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Theses from 2023

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Margaret Cross Norton in Context: Norton’s Portrayal in American Archival Theory, the Social Conditions of Her Time and the Evolution of Presidential Libraries in the United States, Marie H. Bowen

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Culture Wars: North Carolina, Representation, and the Vote on the Federal Constitution of 1787, Maria A. Carlson

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“Each Heart Alone Knoweth Its Own Bitterness”: The Jackson Family in Clarke County, Virginia, from Enslavement to Jim Crow, Melanie E. Garvey

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Deconstructing Reconstruction: The Portrayal of The Reconstruction Era in High School History Textbooks, Eleanor Katari

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Radical Routes: The Formation of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union Local 8751, Maci Mark

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Limitations & Liberation: Republican Motherhood and Female Advancement in Nineteenth Century America, Hannah Russell

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The Armenian Genocide as Presented by the American Press, Grace A. Wargovich

Theses from 2022

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Northeastern Pennsylvania's Forgotten Labor Massacre: Analysis pf the English Language Record of the Lattimer Massacre, Jamie C. Costello

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Shadow of the Vietnam War on the Senate Persian Gulf Debate of 1991, Austin DiBari

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Popular Memory, Silence, and Trust: A Mother and Son’s Relationship to School in the Shadow of the Prince Edward County Closures, Rory S. Dunn

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The Arrows, The Shield: Mapping, Identity, and Tradition in Colonial Cempoala, Mexico, Savvas Papadopoulos

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The Unsung Influence of the National Day of Mourning: A Study of Indigenous Activism, Race, and Memory, Erika T. Tauer

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The Role of the Catholic Church’s Teachings on Slavery and Secession Affecting Allegiances During the American Civil War, David J. Thompson

Theses from 2021

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Celebrating Chinese American Veterans: Commemoration and America's Collective Memory Of War, Kevin Lee

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Community in a Time of Crisis: How the People of Provincetown, Massachusetts Worked to Combat the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Danielle Maria Lisbon

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Uncommon Ground: Pawtucket-Pennacook Strategic Land Exchange in Native Spaces and Colonized Places of Essex County and Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century, Kristine Malpica

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The Decline of the Massachusetts Know-Nothing Party: The Impact of Slavery and Temperance in 1855, Alexander Rodrigues

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The Boston Black United Front and Community-Centered Alternatives to the Carceral State, Joseph W. Sikowitz

Theses from 2020

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Operation Nickel Grass: Richard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War, Luke George Bergquist

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Essential Labor: Marginalized People in the American Whaling Industry, Southeastern Massachusetts, Brielle E. Berical

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A Dogged Resolve: The Doctrine and Decline of Mormon Plural Marriage, 1841-1890, Jaclyn Thornock Gadd

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The Hyde Park Thought Club: Pioneers in the Women’s Club Movement -- A Case Study 1868 – 1902, Patrice A. Gattozzi

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The Ghosts of Empires Past: The Red Army Faction’s Violent Relationship with Cold War Neo-Imperialism, 1969-1974, Renee Danielle Jean

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Reassessing the Factors that Led to the Evacuation of Japanese in World War Two, Mark S. Lewis

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Black Masters; The Ownership of Slaves by Free People of Color in the Antebellum South 1780-1861, Michael O. Magbagbeola

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"To Have and Enjoy": Seating in Boston's Early Anglican Churches, 1686-1732, Erica Jill McAvoy

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Scholars, Spinners and Economies of Scale: Public Education on Exhibit in the Textile Era in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Arthur P. Motta Jr.

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Beyond the Big Top: The Legacy of John Ringling and the American Circus, Casey L. Nemec

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“Even if it Means Our Battles to Date are Meaningless” The Anime Gundam Wing and Postwar History, Memory, and Identity in Japan, Genevieve R. Peterson

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"Full of Light and Fire": John Brown in Springfield, Louis J. Rocco Jr.

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The Psychogram, Nathaniel M. Sullivan

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Washed Away: Native American Representation in Oklahoma Museums and High Schools, 2000 – 2020, Catherine E. Thompson

Theses from 2019

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Revelation and Concealment; The Words and World of Omar ibn Said, David Gabriel Babaian

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Anabasis Aquilonos: The Interplay of Exemplarity and Scientific Historiography in B.H. Liddell Hart’s A Greater than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus, Daniel T. Barbre

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The Language of the Herodians: An Analysis of Herodian Material Culture, Alexander J. D'Amore

Theses from 2018

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The Charge of Deserting Their Sphere: The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and Women’s Place in the Abolitionist Movement, Megan Irene Brady

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Competing Goals: The Boston Teachers Union and the Boston Busing Crisis, Matthew R. Clark

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"The Right to Play" The Establishment of Playgrounds in the American City, Kyle James Fritch

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Good Girls Gone Bad: Interpreting the White Slavery Scare As A Response To Changing Women's Roles in the Progressive Era, Rachael Gorski

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Innocent Victors: Atomic Identity at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Kathryn Leann Harris

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William Monroe Trotter and His Contributions to the Early Civil Rights Movement, Katherine N. Jahl

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Lapidary Medicine in Early Modern Spain, Dana L. Marquis

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A Seemingly Insurmountable Problem: Carl Stokes and the Failure of Cleveland Now!, David M. Rainey

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The Creation of the OSS And Anglo American Intelligence Co-Operation In Yugoslavia: A Case Study In Diverging Agendas, Christopher J. Royack

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Luis V. Manrara & the Truth About Cuba Committee, Inc.: A Microhistory on the Effect of Socio-Economic Advantages and Politics on Early Cuban Acculturation within American Society, Francis E. Tansey

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“Wicked and Illegal Traffic”: Newspaper Portrayal of Nigerian Women in the Cannabis Trade (circa 1970 – 1980), Edet A. Thomas

Theses from 2017

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Mendez V. Westminister (1945): A Case that Brought Race to Center Stage, Samantha R. Albert

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A Light in the Darkness: Constructing a View of Victorian Gynecological Surgery through Examination of Medical Treatises, Mandy M. Jimenez

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Riot and Resurgence: The Antebellum African American Community of Providence, Rhode Island, Christopher J. Martin

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Reverend James D. Eaton and Congregationalist Missionary Education in Revolutionary Mexico, Lucas A. Mihalich

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Indian, Black, Mustee, and Music: Race, Identity, and Culture in Native Communities During the Age of Whaling, Tara M. Munro

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Expendable: Eight Soldiers From Massachusetts Regiments Executed For Desertion During the United States Civil War, Stephen F. Ragon

Theses from 2016

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Exploring Reconstruction in the Territory of New Mexico, Krystle Eugley Beaubrun

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'For the Sake of the Salvation of our Souls': An Analysis of Hildegard of Bingen's Authority and Reformist Theology in Relation to the Founding of Mount St. Rupert, Alexandra G. Borkowski

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Rebuilding the City on a Hill: The Currents of New England Sectionalism and Liberal Christianity in Garrisonian Abolitionism, Zachary Boutin

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'For the Benefit of Mankind': Franklin Roosevelt's Development of Trusteeship for the Postwar World, Tasnin R. Chowdhury

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Run Aground: Cultural Transformation in Southeastern Massachusetts' Aquatic Spaces, 1637-1711, Jonathan Dennis Green

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In Freedom's Cause: An Exploration of Suffragette and Chartist Militancy in Britain, Ashley Kennedy-MacDougall

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Countdown to Martial Law: The U.S-Philippine Relationship, 1969-1972, Joven G. Maranan

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He was a Camera: Christopher Isherwood, Weimar Germany, and Transationalism in the American Gay Rights Movement, Kristof R. Nelson

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Somewhere Between Exploitation and Partnership: English and Native Alliances Surrounding the Raids on Deerfield and King William’s War, Caitlyn J. Remmes

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The Barbadoes Family and the Pursuit of African-American Equality in 19th Century America, Robert J. Shaw

Theses from 2015

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Traitor or Pioneer: John Brown Russwurm and the African Colonization Movement, Brian J. Barker

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A Queen's Legacy: The Lives of Elizabeth Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Heather E. Bump

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We're Just Like You: Strategies of Gay Activism against the Religious Right, Politics and Conservatism, and the AIDS Crisis, William G. Burton

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Gay Outlaws: The Alpine County Project Reconsidered, Jacob D. Carter

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George Loney Wallace and the Wrentham State School: 1906-1930, Lindsay Fulton

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Charles Francis Adams: A Study on the Crucial Role of Adams in Maintaining British Neutrality During the American Civil War, Jonathan S. McIsaac

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The Massachusetts Bay Circuit, Corey W. Medeiros

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É Para Sair de Portugal a Todos os Custos! The Policia Repressiva de Emigração Clandestina (1896-1911) and the Politics of Azorean Emigration to the United States, Sonia Patricia da Silva Pacheco

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The Integration of African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts, Caitlin E. Pinkham

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Anti-Catholicism and Gender Norms: Reassessing the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1834, Daniel S. Sousa

Theses from 2014

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Crowning a Florentine Princeps in a New Rome: The Civic Humanism of Leonardo Bruni and the Rise of Cosimo de' Medici, "Pater Patriae", Jason F. Amato

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The Transvaal Constitution and Responsible Government: How Churchill influenced Apartheid, Christopher H. Beckvold

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"Tenacious of Their Lands": Fortifying the District of Mashpee, 1834-1842, Nicole Alexis Breault

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Assent and You Are Sane: "John Brown Was Right", Jermain S. Corbin

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Saving the "Original Paradise": Health Tourism, Tropical Disease, and the Problem of Cuba in the American Imperial Imagination, 1848-98, Liana DeMarco

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Panthersprung: The Vital Inheritance of the Agadir Crisis, Patrick E. Doerr

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Lusitania: An Examination of Captaincy and Seamanship in the Face of Disaster, Robert J. Goulding

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“So Succeeded by a Kind Providence”: Communities of Color in Eighteenth Century Boston, Eric M. Hanson Plass

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Constructing A Vernacular Narrative: Communal Memory of Boston's West End, Eleanor Martinez Proctor

Theses from 2013

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Generations Apart: Cultural Revolution Memory and China's Post-80's Generation on the Chinese Internet, Vincent R. Capone

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Once Lords and Emperors: Chivalry and the Making of Clerical Masculinity in High Medieval Normandy, Charles S. Carroll

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Fort Devens: Civil Rights Unrest and African-American Identity in a Northern Military Camp during World War I and World War II, Janine Hubai

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The Hidden Experience: Untold Stories of Immigrant Agency During the Settlement House Movement in Boston, Deirdre L. Kutt

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General Von Seeckt and Sino-German Cooperation, Yue Lan

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"Our Brothers In This Country": Captivity and Kinship in the Colonial Northeast, Steven C. Moore

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The Teacher Revolt: Militancy, Grassroots Mobilization, and Local Autonomy in the National Education Association and the Massachusetts Teachers Association (1960-1980), Jamie A. Rinaldi

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Germs, Pigs and Silver: King Philip's War and the Deconstruction of the Middle Ground In New England, Benjamin M. Roine

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Men of Uncommon Substance: Sailor Literature and American Identity in Antebellum America, 1805 - 1840, Pete Sprayregen

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Technology Transfer and Diffusion in the Context of Globalization: A Study of a Critical Decade in the Ottoman Empire through the Experiences of Henry Eckford, 1830-1840, Gulumhan Huma Yildirim

Theses from 2012

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The Forgotten Children: The Educational Demographics of an Austrian Diocese 1848-1852, Mathew Richard Boyeson

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Gaetano Salvemini: A Lesson in Thought and Action, Michael Christopher DiClemente

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The Cultural Assault on the Female Gender during the Weimar Years, Jaime Alexandra Gaudet

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Immigrants as Americanizers: The Americanization Movement of the Early Twentieth Century, Alexis Claire Hanley

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Union Army Doctrine: The Role of the Artillery During the Campaign for Vicksburg, Stephanie A. Peacock

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Botticelli's La Primavera: Painting the Cosmos of Human Ideals, Leatha Eleni Tzioumis

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Women Under National Socialism: The Case Study of Melita Maschmann, Lynda Maureen Willett

Theses from 2011

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Diplomatic and Military Objectives and Their Impact on Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Kyushu, Japan, November 1st, 1945, John Joseph Favara

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The Debate over Indian Removal in the 1830s, George William Goss