History

SPRING 2012

Emily Benner
“British Imperial Identities; An Analysis of the Upper and Lower Classes in Lloyd Weekly Newspaper and The Times, 1892 and 1899″

Kerry Bornstein
“From Socialite to Suffragist: The Evolution of Alva Belmont”

Janelle Diethelm
“Housing America: The President’s House and American Values”

Andrew Glod
“Andrew Carnegie: A Business Philanthropist”

Derek Gonano
“Internal Streif of the NAACP: The Power Struggle of Walter White and W.E.B. Debois”

Sean Griffin
“The Moderization of the People’s Liberation Army: The Relational Evolution Between Party, Military, and State in Twentieth Century China”

Zada Johnson
“Fashion on the Femine Frontier: The Clothing and Fashion of American Pioneer Women from 1875 to 1885 and its Discussion in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House”

Elizabeth Keene
“‘Holocausts of Herself’: The Life of Varina Howell Davis, First Lady of the Confederacy”

Ainsworth Kerr
“Let’s Laugh at Bondage: An Exploration of Comedic Servitude in Plautus and Shakespeare”

Alana Marchetti
“Creating a Wicked Queen: The Misconceptions of Marie Antoinette”

Marla Rodgers
“The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn”

Amy Sapalio
“A Move Towards a More Complete Truth: Complexities of World War II”

Margaret Topel
“A Familty of Witches: Towne Family and Whitchcraft Accusations in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts”

Stephanie Zellers
“Social Justice and Great Tragedy: Greek Society and the Plays that Represent Their Lives”

FALL 2011

Benjamin Biddle
“The Last Son of Rome: Constantine XI Dragas and the Fall of Constaninople”
Kevin Brazda
“The Multiverse of Identity: A Presentation of a Poststructuralist Paradigm for Self-Actualization”
Mary Ellen Costello
“Ziegfeld: A Hidden Theatrical History”
Tyler Dreiblatt
“The Crusades and Their Effects on the Jews”
Nathan Ehrmann
“The Democratization of Post-Facist Italy: How Allied Policies and Goals during their Occupation of Italy Created the Base for a Democratic Future”
Shane Gallocher
“Bringing Swords to a Gunfight: Hand-to-Hand Combat in the Battles of Breitenfield and Lutzen”
Heather Nilson
“No Such Thing as a Teenager: Female Adolescent Rebellion in Colonial New England”
Courtney Rice
“What a ‘Peace’ of Work: A Cultural Commentary on America’s Tribal Love-Rock Musical”
Forrest Smith
“Count Stephen of Blois: Victim of History”
Henry Wade
“Fort Presque Isle: ‘A Chain of Events’”
Alicia Watts
“From Dresses to Flight Suits: The Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II”
Quinn Wright
“Awakening for Modern Democracy: Discretionary Power and the Modern Executive”

SPRING 2011

Jessica Boyle
“The Internal Division of the American Catholic Church: The Effects of Vatican II, Humanae Vitae, and Roe V. Wade on the Church in the United States”
Kathleen M. Creehan
“Taking the “Middle Road”: Katharine Hepburn and the Power of Ambiguity”
Matthew Darrow
“Robin Hood: A Character with Many Contemporary Reflections”
Kevin Dietrick
“Conformity, Ideology, and Obedience: The Life of Rudolph Hoess: Commandant of Auschwitz
Jevon Hatcher
“The Sexual Climate for a New Negro: Countee Cullen, Same-Sex Desire and Racial Representation During the Harlem Renaissance”
Stephen Krivonak
“Stalin’s Great Purge: A Man with a Plan”
Andrew Martin
“Bolshevik Nationality Policy: Inconsistencies and Adaptation, 1917-1924″
Sara Meyer
“Diana Vreeland: Fashion Empress and American Legend”
Zach Nichols
“Nazi Wartime Propaganda: Joseph Goebbels’ Perception of the Villification of the Other In the Pursuit of Establishing the Third Reich”
Jennifer Shad
“Culture Clash at Cajamarca”
Rachel Smith
“Marriage in the U.S.A: A History of Heteronormativity”
Barry Stoddart
“The Cultural Conquest of Ireland”
Michelle Welker
“The Duel Life of William Penn”
Greg Wilson
“Intelligence Problems in Case Study: The Cuban Missile Crisis”

FALL 2010

Nicholas Balzer
“The Development of 18th and Early 19th Century Slave Communities and Societies in the Southern United States”
Claire R. Berkley
“Translating Mexica to Mexico”
Catherine Conway
“American Women and the Pill: Gender Roles and Sexuality in the 20th Century”
Lindsey M. DiLoreto
“The Impact of Southern Irregular Fighters On the American Civil War”
Katelyn M. Dornburg
“Sisterhood of the Revolution: Friendships between Women in Revolutionary New England as Embodiments of the Ideals of the New Republic, 1750-1800″
Hannah Dunlop
“Antoinette: Death By Public Image”
 Alexia Kime
“Resistantes: Women’s Contributions to Resistance in France During World War II”
Brittnay J. Leonard
“Discovering a Belief in Fiction: How Sherlock Holmes Reflected and Shaped the Social and Spiritual Crises of London’s Middle Classes in the Late Victorian Era”
Anne Nybo
“Manipulating the Margins: The Social and Historical Relevance of Jane Austen’s Widow Figures”
Bryan Sciulli
“Different Democracies: The Frontier Thesis, Pragmatism, and the Identity of America”
Nicholas Zapadka
“Rising Up Against Hell: The Revolt of the 12th Auschwitz Birkenau Sonderkommando”

SPRING 2010

Lauren C. Birsic
“A Social Worker’s Struggle Against Patriarchy: Causes and Solutions of the Gendered Violence During the Partition of British India in 1947″
Christopher N. Elnicki
“The Power of the Black Press: The Significance of the Pittsburgh Courier, 1935-1945″
Kelby E. Grimm
“Maya Collapse: An Analysis”
Ashton S. Kinney
“Otto Ohlendorf and Superior Orders”
John A. Knapp
“Communication Technology and the United State Supreme Court’s Untraceable Problem of Obsecenity”
Joshua A. Lebovitz
“Stalinist Terror and the Common Person: The Roles of Victim and Perpetrator”
Adam S. Napora
“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Development of Armed Resistance Through the Coping Strategies and Motivations of the Jewish Youth Movement”
Thomas J. Salopek
“Muhammad Ali: A Divided America in the 1960s and Early 1970s”
Crystal L. Smith
“Breaking and Entering: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 19th Century Female Novelists, Propoganda War over Slavery”
Rodney K. Still
“The S.S. Einsatzgruppen: A Manifestation of State Sponsored Terrorism on the Eastern Front: 1941 – 1943″
Elizabeth A. Tuttle
“Legacy of Empire in Africa’s Great Lake Region”
Gregory M. Waples
“An American Tragedy: A History of Political Corruption in Pennsylvania and the Case Study of State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer”