Senior Seminar papers

(Mark Hanley, Spring 2008)

Meaghan Bartz:  ""Dissention from Within:  A Study of Internal Conflicts Within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee"

Rebecca Bradley:  "Rebublican Efforts and Success in the Election of 1864"

Ben Church:  "The Theological Foundations of Charles Grandison Finney's Revivalism"

Jon Deering:  "Corruption, Scandal, and a Landslide: Andrew Jackson's Bid for the Presidency"

Daniel Glossenger:  "The Triumph of Cinematic Realism over Message: Assessing the Critical Reception of All Quiet on the Western Front"

Jon Guthrie:  "The North American P-51 Mustang:  Influence on Strategy and Pilot Morale"

Samuel Hodge:  "High Stakes: Lyndon Johnson's 1964 Campaign"

Amanda Klaus:  "Kennedy and Khruschev:  The Private Relationship"

Dustin Kueker:  "Jackie Robinson: A Sign of the Times?"

Adrien Keables:  "Informational Content in Godey's Lady's Book in the 1850s"

Matt Lange:  "The Use of the Bible in the American Debate over Slavery"

Lindsay Lewis:  "The Pathway to Prestige:  Billy Graham from Tent Revivals to the Oval Office, 1949-1963"

Blake Shier:  "The Trial of Jefferson Davis"

Emily Tobben:  "Harry S Truman: Comparing the Public and Private Sectors"

Shannon Worsham:  "Castlereagh and Britain's Quest for Peace at the Congress of Vienna".

(Torbjörn Wandel, Spring 2008)

Drew Blacklidge, “The Power of Kings: The Attalids’ Attempt to Shape Pergamom to Reflect Them and Greece”

Sam Blanchard, “Christ the Conqueror and the Talking Tree: The Visual and Literary Aspects of the Anglo-Saxon Reformation”

Mike Dolan, “Bloody or Not? The Differing Opinions on Bloody Sunday in the UK and Ireland”

Missy Gahr, “The Perfect Body: Ancient Egyptian Medical Practices and the Connection to the Afterlife”

Kevin Harrison, “John C. Calhoun’s Pursuit of Perfection: The Mark of Timothy Dwight on the Life of Calhoun”

Wade King, “Bloody Bill Anderson: Rethinking What Made the Most Sadistic Killer of the Civil War Do the Things He Did”

Allison B. Maurer, “Free Blacks as Freemasons: An Exploration of the Fight for the Legitimacy of the Prince Hall Branch of Freemasonry”

Michelle Rinck, “‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’: An Examination of Barbie and Ken and the Marriage That Will Never Take Place”

Ryan Robinson, “Free-Diving with Concrete Boots: Austro-German Relations and the First World War”

Laura Twillmann, “The Strategic Use of Peasant Women in Collectivization Propaganda by the Soviets Under Stalin”

Keith Watson, “Between Berlin and Hollywood: Weimar Modernism and Hollywood Classicism in Nazi Cinema”

Stephanie Weick, “Text Messages, Coca-Cola, Web Surfing, and Shopping Malls: The Youth Cultures of Iran and Saudi Arabia and Their Implications for the Futures of the Countries”

Derek Wilhelm, “A Brief Flash Followed by Silence: A Study of the Effect of the Spread and Decline of Pauline House Churches on Gender Roles in Early Christianity”

 

(David Robinson, Fall 2007)

Margaret Ann Abbott, "The Cottonian and Sloane Collections: The Separate Treatments of Two of the Founding Collections of the British Museum"

Jordan Michael Cantoni, "The Radicalization of Osama bin Laden and this Role in the Development of Al-Qaeda"

Issaca Jevonne Carraway, "Redefining Black Womanhood: Black Women and the Evolution of Womanhood Within the Black Panther Party"

Kristin Leigh Clements, "The Life of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, 1809-1891: A Path Through the History of African Missions"

Claire Elizabeth Grothe, "Comparative Childhood in Colonial New England"

Kevin Michael Hansen, "Radicalism in the Red Power Movement and the American Indian Movement"

Tammy Sue Haun, "Cleopatra Philopatris: The Queen Who Loved her Country"

Matthew Allan Hoernschemeyer, "Barbarian Invasions: Anglo-Chinese Relations 1839-1860"

John Ryan Kaufmann, "The Trials of Bruno and Galileo: Viewpoints Throughout History"

Jesse Ling Leong, "The Battle of Badr and its Significance in Muslim History"

Jeffrey Nicklaus Luttrell, "Underneath the Fear: The Spectacle of Terror, Psychoanalytical Representations of Gender, and Gender Roles in the American Horror Film, 1942-1980"

Alyson Lenore Lutz, "The Origins of the Cold War"

James Edward McDonald, "Justice Systems in the American West [1850-1900]"

Megan Colleen Page, "The Role of the Heroine in Greek Mythology Compared to Greek Women's Roles"

Shahrbonu Jeanne Rezaiekhaligh, "From Petitions to Pickets to Prison: Origins of Militant Feminism in America and the National Woman's Party [Alice Paul]"

Dustin Michael Shaw, "The Spartans Through the Ages"

Matthew Ernest Ticich, "The Effectiveness of Firebombing Japan During World War II"

Kathleen Marie Vanderhoof, "A History of Plastic Surgery: How Women Today Have Developed an Obsession with Perfection"

Philip Hamilton Wire, "A History of the Prairie Chicken in Missouri"

Abigail Susan Wolcott, "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt's Marriage"

 

(Dan Mandell, Spring 2007)

Burton, Adam: Eugenics and the Nazis

Dyke, Kevin: How American Newspapers Depicted European Jews After the Holocaust, 1945-1950

Kohler, Samuel: Henry Clay and the Compromise of 1850

Lueker, Erin: Conflicts among Jewish inmates at Theresienstadt

Mannell, David: Kansas City Jazz and the Pendergast Machine

Niedbalski, Jennifer: Missouri as a Sectional Battleground before the Civil War

Roderwald, Nels: Church and State in the Byzantine Empire

Russell, Helen: Depiction of Rome and Early Christians in Hollywood Films

Schumacher, Stanton: Route 66 and American Culture

Scognamiglio, John: The Cold War and 1980 Miracle on Ice

Shrout, Robert: The Swing Era and Race

Sundberg, Adam: The Dutch Environmental Movement: A Comparison with the United States

Todd, Alex: William Walker and the Filibustering Movement

Troester, Aaron: The Japanese Occupation of Manchuria

 

(Torbjörn Wandel, Spring 2006)

The Ancient World

Kelsey Underwood, "Attaining Spiritual Perfection: Ability and Disability in Zoroastrianism and the Persian Empire"

Lindee Weese, "To Our [Ancient Greek] Sweethearts and Wives: May they Never Meet"

Early Modern England

Steven Cox, "The Influence of Anne Boleyn on the Early Reformation in England"

Chris Roberts, "The End of Magic and Occultism in Mathematics"

New England & New France

Becky Vice, "Resilience and Renown: The Massachusetts Moderates and the Dominion of New England"

Ashley Young, "The Imperial Colossus: Reinterpreting La Salle's Final Expedition"

The Battle over Slavery

Nick Beydler, "Slavery and Northern Methodism: The Religious Roots of Anti-Abolitionism"

Will Davis, "Grapeshot Prunes Porter's Bushwhackers: The Effects of Poor Terrain and Inadequate Supplies on the Confederate Forces at the Battle of Kirksville"

Brad Robertson, "Following Slavery: The Definition of Slavery in American History"

World War II

Sarah Jones, "Organizing Overlord: An Analysis of French-American Cooperation in the Liberation of France"

Kurtis Werner, "The American Glider Pilot during World War II: A Second-Rate Pilot in a Major Global Conflict"

The Cold War

Jon Courtney, "Soviet-American Relations: George F. Kennan's Views on Aid to Russia"

Paul Klepper, "Malleable Steel: The Dynamic Nature of Israeli Security and Nuclear Arms"

Minorities

Elizabeth Carrington, "Contradicting the Code: Double Standards in 1930 Portrayals of Minority Races [in Film]"

Cathy Clark, "Irish Dance: Examining Riverdance and Revivals"

Greg Mueller, "'We Didn't Cross Borders, Borders Crossed Us': Nineteenth-Century U.S. Expansionist Policy and the Southwest"

Sexuality & Rurality

Jenna Kearns, "The Dada Vision of Weimar Culture: Analyzing Gender in Photomontage"

Justin Smith, "Homo on the Range: A Case Study of a Rural Gay Identity and the Influence of the Internet"

Elizabeth Robinson, "Conceptualizing Nature: The Changing Identity of Yosemite National Park in Travel Literature"