Honors Theses from 2015
Historical Precedents and Early Modern Interpretations: English Histories of America, 1500-1700, Madeline H. Grimm
Narrativity in French Depictions of the Crusades, Sydney Morgan Weaver
The Case of Charles Horman Revisited: Complication and Conflict within Declassification, Jacob Jose
"We Made You": The Contrived and Contested Nature of Authenticity in American Folk and Hip Hop Subcultures, Kathryn E. Plunkett
Honors Theses from 2014
A Framework for Understanding the US Air Bombing Campaign in Korea, 1950-51, Yonsoo P. Kang
"Infallible Proofs": Math, Knowledge, and Religion in the Medieval Islamicate World, Deborah Wood
Keep Calm and Carry On?: Examining WWII Great Britain through the Lens of Overseas Evacuation, Amy Schaffman
The Internal Foe: Rethinking Slave Resistance in Antebellum America, Bryan Casey
"To Thine Own Self Be True": Robert F. Kennedy, The Inner Cities, and the American Civil Rights Movement 1963-1968, Dwight A. Weingarten
When George Washington's Ghost Turned Handsprings: South African Conflict and American Identity, 1899-1902, Robin K. Crigler
Honors Theses from 2013
Community and the Site of Memory: The Effect of Internationalization on Community-Museum Relations, Chelsea Bracci
Creating an American Identity--Propaganda During the Second World War, Sarah K. Higgins
Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museums in Virginia Represent Slavery, Jill Found
'For A Woman': The Fight for Pensions for Civil War Army Nurses, Hannah Metheny
"kind of armour, being peculiar to America" The American Hunting Shirt, Neal Thomas Hurst
Redefining the "Women's Movement" in Modern Japan, Allison Elizabeth Kennington
The Enemy Within: Internecine Conflict in the Second Kingdom of Kush, Sophia Farrulla
The Origins of Hatred: An Analysis of Antisemitic Political Cartoons in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Meredith Lee Duffy
"The Ornament of Human Society": Anti-Southernism in New England Common Schools, Zack Quaratella
The Personal of the Event: Subjectivity and the English Civil War, Henry Joseph Ware
"worthy to be classed": Slavery and its Legacy in Grayson County, Virginia, Rebekah Elaine Turnmire
Honors Theses from 2012
Beyond Jericho: The Resurgence of German Jewish life since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Max Harrison Lazar
Conceptions of and Treatments for Cognitive Disability in Antebellum Virginia: John Minson Galt's "Lecture on Idiocy" (1859), Ellen E. Walsh
"For the Advancement of So Good a Cause": Hugh MacKay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, Andrew Phillip Frantz
Memory Derailed: Vichy Memory in International Court Cases and Business Legislation against the French National Railway, Diana Margaret Ohanian
'Nothing but a Pack of Boys:' Preble's Boys and the Culture of Honor in the Early Naval Officer Corps, 1798-1825, Roger A. Bailey
"Not Italian or German, but British in Character": J. F. C. Fuller and the Fascist Movement in Britain, Mason W. Watson
Sir James Wright in Georgia: Local and Imperial Conflict in the American Revolution, Andrea Lynn Williams
The "Iona Chronicle" And Irish Politico-Ecclesiastical Connections: The Transmission of a Text Reconsidered, Andrew Budiansky
"The Spirit of Association": The Nelson Family and Commercial Resistance in Yorktown, Virginia 1769-1771, Eric F. Ames
"What You Can Learn From the Kinsey Report": Kinsey and the Gay and Lesbian Population, 1970-1993, Becky Little
Honors Theses from 2011
Assimilation, Segregation, Integration: State Control on Minority Policies in Modern Romania (1918-2007), Doina Anca Cretu
Baseball, Immigration, and Professionalization in the 19th century, Michael Young
Conflict of Color: White Activists in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, Blair Dickman Saunders
Discovering El Cuaderno: An Examination of the Zugarramurdi Witch-Hunts and Three Debating Inquisitors, 1609 - 1614, Meredith Lindsay Howard
Hanged Harpers and Incinerated Instruments: Tudor Government Policies Towards Irish Poets in the Sixteenth Century, Jennifer Brooke Joyce
It Took a War: The End of Slavery in West Virginia, Mark Guerci
Religious Conviction and The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721, Anna E. Storm
"The Father of His Country": Peyton Randolph and the Definition of Liberty in Colonial Virginia, Julianne E. Sicklesteel
"The Higher Court of Heaven": Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch and Violent Abolition, Daniel Bever
The Richmond & Petersburg Railroad: A Story of Antebellum Southern Success, John J. Kelly
The Staircase: Evolution of Design and Use in Elite, Domestic Virginia Architecture 1607-1812, Erin Marie Holmes
Visual Representations of the Holocaust in Memorials in the Czech Republic and America, Emily Sample
Honors Theses from 2010
Illinois Culture, Christianity and Intermarriage: Gender in Illinois Country, 1650-1763, Caryne A. Eskridge
"Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD": Methods of Acquisition and Use of Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Lydia Barrett Blackmore
Looking the East End in the Face: The Impact of the British Monarchy on Civilian Morale in the Second World War, Amy Limoncelli
The Effect of 24-Hour Television News on American Democracy and The Daily Show as a Counterbalance to 24-Hour News: A History, Thomas W. Queen
The Triumph of Reason: Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s, Andrew V. Garden
"To Say What the Law is:" John Marshall and His Influence on the Origins of Judicial Review in America, Jennifer L. Souers
"Watchful Guardians of Liberty": The French Revolution and the Development of Democratic-Republicanism in Philadelphia, 1792-1797, Christopher James Consolino
Honors Theses from 2009
American-educated Chinese Students and Their Impact on U.S.-China Relations, Joshua A. Litten
Duesenberg, America's Premier Historical Automobile, Jeffrey Carter Mason
Dust Bowl Days: A Study of Women's Lives and Experiences, Samantha L. Grill
"Nasty Holes" and New Hotels: Public Accommodations in Early New York City, Michael Albert Blaakman
Negotiating 'Popular' Religion: Clerical and Lay Culture in Thirteenth-Century Exempla, Jaimie Lewis
Secrets in Switzerland : Allen W. Dulles' impact as OSS station chief in Bern on developments of World War II & U.S. dominance in post-war Europe, Jennifer A. Hoover
The Development of Merchants Square: Colonial Imagery and the Consequences of Redevelopment in Williamsburg, Virginia and Other Small Towns, 1910-1955, Matthew Morrill
The Transformation of the Lutheran Church in Namibia, Katherine Caufield Arnold
William Wells and the Old Northwest, 1770-1812, Cameron Michael Shriver
Honors Theses from 2008
Boys Don't Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses: Gender, Vision Aids, and Persona in the Early American Republic, Laura E. Brandt
From Color Line to Colorblind: Changing African American Perceptions of the Japanese during World War II, Jennie Anne Davy
Prostitution and the Representation of Anxiety in London, 1723-1870, Maria Dale Booth
Space, Secularism, and the Expansion of Forced Child Begging in Senegal, 1850-2008, Hannah Brown Ayers
"Though my people slay me, yet I will trust in them:" Varina Davis and the Elusive Paradigm of the Politically Elite Confederate Woman, Ashley Whitehead
"Unhappy Differences:" The American Revolution and the Disruption of the Course of Theatre in Virginia, Allison Finkelstein
Honors Theses from 2007
"Again in the Providence of God:" Two Appalachian Women Inscribe Community, Family, and Faith on the Civil War, Elizabeth Jean Anderson
It Was Honest: The Politics of Authenticity in the American Folk Revival and British Punk Subcultures, John Frederick Bell
Honors Theses from 2006
The diary of Fannie Fain of Blountville : defining allegiance in Civil War era East Tennessee, Jennifer M. Brickey
Honors Theses from 2004
The patriotism of the minority :the role of the African American soldier in the American Civil War, Benjamin Lee Miller
Honors Theses from 2002
The Hanoverian Interest; British Foreign Policy and the Electorate of Hanover, 1740-1760, John Wagner
Honors Theses from 2001
Renaissance men : Xu Guangqi, Matteo Ricci, and the Jesuit mission in China, David Heitz Hiett
"So Well Endowed": Economic Support of the College of William and Mary During the Colonial Period, Kristin A. Zech
Honors Theses from 2000
"The longed-for place" : Saewulf and twelfth-century pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Margaret Elizabeth Garnett
Honors Theses from 1997
John De Sequeyra's Notes on diseases, Sarah C. McEntee
"Wen I wuz young" : the socialization and education of slave children on low country plantations, 1800-1860, Elizabeth Marshall Keys
Honors Theses from 1992
Uncommon devotion: the character of one Union soldier, John C. W. Harper
Honors Theses from 1981
Francis Schaeffer's assessment of Karl Barth : Christian apologist on the offensive, Ronald F. Wright
Honors Theses from 1973
The New York Nation and the Negro, 1865-1900, Roy R. Morris
Honors Theses from 1965
The establishment of Yugoslavia: a case study of political symbols and their manipulation, Robert Michael Gates
