Honors Theses from 2013
"worthy to be classed": Slavery and its Legacy in Grayson County, Virginia, Rebekah Elaine Turnmire
Honors Theses from 2012
Beyond Jericho: The Resurgence of German Jewish life since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Max Harrison Lazar
Conceptions of and Treatments for Cognitive Disability in Antebellum Virginia: John Minson Galt's "Lecture on Idiocy" (1859), Ellen E. Walsh
"For the Advancement of So Good a Cause": Hugh MacKay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, Andrew Phillip Frantz
Memory Derailed: Vichy Memory in International Court Cases and Business Legislation against the French National Railway, Diana Margaret Ohanian
'Nothing but a Pack of Boys:' Preble's Boys and the Culture of Honor in the Early Naval Officer Corps, 1798-1825, Roger A. Bailey
"Not Italian or German, but British in Character": J. F. C. Fuller and the Fascist Movement in Britain, Mason W. Watson
Sir James Wright in Georgia: Local and Imperial Conflict in the American Revolution, Andrea Lynn Williams
The "Iona Chronicle" And Irish Politico-Ecclesiastical Connections: The Transmission of a Text Reconsidered, Andrew Budiansky
"The Spirit of Association": The Nelson Family and Commercial Resistance in Yorktown, Virginia 1769-1771, Eric F. Ames
"What You Can Learn From the Kinsey Report": Kinsey and the Gay and Lesbian Population, 1970-1993, Becky Little
Honors Theses from 2011
Assimilation, Segregation, Integration: State Control on Minority Policies in Modern Romania (1918-2007), Doina Anca Cretu
Baseball, Immigration, and Professionalization in the 19th century, Michael Young
Conflict of Color: White Activists in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, Blair Dickman Saunders
Discovering El Cuaderno: An Examination of the Zugarramurdi Witch-Hunts and Three Debating Inquisitors, 1609 - 1614, Meredith Lindsay Howard
Hanged Harpers and Incinerated Instruments: Tudor Government Policies Towards Irish Poets in the Sixteenth Century, Jennifer Brooke Joyce
It Took a War: The End of Slavery in West Virginia, Mark Guerci
Religious Conviction and The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721, Anna E. Storm
"The Father of His Country": Peyton Randolph and the Definition of Liberty in Colonial Virginia, Julianne E. Sicklesteel
"The Higher Court of Heaven": Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch and Violent Abolition, Daniel Bever
The Richmond & Petersburg Railroad: A Story of Antebellum Southern Success, John J. Kelly
The Staircase: Evolution of Design and Use in Elite, Domestic Virginia Architecture 1607-1812, Erin Marie Holmes
Visual Representations of the Holocaust in Memorials in the Czech Republic and America, Emily Sample
Honors Theses from 2010
Illinois Culture, Christianity and Intermarriage: Gender in Illinois Country, 1650-1763, Caryne A. Eskridge
"Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD": Methods of Acquisition and Use of Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Lydia Barrett Blackmore
Looking the East End in the Face: The Impact of the British Monarchy on Civilian Morale in the Second World War, Amy Limoncelli
The Effect of 24-Hour Television News on American Democracy and The Daily Show as a Counterbalance to 24-Hour News: A History, Thomas W. Queen
The Triumph of Reason: Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s, Andrew V. Garden
"To Say What the Law is:" John Marshall and His Influence on the Origins of Judicial Review in America, Jennifer L. Souers
"Watchful Guardians of Liberty": The French Revolution and the Development of Democratic-Republicanism in Philadelphia, 1792-1797, Christopher James Consolino
Honors Theses from 2009
American-educated Chinese Students and Their Impact on U.S.-China Relations, Joshua A. Litten
Duesenberg, America's Premier Historical Automobile, Jeffrey Carter Mason
Dust Bowl Days: A Study of Women's Lives and Experiences, Samantha L. Grill
"Nasty Holes" and New Hotels: Public Accommodations in Early New York City, Michael Albert Blaakman
Negotiating 'Popular' Religion: Clerical and Lay Culture in Thirteenth-Century Exempla, Jaimie Lewis
Secrets in Switzerland : Allen W. Dulles' impact as OSS station chief in Bern on developments of World War II & U.S. dominance in post-war Europe, Jennifer A. Hoover
The Development of Merchants Square: Colonial Imagery and the Consequences of Redevelopment in Williamsburg, Virginia and Other Small Towns, 1910-1955, Matthew Morrill
The Transformation of the Lutheran Church in Namibia, Katherine Caufield Arnold
William Wells and the Old Northwest, 1770-1812, Cameron Michael Shriver
Honors Theses from 2008
Boys Don't Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses: Gender, Vision Aids, and Persona in the Early American Republic, Laura E. Brandt
From Color Line to Colorblind: Changing African American Perceptions of the Japanese during World War II, Jennie Anne Davy
Prostitution and the Representation of Anxiety in London, 1723-1870, Maria Dale Booth
Space, Secularism, and the Expansion of Forced Child Begging in Senegal, 1850-2008, Hannah Brown Ayers
"Though my people slay me, yet I will trust in them:" Varina Davis and the Elusive Paradigm of the Politically Elite Confederate Woman, Ashley Whitehead
"Unhappy Differences:" The American Revolution and the Disruption of the Course of Theatre in Virginia, Allison Finkelstein
Honors Theses from 2007
"Again in the Providence of God:" Two Appalachian Women Inscribe Community, Family, and Faith on the Civil War, Elizabeth Jean Anderson
It Was Honest: The Politics of Authenticity in the American Folk Revival and British Punk Subcultures, John Frederick Bell
Honors Theses from 2006
The diary of Fannie Fain of Blountville : defining allegiance in Civil War era East Tennessee, Jennifer M. Brickey
Honors Theses from 2004
The patriotism of the minority :the role of the African American soldier in the American Civil War, Benjamin Lee Miller
Honors Theses from 2002
The Hanoverian Interest; British Foreign Policy and the Electorate of Hanover, 1740-1760, John Wagner
Honors Theses from 2001
Renaissance men : Xu Guangqi, Matteo Ricci, and the Jesuit mission in China, David Heitz Hiett
"So Well Endowed": Economic Support of the College of William and Mary During the Colonial Period, Kristin A. Zech
Honors Theses from 2000
"The longed-for place" : Saewulf and twelfth-century pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Margaret Elizabeth Garnett
Honors Theses from 1997
John De Sequeyra's Notes on diseases, Sarah C. McEntee
"Wen I wuz young" : the socialization and education of slave children on low country plantations, 1800-1860, Elizabeth Marshall Keys
Honors Theses from 1992
Uncommon devotion: the character of one Union soldier, John C. W. Harper
Honors Theses from 1981
Francis Schaeffer's assessment of Karl Barth : Christian apologist on the offensive, Ronald F. Wright
Honors Theses from 1973
The New York Nation and the Negro, 1865-1900, Roy R. Morris
Honors Theses from 1965
The establishment of Yugoslavia: a case study of political symbols and their manipulation, Robert Michael Gates