About this Collection
The works in this student research collection have been approved by the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in History from the College of Arts and Humanities.
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- Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006)
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Hillbilly Bands: Southern Rock's Impact on Southern Identity in the 1970s, John H. Hartman
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Brownsville, 1906: Manufacturing Myth and Memory, Francis C. Busby
New Women in the Old Dominion: Race and Gender in Progressive-Era Virginia, Rachel Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Cannot Afford to Publicly Surrender: The Public's Influence on Ronald Reagan's Strategic Relationship with South Africa, Jessica P. Forsee
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Medici and a Florentine Plutocracy in the Quattrocento, Robert Dalton Bryant
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Why Did They Go?: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Gina M. Benavidez
Laughing Out Loud: American Indian Comedy as a Force for Social Change, Jacob M. Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
More Than a Conservative, Pro-War Narrative: Savannah, Georgia and the Vietnam War, Jessica F. Dirkson
Who Says Man Wasn't Meant to Fly: History of Air Jordan Advertising, Portrayal and Race from 1984-2003, David C. Rehder
The Real Winner of the Second World War: Patriotic Consumption and the Formation of a Society of Spin, Jordan T. Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Parton Paradox: A History of Race and Gender in the Career of Dolly Parton, Lindsey L. Hammers
White Actors in the Civil Rights Movement: Social Progressives in Americus, Georgia, Garret A. Moye
A Forgotten Confederate: John H. Ash's Story Rediscovered, Heidi Moye
Politics and Pragmatism: The United States and Israel Between Two Presidents, Christopher J. Parker
Breaching the Citadel of Slavery: Condorcet, the Abbé Grégoire, and the Assault on Racial Hierarchy in the Colonial Disputes (1788-1791), Jeffrey D. Waller
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Flight of the White Feather: The Expansion of the White Feather Movement Throughout the World War One British Commonwealth, Kimberly Elisa Stevens
The German Hun in The Georgia Sun: German Prisoners Of War In Georgia, Leisa N. Vaughn
All the News That’s Fit to Sing: Phil Ochs, Vietnam, and the National Press, Thomas C. Waters
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy, Thomas J. McIntyre
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Bombs Bursting In Air: A History Of The Effects of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing On Washington County, Utah, 1951-1963, Paul W. Bridges II
Innocent Victims and Savage Killers: Representation and Portrayal of the Bushman Battalions, Shannon T. Browning-Mullis
Nazi Ideology and the Pursuit of War Aim: 1941-45, Kenneth Burgess
The Council of the Indies and Religion in the Spanish New World, Ashley D. Ellington
Hidden from Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration of the Sherwood Foresters’ Involvement in Easter, 1916, Amanda S. Kinchen
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Cyprianic Ecclesiology: Redefining the Office of the Christian Bishop, Lauren Hudson
Drugi Potop: The Fall of the Second Polish Republic, Wesley Kent
Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920, James Sheahan
From Scouts to Soldiers: The Evolution of Indian Roles in the U.S. Military, 1860-1945, James C. Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Second Roman Revolution: A Study in Religious Policy from 250-325 C.E., Daniel Francis Diamond
Presidential Strategy: Analyzing the National Security Stategies of the United States, Aaron Dilday
Leaving in the Past: The Role History Plays in Video Games, Joseph Fordham
Exonerating Manuel I Komnenos: Byzantine Foreign Policy (1143-1180), Darryl Keith Gentry II
An Unfortunate Affair: The Battle of Brier Creek and the Aftermath in Georgia, William Henry
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A Military Force on a Political Mission: The Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II, Derreck T. Calkins
An Unsinkable Carrier: The Midway-Based Forces and the Battle of Midway, Hubert R. Crooms
Heroes or Terrorists? War, Resistance, and Memorialization in Tuscany, 1943-1945, Lynda Lamarre
One Nation, Separate Spheres: An Examination of Red Power Activism Between Two Mohawk Communities, Carlyn N. Pinkins
Sex and Gasoline: Selling Sex in Twentieth Century America, Elizabeth Puckett
Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, Douglas H. Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights, Stephen Michael Smith
Wolves Without Teeth: The German Torpedo Crisis in World War Two, David Habersham Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Persistance of National Ideology and Myth: Attempting to Re-Define German National Identity in Post-War Europe, Danielle L. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Across Imagined Boundaries: Understanding Mexican Migration to Georgia in a Transnational and Historical Context, Michael Kirkland Bess
Jacksonian Nationalist: Joel R. Poinsett's Role in the Nullification Crisis, Joshua Matthew Cain
Non-Hostile Casualties in These Kinds of Wars from the Korean War to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Hugh William Henry
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Man Behind The Curtain: The 2004 Election from a Historical Perspective, Melissa Michelle Merritt
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Secession Diplomacy: A Study of Thomas Butler King, Commissioner of Georgia to Europe, 1861, Mary Pinckney Kearns
Ready, Steady, Go: Toyota's Advertising in America, 1958-1979, Rebecca Hope Smith
Right Reverend Stephen Elliott: Political Influence and the Protestant Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1840-1866, Paulette S. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
An Army of One... With Dependents: A History of the Army Family, Stacey Lynne Brown
For Honor and Duty: The Civil War Experience of William Washington Gordon II, Tommy C. Brown
Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, Jason Mann Frawley
It's Only Money: RKO Radio Pictures under Howard Hughes, 1948-1955, Jeffrey Patrick Richardson
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
"Steady Ascension" A Biography of General Walter Krueger, John Thornton Brown
Good Angel of the Boys in Blue: Eleanor Kinzie Gordon's Wartime Summer, 1898, Jacqueline E. Clancy
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
"Beat Your Plowshares into Swords" The Training of Confederate Soldiers in the State of Georgia, 1861-1862, Sonia Lynn Dickey
The Next Best Thing: Bottlefeeding Culture and the Ladies' Home Journal, Julie Garlen Maudlin
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Great Indignation: A Study of Racial Violence in Thomas County, Georgia, 1930, Scott Anthony McAleer
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
A Troeltschian Analysis of St. Teresa of Avila, David G. Latimer
Marketing the Civil War Centennial: Atlanta, Charleston, and Richmond, Eric Wendell Leiden
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Rules of Order: A Biography of Henry Martyn Robert, Soldier, Engineer, Churchman, Parliamentarian, George Brian Hendricks
The Life of Sarah Grimke: A Futile Search for Fulfillment, Courtney Lowe
"...Passing Through a Crucible..." Savannah's "Better Class" of Blacks during the Progressive Era 1897 - 1917, Mary Shannon Sineath
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
"The Second Night's Stop": Effects of U.S. Highway 301, Tourism, and Interstate 95 upon Statesboro, Georgia, 1950-1975, David T. Martin
Comparative Cronyism: The White House Staff Appointments of Carter and Clinton, Deborah Majors Meyer
Charles C. Jones, Jr. : Resilient Southerner, Daniel J. Pfeifer
"Trapped Between Two Worlds" A Comparative Study of Comanche Reactions to Spanish New Mexico and the Republic of Texas, Brandy Berlin Scott
"Absolute Necessity of Success" A History of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under the Command of Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont, 1861-1863, Bradley Michael Winn
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Edmund Calamy and the Search for a Presbyterian Religious Settlement in Seventeenth-Century England, David W. Lattner
"I Will Survive!" Indian Captivity Narratives of the Northern British American Colonies and United States as well as of French Canada 1642-1815, Paul David Peacock
Horseshoe Bend: Epic Battle on the Southern Frontier, Jonathan Scott Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Populist Rhetoric and Ideology: A Comparative Study of the Speeches and Writings of the Ignatius Donnelly and Thomas E. Watson, Lisa Louise Denmark
A Forgotten Soldier: Courtney Hodges and the Second World War, Benjamin Franklin Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Breckinridge Long, the State Department, and the Refugee Problem, 1940-1944, Lee Rebl Patterson
"Satisfaction Wherever He Served": The Career of Alexander Robert Lawton, 1818-1862, Gerald Judson Smith Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Savannah's Black and White Longshoremen 1856-1897, Monica Hunt
The Role of British Women in the Military During World War II, Ana Lee Prieto
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Alliance, Dependence, and Submission: A Brief History of Cherokee - British Relations Through the End of the Cherokee War in 1761, Dixie Ray Haggard
School Desegregation in Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia, 1963-1972: A Case Study, Ricky E. Parrish
The Good, The True and the Beautiful: The Aesthetic Club in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1883-1900, Sloan Deer Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
William H. Fleming: Georgia Educator, Lawyer, and Politician, Vicki Gaither Proefrock
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Samuel Hammond: Soldier-Statesman of the Old South, Michael P. Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Theodore Roosevelt: American Hunter-Naturalist in Africa, Deborah Gail Jenkins
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
United States Naval Strategy in the Caribbean 1898-1930, Robert M. Stamps II
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
A Study of the Development of the Textile/Garment Complex in Two Southeast Georgia Counties, Marilyn McBride Cochran
Compromised Neutrality: American Foreign Policy in the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893-94, Jesse Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
The Old Southeast and Fort King George: Borderland of Three Empires, Norman Edwards
The Entering Wedge: Congressional Appropriations to the Military in 1920-The National Defense Act of 1920 and Its Implementation, Elaine T. Wade
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Price of Progress: The Georgia Railroad Strike of 1909, Mark V. Wetherington
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Arthur Davis Shores: Advocate for Freedom, Lynda Dempsey Cochran
Planning, Politics and Public Opinion in the 1975 Refugee Resettlement Program, Edwin Donald Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The War Policies Commission of 1931-1932, Blair F. Smith Jr.
Eugene Talmadge and the New Deal 1933-1936, Clemmie Jo Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
The Demoralization of an Army: The Vietnam Experience, Raymond E. Bess
The John Birch Society: An American Enigma, Sherry D. Hearn
Black Midas: Arthur George Gaston, Patricia Thompson Stelts
