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 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Thesis: Southerners on New Ground: The Battle for Civil War Memory Since 1993, Andrew William Hoffman
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Thesis: Pueblo Sovereignty and Voting Rights: Miguel Trujillo and a New Tactic for Self-Determination, Alexander Douglas Bright
Thesis: "In-Betweening" Disney: An Animated History of Hollywood Labor and Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947, Bradley Edward Moore
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
Thesis: Interpreting the Other: Natives, Missionaries, and Colonial Authority In New England, 1643-1675, Violet Galante
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
Thesis: “For The Homeland”: Die Deutsche Hausfrau and Reader Responses to World War I, Julie Sliva Davis
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Thesis: Black Gold: Molly Maguireism, Unionism, and the Anthracite Labor Wars, 1860-1880, Samantha Edmiston
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
Thesis: Displaying Race at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Bryan Patrick Bennett
Thesis: Boys of the Maple Leaf, Maggie Kontra Emmens
Thesis: Achieving Sourdough Status: The Diary, Photographs, and Letters of Samuel Baker Dunn, 1898-1899, Robert Nicholas Melatti
Thesis: "Elite Assault:" The 85th Infantry Division in Italy, 1944-1945, Charles Ross Patterson II
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Thesis: Residential Segregation in Norfolk, Virginia: How the Federal Government Reinforced Racial Division in a Southern City, 1914-1959, Kevin Lang Ringelstein
Thesis: Employee Opportunism in Two Early Modern British Trading Companies, Robert Franklin Unger
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Thesis: The Pacific War Crimes Trials: The Importance of the "Small Fry" vs. the "Big Fish", Lisa Kelly Pennington
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Thesis: Richmond Iron: Tredegar's Role in Southern Industry During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Lisa Hilleary
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Thesis: Woman's Work: Female Lighthouse Keepers in the Early Republic, 1820–1859, Virginia Neal Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Thesis: In the Shadow of the Fleet: The Development of American Submarines Between the World Wars, Stephen J. Brady
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Thesis: Theology, Tradition, and Turbulent Times: Ordination of Women in the Lutheran Church, 1970, Donna L. Koch
Thesis: Court, Clients and Kingship: A Study of Royal Executive Style During the Reign of James I, Nick Jon Ziegler
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Thesis: One Mistress and No Master: Elizabeth I and Her Use of Public Personas to Gain and Maintain Power, Michael J. Davye
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Thesis: Hanover Courthouse: The Union's Tactical Victory and Strategic Failure, Jerry Joseph Coggeshall
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Thesis: Economic Interdependence Along a Colonial Frontier: Capitalism and the New River Valley, 1745-1789, B. Scott Crawford
Thesis: Social and Economic Opportunity in Seventeenth-Century Charles County, Maryland, Garett William Hughes
Thesis: The United State Government Versus John Harrison Surratt: A Study in Attitudes, Thomas Michael Martin
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Thesis: Presidential Philosophies and American Foreign Policy: From the Long Telegram to the New Look, John R. Moore
Thesis: "Preservation...From the Dangers of the Enemy as Well as Seas": The Establishment of the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, Kevin Charles Valliant
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: Tobacco and Its Role in the Life of the Confederacy, D. T. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: The Riga Mission: The Reports of the First American Outpost on the Soviet Border, 1924-1933, Jeffrey Acosta
Thesis: U.S.S. New Ironsides: The Seagoing Ironclad in the Union Navy, William Howard Roberts
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Thesis: United States Tactical Doctrine, 1855 to 1861: The Mismeasure of Technology, Marion Vincent Armstrong Jr.
Thesis: John Bankhead Magruder and the Defense of the Virginia Peninsula, 1861-1862, Leonard W. Riedel Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Thesis: The American Influence on the Mindanao Resistance During the Second World War, Michael Anthony Balis
Thesis: The Truman Administration, Israel, and Containment in the Middle East 1945-1952, Leslie Tarbutton
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Thesis: Reconstruction in Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Thesis: Operation Bumpy Road: The Role of Admiral Arleigh Burke and the U.S. Navy in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, John P. Madden
Thesis: Reform and Democracy: British and American Reactions to the French Revolution, 1789-1801, Martha Lingua Wheless
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Thesis: The Public Record Office: A Study of the Creation of the Office and the Construction of Its Fireproof Repository, Kathryn A. Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Thesis: The Remarkable John Bigelow, Jr.: An Examination of Professionalism in the United States Army, 1877-91, Howard K. Hansen Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: Princess Anne County: A Study in Material Wealth, Todd Grant Duncan
Thesis: Walter Heron Taylor and His Era, Emanuel Meyer
Thesis: I.G. Farben's Petro-Chemical Plant and Concentration Camp at Auschwitz, Robert Simon Yavner
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: Seventeenth Century Settlement of the Nansemond River in Virginia, Emmett Edward Bottoms
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: Emancipation & Renewal: English Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century, Cheryl E. Yielding
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: Games and Gaming of the Stuart Aristocracy, Vicky Ann Sanderlin
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: American Diplomacy Toward China, 1945-1948, Margo E. Horner