W&L Dept. of History: Recent submissions
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The Catholic Church as "Guardian of the Faith"? Sex, Scandal, and Social Progress in the Republic of Ireland (thesis)
What makes Ireland's social and political trajectory notable is not that the debates over marriage equality and abortion departed from the traditional framework used in the West. Instead, it is the distinct historical ... -
The Original Sin: English Discourses of Race and Plantation in Ireland, 1590-1625 (thesis)
Ireland experienced numerous forms of land redistribution throughout its history due to intermittent invasions. Viking and Norman groups each conquered sections of the island from the 800s to 1200s CE, and the Tudor monarchs ... -
Building an Ethos of Killing: Comparing and Contrasting the World War II Combat Motivations of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and American Soldiers in the Pacific (thesis)
On the American side, it is traditional to view World War II as a righteous war fought by soldiers inspired by freedom and democracy, as Adams succinctly defines this view in The Best War Ever. However, this conception of ... -
Revolt on the Clyde: Birth and Significance of Red Clydeside, 1914-1922 (thesis)
Early attempts at characterizing the labor movement in Scotland and the rise of Red Clydeside were often too accepting of the received wisdom of the period and as such require some amount of revision. However, revisionist ... -
Power, Perception, and Performance: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (thesis)
The courtships of Elizabeth I reveal the personal and political sides of the Queen. However, the separation between Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman is often difficult to discern; Elizabeth would agree, as she ... -
An Irrevocable Prejudice: Roman Impressions of Venetians and Normans in Twelfth Century Byzantium (thesis)
The Mediterranean world during the twelfth century was a rapidly shifting and evolving sphere, influenced by the growing power of the papacy, the rise of more centralized states in the previously decentralized and internally ... -
The American Pantheon: The Competition for Civil War Era Memory in National Statuary Hall (thesis)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
. . . 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)
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)
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 ...