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The American Pantheon: The Competition for Civil War Era Memory in National Statuary Hall (thesis)
(2020)A history of memory in National Statuary Hall is therefore necessary to begin the process of transforming the collection from a site of memory into a site of better historical interpretation. Chapter One of this thesis ... -
Women's Suffrage in Britain: From Chartist Exclusion to Pankhurst Radicalism (thesis)
(2020)Although the language has changed somewhat, there remains a constancy in the way "moral principles" ultimately stifle opportunities available to women, keeping them on unequal grounds with men. Upper- and middle-class women ... -
Martyr, Victim, Schemer, or Queen? Debating the Character of Anne Boleyn from Tudor England to the Present Day (thesis)
(2019)This thesis is structured chronologically and divided into four main chapters corresponding with historical eras. The first focuses on her persona during her rise at court and time as queen. This section utilizes pamphlets, ... -
Friendship at Any Cost? Russian Influence on Anglo-Germans Relations, 1890-1914 (thesis)
(2019)Despite the well-researched and argued debates that continue to rage regarding the nature of Anglo-German relations, further research into several lingering questions is required. The question of the degree to which Grey ... -
Becoming Bengal: Understanding Islam as Political Technology in East Bengal and Bangladesh (thesis)
(2019)East Pakistan and Bangladesh's struggle to adequately understand the role that Islam plays within politics reflects this historical disconnect between the causes of Bengali Muslim political instability and potential solutions ... -
From Brown to Rodriguez: Race, Residence, and the Limits of "Equal Protection," 1954-1973 (thesis)
(2019)The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Rodriguez did not acknowledge wealth as a suspect class, decided education was not a fundamental right, and chose not to consider the issue of race. By reversing the decision of the ... -
Cracking Open the Golden Door: Race, Great Society Liberalism, and the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 (thesis)
(2019)Given the attention that immigration has received lately, it is clear that this topic is extremely contentious when it comes to politics. One wrong move with respect to immigration, visas, and refugees, could tarnish a ... -
Tobacco and Jesus: The Social Impacts of Scottish and Scots-Irish Immigrants in Colonial Virginia (thesis)
(2019)To closely examine how the Scots and Scots-Irish managed to have such an impact on colonial Virginia, this study draws from primary source documents from or about immigrants during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... -
The President's Other Half: Power, Politics, and America's First Ladies (thesis)
(2019)While traditional scholarly literature has neglected the office, the First Lady has tremendous power and plays a pivotal role during her husband's administration. In the public/private and masculine/feminine dualities, ... -
Jerome’s Jewish Asceticism The Targum of Qohelet’s Influence on Jerome’s Theology of Asceticism in the "Commentary on Ecclesiastes" (thesis)
(2016)This thesis examines Jerome’s engagement with Aramaic targumim, specifically the Targum of Qohelet. I survey the state of Hieronymian studies. I argue that Jerome’s theological work has been unfairly subordinated to his ... -
"Reign of Terror": General Thomas C. Hindman and the Confederate Military State in Arkansas, 1862-1863 (thesis)
(2017)Through a consideration of this broad historiographical foundation and careful analysis of primary source material from both military and civilian perspectives, this thesis examines the seventy-four day tenure of General ... -
Creating the Ideal English Catholic: Martyrs and Their Scripts in Elizabethan England (thesis)
(2017). . . My analysis does use quotes and stories from various martyrdom accounts, but the purpose of this thesis is to look specifically at how martyrdom and martyrs were framed and described at different times and in different ... -
From Ashes Reborn: The Fascist Repression of Female Prisoners in Francoist Spain and Nazi Germany (thesis)
(2016)First, the central question that this paper examines is whether the Francoist regime in Spain can be considered a fascist regime as opposed to an authoritarian one. While Franco’s dictatorship was undeniably brutal and ... -
Redefining Jihad in Local Context: From the Rise of Islam to the Islamic State (thesis)
(2016)While I have focused primarily on literature produced by the leadership figures within al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and have analyzed how such leaders interpret the historical sources, I would like to suggest that the ... -
The Publicity of Female Sexuality in the Early Modern Period: An Analysis of Reproductive Intervention Techniques (thesis)
(2016)This thesis is an attempt to define the ways in which actions such as infanticide, child abandonment, abortion, and contraceptive use existed as methods by which women could take control of their sexuality in early modern ... -
A Contribution by the United States to the Common Stock of Civilization: Francis Lieber and General Orders No. 100 (thesis)
(2016)Lieber's Code aimed to encourage nations to renew peace. It relied on commanders understanding this goal and being able to apply it in a way that accomplished this goal. . . . In 1874, Czar Alexander II invited agents ... -
Division and Radicalization in the German Working Class: A Study of German Socialism from the Revolution to the Halle Congress (thesis)
(2015)While class differences and ideological disagreements did play a role in the permanent division of the German working class, the actions of the Ebert government, especially the violence committed by the Freikorps under ... -
"The First Fruits of a Re-United People": The Loyalty, Motivation, and Allegiance of the Men of the Second United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment (thesis)
(2015)We were discussing the issues facing President Abraham Lincoln’s Administration during the war when he mentioned that in 1864 it had to deal with the uprising of the Plains Indians in Minnesota. To address this threat, the ... -
You Must Be This to Ride: Class, Gender, and Race in the American Amusement Park (thesis)
(2015)The apparent democratization of the amusement park, as explored here, belies the reality that increased inclusion in some aspects of an important mass leisure form does not resolve all problems of inclusion in a society. ... -
Feraoun and the Algerian Revolution: The identities of the Algerian Revolution and the ways in which an Algerian writer interprets these identities (thesis)
(2015)The Algerian revolution was a war fought not only for the independence of Algeria but for the preservation of Arab identity as well. The French had spent over one hundred years attempting to change Algerian identity; they ...
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