Theses published by graduate students in the Department of History, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Thesis: Southerners on New Ground: The Battle for Civil War Memory Since 1993, Andrew William Hoffman

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Thesis: Pueblo Sovereignty and Voting Rights: Miguel Trujillo and a New Tactic for Self-Determination, Alexander Douglas Bright

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Thesis: "In-Betweening" Disney: An Animated History of Hollywood Labor and Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947, Bradley Edward Moore

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Thesis: Peaceful Collaboration: The Truman Administration's Response to the Costa Rican Revolution of 1948 and the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Crisis of 1948-1949, James Wilkerson

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Thesis: Interpreting the Other: Natives, Missionaries, and Colonial Authority In New England, 1643-1675, Violet Galante

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Thesis: “Mixed Up in the Coal Camp”: Interethnic, Family, and Community Exchanges in Matewan During the West Virginia Mine Wars, 1900-1922, Lela Dawn Gourley

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Thesis: “For The Homeland”: Die Deutsche Hausfrau and Reader Responses to World War I, Julie Sliva Davis

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Thesis: Black Gold: Molly Maguireism, Unionism, and the Anthracite Labor Wars, 1860-1880, Samantha Edmiston

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Thesis: Changing the Message: Battered Women's Advocates and Their Fight Against Domestic Violence at the Local, State, and Federal Level, 1970s-1990s, Clara Amy Van Eck

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Thesis: Displaying Race at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Bryan Patrick Bennett

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Thesis: Boys of the Maple Leaf, Maggie Kontra Emmens

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Thesis: Achieving Sourdough Status: The Diary, Photographs, and Letters of Samuel Baker Dunn, 1898-1899, Robert Nicholas Melatti

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Thesis: "Elite Assault:" The 85th Infantry Division in Italy, 1944-1945, Charles Ross Patterson II

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Thesis: See and Hear James "Catfish" Cole: Identity, Manhood, and the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, 1952-1967, John Scholl Hinton

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Thesis: Residential Segregation in Norfolk, Virginia: How the Federal Government Reinforced Racial Division in a Southern City, 1914-1959, Kevin Lang Ringelstein

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Thesis: Employee Opportunism in Two Early Modern British Trading Companies, Robert Franklin Unger

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Thesis: Bracero Families: Mexican Women and Children in the United States, 1942-64, Rachael Frances DeLaCruz

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Thesis: The Role of Agricultural and Land Policies in the Failure of the British Mandate for Palestine, Beth Ann Lynk

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Thesis: The World of Goods in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia, Ronald C. Merritt Jr.

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Thesis: Set Adrift by the Confederacy: The Civil War Occupation of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Paige Kelly Solomon

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Thesis: Strike a Pose: Propaganda in Augustus' and Mussolini's Imperial Imagery, Colleen Syler Parker

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Thesis: Ecclesiastical Homogeny and Splintering Spirituality: White Ecumenical Christianity and the Church in Norfolk Virginia's Civil Rights Movement, Joshua Wesley Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Thesis: The Forgotten Sixty-Ninth: The Sixty-Ninth New York National Guard Artillery Regiment in the American Civil War, Christopher M. Garcia

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Thesis: The Pacific War Crimes Trials: The Importance of the "Small Fry" vs. the "Big Fish", Lisa Kelly Pennington

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Thesis: The Death of Jefferson Davis, Kasey J. Dell

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Thesis: The Bound "Giddy Multitude": Runaway Indentured Servants Convicts and Slaves in Colonial Virginia, Nicole K. Dressler

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Thesis: Richmond Iron: Tredegar's Role in Southern Industry During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Lisa Hilleary

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Thesis: Closing the Greenland-Iceland Atlantic Air-Gap: 1939 to 1943, James F. Boland

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Thesis: Woman's Work: Female Lighthouse Keepers in the Early Republic, 1820-1859, Virginia Neal Thomas

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Thesis: Woman's Work: Female Lighthouse Keepers in the Early Republic, 1820–1859, Virginia Neal Thomas

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Thesis: The Office of War Information Vs. the Foreign Nationalities Branch: The Roosevelt Administration and the Poles, Kristen Brooke Archambeau

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Thesis: Revival and Revolution: The Political Social and Religious Role of Colonial Virginia's New Light Presbyterians, Bethany N. Austin

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Thesis: The Norfolk Hoax: Fear Social Violence and Ethnicity at the Norfolk Navy Yard During the Strike of 1877, John Douglas Forrest

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Thesis: "Adoption will Determine the Worthiest Successor": Roman Imperial Adoption, Stephen C. Hebert

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Thesis: Meaning in History? The Young Hegelian's Battle for Historical Meaning and the Resurgence of Nihilism, Angelo J. Letizia

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Thesis: "In this Time of Close Trial": An Examination of Quaker Women's Roles and Political Activism in Philadelphia, September 1777-April 1778, Kimberly Ann Stinedurf

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Thesis: Italy and Italians Through American Eyes, 1861-1881, Dennis M. Bench

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Thesis: Martin Luther: Perceptions of the Reformer in Popular Culture and Historical Scholarship, Kathryn R. Cross

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Thesis: "They Are Gone and I Am Going": The Battle of Memphis 6 June 1862, Matthew T. Eng

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Thesis: Drawbridge Diplomacy: Romanian-American Relations, 1963-1968, Brett A. Jerasa

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Thesis: Lord Baltimore's Charter and the Definition of the English-Colonial Relationship in the Seventeenth Century, Christopher D. Purnell

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Thesis: Hearts and Minds, the American Revolution in South Carolina: A Study in the Application of Militia Violence to Influence Politics, Paul K. Reimann

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Thesis: Compartmentalizing the Other: Nineteenth-Century Englishwomen, Travel, and English Identity, Amanda E. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Thesis: Learning to Fly: Military Aviation Training at Middle Tennessee State University and the Transformation of Southern Higher Education in World War II, Christopher T. Crawford Jr.

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Thesis: The Tactical Flexibility of the Union Cavalry: How Modern Firearms Changed the Federal Cavalry, Peter J. Francione

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Thesis: Flaws in the Armor of the Grand Illusion: Dissent, Reluctance, and Disaffection Toward the Confederate Cause in the Central Shenandoah Valley - A Study of Page County Virginia, Robert H. Moore II

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Thesis: The United States Information Agency and the "New Look": France and India, 1953-1961, Leanne Alicia Sutton

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Thesis: The Interaction of Domestic Politics and English Naval Operations During the Civil War and Interregnum, 1642-1660, Don P. Crowson

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Thesis: Russification in the Soviet East: Education in Uzbekistan and the Emancipation of Uzbek Women, 1938-1956, Anna Sochnikova

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Thesis: Dr. Thomas Walker's Influence on Thomas Jefferson's Lewis and Clark Expedition, Kari Kemper Tudor

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Thesis: The Sharper Image: Bringing Irish Nationalist Identity Into Focus, 1880-1923, Meghan M. Ferriter

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Thesis: Austrian Patriots and German Nationalists: Political Radicalism and Austrian Identity in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna, Scott O. Moore

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Thesis: "Those Who Can Suffer the Most": Cultural and Religious Symbols Within Irish Republican Prison Protests, Betsy L. Morgan-Cutright

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Thesis: In the Shadow of the Fleet: The Development of American Submarines Between the World Wars, Stephen J. Brady

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Thesis: Fueling and Fortifying the Foundational Machinery: Religious Necessity and Enlightened Republicanism in America's Founding, Jennifer L. Dyar

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Thesis: The Rhetoric and Reality of Famine in Early Modern Europe, Karen Russell Adams

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Thesis: The Search for Vinland: Reconciling Literature and Archaeology, Clifford W. Anderson

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Thesis: The Anaconda's Head: The U.S. Consular Service in British North America, 1861-1866, Myron Becker

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Thesis: Bolshevism and the Avant-Garde: Marxist Ideology and the Aesthetics of Soviet Film, 1923-28, Garrett H. Booker

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Thesis: The Catholic Church in the Nicaraguan Revolution: Interdependence and Social Movements, Eric W. Frith

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Thesis: Theology, Tradition, and Turbulent Times: Ordination of Women in the Lutheran Church, 1970, Donna L. Koch

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Thesis: Fighting "Don't Know, Don't Care": The FCDA's Public Education Quest, Rachel M. Mihalovich

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Thesis: Money Versus Morality: The Failure of the Joint Boycott Council and the Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States, Michelle D. Ward

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Thesis: Court, Clients and Kingship: A Study of Royal Executive Style During the Reign of James I, Nick Jon Ziegler

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Thesis: One Mistress and No Master: Elizabeth I and Her Use of Public Personas to Gain and Maintain Power, Michael J. Davye

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Thesis: "The Contagion of Liberty": Mercy Otis Warren and the Beginnings of Feminist Sensibility, DonnaMaria Gerych

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Thesis: Buying for the Cold War: Influences on Air Force Procurement, 1945-1956, William Cline

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Thesis: Hanover Courthouse: The Union's Tactical Victory and Strategic Failure, Jerry Joseph Coggeshall

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Thesis: The Virginia Conservative Party, 1965-1969, Gerald Paul Gaidmore III

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Thesis: An Analysis of the Success and Failure of the Collection and Interpretation of American Intelligence, 1942-1989, Alexander Michael Gibby

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Thesis: Henri IV as Military Commander, Terence W. Loveridge

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Thesis: Difficulties in Diplomacy: A Case Study of Relations Between the United States and the Republic of Congo, 1960-1965, James R. Hawn Jr.

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Thesis: The United States and the Netherlands: A Study of Early Cold War Cooperation, Michael R. Hirman

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Thesis: Lives of the Little-Known: Women Children and Servants in Augusta County, 1745-1779, Nancy B. Osborne

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Thesis: William Mahone and the Confederate Command Style During the Siege of Petersburg, 1864-1865, David Kenneth Reed

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Thesis: Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War, Dale C. Rielage

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Thesis: The Development of United States Navy Convoy Escort Doctrine and the Implementation of Coastal Convoys in 1942, Ronald J. Sheppard

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Thesis: Fact or Fiction? The Use of Eighteenth-Century Criminal Biographies in Historical Studies, Steven M. Wakefield

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Thesis: The Eisenhower Administration and Allied Relations During the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Gregory D. Colburn

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Thesis: The Men Behind the Oath: A Profile of the German Officer Corps in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939, Brian E. Crim

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Thesis: The Marine Corps in Vietnam: An Examination of Cohesion and Effectiveness at Khe Sanh, Gregory L. Davenport

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Thesis: Orphans and Guardians in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah M. Goldberger

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Thesis: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at the Paris Summit: Anatomy of a Failure, Vincent Michael Kapral

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Thesis: Mr. Wilkes' War: Captain Charles Wilkes and the West India Squadron, Christopher J. Pieczynski

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Thesis: Maintaining the Neutrality: Soviet-Japanese Relations, 1941-1945, Michael Shawn Blevins

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Thesis: Economic Interdependence Along a Colonial Frontier: Capitalism and the New River Valley, 1745-1789, B. Scott Crawford

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Thesis: Lower Chesapeake Maritime Enterprise: 1781-1812, D. Dennis Duff

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Thesis: The Resurgence of the Wehrmacht on the Western Front in the Fall of 1944, Aaron S. Hamilton

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Thesis: Social and Economic Opportunity in Seventeenth-Century Charles County, Maryland, Garett William Hughes

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Thesis: The United State Government Versus John Harrison Surratt: A Study in Attitudes, Thomas Michael Martin

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Thesis: Josiah Gorgas and the Richmond Ordnance Industry: The Arsenal of the Confederacy, J. Michael Moore

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Thesis: The Martinsville Seven: Virginia's Most Controversial Court Case, 1949 - 1951, Michael Dean Plemmons

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Thesis: Representations of Gender in Juvenile Literature During the Era of the American Revolution, Sandra Strohhofer Pryor

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Thesis: Judicial Intelligence: Allied Signal Intelligence and the War Crimes Trials of Class "A" War Criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-1948, William Todd Baker

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Thesis: Partnership of Necessity: The Anglo-American Intelligence Relationship from 1921 to 1942, H. Douglas Brooks III

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Thesis: Presidential Philosophies and American Foreign Policy: From the Long Telegram to the New Look, John R. Moore

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Thesis: Out of the Air: The Role of Communications Intelligence in the Strategic Bombing Campaign Against the German Oil Industry and Transportation System in World War II, Darrell Nolen

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Thesis: The Student Movement at Old Dominion: 1964-1970, Patrick Joseph Pané

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Thesis: The Civil War as a Catalyst for the Professionalization of Nursing, Rosemary Plum

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Thesis: "Preservation...From the Dangers of the Enemy as Well as Seas": The Establishment of the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, Kevin Charles Valliant