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 1978
Thesis: The Board of Strategy and Union Military Planning for Sea Operations Against the Southern Confederacy, Samuel Novotny
Thesis: The Piedmont Railroad: A Reflection of Confederate Railroad Policy, David Maurice Self
Thesis: The American Family in a Decade of Change: The 1950s, Calvin Bryon Thomas
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
Thesis: The Influence of Renaissance Neoplatonism on Michelangelo, Judith Carole Riley
Thesis: The German Communist Struggle 1918-1923, Steven Ross Thulin
Thesis: Selected Letters from the Parker Family Papers: The Correspondence of Margaret Parker, Carmeline V. Zimmer
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
Thesis: The United States and the Anschluss; Reactions and Repercussions, Joseph Pociask
Thesis: James H. Burton and the Development of the Confederate Small Arms Industry, Eugene K. Wilson III
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
Thesis: The Trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita: A Case Study in Command Responsibility, L. H. Redford
Thesis: Mob Violence in Prerevolutionary Norfolk, Virginia, Edward A. Smyth
Thesis: From the Fourth Dimension to Human Liberation: Betty Friedan's Concept of Woman's Role in American Society 1963-1973, Maryann Intermont Ustick
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
Thesis: General Douglas Macarthur and the Philippine Army, James Allen Walker
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
Thesis: Bourgeois Pacifism in Germany Before and During World War I, Andrew Verner
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
Thesis: Ben Butler and the Occupation of Norfolk, 1862-1865: A Reappraisal, Kenneth H. Schwartz
Thesis: The Urban Gestation: City Building in Wilmington, Delaware, Dennis Signorovitch
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
Thesis: The Influence of the South on United States China Policy, 1946-49, Arnest Clayton Thompson
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
Thesis: The Bad Neighbor Policy: James Rockwell Sheffield and United States-Mexican Relations 1924-1927, Herbert L. Salyer
Thesis: The Total State: A Study of Totalitarianism Based on Selected European Novels of the Twentieth Century, Catherine Arveson Thoma
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Thesis: The Role and Influence of Executive Agents on Woodrow Wilson's Mexican Policy, 1913-1915, Robert J. Fischer
Thesis: The Changing Attitudes Towards the Jews of England 1066-1660, Bernard Glassman
Thesis: A History of the Hampton Roads Longshoreman's Association, Esther Levinson
Thesis: Admiral Mark L. Bristol and American Naval Involvement in Turkey, 1919-1923, Donald Walter Patterson
Thesis: The Temperance Movement in Norfolk, Virginia, 1880-1916, David G. Stevens, Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Thesis: Experiment in Municipal Reform: The Prohibition Party in Norfolk Politics 1892-1896, G. Clifford Boocks
Thesis: The Growth of Norfolk Naval Air Station and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Metropolitan Area Economy in the Twentieth Century, Ira R. Hanna
Thesis: The Coming of the Mexican War: Joel Poinsett and Anthony Butler in Mexico, 1825-1836, Gallais E. Matheny
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Thesis: The Evolution of the Virginia Antimiscegenation Laws, Frank F. Arness
Thesis: Slavery and the Presbyterian Church Before the Civil War, Bernie S. Bass
Thesis: The Political Thought of a Southern Negro Editor, 1921-1940: P. B. Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Laurel K. Gutterman
Thesis: The Failure of Acculturation: The Sioux Indians and Wounded Knee, 1890-91, Michael Isenberg
Thesis: The Strafford Incident: A Study in Historiography, Zelda B. Silverman
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Thesis: Norfolk and Anglo-American Relations, 1805-1815, William Frey Carson
Thesis: Norfolk and the K.K.K. in the Nineteen Twenties, Nancy B. Cuthbert