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.
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Thesis: Allied Communications Intelligence and the Monsoon Group, 1943-1945, Christopher G. Stuart
Thesis: The African Independence Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1960, Vera McLauchlin Wyche
Thesis: The Ottoman Reaction to the Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908 by Austria-Hungary, Yücel Yanikdağ
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: Naval Airborne Early Warning 1945-1985, Edwin Leigh Armistead
Thesis: The Soviet Military: Pressures for Change 1981-1991, William C. Dughi
Thesis: Political Interference in Military Operations During the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Thomas Max Lansford
Thesis: A Historiographical Survey of the Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Ottie Jackson Moore Jr.
Thesis: Tobacco and Its Role in the Life of the Confederacy, D. T. Smith
Thesis: Ultra Underseas: Signal Intelligence and the Submarine War Against Japan, 1941-1945, Robert B. Watts
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: The Riga Mission: The Reports of the First American Outpost on the Soviet Border, 1924-1933, Jeffrey Acosta
Thesis: Francis Gildart Ruffin: A Jeffersonian Agrarian in the Old South and New Virginia, 1816 - 1892, R. Allen Brahin
Thesis: The Failure of United States Foreign Policy in Egypt 1953-1956, Patrick Bruce Lowrey
Thesis: The Development of a Youth Consumer Culture in the United States in the 1950s, Phillip D. McCaskey
Thesis: The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, 1954 - 1967, David Pembroke Neff
Thesis: U.S.S. New Ironsides: The Seagoing Ironclad in the Union Navy, William Howard Roberts
Thesis: Attacks on U.S. Submarines by Friendly Forces in World War II, Britt C. Skogstad
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Thesis: United States Tactical Doctrine, 1855 to 1861: The Mismeasure of Technology, Marion Vincent Armstrong Jr.
Thesis: The Road to Reorganization: The First Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, May 18-25, 1785, William C. Barnhart
Thesis: A Heritage in Stone: The History of Norfolk's Burial Grounds and Customs Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century, Cheryl Copper
Thesis: From Pillage to Conquest: The Normans in Ireland, 1167-1185, Ray E. Etheridge
Thesis: J. Robert Oppenheimer and His Role in the Development of the United States Nuclear Weapons Policy 1945-1953, Craig M. Harris
Thesis: Antisubmarine Warfare in the Fifth Naval District During World War II: The Defenses of the Chesapeake Bay, James R. Powell
Thesis: John Bankhead Magruder and the Defense of the Virginia Peninsula, 1861-1862, Leonard W. Riedel Jr.
Thesis: Edgardo Mercado Jarrin: Peruvian Foreign Policy During the First Three Years of the Revolutionary Military Government, 1968-1970, Cindy Lucille Robertson
Thesis: Signal Intelligence and Macarthur's Use of Military Intelligence (G-2) During the Second World War, James Walter Zobel
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: From Roman Britain to Norman England Continuity and Change - c. A. D. 284 - 1066, Gary Philip Priolo
Thesis: The Truman Administration, Israel, and Containment in the Middle East 1945-1952, Leslie Tarbutton
Thesis: Mathews County Shipbuilding Patterns, 1780-1860, Peter Jennings Wrike
Thesis: The Evolution and Implementation of Eisenhower's "New Look" Foreign Policy: Guatemala, Jonathan Joseph York
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
Thesis: Politics of Self-Destruction: The Virginia Republican Party Split of 1895-1897, Michael Anthony Southwood
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: John of Gaunt and His Use of Marriage, Christopher Park Ross
Thesis: Eisenhower, Vietnam, and the Geneva Conference of 1954, Dean Rourke Jr.
Thesis: The Evolving Tactics of the 4th Virginia Cavalry: A Study of the Adaptability of Stuart's Cavalry, 1861-1865, Kenneth L. Stiles
Thesis: Reopening the Fair Gate, Toshihiro Tanioka
Thesis: Civilian Air Defense of Norfolk, Virginia, During the Second World War, Larry E. Tonneson
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
Thesis: The Construction of the U.S.S. Monitor, Stephen C. Thompson
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
Thesis: Frances E. Willard's Southern Tours for Temperance: 1881-1883, Charles Jeffrey Shelton
Thesis: Symbol of American Discontent: The Selective Service During the Vietnam War, Jean B. Todd
Thesis: A Study of Federalist Motivation in the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, Rosemarie Yoder
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: The Shenandoah National Park: Its Impact on a Mountain People, Scott Shelton
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
Thesis: Kuropatkin in Manchuria, Merlin Van Statzer
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: Kazakh Nationalism in the Gorbachev Era, Steven O'Neal Sabol
Thesis: The Historical Development of the Radical Anabaptist Movement, 1525-1535, Ronald Edward Sawyer
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
Thesis: The Banker's Briar Patch: The American Banker's Association and the Glass-Owen Bill of 1913, Robert Drake Scull
Thesis: Jewish-Non-Military Resistance During the Holocaust, Debra J. Simmonds
Thesis: The Christian Republicanism of Timothy Dwight and Jedidiah Morse: The New American Israel and the French Antithesis, Kim Alan Snyder
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
Thesis: A Different Light: Jefferson Views Henry, 1759-1784, Thomas Wesley Redman
Thesis: The Historical Development of the Church of God Publishing House 1908-1935, Robert Joel Trammell
Thesis: Civil Pageantry in the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, 1558-1625, Marjorie Ann Watkins
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
Thesis: Edmund Burke: Representative of Bristol and New York Agent, Mary Ellen Ferratt Yoder
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