• The Long History Of Johnson’s Great Society: The Roots of Mass Incarceration In 1960s Poverty Reform 

  Hamilton, Evan (2017)

  This thesis is concerned with crime and poverty during the second half of the 20th century in the United States. Particularly, it concerns the process through which young, poor, urban, racial minorities became the nexus ...
• Experimenting with Rescue: Understanding the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Approach to the Jewish Refugee Crisis from 1938 to 1940 

  Medina Del Toro, Victor (2017)

  Efforts to solve the Jewish refugee crisis created by the expansion of the Nazi empire have largely been examined with the hindsight that those efforts failed to rescue the millions of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. ...
• A Historical Analysis of the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky in Relation to the Post-Thaw Soviet Moment 

  Helbock, Gus (2017)

  During the latter half of the twentieth century, Andrei Tarkovsky received arguably more critical admiration for his films than any Soviet director. During his filmmaking career, the Soviet Union experienced a tumultuous ...
• Creating Meaningful Lives: The Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century Philadelphia Quaker Communities 

  Corcoran, Abigail T. (2017)

  Sarah Wistar, Emma Jane Fussell, and Jane Gibbons Rhoads faced difficult transitions from girlhood to womanhood. As middle and upper-class girls in the mid-nineteenth century United States, their childhoods had been marked ...
• With a Sprinkle of Fairy Dust and a Splash of Color: How The Brownies’ Book Embodied the Black Elite’s Integrationist Vision of Racial Uplift and Carved Its Place in the White-Washed World of Children’s Literature 

  Jones, Amanda Ashley (2017)

  In January 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Augustus Granville Dill – three prominent race activists of the black elite who strove to prove black people’s deservingness of equal rights and fought for racial ...
• No Common Slave: Islam, Blackness and Literacy in Atlantic Slavery 

  Herlands, Alexa (2017)

  This thesis is comprised of five microhistories that track the life stories of Muslim, literate enslaved men from West Africa. Bilali Muhammad, Omar ibn Said, Nicholas Said, Ayuba Sulemayn Diallo and Abdul Rahman Ibrahima ...
• Winning One for the Gipper: An Analysis of Football’s Impact on the Identity of the University of Notre Dame 

  Gorman, James (2017)

  For my senior thesis, I will be discussing the early history of football at the University of Notre Dame between the years, 1913 and 1924. During this period, the football team climbed from the ranks of a little known ...
• Charles and Ray Eames’s Multiscreen Exhibitions: Cybernetic Visions of Computing, Communication, Complexity, and Control [ A Design Primer For Re-“THINK”-ing The American Century ] 

  Rada, Cormac (2017)

  The American Century denotes a period of U.S. political, economic, and cultural dominance in the twentieth century that reached its height in the middle of the century after World War II and before the Vietnam War. Midcentury ...
• Imai Utako and Her Contemporaries: A Survey into Intellectual Allegiance in the Early Feminist Movement in Late Meiji Japan, ca. 1900-1910 

  Yang, Qin (2017)

  The current paper explores the life, writings, and the social milieu of Imai Utako 今井歌子 (1877-1968), a friend of the Heiminsha, editor of Nijū Seki no Fujin, and the leader of the first three petitions for women’s right ...
• Standing Out of Place and Speaking Out of Turn: Gender and Class Hierarchies in the Trial of Margaret Douglass 

  Robiolio, Amanda (2017)

  On the morning of May 9, 1853, Norfolk City constables arrested Margaret Douglass in Norfolk, Virginia for teaching free black children from the city to read and write. Claiming ignorance of the Virginia law prohibiting ...
• Looking to “the Successful Example of a Sister State”: Philadelphia’s Influence on New Jersey Abolitionism, 1793 to 1809 

  Roth, Sarah (2017)

  The story of abolitionism in New Jersey paralleled that of Pennsylvania during the first century of European settlement in the Delaware Valley. United by their Quaker populations and geographic proximity, the abolition ...
• From City to Spectacle: How the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow Became Disney’s Permanent World’s Fair 

  Novakovic, Michaela E. (2017)

  In 1965, Walt Disney, using dummy corporations, bought up vast tracts of land in central Florida upon which he planned to construct the city of the future, which he dubbed EPCOT – Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. ...
• “Just like coming home” Lois Barnes’ use of narrative as surrogate for her lost homeland 

  Perkins-High, Mac (2017)

  In order to begin the 1938 construction of Massachusetts’ Quabbin Reservoir, the four rural towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott were dis-incorporated, depopulated, and razed. Four and a half decades later, Lois ...
• Point Guarden of Eden: Philadelphia as a Cradle for Jewish Basketball in the 1920s and 1930s 

  Sherman, Matthew (2017)

  This study explores Jewish basketball in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s – the interwar period. At the turn of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants, hailing predominantly from Eastern Europe, arrived in the ...
• Most Excellent of All the Arts: Adelard of Bath & Arabic Astrology 

  Truitt, James (2017)

  My thesis uses Adelard of Bath as a case study to understand the factors that led dozens of scholars in the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Latin West to seek out and translate Arabic works on the science of the stars, ...
• The American Friends Service Committee and Confederated Humanitarianism 

  Zabliski, David (2017)

  Often marked by the formation of the International Red Cross in 1863, modern Humanitarianism defines itself in idealized terms as an impartial, neutral, and independent institution that aims to relieve human suffering ...
• Ottowomen: Picturing Women from Empire to Nation 1913-1928 

  Birkner, Joanna (2016)

  On a gloomy November morning in 1918, nervous spectators watched as fleets of grey ships entered the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. Stately British warships led the procession, followed close behind by those of the French ...
• “The Problems in Our School”: Female Authors in Spanish Journals of Education, 1922-1936 

  Heller, Eden (2016)

  The educational reform project of the Second Spanish Republic stemmed from the educational reform movement in Spain beginning in the late 19th century. The Spanish movement was heavily influenced by foreign ideas and was ...
• Collages of Redefinition and Resistance: Scrapbooks, Memorial, and American Society during World War I 

  Gundy, Thomas (2016)

  The entry of the United States into World War I signaled a new internationalism for the American state. While the idealism of the Wilsonian era was not uniform throughout American society, the vision for which he advocated ...
• Concealed Criticism: The Uses of History in Anglo-Norman Literature, 1130-1210 

  Ristow, William (2016)

  The twelfth century in western Europe was marked by tensions and negotiations between Church, aristocracy, and monarchies, each of which vied with the others for power and influence. At the same time, a developing literary ...

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