Graduate Theses and Dissertations in History
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Voices from Below: The Politics of Leprosy Control in Southeastern Nigeria, 1926-1960, Odinakachukwu Kingsley Eze
The Crisis of White Supremacy in the Antebellum South: Poor Whites, Slavery, and the Coming of the Civil War, Jeffrey Glossner
"Dug Way to Liberty": Newspapers, Prison, and Jim Crow in Georgia in The Early 1900s, Avery Elise Gross
Food Retailing in Mississippi, 1895-2000, James R. Gulley
“Mississippi’s Greatest Minister”: A Historical Study of Cornelius W. Grafton’s 61-Year Pastorate, 1873-1934, David Thomas Irving
Slavery, Antislavery, and Masculinity in Kansas and Kentucky, Spencer King
Humanitarian Capitalism: Displaced Persons Resettlement in America, 1948-1952, Andrew Joseph Marion
Queer Community in Charlottesville, Virginia: Contradictions, Ambivalence, and Fragmentation, Cecelia Parks
Oh Men of Justice! Petitioning in Protectorate Bahrain 1919-1939, Ashleen Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A History of Freed Slaves' Homes in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1926, Ajibola A. Abdulrahman
The Few Among the Many: Women's labour in British Guiana Prisons, 1838-1917, Estherine Gwendoline Adams
The Ties that Bind: Creole Networks and Reform in New Granada during the Age of Revolution, 1780-1811, Philip John Baltuskonis
James S. Allen and Communist Organization of the Depression South in the 1930s, Jonathan Dale Harwood
Instruments of Culture: Refashioning the French Empire between the French and Haitian Revolutions, Will Collier Little
Fighting Exclusion: Women in the Palm Oil Industry in Ghana Since 1957, Grace Okine
REIMAGINING MISSISSIPPI: BLACK POWER AND THE STUDENT ACTIVIST PLIGHT TO DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY, Jasmine Stansberry
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
"No Place in American History": Remembering and Forgetting the Sultana Disaster, Elias John Baker
An American Pilgrimage: The 1968 Poor People's Campaign Mule Train As Prophetic Social Performance, Cheston M. Bush
"Slums Are Our Most Expensive Luxuries": Little Rock's Metroplan and the Making of the Neoliberal City, 1939-1980, Monica N. Campbell
For Country and Company: Consolidating Power through Development and Company Towns in Saudi Arabia, 1947-1969, Andrew Nicholas Czuzak
TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS, AND MUSIC CULTURE FROM THE T.A.M.I. SHOW TO THE ROCK FESTIVAL (1964-1969), Xavier Michael Frascogna
A NATURAL FIT FOR THE NATURAL STATE: THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK POWER ORGANIZATIONS IN ARKANSAS FROM 1968-1975, Maurice D. Gipson
"Between the two Great Battlefields:" Scottish Medical Women's Encounters with the Eastern Front, Fiona Gale Holter
"Beyond the Lines": A Reassessment of Civil War Prisons, Beth Kruse
Opening the American University: African American, Latino/a, and Women's Activism in Higher Education and Postwar Politics, 1964-1985, Jillian Elizabeth McClure
MIDWIFERY AND MEDICINE IN BRITAIN: A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF MIDWIFERY AND CHILDBEARING IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND, 1650-1780, Summer Smith
Blood Money: 12th Century Trade Wars and the Fourth Crusade, Alexander Evgeniy Stalowski
Soul Liberation: Black Christian Intellectual Engagement with Black Power, Jemar Tisby
Development or Detriment? The World Bank and Economic Disincentives to Water Conservation: Jordan in the 1960s and 1970s, William Chase Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Contraband Camps And The Freedmen's Bureau During The Civil War And Reconstruction, Kristin Bouldin
A War Of Ideas: L.Q.C. Lamar And American Political Thought, Ashley Steenson
Labor In The Field Is Much Changed: The Chickasaws And The Civilization Plan, 1790-1837, Jeffrey D. Washburn
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A bargain at any cost: the rise of dollar general, Frances Evelyn Barrett
A balm for the times: the origins and evolution of the lost cause in the South Carolina low country, 1830-1876, Andrew Patrick Davis
Not All Scholars, But Gentlemen: The Making of Virginian Manhood at St. Christopher's School, 1911-1969, Katelyn Frazer
She Lived, and Served, and Died: Caroline Barr, Black Domestic Workers, and the Threat of Memory in Lafayette County, Kaimara Herron
To sink our national character: slavery and national character in the U.S. house of representatives, 1789-1820, Jessica Johnson
Courtroom Wars: Constitutional Battles over Conscription in the Civil War North, Nicholas Matthew Mosvick
Whistle Before You Work: Defining Paid Labor in the New Deal State, 1938-1947, Thomas Porter
My Feet Are Chained: Settler Colonialism and Mobility in the Florida Borderlands, 1812-1866, Christine Antoinette Rizzi
Identity, Dissent, and the Roots of Georgia’s Middle Class, 1848-1865, Thomas Robinson
Constructing and Crossing Color Lines: Race and Religion in the Southern Confluence, 1810-1865, Justin Isaac Rogers
Populism and Democratization in the Presidential Election of 1832, Laura Ellyn Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Church Adrift: Virginia's Church Of England, 1607-1677, Katherine Gray Blank
Slavery's Holy Profits: Religion and Capitalism in the Antebellum Lower Mississippi Valley, John Lindbeck
I'm Gonna Stay Right Here Until They Tear This Barrelhouse Down: Black Power and the Origins of Blues Tourism in Greenville, Mississippi, Tyler DeWayne Moore
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Succeeding King: Ralph David Abernathy, SCLC, And The Long Civil Rights Movement, Scott Blusiewicz
Revolutionary fathers: Republican fatherhood and the American Revolution and early republic 1763-1814, Travis Jaquess Jaquess
Beyond Isolation: The Mississippi Delta in a Global World, Stella D. Lindsey
Diplomacy Of Pirates: Foreign Relations And Changes In The Legal Treatment Of Piracy Under Henry VIII, Jamie Deanna Sessions
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Corruption Of Promise: The Insane Asylum In Mississippi, 1848-1910, Whitney E. Barringer
The Exigencies of War: Black Military Service, Free Labor, and Education in Civil War Missouri, Miller Williams Boyd
The design of the southern future: The struggle to build white democracy at the University of Mississippi, 1890-1948, Thomas John Carey
Cavaliers And Crackers: Landless Whites In The Mind Of The Elite Antebellum South, Jeffrey Glossner
Nixon's FBI: The Bureau In Crisis, Melissa Graves
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment, Russell James Henderson
Take the Mountain: The International Order of Twelve Knights And Daughters of Tabor and The Black Health Care Initiative in the Mississippi Delta, 1938 – 1983, Katrina Rochelle Sims
The Bawdy Bluff: Prostitution in Memphis, Tennessee, 1820-1900, Aran Tyson Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Please Don't Forget About Me: African American Women, Mississippi, And The History Of Crime And Punishment In Parchman Prison, 1890-1980, Telisha Dionne Bailey
Missouri! Bright Land of the West: Civil War Memory and Western Identity in Missouri, Amy Fluker
English Identity and Muslim Captivity in the Mediterranean, 1580-1640, Joel Gillaspie
Transformation Of The American Mafia, 1880-1960, Connor Anthony Hagan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Is This Freedom? Government Exploitation Of Contraband Laborers In Virginia, South Carolina, And Washington, D.C. During The American Civil War, Kristin Leigh Bouldin
Memory In Mississippi: Imagining Women's Place In Interwar Political Culture, Rachel Mclemore
Democracy For Whom?: The Spanish-American War, The Philippine-American War, World War I, And The NAACP, Amanda Marie Nagel
Sectionalism, Nationalism, And The Agrarian Revolt, 1877-1892, Benjamin Houston Turner Purvis
That Spanified League: The Elizabethan Catholic Community and Resistance to the Jesuits, Thomas Ridgedell
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Grounding The Counterculture: Post-Modernism, The Back-To-The-Land Movement, And Authentic Enviroments Of Memory, Jonathan Bowdler
Christ and Class: The Protestant Episcopal Church in the South, 1760-1865, Ryan Lee Fletcher
Creek Corridors Of Commerce: Converging Empires, Cultural Arbitration, And The Recourse Of Gulf Coast Trade, Kevin T. Harrell
There Is A Gnawing Worm Under The Bark Of Our Tree Of Liberty: Anti-Mission Baptists, Religious Liberty, And Local Church Autonomy, John Lindbeck
Prairie, Property, and Promise: Black Migrants and Farmers in Kansas, 1860-1885, Keith Dennis McCall
Neither Slave Nor Free... : Interracial Ecclesiastical Interaction In Presbyterian Mission Churches From South Carolina To Mississippi, 1818-1877., Otis Westbrook Pickett
Slavery, Secession, and Sin: Religion and Dissent in the Upcountry South, 1820-1865, Douglas R. Porter
The Rule Of Three: Federal Courts And Prison Farms In The Post-Segregation South, Gregory Louis Richard
Plain Folk Recovered: Class, Property And Agriculture In Lawrence County, Alabama, 1850-1860, Joseph Thomas Richardson
Recipes Exist In The Moment: Cookbooks And Culture In The Post-Civil War South, Kelsielynn Ruff
Revolutionary-Era Republicanism As Championed By Nathaniel Macon And John Randolph Of Roanoke, Barbara Hensley Shepard
The Fearful State Of England: The Amalgamation Of Fin-De-Siècle Anxieties And Anarchist Outrages In The Public Deconstruction Of The Liberal State, 1892-1911, David R. Speicher
John Brown, Martyer for the Cause of the Blacks: John Brown, the Haitian Revolution, and the Death of American Slavery, Wes Trueblood
Shaking Reconstructed Apples from Secessionist Trees: Beyond Ordinances of Secession and Civil War, Audrey Michele Uffner
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Rituals of Resistance: The Life, Lynching, and Legacy of L.Q. Ivy, Hannah Maureen McMahan
Maintaining Intact Our Homogeneousness: Race, Citizenship, & Reconstructing Cherokee, Rachel Purvis
Perfect Harmony: the Myth of Tupelo's Industrial Tranquility, Wendy D. Smith
There Is No Dishonor in Desertion: Army Racial Intolerance and African-American Soldiers' Desertion, Steve Wallace
Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Eva Elizabeth Walton
Deeds, Not Words: African American Officers of World War I in the Battle for Racial Equality, Adam Patrick Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Games That Will Pay: College Football and the Emergence of the Modern South, Matthew Bailey
Good Neighbors: Agents of Change in the New Rural South, 1900 to 1940, Thomas Wayne Copeland
Sir Dudley North: Merchant Politics in the First Age of Party, Jamie Suzanne Farmer
God's Glass Ceiling: Women's Education in Christian Fundamentalist Higher Education Institutions, Melissa Graves
The American School Discipline Debate and the Persistence of Corporal Punishment in Southern Public Schools, David M. Hargrove
An Environmental History of the New Deal in Mississippi and Florida, Robert Edward Krause
Midwives Of Mississippi, Lane Noel
John Cotton's Middle Way, Gary Albert Rowland
A Strange Union: Science And Politics In The Loyalty Of Cadwallader Colden, Katherine Smith
Can't You See the Sun's Settin' Down on Our Town?: Decline, Space, and Community in Frisco City, Alabama, Mary Amelia Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: the Maryland United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Assertion of Their Identity, Amanda Mae Myers
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
England’s Exodus: Jewish Readmission and English Identity, Patricia M. O'Sullivan