History | Dissertations

In Progress

Ballentyne, Daniel, "Republicanism Recast: The Fusion of Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian Thought in the Republican Party of the 1920s"

Bell, Aaron. “Transnational Conservatives and the Development of ARENA”

Chernev, Borislav. “’The Future Depends on Brest-Litovsk’: War, Peace, and Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917-1918"

Coeller, Rod, "'Going Native': Radicalized Evangelical Missionaries in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s"

Derickson, Christopher, "Singin' for the Silent Majority: Country Music and the Countercultural Revolution of the Sixties and Seventies"

DeWolf, Rebecca. “Amending Nature: the Equal Rights Amendment and Gendered Citizenship in the United States, 1920-1960"

Ercole, Nicholas. “Conceiving Arab Nationalism: Culture, Diplomacy, and the Genesis of U.S.-Middle East Relations, 1919-1939"

Fenner, Adam. “The Path to Favor: Tiburcio Carías Andino and the United States, 1923-1941"

Fletchall, Bronwyn, "'The Meanest Members': English Economic Thought and Its Implications for Maryland's Poor, 1620-1776"

Garrett, Lynette, "Confederate Nationalism in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia during the American Civil War, 1861-1965"

Halderman, Keith, "A Useful Mythology: Marijuana Prohibition in the 1930s"

Hanson, Kurt, "The Ideology of American Imperialism, 1892-1919"

Jacobe, Stephanie, "Thomas Fortune Ryan: An American Catholic"

Lohse, Alexandra, "'In spite of all that': War and Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany, 1943-1945"

Loring, Lorna, "Exploring Connections Between the British Atlantic and the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century"

Maguire, Lisa. “Colonial Governance in the Mediterranean: French Bureaucratic Practices in the Protectorates and Mandate, 1919-1939"

Mikaelian, Allen, "'There is Humanity': Globalization, Foreign Students, and the cosmopolitan Clubs in Early Twentieth Century America"  

Miller, Loren. “Glamourous G.I. Girls: Constructing Servicewomen’s Identities During World War II"

Mohan, Shannon. “’The Difference between Advice and Authority:’ Henry Kissinger’s Experience as Consultant to the Kennedy Administration"

Munkwitz, Erica, "'Straight Ahead and Over Everything:' Class, Leisure, and Equestrian Sports for Women in Britain, 1770-1930"

Pool, Dennis, "Proud of the Cloud: Community and National Identity in an 'Atomic Town,' 1945-1964"

Rafferty-Osaki, Terumi. “’Strictly Masculine:’ Reforming and Performing Manhood at Tule Lake, 1942-1946"

Scott, Holly. “People of this Generation: the Meaning of Youth in the New Left"

Singer, Eric, "City X: Planners, Citizens and the Culture of Civil Defense in Baltimore, 1950-1962"

Sukites, Kathryn, "Readers, Reporters and the New York World"

Thelen, Sarah, "Friends on the Outside: The Nixon White House and Mobilizing Support for the War in Vietnam, 1969-1974"

Verbsky, Robert, "Selling Aviation: The Meaning of Air Show in America"

Williams, Robert, "Das Freie Wort? Structuring East and West German Political Culture through the Postwar Press, 1945-1955"

Winter, Jennifer M., "Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty: The Women's Relief Corps and the Politics of Female Reform, 1883-1940"

Recently Completed Dissertations

Altenhofel, Jennifer L.,"Keeping House: Irish and Irish American Women in the District of Columbia, 1850-1890"

Cawley, Alexandra, "The Status of Indentured Servants in the Colonial Chesapeake Household and Community: Kent County, Maryland"

Clavin, Matthew, "'Men of Color, to Arms!': Remembering Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War"

Doyle, Debbie Ann, "'The World's Playground': Tourism and Mass Culture in Atlantic City, New Jersey"

Fishman, Aleisa, "June and Ward Were Jews: Gender, the Market, and Jewish Identity in Suburban Nassau County, 1946-1960"

Gaydosh, Brenda, "Seliger Bernhard Lichtenberg: In His Own Sphere"

Gessler, Christina, "Harvest of the Heart: Themes from the Diaries of 19th-Century New England Farm Women"

Giese, Michael, "A Federal Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: The Evolution of the National Wildlife Refuge System, 1920-1973"

Greenberg, Joshua, "Advocating 'the Man': Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840"

Gueli, Cynthia, "Boom Town Girls: Women's Wartime Experiences in and Impact on Washington, DC, 1941-1945"

Hackford, Heidi, "'Faking It': The Meaning of Malingering in Middle Class America, 1830-1880"

Henry, Mary Ellen, "Virginia's Poorhouses, 1870-1930: Refuge from Want?"

Hindley, Meredith, "Allied Relief to Nazi-Occupied Territories during the Second World War, 1939-1945"

Intondi, Vincent, "From Harlem to Hiroshima: The African American Response to the Atomic Bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

Kagan, Robert, "Inherit the World: An Interpretative History of American Foreign Policy, 1607-1865"

Kramer, Alisa, "William H. Parker and the LAPD: The Politics of Law Enforcement in Los Angeles,1950-1966"

Nelson, Katharine, "The Temperance Positions: Developing Concepts of Addiction"

Onkst, David, "The Triumph and Decline of the ‘Squares’: Grumman Aerospace Engineers and Production Workers in the Apollo Era, 1957-1973"

Paehler, Katrin, "Espionage, Ideology, and Personal Politics: The Making and Unmaking of a Nazi Foreign Intelligence Service"

Rush, Anne Spry, "West Indians and Britishness, 1900-1970"

Schmitz, John, "Enemies Among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War"

Stewart, Elizabeth, "Who Shall Decides When Doctors Disagree?: Hoaxes and American Men of Science in the Nineteenth Century"

Unti, Bernard, "'Humane Society': A History of Organized Concern for Animals in the United States before the Second World War


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