• "Confinement as the Instrument of Conversion": Insanity, Criminality, and Solitude in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia 

  Schoder, Ellen (2019)

  The Friends Asylum and Eastern State Penitentiary are a useful pair of institutions for studying insanity and criminality in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. The asylum opened in 1817 and the penitentiary opened in ...
• Utopian Visions, Apocalyptic Dreams, and Indigenous Reactions: Feather Art and the Construction of a New Colonial Culture in Sixteenth-Century Michoacán 

  Lehman, Steve (2019)

  Before the Spanish invasion of the 1520s, the feather artisans of the Purhépecha Empire in modern-day Michoacán crafted sacred objects that held value for their religious and social significance. By the 1550s and 1560s, ...
• Converging Identities: The Creation of Argentine Sephardim in the Early Twentieth Century 

  Gold, Micaela Leah (2019)

  This thesis discusses the formation of Sephardic Jewish identity in Argentina in the first decades of the twentieth century. Jews began migrating to Argentina in large waves beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, ...
• Reading Peasant Voices through Environmental Violence: The 1641 Irish Rebellion 

  Brower, Jack (2019)

  After British forces defeated the Irish in the Nine Years War (1594-1603), Gaelic Earls fled the country and left large tracts of land in their wake. Shortly thereafter King James I reorganized the island’s natural landscape ...
• Sheng Shicai’s Attempts to Retain Power on the Russo-Chinese Borderland from 1933-1944 

  Linden, Andrew (2019)

  This thesis uses the framework of borderlands studies, which defines how situations in the area between nations or borderlands were quite different from other regions. In general, state power is much more volatile in ...
• It’s Complicated: Relations Between Greek Settlers and Indigenous Sicilians at Megara Hyblaea, Syracuse, and Leontinoi in the 8th and 7th Centuries BCE 

  Sterngass, Aaron (2019)

  Greek interactions with indigenous Sicilians in the Archaic Period have traditionally been examined through the lens of violent colonization by historians from Ancient Greece all the way through the mid-20th century. ...
• Blackface Minstrelsy and the Theater of Empire, 1838-1860 

  Johnson, Miranda (2019)

  In the early 1830s, blackface minstrelsy burst onto the American entertainment landscape and remained a dominant form of popular culture for the rest of the century. Unsurprisingly then, as the first United States naval ...
• “Arbitrary, capricious, and without reasonable relation to any purpose:” Pérez v. Sharp, Miscegenation Law, and the Interracial Consciousness of Post-War Los Angeles 

  Paez-Coombe, Paloma (2019)

  In October of 1948, a young interracial couple from Los Angeles won the right to marry, and in doing so overturned California’s state miscegenation law. Andrea Pérez, a Mexican American woman, and Sylvester Davis, an African ...
• I BEG YOUR PARDON, PLEASE PART THESE PAGES: WHY THE BLACK MAGAZINE NEEDED HARLEM’S LITERARY SCENE 

  Ridley, Matthew Luther (2019)

  This thesis examines the role of African-American newspapers as conduits for African-American literature during the Harlem Renaissance. Since the 1827 debut of the Freedom’s Journal, the black press has been a defender for ...
• Reacting to the Unexpected: The U.S. Military’s Role in the 1975 Vietnamese Refugee Evacuation and Resettlement Operations 

  Carpenter, Robert (2018)

  From the very beginning of the U.S. Military’s evacuations of South Vietnam, things did not go as planned. South Vietnam’s sudden retreat down the Indochinese Peninsula and the North Vietnamese Communist forces’ subsequent ...
• National Pedagogy at a Natural Wonder: Remaking Postwar American Citizens in Yellowstone National Park, 1945 to 1973 

  Ulrich, Annika (2018)

  When World War II ended in 1945, Americans flocked to Yellowstone National Park in unprecedented numbers. Since Congress established Yellowstone as the first national park in 1872, notions of American distinction, endurance, ...
• Collecting, Cultivating, Classifying: Status and Collaboration in Early Modern English Botany 

  Arnold-Scerbo, Madison (2018)

  Making claims about the natural world is a social endeavor that is tied up in collaborative networks of people of varying statuses. In early eighteenth-century England, as exotic plants were streaming into Europe from New ...
• Hunting with the Empress: Hunting, Gender and Dynastic Ambition at the Court of Charles VI and Maria Theresa 

  Stokes, Thomas (2018)

  In the first half of the eighteenth century, the Habsburg family faced a dynastic crisis. Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI had no sons to inherit his kingdom. Consequently, he presented his daughter, Maria Theresa, as his ...
• Balancing Virtue and Vice: Dueling Representations of the Proprietress in the London Coffeehouse 

  Fortier, Julia (2018)

  Regarded as a setting for civilized debates and gentility, the coffeehouse in eighteenth-century London distinguished itself as the epicenter of political dissent, intellectual discourse, and the circulation of news. ...
• Navigating Space and Feeling at The Flight 93 National Memorial: A History of the Memorial, Its Role in Somerset County, and Its Significance in the National and Local Narratives of September 11. 

  Forse, James Theodore (2018)

  This thesis analyzes the cultural memory, historical narrative, and political meaning of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County. It examines the memorial’s creation, its relationship to the local community, and ...
• Art, Revolution, and Social Reform: The Relationship between Artistic Vision and Reality in the work of Diego Rivera 

  Villines, John-Francis (2018)

  Diego Rivera’s murals explicitly called for political action on the part of the spectator, and his vision accelerated the formulation of a class conscious proletariat in Mexico which wished to advocate for its own interests ...
• ISLAND IMAGININGS: INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTIONS WITHIN DUTCH-JAPANESE COOPERATION, 1770-1785 

  Ennis, Tepi Karl (2018)

  After four hundred years the island of Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, is a renewed symbol of international cooperation. This thesis summarized the value of Dejima during Japan's "closed country" period, but ...
• “But I am not ashamed of any act I have ever done:” the 1880 Apsáalooke (Crow) Delegation to Washington, D.C. 

  Cohen, Rosemary Ryden (2018)

  In April of 1880, six chiefs and headmen of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Indians traveled in a delegation to Washington, DC to meet with federal officials. In the city, they discussed a proposed land cession that would greatly ...
• The Role of Yellow Fever during the French Occupation of Saint-Domingue, 1802-1803 

  Richie, Lucas S. (2018)

  This project examines the yellow fever epidemics that ravaged the French army during the failed French occupation of Saint-Domingue, from 1802-1803, that marked the end of the Haitian Revolution and the birth of the Republic ...
• Capitalizing on Socialism: The Berlin Wall and American Victory Culture 

  Albertson, Julia (2018)

  When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, Berliners and foreigners alike seized the opportunity to smash, chop, and haul away the barrier that had symbolized the global division of the Cold War for nearly three decades. ...

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