Graduate Theses and Dissertations in History
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
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
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 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