Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Otherwise, You Will Have to Suffer the Consequences: The Racial Cleansing of Catcher, Arkansas, Michael Johnson Anthony
This is a Man’s World: The Lived Gendered experiences of Blues people., Anthony Christopher Brown
Abolition’s Informal Gatekeepers: The Role of County Courts in the Making of Pennsylvania’s ‘Free’ Border, Amanda McGee
The Silence in America’s Classrooms: The Portrayal of Women and Gender in United States High School History Textbooks, Allie Elizabeth Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Forging Community in the Ouachita Foothills of Southwest Arkansas: Duckett Township, Homesteading, Distilling and Race, Lisa C. Childs
The Marianna Boycott: Healthcare, Political Organization, and Federal Intervention in the Arkansas Delta, Stephen James Franklin III
Counterinsurgency: An American Journey, Caleb Michael Herring
Through the Heart of the City: Interstates and Black Geographies in Urban America, Airic Hughes
“Monstrous Regiment of Women”: Catholic Women’s Reactions to Reform in Sixteenth Century Scotland, Maeghan O'Conner
Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859, Valerie Sallis
Schools of Rivals: Physicians, Fights, and Reform in Nineteenth-Century, Southern Medical Education, Laura Elizabeth Smith
Hostages of the Crisis: Iranian Students and Jimmy Carter, Timothy Will Teague
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Preacher and Missionary War: The Political Role of Race and Christianity in the 1831 Baptist War, Emilee Dale
Envisioning a New Pakistani Home: Gender, Class, and Identity in Women’s Urdu Journals, 1947-1960, Mehreen Jamal
The United States and Portuguese Angola: Space, Race, and the Cold War in Africa, Alex J. Marino
Community and Idolatry: San Francisco Cajonos, Yalalag, and Betaza through the Criminal Court of Villa Alta, 1700-1704, Jessica Mitchell
"A Rabble Rouser All the Time": Jim Johnson and the Politics of Massive Resistance in Arkansas, Marie Cathryn Totten
[Dis]Assembling Race: The FEPC in Oklahoma, 1941-1946, Arley Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Merchants without Borders: Qusman Traders in the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1950, Mansour Alsharidah
The Formation of Ottoman Sufism and Eşrefoğlu Rumi: A 15th Century Shaykh Between Popular Religion and Sufi Ideals, Baris Basturk
The Defense of Principates: The English Appropriation of Marsilius of Padua's 'Defensor Pacis', Nathan Harkey
“Deserting the broad and easy way”: Southern Methodist Women, the Social Gospel, and the New Deal State, 1909-1939, Chelsea Hodge
'The once peaceful little town:' Edmondson, Arkansas, and the Decline of African American Landownership, Samuel Morris Ownbey
The Shallow End of the Deep South: Civil Rights Activism in Arkansas, 1865-1970, Sarah Riva
Hello Girls on Strike: Telephone Operators, the Fort Smith General Strike and the Struggle for Democracy in Great War Arkansas, Kyra Schmidt
Arkansas Aprons: Food Power and Women in Arkansas, 1857 to 1891, Robyn Shahan Spears
A Suspected Democratic Regiment: The Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers in the American Civil War, Eric Paul Totten
"Some Kind of Socialist:" Lee Hays, the Social Gospel, and the Path to the Cultural Front, Elizabeth Withey
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The River Gave and the River Hath Taken Away: How the Arkansas River Shaped the Course of Arkansas History, Edward N. Andrus
Kabbala, Christians, and Jews: An Examination of the Rise and Fall of Peculiar Relationships that Developed Between Christian Elites and Jewish Scholars in Renaissance Italy, Glenda Leona Dannenfelser
The War on Winter: How Americans Put Down Roots on the Northern Plains, 1854-1949, Daniel J. Fischer
The Farmers’ Federation: Regional Racial Mythologies as Agricultural Capital, Jama McMurtery Grove
Promise and Practice: Toward an Expanded, Integrated, Collaborative Narrative on American Indians in our National Parks, Bethany Hope Henry
Mothers of Intention: Women in the Ku Klux Klan and Massive Resistance, 1954-1968, Michele R. Johnson
Westward Empire: George Berkeley’s ‘Verses on the Prospect of Planting of Arts’ in American Art and Cultural History, Elizabeth Kiszonas
The South African Women's Movement: The Roles of Feminism and Multiracial Cooperation in the Struggle for Women's Rights, Amber Michelle Lenser
‘The Healing Hand Laid on a Great Wound:’ The Elberfeld System and the Transformation of Poverty in Germany, Britain, and the United States, Rebekah O'Zell McMillan
Special Relationships: Anglo-American Latin America Policy and the Redefining of National Security, 1969-1982, Benjamin Jared Pack
Was Rome Not Beautiful Too? Modern Germany and the Legacy of Ancient Rome, Jason Charles Phillips
Horse Racing During the Civil War: The Perseverance of the Sport During a Time of National Crisis, Danael Christian Suttle
Curing Consumption: Blood Drinkers of the Nineteenth Century, Rachel Erin Catlett Widmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The Sleeping Giant: The Effects of Housing Titan II Missiles in Arkansas and Kansas from 1962 to 1987, Michael Johnson Anthony
Frontier Capitalism and Unfree Labor in Middle Appalachia: The Development of Western Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1760-1840, Nathaniel Conley
Black Islamic Evangelization in the American South, Chester Warren Cornell
Zona Libre: Conservatism, Urban Growth, and the Rise of the New Economy in the San Diego Borderlands, Daniel Elkin
The Spatial Agency of the Catacombs: An Analysis of the Interventions of Damasus I (305-384), Natalie A. Hall
Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery, Louise Michelle Hancox
“The Commercial Union of the Three Americas:” Major Edward A. Burke and Transnational New South Visionaries, 1870-1928, Michael Powers
The Cruel Consequences of War: Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1863, Madeleine Forrest Ramsey
Forging with Embers: The Life and Pre-gubernatorial Career of Isaac Murphy, 1799-1864, Keith Joshua Lee Todd
Irish Whips and German Suplexes: Professional Wrestling and the American Immigrant and Minority Experience, Colin Rush Walker
Periodicals in Transition: Politics and Style in Victorian Higher Journalism, David Blaine Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Cold War in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Interpretive Global History, James M. Brown
In the Field the Women Saved the Crop: The Women’s Land Army of World War II, Denna M. Clymer
Refusing to be Dispossessed: African American Land Retention in the US South from Reconstruction to World War II, Camille Goldmon
And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School, Misti Nicole Harper
Arkansas's Divided Democracy: The Making of the Constitution of 1874, Rodney Waymon Harris
To Create a More Contented Family and Community Life: Home Demonstration Work in Arkansas, 1912 - 1952, Erin Turner Hogue
Just Discrimination: Arkansas Parochial Schools and the Defense of Segregation, Misty Landers
Products of Circumstance: Eighteenth-Century Runaway Indentured Servant Advertisements in a Changing Atlantic World, Amanda Page McGee
Civil War in the Delta: Environment, Race, and the 1863 Helena Campaign, George David Schieffler
Beyond Coattails: Explaining John Paul Hammerschmidt's Victory in 1966, Jesse Ray Sims
Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne's Aachen, Mary Katherine Tipton
The Bracero Program in the Arkansas Delta: The Power held by Planter Elite, William Chase Whittington
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Watchman on the Walls: Ezekiel and Reaction to Invasion in Anglo-Saxon England, Max K. Brinson
The Grey Men of Empire: Framing Britain's Official Mind, 1854-1934, Blake Allen Duffield
A Gentleman's Burden: Difference and the Development of British Education at Home and in the Empire During the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries, Jeffrey Willis Grooms
Walking in American History: How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America, Brian Christopher Hurley
Guatemalan Exiles, Caribbean Basin Dictators, Operation PBFORTUNE, and the Transnational Counter-Revolution against the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1952, Aaron Coy Moulton
Youth…Power…Egypt: The Development of Youth as a Sociopolitical Concept and Force in Egypt, 1805-1923, Matthew Blair Parnell
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi County: The Story of Sans Souci Plantation, Lonnie R. Strange
Initiating Race: Fraternal Organizations, Racial Identity, and Public Discourse in American Culture, 1865-1917, John D. Treat
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Volkswagen and Volkswagen: The Concept, the Car and the Company in Four Germanies and the United States, Stuart Treavor Bailey
Outside the Lines of Gilded Age Baseball: Profits, Beer, and the Origins of the Brotherhood War, Robert Allan Bauer
John Paul Hammerschmidt and the Early Struggle for the Construction of Interstate 49, Anna Crayton
The Decolonization of Christianity in Colonial Kenya, Amanda Ruth Ford
Intertribal Communication, Literacy, and the Spread of the Ghost Dance, Justin Randolph Gage
Civil War Unionists and Their Legacy in the Arkansas Ozarks, Rebecca Ann Howard
A Light in Darkness, Oscar Micheaux: Entrepreneur Intellectual Agitator, Airic Hughes
The Growth of the Russian Orthodox Church in America: Influences during the Tenure of Bishop Tikhon, Karl Robert Krotke
America's War in Angola, 1961-1976, Alexander Joseph Marino
Political Harvests: Transnational Farmers' Movements in North Dakota and Saskatchewan, 1905-1950, Jason McCollom
Let Him Be an Honor to the Country: Veteran Violence and Public Opinion after the Civil War, Laura Smith
The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan, Chadwick Mackenzie Totty
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
"The Claims of Religion Upon Medical Men": Protestant Christianity and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America, Ronald James Gordon
Cherokee Freedmen: The Struggle for Citizenship, Bethany Hope Henry
"A Song Workers Everywhere Sing:" Zilphia Horton and the Creation of Labor's Musical Canon, Chelsea Hodge
The Peculiar Institution on the Periphery: Slavery in Arkansas, Kelly Eileene Jones
The Responses of the Roman Imperial Government to Natural Disasters 29 BCE-180 CE, Michael Timothy McCoy
Integrated Relationships: The Impact of European Integration on the Special Relationship, 1969-1973, Benjamin Jared Pack
The Sacrality of The Mountain, Manuel Rivera Espinoza
Jeane Kirkpatrick and Neoconservatism: The Intellectual Evolution of a Liberal, Bianca Joy Rowlett
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Imagining Kurdish Identity in Mandatory Syria: Finding a Nation in Exile, Ahmet Serdar Akturk
New Mexico Tourism: Conflict and Cooperation in the Land of Enchantment, Emily Alyce Bullington
The History of Nusayris ('Alawis) in Ottoman Syria, 1831-1876, Ali Capar
Feet in the South, Eyes to the West: Fort Smith Enters the Sunbelt, Adam Morrison Carson
"And So We Moved Quietly": Southern Methodist University and Desegregation, 1950-1970, Scott A. Cashion