Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Foundations of Memory: Effects of Organizations on the Preservation and Interpretation of the Slave Forts and Castles of Ghana, Britney Danielle Ghee
The Fancy Trade and the Commodification of Rape in the Sexual Economy of 19th Century U.S. Slavery, Tiye A. Gordon
"This Is a Little Beauty": Preserving the Legacy of the Columbia Cottage, Kayla Boyer Halberg
Community Development and Development in Communities: Challenges to the Miami-Dade County Historic Preservation Ordinance, Max Adriel Imberman
The Sensory Environments of Civil War Prisons, Evan A. Kutzler
Knowing in America: The Enlightenment, Science, and the Early Republic, Timothy K. Minella
On the Trade Winds of Faith: Puritan Networks in the Making of an Atlantic World, Rachel L. Monroy
Crabgrass Piety: The Rise of Megachurches and the Suburban Social Religion, 1960-2000, Nathan Joseph Saunders
Making La Ciudad Blanca: Race, Region, and Reconstruction in Nation Building Bolivia, Caleb Wittum
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Before They Were Red Shirts: The Rifle Clubs of Columbia, South Carolina, Andrew Abeyounis
Building Sanity: The Rise and Fall of Architectural Treatment at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, Kimberly Jean Campbell
Hard Rows to Hoe: Free Black Farmers in Antebellum South Carolina, David W. Dangerfield
The Spiritual is Political: The Modern Women's Movement and the Transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention, Laura Joy Foxworth
Saint Dominguan Refugees in Charleston, South Carolina, 1791-1822: Assimilation and Accommodation in a Slave Society, Margaret Wilson Gillikin
Charleston’s Magnolia Umbra Cemetery District: A Necrogeographic History, Timothy John Hyder
The Delage-Sumter Family in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World, Mitchell Oxford
Sex Radical: Victoria Woodhull and the Marriage Contract, 1870-1876, Peter Dottling Rich
Science Fairs Before Sputnik: Adolescent Scientific Culture in Contemporary America, Sarah Michel Scripps
Lewd Legacies: The Challenges of Preserving Bermuda's Queen of the East Brothel, Megan Elizabeth Southern
"Newest Born of Nations": Southern Thought on European Nationalisms and the Creation of the Confederacy, 1820-186, Ann L. Tucker
Before the Corridor of Shame: The African American Fight for Equal Education After Jim Crow, Luci Vaden
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
"Without A Few Negroes": George Whitefield, James Habersham, and Bethesda Orphan House In the Story of Legalizing Slavery In Colonial Georgia, Tara Leigh Babb
Building Morale in a Soldier town: Home Front Women and the Gi in Columbia, South Carolina, 1941-1945, Jessica Kathleen Childress
Writing Across Differences: Afro-Germans, Gender, and Diaspora, 1970s-1990s, Tiffany Nicole Florvil
For Their Mutual Benefit: Public Support and Private Development of Historic Buildings In Columbia, South Carolina, Angi Fuller Wildt
The Indian Removal Debate and the Rise of Partisan Identity In the Age of Jackson, Benjamin Greene
Into a Wild New Yonder: the United States Air Force and the Origins of Its Information Age, ROBERT HOWARD LASS
The Evolution of the Politics of Genocide: Why American Efforts to Prevent and Intervene in the Sudan Failed, Shane Andrew Lesko
Divine Discontent: Nathan Carter Newbold, White Liberals, Black Education, and the Making of the Jim Crow South, Barry Malone
"Heritage to Horizons": The History of the 1977 International Women's Year Conference in South Carolina, Caitlin Marie Mans
The South Carolina Sanatorium: The Landscape of Public Healthcare In the Segregated South, Amanda Noll
An Institutional History of the Higgins Armory Museum and Its Relationship with Worcester, Massachusetts, Kary Ashley Pardy
James Buchanan's Vision and the Making of Walnut Grove Plantation, Caroline Vereen Sexton
The Politics of Homosexuality In the Twentieth Century Black Freedom Struggle, Glenda Elizabeth Sherouse
Taking Oaths and Giving Thanks: Ritual and Religion In Revolutionary America, Tara E. Strauch
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
No Longer the Big Bad Wolf: The Expedition to Secure Wolf Self-Portraits and Its Impact On the Bureau of Biological Survey, Katharine Thompson Allen
Tracing the Finger of God: The Role of Wonders In Catholic Spirituality In Early America, Joshua Adam Burgess
Attempts to Adopt the Metric System in the United States to 1907, Alan James Clamp
"A Hospital Built By Them, For Them": The Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital Building Fund Campaign and the Evolution of Black Healthcare Traditions in Columbia, South Carolina, Sarah Frances Conlon
Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932, Gabrielle M. Dudley
"To Make Him Feel His Manhood" : Black Male Identity and the Politics of Gender In the Post-Emancipation South, Ehren Keegan Foley
The Sacrifices of the American Textile Industry and the Common Good, Katharine Marie Klein
Captive Audiences: Sound and the Senses in Civil War Prisons, Evan Alexander Kutzler
Propagating Redemption: An Analysis of the Propaganda Campaign of South Carolina Conservatives In 1876, Ashley Brett Lea
'The Man' In the Kitchen: Government Attempts to Change Foodways In the Rural 1930S South, Ali Katherine Nabours
'A Worthy Individual of the Opposite Race': Edwin A. Harleston at the Charleston Museum - Laura Bragg and Thomas P. Stoney's Attempt for Progress, 1926, Caitlin Elizabeth Podas
Gaslight, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865, Phillip Richardson
White Devils and So-Called Negroes: Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptists, and the Early Nation of Islam In Detroit, Nathan Joseph Saunders
The Heart of the Sectional Conflict: Emotion, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War, Michael Eugene Woods
Dawn of Freedom:' The Freedmen's town of Mitchelville On Hilton Head Island, S.C., JoAnn Livingston Zeise
The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S, Yun Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
"Then Came the Peaceful Invasion of the Northerners": The Impact of Outsiders On Plantation Architecture in Georgetown County, South Carolina, Jennifer Lee Betsworth
Owning Home: African-American Agriculture In Lower Richland County, South Carolina, 1868-1890, Rebecca Elizabeth Bush
Hearing Africa: Auditory Perception and the Construction of Race In Early Modern England, Amy Long Caffee
Reporting Race and Resistance In Dixie: The White Mississippi Press and Civil Rights, 1944-1964, Rebecca Miller Davis
Philosophies of Pipe Organ Preservation: Case Studies of Three Churches In Columbia, South Carolina, Lee Daniel Durbetaki
From Soft-Sell to Hardball: The Evolution of thePro-Equal Rights Amendment Campaign In South Carolina, 1972-1982, Laura Joy Foxworth
Fishing At Karluk: Nature, Technology, and the Creation of the Karluk Reservation In Territorial Alaska, Anjuli Fair Grantham
Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery In the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution, Justin Stuart Liles
Did Nca, Npa, Ols, and Usaid Prolong the Second Sudanese Civil War, Jonathan Andrew Marston
The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction, Justin G. McIntyre
Wil Lou Gray and the Politics of Progress In South Carolina, Mary Macdonald Ogden
Jist Lak...De White Folks': 'Jumping theBroom As A Case Study In Exploring theIntercultural and Atlantic Dimensions of Southern Society, Tyler Dunsdon Parry
Whatever Force Necessary: The Politics of Police Brutality In the Post-Jim Crow South, 1968-1971, Caroline Peyton
Valorizing theCitizen Soldier: Veteran Testimony, Public Display, and the Creation of the National D-Day Museum, Sarah Michel Scripps
BECOMING A STATE ARCHIVIST: ALEXANDER SAMUEL SALLEY, JR & THE, Ashley Danielle Stevens
'As Dry Leaves That Before The Wild Hurricane Fly': Negotiating Risk And Reality In The South Carolina Hurricanes Of 1752, 1893, And 1989, Rebecca Cowles Swanson
Recovering From Modesty: A Response to theAlteration of An Old Master At Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Sarah Abigail Swinney
James Woodrow, Teacher of Natural Science: Presbyterians and Science Education In Nineteenth Century South Carolina, Claire Ann White
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Seeing History In A Wilderness Landscape: Valuing Cultural Resources During the Establishment of Congaree National Park, South Carolina, Elizabeth J. Almlie
"Casualty of Progress": The Ward One Community and Urban Renewal, Columbia, South Carolina, 1964-1974, Ashley Nichole Bouknight
Hampton Plantation: Interpreting Slavery In South Carolina, Amanda Bowman
Pathways to Power: Physicians In Charleston, South Carolina, 1790-1860, David Scott Brown
Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise, Ruth Lai Yee Chan
Providing For Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest In Depression Era New Orleans, Michele Grigsby Coffey
The Road to the New South: South Carolina and the Debate Over I-95, Mark Thomas Evans
Los Hijos Del Rey Benkos: Afro-Colombian Appropriation of A Historic Palenquero Identity and Its Legacy For Community Mobilization, Genesis Dieveche Francis
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Japs": Japanese American Internment During World War II and Its Challenge to Americanism, Kyna Ranell Herzinger
Papist Peers and Politics: the English Roman Catholic Nobility, 1688-1719, Donald Lee McAbee
The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings, Alex D. McAllister
Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874, David Matthew Prior
Interpreting Disaster: New Orleans Museums Respond to Katrina, Amanda Marie Roddy
Las Familias De Los Pioneros: Identity of Greenville, South Carolina's First Colombian Immigrants and Their Children, Lauren Safranek
"Six Days Thou Shalt Labor": African-Americans in the Southern Textile industry, 1895-1929, Kathryn M. Silva
The Familiar Other World: Family Worship In Late Seventeenth-Century England, Andrew Robert Stager
Honorable Decisions: Clerical Loyalty During the American Revolution, Tara E. Strauch
"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965, Louis Venters
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
"The Perfect Scheme of it in his Head...:" Shaftesbury's Carolina Design in the Context of England's Atlantic Economy, Francesca Jane Fair
The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People': Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair, Michael Woods
"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair, Michael Woods