Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Impact of Religion on Minority Identity and Community: A Case Study of Russian Orthodoxy and the Russian Minority in Estonia, Elizabeth Cleary
Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory, Zachery Christian Cowsert
Saints, Sinners, and Socialists on the Southside: Polish Catholic Immigrant Workers, Politics, and Culture in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1890-1930, William Hal Gorby
"A Debt of Honor": Elite Women's Rituals of Cultural Authority in the Confederate Capital, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
Polish Immigration to the U.S. since 1980 as a Political Question, Pawel Majcher
The Effect of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Proportion of Women in Post-Communist Parliaments: A Case Study of Estonia and Poland, Anne Moreland
The Hot Struggle Over the Cold Waters: The Strategic Position of the Arctic Region During and After the Cold War, Magdalena Nowak
Country Schoolgirls: A Study of Rural Women and the Rise of Public Education, 1820-1914, Allyson Perry
Belarus's National Narratives and Representation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Jevgenijs Rjascenko
NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan and their impact on relations with Russia after the Cold War, Dovydas Rogulis
Raising Soviets on Imported Goods. Socialist Realism in Estonian Secondary Education, Helen Saask
"Busy Mischievous Ffellows": Imperial Agency in Pennsylvania During the Seven Years' War, Benjamin G. Scharff
The Rail and the Cross in West Virginia Timber Country: Rethinking Religion in the Appalachian Mountains, Joseph F. Super
Planning Development: International Experts, Agricultural Policy, and The Modernization of Nigeria, 1945-1967, Bekeh Utietiang
Copperheads and Blacksnakes: Divided Loyalty in Eastern Pennsylvania, Chuck Welsko
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
From Gunboats to Good Neighbors: U.S. Naval Diplomacy in Peru, 1919-1942, Joel C. Christenson
Houses of History and Homepages: Museums of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe and their Online Presence, Alexandra Day Coffman
The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865--1920, David E. Goldberg
Poverty on the Periphery: U.S. Implementation of Modernization Theory in the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty, Michelle C. Mayhew
Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw, Kyle Jordan Meadows
Crowning the May Queen in Freshwater Place: Housing reformers and the uses of urban nature, 1850-1914, Christine E. Regier
Rush to Failure: The Governorship of Sir Percy Girouard, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E.: 1909--1912, Abdullahi Daiyabu Sara
Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012, Paul Oliver Stocker
The Explosion of Ethnic Retributive Violence in Czechoslovakia at the End of the Second World War, Bryson David Taylor
Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970--2000, Jinny A. Turman
"We Do the Same Work as the Men Did": The Development of Working-Class Feminism in the Glass and Pottery Industries of West Virginia, 1930-1970, Virginia C. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Rewriting Domesticity, War, and Confederate Defeat: Julia LeGrand, Sensibility, and Literary Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South, Katherine Brackett
Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State Prohibition, 1852--1934, Michael J. Buseman
Between Frontier and Factory: Growth and Development in Washington, Pennsylvania, 1810--1870, Eric D. Duchess
For the Hope of Humanity: Gov. Andrew G. Curtin & the Union's Civil War, Jared Frederick
Political Cooperation and International Environmental Governance in the Baltic Sea Region after World War II, Taavi Kelder
Politics of Memory with Regard to the Ukrainian Minority in Poland after 1989, Joanna Klimczak
A Question of Life or Death: Suicide and Survival in the Union Army, Kathleen Anneliese Logothetis
The EUPM and EUFOR Althea missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An evaluation, Ewa Agata Maczynska
Russian-Moldovan Relations after the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Anna Napieralska
Eastern Promises: Poland's Role as a Regional Actor in the European Union's Eastern Policy-- the Example of Belarus, Max David Reinke
Eurasianist Trends in Russian Foreign Policy: A Critical Analysis, Steven K. Voytek
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Russian Internet Censorship and Its Future Perspectives in Comparative Context, Joshua Baker
Rethinking Modes of Political Influence: Catherine de' Medici and her Female Political Network, Kelly A. Benner
Political textbooks in a political world: A case-study of an Estonian history textbook, J. Berkeley Bentley
Europeanization of the Estonian Electricity Sector: Historical Legacies and Security Concerns, Madis Ehastu
Reform of Secondary Education in Post-Communist Estonia: Advancing or Dismantling Social Cohesion, Cassandra Jo Garcia
Imperial Intentions and Independent Interests: The Ohio Company of Virginia and its Agents, Thomas Cresap and Christopher Gist, 1748--1752, Emily S. Hager
Ezra Ayers Carman: The Gatekeeper of Memory at Antietam National Battlefield, Richard A. Hulver
The International Context of the Central European Countries Participation in The Afghan Stabilization Mission, Bartosz Kaluga
Cologne During the Witch Hunts, 1627--1662, Megan E. McGee
Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland, Abigail E. Miller
A Dutch Woman in an English World: The Legacy of Alida Livingston of New York, Melinda M. Mohler
Go-ahead men: Yankee Westerners test masculine bonds in the early American republic, Charlotte Cathy Rodabaugh
From Peasant to Pariah: Changing English Perceptions of the Irish from the 1820s Through the 1860s, Traci J. Scully
From Canal Boats to Canoes: The Transformation of the C&O Canal, 1938--1942, Angela Sirna
Iron and the Bloody Shirt: Leadership in the West Virginia Republican Party 1872--1896, Stephen A. Smoot
On the Evolution of Social Development in the British Sudan A Comparative Study of the Gezira and Zande Cotton-Growing Schemes, Joseph M. Snyder
Estonia's Memory Politics in the Context of European Integration, Marina Suhhoterina
Bashkirs between Two Worlds, 1552-1824, Mehmet Tepeyurt
Where Have All the Women Combatants Gone? The Realities of Soviet Female Veterans in the Immediate Post World War Two Period, Jekaterina Tsizikova
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
One-room schools and their role in the development of the Appalachian hills of West Virginia: 1863--1940s, James Seth Caudill
The Cold War and decolonization in British Guiana: The Anglo-American intervention and Guianese nationalist politics, Joshua David Esposito
Afro-Zulians in the Trans-Atlantic World: A Case Study of Jean de Chourio and the Black Venezuelans of the Sur del Lago Maracaibo (1722--1811), Raymond Andrew Keller II
A social and political history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, WV, Lenora G. Kenwolf
Freedom road: Black refugee settlements in northwestern Pennsylvania, 1820-1870, Timothy P. Konhaus
Colonial sugar production in Nyanza: (Kibos-Muhoroni) the Asian initiative, the genesis, and development of Kenya's sugar industry, 1903--1963, Godriver A. N. Wanga Odhiambo
Beyond the ritual of exchange: The culture of alienation shared between soldiers along the Rappahannock during the winter of 1862--63, Lauren Kristin Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Carl McIntire: Fundamentalism, civil rights, and the reenergized Right, 1960--1964, Bobby G. Griffith Jr.
Soldiers and stereotypes: Mountaineers, cultural identity, and World War II, C. Belmont Keeney
Between the wheels: Quest for streetcar unionism in the Carolina Piedmont, 1919--1922, Jeffrey M. Leatherwood
The changing Illinois Indians under European influence: The split between the Kaskaskia and Peoria, Gerald A. Rogers
Lenna Lowe Yost, temperance, and the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment by West Virginia, Karina G. Thurston
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Weston State Hospital, Kim Jacks
Deindustrialization and the decline of community in the coalfields: McDowell County, West Virginia, 1950--2000, Mark S. Myers
Republican mothers of and above their time: Abigail Adams and Theodosia Burr Alston, Joanna Lyn Reynolds
The partisan politics that led to the Spanish-American War, Donald E. Thompson Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Indian warfare, household competency, and the settlement of the western Virginia frontier, 1749 to 1794, John M. Boback
"For men and measures" : the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer J.R. Clifford, Connie Park Rice
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Faith, power, and conflict: Miner preachers and the United Mine Workers of America in the Harlan County mine wars, 1931--1939, Carletta A. Bush
Honor, patriarchy, and disunion: Masculinity and the coming of the American Civil War, Kenneth A. Deitreich
Government hesitancy amidst industry discord: Decline of the United States-flag merchant marine after World War II, Deborah J. Hennen
A hairy predicament: The problem with long hair in the 1960s and 1970s, Andrew Robert Herrick
Left arm of the Republic: The Department of the Pacific during the Civil War, James Robbins Jewell
Enlightened defense: The national security *policy of Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Leonhard
Silent, no more: The 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy and the rise of conservatism in America, Justin J. McHenry
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
A West Virginia family in World War II, Miles B. Berger
The emergence and decline of the Delaware Indian nation in western Pennsylvania and the Ohio country, 1730--1795, Richard S. Grimes
Crisis manager of the American Revolution: Henry Laurens, Jeffrey R. Gudzune
Sarah Livingston Jay, 1756--1802: Dynamics of power, privilege and prestige in the Revolutionary era, Jennifer Megan Janson
Bringing down the mountains: The impact of mountaintop removal surface coal mining on southern West Virginia communities, 1970--2004, Shirley L. Stewart Burns
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Life Cycle of a Coal Town: Widen, West Virginia, 1911-1963, Amanda J. Griffith
Ida B. Wells, Catherine Impey, and trans -Atlantic dimensions of the nineteenth-century anti-lynching movement, Brucella Wiggins Jordan
In Support of “New China”: Origins of the China Lobby, 1937-1941, Tae Jin Park
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Explaining Viking expansion, Darrin M. Cox
Forced labor and humanitarian ideology in Kenya, 1911--1925, Opolot James Okia
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in Mingo County, 1793-1920, Rebecca J. Bailey
Dutch women in New Netherland and New York in the seventeenth century, Michael Eugene Gherke
Women and physical culture in modern Poland, Nameeta Mathur
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Commercialism, subsistence, and competency on the Western Virginia frontier, 1765--1800, John M. Boback
Alexander von Humboldt and nineteenth-century ideas on the origin of American Indians, Michael Anthony Wadyko