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Theses from 2024
A Quartet of Consequence: Randolph, Rustin, Baker & Levison & The Movement They Made, Jonathan Klein
Domestic Opposition to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Decline of Isolationism, Andrew Pruden
Theses from 2023
Culture Wars: North Carolina, Representation, and the Vote on the Federal Constitution of 1787, Maria A. Carlson
George Boardman Weston's Grand Tour: Travel Writing and its Impact on Nineteenth-Century Americans, Joshua Tyler Clark
“Each Heart Alone Knoweth Its Own Bitterness”: The Jackson Family in Clarke County, Virginia, from Enslavement to Jim Crow, Melanie E. Garvey
Deconstructing Reconstruction: The Portrayal of The Reconstruction Era in High School History Textbooks, Eleanor Katari
Radical Routes: The Formation of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union Local 8751, Maci Mark
Limitations & Liberation: Republican Motherhood and Female Advancement in Nineteenth Century America, Hannah Russell
The Armenian Genocide as Presented by the American Press, Grace A. Wargovich
Theses from 2022
Northeastern Pennsylvania's Forgotten Labor Massacre: Analysis pf the English Language Record of the Lattimer Massacre, Jamie C. Costello
Shadow of the Vietnam War on the Senate Persian Gulf Debate of 1991, Austin DiBari
The Arrows, The Shield: Mapping, Identity, and Tradition in Colonial Cempoala, Mexico, Savvas Papadopoulos
The Unsung Influence of the National Day of Mourning: A Study of Indigenous Activism, Race, and Memory, Erika T. Tauer
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
Celebrating Chinese American Veterans: Commemoration and America's Collective Memory Of War, Kevin Lee
Community in a Time of Crisis: How the People of Provincetown, Massachusetts Worked to Combat the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Danielle Maria Lisbon
The Decline of the Massachusetts Know-Nothing Party: The Impact of Slavery and Temperance in 1855, Alexander Rodrigues
The Boston Black United Front and Community-Centered Alternatives to the Carceral State, Joseph W. Sikowitz
Theses from 2020
Operation Nickel Grass: Richard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War, Luke George Bergquist
Essential Labor: Marginalized People in the American Whaling Industry, Southeastern Massachusetts, Brielle E. Berical
A Dogged Resolve: The Doctrine and Decline of Mormon Plural Marriage, 1841-1890, Jaclyn Thornock Gadd
The Hyde Park Thought Club: Pioneers in the Women’s Club Movement -- A Case Study 1868 – 1902, Patrice A. Gattozzi
The Ghosts of Empires Past: The Red Army Faction’s Violent Relationship with Cold War Neo-Imperialism, 1969-1974, Renee Danielle Jean
Reassessing the Factors that Led to the Evacuation of Japanese in World War Two, Mark S. Lewis
Black Masters; The Ownership of Slaves by Free People of Color in the Antebellum South 1780-1861, Michael O. Magbagbeola
"To Have and Enjoy": Seating in Boston's Early Anglican Churches, 1686-1732, Erica Jill McAvoy
Scholars, Spinners and Economies of Scale: Public Education on Exhibit in the Textile Era in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Arthur P. Motta Jr.
Beyond the Big Top: The Legacy of John Ringling and the American Circus, Casey L. Nemec
“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
"Full of Light and Fire": John Brown in Springfield, Louis J. Rocco Jr.
The Psychogram, Nathaniel M. Sullivan
Washed Away: Native American Representation in Oklahoma Museums and High Schools, 2000 – 2020, Catherine E. Thompson
Theses from 2019
Revelation and Concealment; The Words and World of Omar ibn Said, David Gabriel Babaian
Anabasis Aquilonos: The Interplay of Exemplarity and Scientific Historiography in B.H. Liddell Hart’s A Greater than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus, Daniel T. Barbre
The Language of the Herodians: An Analysis of Herodian Material Culture, Alexander J. D'Amore
Theses from 2018
The Charge of Deserting Their Sphere: The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and Women’s Place in the Abolitionist Movement, Megan Irene Brady
Competing Goals: The Boston Teachers Union and the Boston Busing Crisis, Matthew R. Clark
"The Right to Play" The Establishment of Playgrounds in the American City, Kyle James Fritch
Good Girls Gone Bad: Interpreting the White Slavery Scare As A Response To Changing Women's Roles in the Progressive Era, Rachael Gorski
Innocent Victors: Atomic Identity at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Kathryn Leann Harris
William Monroe Trotter and His Contributions to the Early Civil Rights Movement, Katherine N. Jahl
Lapidary Medicine in Early Modern Spain, Dana L. Marquis
A Seemingly Insurmountable Problem: Carl Stokes and the Failure of Cleveland Now!, David M. Rainey
The Creation of the OSS And Anglo American Intelligence Co-Operation In Yugoslavia: A Case Study In Diverging Agendas, Christopher J. Royack
“Wicked and Illegal Traffic”: Newspaper Portrayal of Nigerian Women in the Cannabis Trade (circa 1970 – 1980), Edet A. Thomas
Theses from 2017
Mendez V. Westminister (1945): A Case that Brought Race to Center Stage, Samantha R. Albert
A Light in the Darkness: Constructing a View of Victorian Gynecological Surgery through Examination of Medical Treatises, Mandy M. Jimenez
Riot and Resurgence: The Antebellum African American Community of Providence, Rhode Island, Christopher J. Martin
Reverend James D. Eaton and Congregationalist Missionary Education in Revolutionary Mexico, Lucas A. Mihalich
Indian, Black, Mustee, and Music: Race, Identity, and Culture in Native Communities During the Age of Whaling, Tara M. Munro
Expendable: Eight Soldiers From Massachusetts Regiments Executed For Desertion During the United States Civil War, Stephen F. Ragon
Theses from 2016
Exploring Reconstruction in the Territory of New Mexico, Krystle Eugley Beaubrun
'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
Rebuilding the City on a Hill: The Currents of New England Sectionalism and Liberal Christianity in Garrisonian Abolitionism, Zachary Boutin
'For the Benefit of Mankind': Franklin Roosevelt's Development of Trusteeship for the Postwar World, Tasnin R. Chowdhury
Run Aground: Cultural Transformation in Southeastern Massachusetts' Aquatic Spaces, 1637-1711, Jonathan Dennis Green
In Freedom's Cause: An Exploration of Suffragette and Chartist Militancy in Britain, Ashley Kennedy-MacDougall
Countdown to Martial Law: The U.S-Philippine Relationship, 1969-1972, Joven G. Maranan
He was a Camera: Christopher Isherwood, Weimar Germany, and Transationalism in the American Gay Rights Movement, Kristof R. Nelson
Somewhere Between Exploitation and Partnership: English and Native Alliances Surrounding the Raids on Deerfield and King William’s War, Caitlyn J. Remmes
The Barbadoes Family and the Pursuit of African-American Equality in 19th Century America, Robert J. Shaw
Theses from 2015
Traitor or Pioneer: John Brown Russwurm and the African Colonization Movement, Brian J. Barker
A Queen's Legacy: The Lives of Elizabeth Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Heather E. Bump
We're Just Like You: Strategies of Gay Activism against the Religious Right, Politics and Conservatism, and the AIDS Crisis, William G. Burton
Gay Outlaws: The Alpine County Project Reconsidered, Jacob D. Carter
George Loney Wallace and the Wrentham State School: 1906-1930, Lindsay Fulton
Charles Francis Adams: A Study on the Crucial Role of Adams in Maintaining British Neutrality During the American Civil War, Jonathan S. McIsaac
The Massachusetts Bay Circuit, Corey W. Medeiros
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
The Integration of African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts, Caitlin E. Pinkham
Anti-Catholicism and Gender Norms: Reassessing the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1834, Daniel S. Sousa
Theses from 2014
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
The Transvaal Constitution and Responsible Government: How Churchill influenced Apartheid, Christopher H. Beckvold
"Tenacious of Their Lands": Fortifying the District of Mashpee, 1834-1842, Nicole Alexis Breault
Assent and You Are Sane: "John Brown Was Right", Jermain S. Corbin
Saving the "Original Paradise": Health Tourism, Tropical Disease, and the Problem of Cuba in the American Imperial Imagination, 1848-98, Liana DeMarco
Panthersprung: The Vital Inheritance of the Agadir Crisis, Patrick E. Doerr
Lusitania: An Examination of Captaincy and Seamanship in the Face of Disaster, Robert J. Goulding
“So Succeeded by a Kind Providence”: Communities of Color in Eighteenth Century Boston, Eric M. Hanson Plass
Constructing A Vernacular Narrative: Communal Memory of Boston's West End, Eleanor Martinez Proctor
Theses from 2013
Generations Apart: Cultural Revolution Memory and China's Post-80's Generation on the Chinese Internet, Vincent R. Capone
Once Lords and Emperors: Chivalry and the Making of Clerical Masculinity in High Medieval Normandy, Charles S. Carroll
Fort Devens: Civil Rights Unrest and African-American Identity in a Northern Military Camp during World War I and World War II, Janine Hubai
The Hidden Experience: Untold Stories of Immigrant Agency During the Settlement House Movement in Boston, Deirdre L. Kutt
General Von Seeckt and Sino-German Cooperation, Yue Lan
"Our Brothers In This Country": Captivity and Kinship in the Colonial Northeast, Steven C. Moore
Germs, Pigs and Silver: King Philip's War and the Deconstruction of the Middle Ground In New England, Benjamin M. Roine
Men of Uncommon Substance: Sailor Literature and American Identity in Antebellum America, 1805 - 1840, Pete Sprayregen
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
The Forgotten Children: The Educational Demographics of an Austrian Diocese 1848-1852, Mathew Richard Boyeson
Gaetano Salvemini: A Lesson in Thought and Action, Michael Christopher DiClemente
The Cultural Assault on the Female Gender during the Weimar Years, Jaime Alexandra Gaudet
Immigrants as Americanizers: The Americanization Movement of the Early Twentieth Century, Alexis Claire Hanley
Union Army Doctrine: The Role of the Artillery During the Campaign for Vicksburg, Stephanie A. Peacock
Botticelli's La Primavera: Painting the Cosmos of Human Ideals, Leatha Eleni Tzioumis