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Chicago shipwrecks: disasters and their impact on maritime law

Lange, Shannon Marie (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017)

The shipwreck and maritime history of the Illinois region of Lake Michigan was one wrought with tragedy and shaped the laws of the shipping industry for the future. What has become known as the ‘Shipwreck Era’ of 1825-1925 ...
Words and weddings: shifts in the vocabulary of marriage and literature

Astl, Catherine (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017)

Literature abounds with versions of courtship leading to marriage. By exploring the morphology and usage of words associated with matrimony, changes in grammar, as well as mining Greek, Elizabethan, Shakespearean, Romantic, ...
Misperceptions of ignorance: reconsidering U.S. intelligence 'failures' in the Korean War

Compton, Daniel Brown (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-06)

The ongoing American popular perception that the United States committed significant intelligence failures during Korean War is certainly understandable, especially given that this view continues to persist within the ...
Woodrow Wilson’s diplomatic agenda and strategic military interventions: how they affected the Russian Civil War 1918-1920

Rinehart, Richard Alan (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-06)

This thesis aims to understand the factors that affected Woodrow Wilson’s foreign and military policy actions, which subsequently led to decisions that dictated United States’ intervention into the Russian Civil War, ...
Native American women and their defiance of imposed gender roles

Srivastava, Chelsey (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-06)

Growing interest in Native American Studies has garnered new interest in the creation of the United States and the impact the various tribes had on historical events. Research pertaining to Native American women’s history ...
"And be It so enacted": natural law and southern federalism in the fugitive slave controversy

Jenkins, Natasha Townsel (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-06)

Despite the vast research on the events that led to the Civil War, little scholarship focuses solely on the extent to which the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 played a role. While historians highlight the law’s political, ...
Women rising: embracing, negotiating, and reinterpreting gender roles in revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1923

Schaefer, Meredith Kate (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

This thesis examines the Irish revolutions (1913–1923) through the eyes of the revolutionary women who fought in them. The historiography on the period largely ignores and or downplays the contributions of women, often ...
Finding our way: Friedan, Steinem, and the fight for the women's movement, 1960-1980

Olsen, Marie Rebecca (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

The recent re-emergence of the women’s movement after the 2016 presidential election has generated new interest in understanding the hardships that the second-wave of feminism faced in an effort to avoid those conflicts ...
Tippecanoe and slavery too: Jonathan Jennings, William Henry Harrison, and the battle for free labor in Indiana

Northcutt, John R. (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the expansion of the young United States beyond those original thirteen began to take shape. In the development of the Old Northwest and the states that would eventually ...
Florida public schools’ integration and busing

Jensen, Alicia (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

Drawing on primary sources from the Florida Archives in Tallahassee Florida and other secondary sources, this thesis examines the integration of schools as well as the busing crisis in Florida. Specifically, this thesis ...
Women’s roles in America: wartime expansion post-war backlash and contraction

Johnson, Richard Douglas (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

The position and status of women in American society is a product of how women’s roles have changed since the colonial beginnings of America. The problem is that American women have consistently found themselves in a ...
Solomon and Sarah Comstock: prairie pioneers and the building of a community

Johnson, Jennifer A. (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

Minnesota and higher education began to see a boom in the mid-1800s. When Solomon Comstock arrived in Moorhead in 1871, he saw nothing but muddy streets, dugouts, and tents. Throughout the late 1800s, Solomon and his ...
The Spanish Catholic missions of San Diego de Alcalá and Santa Bárbara and the encounters with the Chumash and Kumeyaay Native American tribes: a positive effect

Mick, Jennifer Lee Rising (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

The research will examine the area of Alta California among the Spanish and Native Americans at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá and Mission Santa Bárbara. The initial conclusions about this topic have been that the Spanish ...
Dr. Arthur Caswell Parker and his impact on the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and Native Americans

Seward, Chelsea Lee (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-08)

This thesis examines Dr. Arthur Caswell Parker, an archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist who was Director of the Rochester Municipal Museum (RMM)/Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences (RMAS) from 1926 to 1945. ...
The unconstitutional trial of Mary Surratt

Collum, Grace E. (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-11)

For this final course at Southern New Hampshire University, this project will focus on the trial of Mary Surratt, one of the conspirators in President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. While many historians and authors tend ...
Identity formation in the thirteen American colonies: an interdisciplinary approach with a focus on psychological theory

Dziaba, Elizabeth Katherine (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-11)

This thesis addresses the process of the formation of a separate identity among the original Thirteen Colonies in the New World. Although the research into the American Revolution has been extensive, psychological principles ...
Revolutionary women: notable Revolutionary era women deserving of a commemorative postage stamp

Summers, Corey Elizabeth (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-11)

Revolution is a term globally recognized. Throughout Earth’s history, there have been countless social endeavors classified as revolutions. Some revolutions result in social justice, some result in the birth of a nation; ...
The French modern state: realizing the shift in architecture, art, and society in the 19th century

Lorenz, Dorothy Marcelle (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-11)

The 19th century in Paris France is best known today as one of the most influential, industrial, and modern periods of the modern era. Its art was changing the way the art scene moved and how art was displayed and sold. ...
Slavery, Christianity, and the exodus from the black church

Hunter, Paul E. (Southern New Hampshire University, 2017-12)

The purpose of this thesis is to address the issue of African Americans leaving Christianity and finding solace in religious ideologies which do not represent the same Judeo-Christian and democratic values that traditionally ...
Fort Laramie: a historic guide to the West: historic buildings guide

Wayland, Andrew (Southern New Hampshire University, 2018-01)

Fort Laramie National Historic Site in southeastern Wyoming recalls the days of the frontier period of the West (1760s to 1890s). From 1849 to 1890, the military fort at Fort Laramie was an important center of diplomacy, ...

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