: Indians and Spaniards in the seventeenth-century missions of Florida and New Mexico, Robert C. Galgano
For the Good of the Few: Defending the Freedom of the Press in Post-Revolutionary Virginia, Emily Terese Peterson
French and Hessian Impressions: Foreign Soldiers' Views of America during the Revolution, Cosby Williams Hall
Jesus as Guardian Spirit: The Formation of Moravian Delaware Christianity, Shawn G. Wiemann
John Marshall and Native Rights: The Law of Nations and Scottish Enlightenment Influence, Gordon S. Barker
Meanings of Freedom: Virginia Contraband Settlements and Wartime Reconstruction, Zachary C. Lowe
Purchasing Destruction in Pre-Revolution Virginia: Class and Gender in the Nonimportation Association of 1774, Jessica C. Roney
Reform, Radicalism, and Royalty: Public Image and Political Influence of Princess Charlotte and Queen Adelaide, Eileen Robin Hintz
"Take in Hogarths Mathematiks to Your Aid": Perceptions of William Hogarth in Eighteenth-Century America, Emily Renn Moore
The Flower and Rabble of Essex County: A social history of the Massachusetts Bay Militia and militiamen during King Philip's War, 1675-1676, Kyle Forbes Zelner
The Making of a Tragedy: American Intervention in Lebanon, 1982-1984, David Shamus McCarthy
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
A Literature of Combat: African American Prison Writers of the Vietnam Era, John William Weber
American attitudes toward British imperialism, 1815--1860, Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Bishop Madison and the Guardian Angels of Science, Amanda Kay McVety
Commonwealth: Republican Rhetoric in the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837-38, Sean Patrick Harvey
Desegregating Boston's Schools: Episode 1, Melisa Kate Nasella
Fair visions: Elkanah Watson (1758--1842) and the modern American agricultural fair, Mark A. Mastromarino
"Hitched to a Steam Engine": Marriage and Crises of Gender at Park Church in Nineteenth-Century Elmira, New York, Bridget Louise Reddick
Political Reconstruction of the Southern Lady: A Case Study, 1856-1907, Laura Jean Odendahl
Southern routes: Family migration and the eighteenth-century southern backcountry, Creston S. Long
The First Dissenter: Richard B Russell and the Warren Commission, Dani E. Biancolli
The Jesus People Movement and the Awakening of the Late 1960s, Christina Barnes Williams
The measure of independence: From the American Revolution to the market revolution in the mid -Atlantic, Richard Smith Chew
The Men in Green: African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942, Michael Shane Hoak
The texture of contact: European and Indian settler communities on the Iroquoian borderlands, 1720-1780, David L. Preston
The Wyoming Valley Battle and 'Massacre': Images of a Constructed American History, Lisa A. Francavilla
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Struggle for Community in Revolutionary Newport, Joshua Fogarty Beatty
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
"A Bad Case of Fossilized Tradition": The Discourse of Race and Gender in Women's Battle for the Ballot in Richmond, Virginia 1909-1920, Melissa D. Ooten
A Tradition of Doubt: Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
Captive Women among the Iroquois, W. Scott Ebhardt
Consolidating power: Technology, ideology, and Philadelphia's growth in the early republic, andrew M. Schocket
Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform from 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski
Fellow travelers: Indians and Europeans together on the early American trail, Philip A. Levy
For Generations: Wills, Inventories, and Wealth in Colonial Virginia, Wayne Graham
Hannah and Priscilla: The Education of Slave Girls and Planters' Daughters in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amber Esplin
Huguenot Silversmiths in London, 1685-1715, Brooke Gallagher Reusch
Indicting Christendom: Roger Williams from the Wilderness, Thomas L. anderson
Mothering to Worlds Old and New: Marie de l'Incarnation and Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing in the Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York State's fight against radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel
Strange Bedfellows: Eugenicists, White Supremacists, and Marcus Garvey in Virginia, 1922-1927, Sarah L. Trembanis
The Lost Philosopher: Algernon Sidney and the American Enlightenment, Laura K. Semel
The Press and the Prisons: Union and Confederate Newspaper Coverage of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
United States' Foreign Policy during the Haitian Revolution: A Story of Continuity, Power Politics, and the Lure of Empire in the Early Republic, Jeffrey B. Nickel
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, and Social Mobility in the Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
Women in Blue: Women in the US Navy during World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Atoms, Pounds and Poor Relations: The Illusion of an Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1941-1946, Edward J. Gustafson
Bacchus and Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade and the Hundred Years War (987 to 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon
Behind the United Front: The Effects of Anglo-Powhatan Relations on Settler Conflict and Consensus in Virginia, 1607-1675, Stephen D. Feeley
"Bonds of friendship and mutual interest": Virginia's waterways improvement companies, 1784--1828, Lawrence Jeffrey Perez
Bootlegging and the borderlands: Canadians, Americans, and the Prohibition -era Northwest, Stephen T. Moore
Defending the Constitution, Nicholas M. Wolf
Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast
Encounters, identities, and human bondage: The foundations of racial slavery in the Anglo-Atlantic world, Michael Joseph Guasco
Exercising their Freedom: The Great African-American Migration and Blacks Who Remained in the South, 1915-1920, Patrick E. O'Neil
"From a Determined Resolution to Get Liberty": Slaves and the British in Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino
"Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends": Cardinal Wolsey and the Politics of the "Great Enterprise," 1518-1525, Shawn Jeremy Martin
Religious change and Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
Ruled with a pen: Land, language, and the invention of Maine, Gavin James Taylor
"So Long as the Sunne and Moone Endureth": Religion and Empire in England, 1576-1614, Sharon Sauder
Text and Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction and Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy
The Dissemination of Rumor among the Cherokees and their Neighbors in the Eighteenth Century, Marion A. Cail
The honorable fraternity of moving merchants: Yankee peddlers in the Old South, 1800--1860, Joseph T. Rainer
The Language of the Clergy: Religious and Political Discourse in Revolutionary America, 1754-1783, Cristine E. Maglieri
"To Lay What Restraint They Could": Deerskins, Regulators, and Social Disorder in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1761-1772, Robert Paulett
Warfare in Colonial America: Prelude and Promise, David Michael Corlett
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Anglo-Scottish Relations from Gentle to Rough Wooing, 1543-1547, Lance Adrian Hedrick
Between the River and the Flood: The Cherokee Nation and the Battle for European Supremacy in North America, James Allen Bryant
By the book: Advice and female behavior in the eighteenth -century South, Catherine Kerrison
Crossing Cultural Chasms: Eleazar Wheelock and His Native American Scholars, 1740-1800, Catherine M. Harper
