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 1991
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: George F. Kennan and the Rebuilding of Japan: The Second Phase of Occupation Policy, Rhonda S. Beckham
Thesis: The Role of the Court of Justice in European Integration, Frances M. Jacobson
Thesis: The Truman Administration, Israel, and Containment in the Middle East 1945-1952, Leslie Tarbutton
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Thesis: The U.S. Army and the Development of the ROK Army: 1945-1950, Charles M. Ayers
Thesis: Reconstruction in Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly
Thesis: The Peaceful Resolution of Norfolk's Integration Crisis of 1958-1959, Nancy Parker Ford
Thesis: The 93rd Division: A Victim of Domestic Politics, 1938-1945, Robert F. Jefferson
Thesis: Party Politics During the Compromise Crisis: The Virginia Congressional Elections of 1849 and 1851, Jodi Lee Bennett Koste
Thesis: Three American Resistance Leaders in the Philippine Islands During World War II, Brian W. McLean
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Thesis: The Merchant Class of London During the Hundred Years War, Rowena Breen
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: Virginia in Transition: The 1961 Democratic Primary, Thomas Carter Evans
Thesis: Slavery and the Early Teutonic Codes A.D. 400-800: A Legal Paradigm Shift, Elizabeth Thompson Harris
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 Effect of the Revolution on Norfolk Politics, Mary C. Chrysostomides
Thesis: General John Henry Winder's Administration of Martial Law in Richmond, 1862-1864, John Michael Cobb
Thesis: The Remarkable John Bigelow, Jr.: An Examination of Professionalism in the United States Army, 1877-91, Howard K. Hansen Jr.
Thesis: Vatican II and the Answer to the Jewish Question, Ronald Lee Harris
Thesis: The Fleet Landing Exercises and the Development of Modern American Amphibious Doctrine, W. Howard Meissel Jr.
Thesis: Confederate Leather Supply: Industrial Improvisation in the Confederacy, James E. Parker III
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Thesis: The American-British Alliance of World War II and the Debate Over European Strategy, Emory Allen Burton
Thesis: The Ellet Family and Riverine Warfare in the West--1861-1865, Jesse L. Chapman
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: The Rhetorical Factors Applied to the Reorientation of American Public Opinion Toward the Soviet Union Immediately After June 22, 1941, Stanley Paul Berry
Thesis: Seventeenth Century Settlement of the Nansemond River in Virginia, Emmett Edward Bottoms
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: The Evening Parade A History of the Marine Corps' Most famous Ceremony, John H. Admire
Thesis: Forgotten Campaign: The Siege of Suffolk, April 11 - May 4, 1863, Steven A. Cormier
Thesis: Charles M. Davies (1828-1910): Cleric, Writer, Educator, Spiritualist, Thomas M. Costa
Thesis: The 1969 Democratic Party Gubernatorial Primary: A Watershed in Virginia Political History, Patrick Anthony Parr
Thesis: Emancipation & Renewal: English Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century, Cheryl E. Yielding
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: The Evolution of the Fleet Submarine in the United States Navy, Robert P. Kendall
Thesis: Games and Gaming of the Stuart Aristocracy, Vicky Ann Sanderlin
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: The Irish Land Question 1848-1870, Sara A. Coski
Thesis: Cornelius L. Moore: A Northern Soldier's Perspective on the Civil War, Roger T. Crew Jr.
Thesis: Dr. Félix-Roland Moumié and the Revolution in French Cameroon, 1948-1960, Gregory Kurt Glassner
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Thesis: The Effects of United States Inter-American Policy on U.S. Relations with Chile, 1958-1978, Michael Hunter Brown
Thesis: Blacks In Norfolk Virginia During the 1930's, Norma Cromwell Fields
Thesis: The Source and Substance of Liberalism in the Protestant Episcopal Church, Jo Ann McAllister Hobart
Thesis: A Painful Case: The Wright-Sanborn Incident in Norfolk, Virginia July-October, 1863, Ervin Leon Jordan Jr.
Thesis: Norfolk in the First World War, Stephen Paul Nasca
Thesis: American Perceptions of Chinese Communism 1945-1950, Edward C. O'Dowd
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Thesis: Urban Life in Edinburgh, 1500-1540, Mary Elizabeth Ball
Thesis: French Diplomacy in Italy, 1450-1463, Mary Jane Callahan
Thesis: The Effect of the French Revolution on Charles James Fox and the Direction of British Politics, 1789-1794, Robert Breckenridge Daughtrey
Thesis: Republican Ideology and American Diplomats: The Roles of John Jay and James Monroe, Helen Kello Hill
Thesis: The British Diplomatic Response to the Central American Policies of the Franklin Pierce Administration, 1853-1856, William Mark Hillsman
Thesis: Sir Robert Peel, 1846-1850: Unwilling Leader of a Splinter Party, Donald A. Kerr
Thesis: The Board of Strategy and Union Military Planning for Sea Operations Against the Southern Confederacy, Samuel Novotny
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Thesis: An Evaluation of the Importance of the Period 1140-1270 in Western Civilization, Joyce Nell Brewster
Thesis: United States Foreign Policy and Mesopotamian Oil 1923-1928, Robert Francaviglia
Thesis: The Problem of Social Change as Seen in the Life and Work of Jean Jaurès and George Sorel, Frances Boyce Glover
Thesis: U.S. Security Policy in Postwar Japan; The Making of a Cold War Ally, Thomas James Hehman
Thesis: France, the United States and the Spanish-American War, Richard Henry Owens
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Thesis: The Tiffany Glass Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Paul Edward Doros
Thesis: The United States Great Britain and the Status of Thailand (Siam), 1940-1946, Peter Goodwin
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: Northerners in the Reconstruction of Hampton, Virginia, 1865-1870, Gladys A. Blair
Thesis: The Buchanan Administration and the Closing of the African Slave Trade, 1859-1861, David Earl Buckingham
Thesis: Imre Nagy and the First Phase of the Hungarian Revolution, William B. Liverman
Thesis: The Norman Conquest in English Historical Thought, Ann Gutting Mercer
Thesis: Benjamin Butler and the Bureau of Negro Affairs in Tidewater, Virginia, 1861-1865, Steven Frank Petrine
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, John F. Callan
Thesis: The Emergence of the Jacksonians: Rhode Island, a Case Study, 1827-31, James Michael Callow
Thesis: American Policy and the Netherlands East Indies, 1940-1945, Buford A. Harris
Thesis: The United States Naval Influence in South Russia, 1917-1922, Beverly A. Lowe
Thesis: The League of Nations and the Jews of Europe: 1919-1939, Jay M. Pilzer
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: A Study of the Causes of the Negro Migration of 1922-1923 from Rural Georgia to Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed
Thesis: The Concept of Authority in James Otis and Thomas Paine, Mark Allan Brown
Thesis: The Changing Positions of Patrick Henry, Jeanne Buyrn
Thesis: John M. Daniel Editor of the Richmond Examiner and Gadfly of the Confederacy, Raymond K. Cooley
Thesis: Father Coughlin: The Progenitor of Social Reform in the Catholic Church, Robert J. Galvin
Thesis: Governmental Elites in Three Virginia Counties: A Reappraisal of the Turner Thesis, Harry Stuart Holman
Thesis: American Diplomacy Toward China, 1945-1948, Margo E. Horner
Thesis: Edinburgh, 1540-1571: Life in an Urban Society, Susan Walker Johnson
Thesis: The Virginia Resolutions of 1826: States Rights Versus Federal Internal Improvements, Robert J. Morrison
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: John Kirkwood Mitchell and Confederate Naval Defeat, Wayne Dixon Lett
Thesis: The Fur and Skin Trade of Colonial Virginia, Shirley-Virginia Parrish
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: The Creole Affair: Climax of the British-American Fugitive Slave Controversy, 1831-1842, Alice Lee Anderson
Thesis: Negroes' Freedom of Contract in Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper III
Thesis: American Press Reaction to Intervention in Nicaragua, Raymond O. Eason
Thesis: The Later Years of the American Colonization Society (1850-1865), John Hamilton Haley
Thesis: Methodist Missions to the Plantation Slaves of the South Carolina Conference, Dale E. Henderson
Thesis: Reformers and Bosses in the Progressive Era: The Changing Face of Norfolk Politics, 1890-1920, James Sidney Kitterman Jr.
Thesis: The Relationship Between Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, Fay F. Moran
Thesis: The Christian Socialist Movement in England, 1848-1854, Elizabeth Burton Morley
Thesis: The Commercial Development of Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City, Wayne H. Payne
Thesis: The United States and the 1954 Guatemalan Revolution: Intervention or Prevention, Michael Plunkett
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: Britain and the Free Trade Area Negotiations of 1956-1958, George Y. Ballentine
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Thesis: The Impact of the Immigration Act of 1924 on American-Japanese Relations, Mazika E. Anthony
Thesis: Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim in Cuba: 1929-1933, Donald Ross Brimmer
Thesis: A Marriage of Convenience, Norfolk and the Navy, 1917-1967, Theodore A. Curtin
Thesis: The Rives Affair: The Study of a Southeast Virginia Railroad Controversy, 1830-1846, William F. Heyer
Thesis: Joseph Priestley: An Eighteenth Century Unitarian, Carol Lynn Knight
Thesis: Child Labor Reform Movement in Virginia: 1890-1938, Yukiko Maritani
Thesis: Patrick Hurley and China Policy, Bruce W. Platz
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Thesis: The Role and Influence of Executive Agents on Woodrow Wilson's Mexican Policy, 1913-1915, Robert J. Fischer