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American Civilization Theses, 1971-2006

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1971

71 Julia IsaacsonThe Good Apothecary: a book of poems

1972

72 John FeeneyThe Lyman Beecher Family: Puritanism and Social Reform in Ante-bellumAmerica

72 Michael ReedWilliam Faulkner and the American South: An American Studies Thesis

 

1973

73 Robin CruiseH.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis: A Portrait in "Boobs" and Babbittry

73 Joanne ParisThe Influence of the Burden of Race on the Education of Representative Black Leaders

73 Elise WashingtonCharacterizations of the Black Woman in Black American Literature

 

1974

74 Robert Bruder"Ranges" in Western Literature

74 Bruce BurdettThe Literary Comedians of the Civil War: Petroleum V. Nasby and Bill Arp

74 Stephen CollierThe Philosophy of William James in the Poetry of Robert Frost

74 Anne DuThe American Indian 1890-1940: The Image of the Indian in the White Man's Mind

74 Sandra HylanderSouthern Agrarians and Politics: The Meaning of a Metaphor

74 Timothy KatzmanThe Well Ordered Asylum: A Study of American Childcare Institutions

74 Joan LaphamThe Emergence of the "New Negro" in the Art and Literature of theHarlemRenaissance

74 Annie MechemResponses to Landscape: TheMississippi River

74 Leslie OuimetteClassical Architecture in theUSas a Sultural Expression

74 Mildred ReeseLangston Hughes: Poet of the Black Masses 1925-1967

74 Susan ThompsonAmerican Man the Machine: As Reflected in American Children's Literature 1927-1971

 

1975

75 Wesley BrooksThe Gazette of theUnited States: And the National Gazette and the Party Conflict of the 1790's

75 Richard DuffAimee: Avatar of an Age: An Examination of Insecurity, Faith, and Escapism inAmericain the 1920's

75 BeverlyHuntressThe Great Depression's Bequeathal to its Children: A Study of Young Children's Literature inAmerica's Decade of Depression 1930-1939

75 Catherine ThomasThe Interaction between a Country Journalist his Community

  

1976

76 Lisa BentA Comic Strip's Reflection ofAmerica: Charles M. Schultz and "Peanuts"

76 ElizabethFriedgutAlfred Kazin and the American Dream

76 Gary GrayImages of the Afterlife: The Sentimental Sense of an Ending inAmerica

76 Tina GreenburgThe Effects of the Slum Environment: As Seen by Jacob A. Riis, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser

76 Gary HolmesReflections of a Decade: Humphrey Bogart in the 1940's

76 Jesse IshikawaTranscendentalists of Labor

76 James RobinsonImaginative Transformation of the Landscape in the World of Thoreau

76 Wanda SeeleyHorace Mann: The Power of Persuasion

76 Robin WigleyThe Equal Rights Amendment

76 John WoodsThe Gangster, the Depression and American Film History

 

1977

77 Felix BatistaAssimilation of Cuban Exiles in theUnited States

77 Christina BesseChanging Manners and Morals inAmerica: As Viewed Thru the Upper Class Female and her Society

77 Sarah HartfordAlcohol and the American Dream

77 Jay HeinrichsThe Tragic Art of Winning Peace: Henry Kissinger's Published Self-Image

77 Abigail HilmerA Study of the American Hero : through the Persons of Abraham Lincoln Franklin Roosevelt

77 Richard HodgesPreservation of American Wilderness: Ideology and Action

77 Carole JohnsonIowa's Inspirationists and Old Order Amish: An American Study

77 Gillian LloydA Study of the Robber Baron Legend

77 Jennie MartzloffThe Success Myth inAmerica: As Portrayed in Two Sources of Late Nineteenth Century Children's Literature

77 Joanne MarvinWorld War I and the Committee on Public Information: The War Behind the Lines

77 Margaret NortonPerspectives on the Agrarian Tradition: TheKansasFrontier from 1850-1900

77 James ReeseLife, Death, Collective Theory and the Concept of the Black Theater: 1965-1972

77 Janet StickleyA Selection of Stories by Flannery O'Connor

77 Sandy WrightJohn Woolman Vs. Benjamin Franklin: Spiritual Ideality Contrasted with Material Pragmatics in Government or Turn to the Right 200 Years Ago

77 Edward YoungFather Divine - The Peace Mission Movement

 

1978

78 Margaret BrewsterJane Addams: In Search for Social Unity

78 Faith ConlonThe Endurance of Cultural Heritage: Indian Sovereignty in American Society

78 Anne GrotonFrom the Podium to the Streets to the Polls: Americans Protest the Vietnam War

78 John HarveyThe Paradox of the American Worker: Democratic Pursuits in the Face of Workplace Authoritarianism

78 Lisa HockmeyerThe Lady is a Jock: Women in Sports from Various Perspectives

78 John HymanThe Scheme of the Reaction of the Beats

78 Midelle MooreAyn Rand: The Eccentric Novelist-Philosopher

78 Lucy NewellThe Development of Coeducation at Middlebury College: 1883-1940

78 Sue PetersonNuclear Power in Vermont

78 Paul PrisbyAccepting British Point of View-Neutrality Years: NYTimes Reaction European War 1914-1917

78 William QuigleyEdwin O'Connor's World of the American Irish

78 David SalemAmerican Politics in the 1970's: Self Government Versus Self-Indulgence

78 Katherine ShepherdRural Poverty among Southern Tenant Farmers: Four Responses from the 1930's

78 Jim TracyPolitical Advertising: Subterfuge of the American Political Culture

78 Thomas WeeksThe American Left of the 1920's 1960's: Comparative Analysis Employing Case-Study Approach

 

1979

79 Stephanie DicksonAmericans in Paris: The 1920's

79 William HarrisThe Modern American Magazine

79 Kristin HarrisThe Day Care Dilemma in American: How the Opposition Support Coexist to From a Public Society

79 Anne JonesSuccess, Sin and Salvation: The Role of the Church in Success Literature

79 William Markland The Value of the Architectual Perspective

79 Laurel Macaulay The Conscience of a Generation: The Pioneers of the American Social Settlement Movement

79 Beth MooneyThe Sea in American Literature: Mirror of Individual and Cultural Self-Definition

79 Martha PealeRobinson Jeffers' Brand of Individualism

79 Ann TippettThe Equal Rights Amendment in American Culture: Out of the Revolution and into the Mainstream

79 Katherine WeidmanMirror, Mirror on the Wall...Reflections of American Culture: Amusement Parks and Walt Disney


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1980

80 Susan CoyneCommunism-The Pulse of the Nation: The Red Scare Mentality of the Post-War Era

80 Paul CrochiereAmerica Adopts the World Sport: Soccer in the 1970's

80 Sandra LevineMainstreming of the Handicapped: Toward Equal Educational Opportunity

80 Constance Murphy"Senior Power": Myth or Reality

80 Daniel NourseThe Salem Witchcraft Delusion

80 Geoffrey PlumeThe Attitude of Rhode Islanders Towards the Constitution

80 Nancy RichardsonDefining Old Age as a Social Problem: 1885-1935

80 Paul ScheufeleJack London: The Development of the Notion of Frontier Individualism in America

80 Elizabeth StolleyThe Elusive Dream of Chicago Unity: A Study of Divisions within the La Raza Movement 1965-1972

80 Jeanne SuttonA. Philip Randolph and the American Creed: The Challenge to the Paradox

 

1981

81 Elizabeth BlackThe Depiction of Women in Five American Utopian Novels: 1852-1976

81 Stephen BrownHigher Education and Athletics: Values and Conflicts at the Liberal Arts College

81 Mark ConwayThe Mills of God Grind Slowly: The Civil Rights Movement in Greenwood, MI, During the 60's

81 David EinhornRock'n'Roll: The Indicator and Communicator of Social Change, 1954-1971

81 Janice GadaireThe Illegal Folk: The Disappearance of Traditional American Folklife through Government Intervention

81 Andrew GreenlandThe American Character, Team Sports and the Athlete Symbol and Reality

81 Joanne ItskovitzHave We Become Consumed?: Consumer Taste and Influence Patterns As Reflected in Alcohol Advertisements

81 Edmund KingFDR and the New Deal Reform in American Liberalism

81 Andrew MayerSound Fury Signifying... Danger

81 Pamela PaulWalker Percy: A Southern Catholic's Diagnosis of the Predicament of Race, Heritage, and Religion in the South

81 Lauren RossRecognizing Oppression: Abolition and Civil Rights as Catalysts in the Development of the Woman's Suffrage and Women's Liberation Movements

81 Cynthia StrongCovering America: The Illustrations of Norman Rockwell and The Saturday Evening Post

81 Elizabeth TarlovCommunity Action and An Atypical Success Story

 

1982

82 Christopher GagneThe Petroleum Industry: Yesterday and Today

82 Tina GluckThe Jewish Past the American Future: A Focus on the Struggle for Self-definition

82 Peter GouldAn Examination of the Anti-Semitism of Father Charles Coughlin

82 Ellen Harris A Study of the "Lady" in Late Victorian America

82 Rachel HitchcockAmerica and American Indian Education

82 Lisa KissingerThe Accuracy of the Literary Image of Women in the 1920's

82 Steve LawrenceAnger Can Be Power: Populist Movement in America

82 Jane OskiDaniel and Phillip Berrigan: Resistance Priests of Relevant Revolutionaries

82 Philip RedingThe "New Journalists": Their Crusade Against Popular Indifference 1901-1908

82 Stephen RileyBenjamin Franklin: His Role in the American Revolution

82 Linda SchurmanThe Role of Intellectualism in Early Nineteenth Century Evangelical Religion: Rev. Thomas a Merrill, Middlebury

82 Meryl SchwartzIntellectual Responses to the Development of Nuclear Weapons: 1939-1964

82 Christopher WestAn Analysis of Sail Power Role in American Economic and Cultural History


1983

83 Sarah BeetonAmerica's Cultural Development in the Hudson River Valley: 1800-1860

83 Jayne BenzPaul Dwight Moody: The Leader of the Lost Battalion: Middlebury College's 10th President

83 Michael BorchardPolitics from the Pulpit: Perspectives on the Religious Right and the National Council of Churches

83 Susan CassidyAmerica's Working Women in Fact and in Advertising: 1939-1947

83 Kim CochranePopular Advertisements of the Twenties: Reflecting the Needs of a Consumer Society

83 Kristin DorneyBuilding an American Dream: Louis Sullivan's Architecture in Chicago

83 Bruce GevertzThe Reflection Pool: Literature of the Troubled Time 1960's

83 Karlene GollerThe Traditional Roles of American Women in Popular and Official Imagery of the 1950's

83 Fain HackneyThe Labor Movement in Birmingham Alabama: 1871-1940

83 M. Siobhan Leahy19th Century Perceptions of the Mississippi River Valley

83 Shelby SiemsDeterminants of Historiographical Interpretations: The Case of Mary Baker Eddy and her Christian Science Organization

83 Barbara TurneyThe Response of High Fiction & Popular Fiction to the Position of Women in Society: 1918-1929

 

1984

84 Jason BaconA Change in Views of America : Recorded by British Travelers of the 19th Century

84 William BoscowThe Chicago Black Sox Scandal: A Reflection of Post-World War One Society

84 Mark ChafeeBig-Time Collegiate Athletics: Unconscionable Exploitation

84 Kevin D'ArcyA Media Creation or Annihilation: Jack Kerouac and His Critics

84 John FairbairnJohn Fairbairn and the Martel Furnace: Changing Character of the Entrepreneur in Industry, 1865-1887

84 Scott FillenworthThe Open Road: A Study of the Road's Significance in the Representation of American Society and Culture

84 John GannonReligious Liberty: From Revolutionary Principle to Legal Doctrine

84 Julie GreenLonely on the Plains: Women on the Frontier, 1860-1890

84 Wendy HockadayKansas City Missouri: The Black Community and the Deterioration of a School System

84 Pamala KurtzA Second Country: Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Expatriate Mystique

84 Lars LeibelerEconomics and Government: Regulation: An Application

84 Richard WagmanThe Immigrant Tragedy of the 1920's: The Sacco-Vanzetti Case

84 Cheryl WhitneyAn Examination of Media Perceptions on Leadership of Malcolm X Martin Luther King: During Black Protest Movement of the 1960's

84 Caroline WoodhouseThe Victorian Influence on the Development of Women's Athletics From 1880-1930

84 Andrew ZehnerJournalism's Celebrities: The Self-Promotion of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson

 

1985

85 Elisabeth AhlbergThe Great Reversal: Religious Influence on Presidential Elections 64-84

85 Kristin AndersonLady Luck and the Lotteries: State Governments's Gamble at Legalization and its Effects

85 Duff BadgleyThe 1980 Mariel Boatlift: US Vulnerability Revealed

85 Lindsay BarstowPat Conroy, His Life and Works: The Southern Influence

85 Faith BruinsPaper Dolls: Images of American Women in National Magazine Advertising 63-83

85 John CranleyThe Immortal Adolescent

85 Lee FindlayPortraying the American Female: De Kooning and his Representation of Women

85 Justin GavinThe Western Landscape: A Mirror into Two Realities

85 Reid LarsonThe New Republic: 1930-1936

85 Tim RahrKenesaw Mountain Landis: Baseball's First Commissioner

85 Karen RockowTitle IX: Progress in Equal Opportunity

85 Page SampsonThe Diary of Alice James: A Quest for Power in 19th Century America

85 Jonathan SchlesingerKurt Vonnegut, Jr. Student Protest Movement: Model for Exploration of Generation Gap

85 Janet Ellen SmallAmerica's Love-Hate Relationship with the Gifted and Talented

85 Karen SothernDepression Age Children's Literature: A Depiction of the American Family

85 Dan WhiteCommunity and the Individual in American Culture

 

1986

86 Sarah BuffumThe Family Farm in America: Idealization or Realization?

86 Tim EganException to the Rule: The Fourth Amendemnt Exclusionary Rule and the Good Faith Doctrine

86 Jeanne GilroyPeity, Politics, and Patriotism: Three American Figures

86 Elizabeth LambertvJessica Stewart Swift: A Public and Private Study

86 Scott LangermanA Culture of Heroes

86 Miriam McGurlFree Associations: Issues of Freedon and Oppression in the Plays and Memoirs of Lillian Hellman

86 Macon MorehouseThe Religious Right in the Eighties: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

86 Phil SchneiderThe Effects of Documentary Photography on Social Change: 1865-1930

 

1987

87 Cathy AbramsJuvenisle Delinquency: Causes, Trends and Justice: Is There a Solution?

87 Jay BrodmerkelIndependent Film: Then and Now

87 William DiAdamoWhat Color is an Invisible Man?

87 Emily FermanThe New Religious Political Right in America: A Threat to our Liberty

87 Ellen FlemingThe Politics of Cultural Conflict: The Irish and the Yankees in Boston, 1840-1888

87 Katherine GitterWinslow Homer: The Gloucester Years

87 Stephen GuntherThe Development of Uncle Sam as an American Symbol

87 Colleen MaloneyThe Merger Movement of the 1980's: Evidence of a Fundamental Change in American Social Values

87 Cameron McClearnJohn Muir: His Impact on the American Environmentalist Movement

87 Lisa McCloskeyThe Role of the Arts in Elementary Education

87 Jane McIntoshJohn Undike's Rabbit Trilogy: An Accurate Depiction of a Middle Class American

87 Ramiro PrudencioSprirituality and Sexuality: The Intereaction of Religion and Women in the Literature of Fitzgerald and Hemingway

87 Peter RandBob Dylan: A Voice of a Generation

87 Susan SteinleDemocracy and Educational Values in American Novels

87 John ZehnerStereotypes and Meadowlarks: A Critical Analysis of the Harlem Globetrotters

 

1988

88 Christina CarterArt Not for Art's Sake: American Advertising During the 20's and Its Creation of the Consumer

88 Jan GrayThe American Girl in Children's Literature: A Study of the Works of Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder

88 Nicholas HowardThe Spirit of GreenPeace: The Promotion of Environmental Awareness

88 Anya PuriThe Gibson Girl: A Prototype of the America's New Woman, 1890-1910

88 Suzanne TayerThe Dust Bowl: An Effort to Interpret the Sudden Crisis of Land

 

1989

89 Helen Austin

89 Catherine ButtsRed Gifts and White Thank-you's: Manifestations of Indian-Giving in America's Cultural Destiny

89 Helen DavidsonEdith Wharton: Her Life and Work 1914-1918

89 Mary HartnessLillian Smith: Dreams of a Prophet

89 Elisabeth HollanderPlacing an Author and Her Novel: Uncle Tom's Cabin in American Literature and Harriet Beecher Stowe in the American Renaissance

89 Victoria HoytTobacco and American Life

89 Haven LukeThe Rhetoric of Reform: Ideological Hegemony in Turn of the Century America

89 Tim O'SheaImage Making: The Image of a Politician and the Politics of an Image. Richard Nixon and Television, 1952-1968

89 Kara Oliver

89 Pamela RosserCan the Satire of Woman be Useful?

89 Amanda UngerThe Cowboy's Labor and Class Relations with the Cattleman During the Late 1800's: The Legacy of a Code


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1990

90 Holly Beatty1873-1973: A Hundred Years' Obsession with Obscenity

90 Meredith BinderThe Erotic or the Pornographic?

90 Heidi BrucknerFrom Violence to Commercialism: A Historical Look at Childrens Television

90 Kristy CarradoPresident Bush's 1990 Anti-Drug Strategy: Declaring War on the Wrong Enemy

90 Anne DesjardinsThe Rush of Narcotics in Twentieth-Century America

90 David FrameDance Hall Daze: Leisure as an Adaptive Cultural Response to the Changing Material Conditions of Working Women 1880-1920

90 Jane GoldsteinThe Cultural Image of Jane Fonda

90 Elizabeth HayesPreservation of Wilderness in the Adirondack Region

90 James LeMaitreMapplethorpe, Censorship and the NEA

90 Jodi MitchellRoom to Move: Women and Space in the Turn of the Century Novel

90 Robert MollThe Radicalization of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

90 Lory Anne MyersonExiles form Their Own Land: A Study of Afro-American Expatriates in Paris

90 James RondeauThe Corporation and the Fine Arts in America: Issues Raised by the Pepsico Corporate Sculpture Collection

90 William SchwartzThe Japanese Internment: A Manifestation of American Pluralism

90 Jennifer WeissIssues and Themes of Public School Desegregation in Boston


1991

91 Bancroft JonesThe Clipper Ship Era: A Glorification of a Rejected Reality

91 Hieu NguyenGary Trudeau and Doonesbury: The Voice Behind the Impertinent Question

91 John RudgeThe Wounded Knee Occupation of '73: Why it Occurred and What it Accomplished

91 Dana TiedemannThe Paradox of Cultural and Literary Syyle in the 1950- and 1960's: A Study of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and Tom Ronnin's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"

91 Keith WilsonAfrican American Migration to Chicago: The Subsequent Deradiaclization of the Black Church


1992

92 Campbell BarrettAnnie Oakley, Calamity Jane and the Quest for the Woman Warrior

92 Sarah CahillThe Adolescent Journey in Herman Melville's Redburn and Moby-Dick: It's Evolution from Mid 19th Century Sea Literature

92 Elizabeth DotoliExploring Superfund Liability

92 Kate KelleyMarsha Norman: Feminism in Traditional Theater

92 Nicole KriegerToward a Vision of Moral Reform: Alice Walker's The Color Purple

92 Jeff NoordsySpirituality in the Industrial Age: The Grateful Dead Experience

 

1993

93 Katherine ArnoldTake My Leaves America: Whitman: Emergence of a National Bard

93 Holly CookisRace, Gender and the Reading Experience: A Study of African American Women's Fiction and Middlebury College Students

93 Matthew HaleAmerican Eden: The Rhetoric of Paradise

93 Brian HowieThe Young America Movement and the Division of American Culture

93 Patricia O'MaraRoads and Pathways to the American Dream

93 Julia ParkerProfessional Baseball in the 1960's: A Part of the American Scene

93 Julie Troy Irish-Americans in the 20th Century: Real or Symbolic?

 

1994

94 Katherine Behrens Frederic Edwin Church: The Spirit of Mid-Nineteenth Century America Pictorially Represented: Nationalism, Religion, Nature and Science

94 Mary Frances BoyleEnvisioning Gender: Masculine Ideology in American Boxing Literature

94 Kate Buckley America's Forgotten Heroines

94 Beth Andrea GallistelAdvertising the Lure of Vermont: The Selling of the Rural Landscape, 1860-1940

94 Brian HowieThe Young American Movement and the Division of American Culture

94 Ellen McCrarySlicing Out of Bounds: Golf as Symbol in the Novels of Walker Percy

94 Shawn PhillipsThe Paradox Of Progress: The Indian and the Works of Thomas Cole and James Fenimore Cooper

94 Michelle WeagleChildren's Television and the Learning Experience: American Educational Theories as Revealed by Critical Responses to "Sesame Street" 1969-Present

94 Christopher ZiebarthFire in the Forests: A History of American Attitudes Concerning Forest Fires and Wilderness


1995

95 Amy BertelsenThe Spirit of the Prairies and Plains: The Scandinavian Immigrant Pioneer Experience and Literary Tradition

95 John BorisJim Henson and His Muppetry: Now and Forever

95 Kristin DulongA Victim of Multiculturalism: Defending Richard Rodriguez

95 Benjamin Hartley The Persistence of the Melting Pot Ideal: American Consciousness through the Twentieth Century

95 Hillary HubbardThe Effects of Internment on Japanese Ethnic Identity: A Study of Two Generations

95 Joshua IsraelMordecai Manuel Noah: A Reinterpretation of the Jacksonian Jew

95 William Martin Tim O'Brien, the Literature of War and the American Experience in Vietnam; A Thesis in American Civilization

 

1996

96 Alexandra GrossmanMiddlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association: Twenty-Five Years of Community Service and Emergency Care

96 Jordan Romm The Influence and Effects of American Cultural Institutions in Spain

96 Kim Whitman The Master's Opinion, Fugitive Slave Advertisements: Lynchburg Virginian, 1826-1836

96Eliza Zug The FBI's War Against Dissent in America

 

1997

97 Lilia GerbergWomen of the Decade: Representations in 1940's American Cinema

97 Robin LawrenceThe Lost Generation: Cuban American Generation of One and a Half

97 Elizabeth MorganSoul Searching: Edith Wharton, American Artist in Paris
97 Jamie HoughtlinWinslow Homer and the African-American Recognitions of Freedom
97 Pamela SeloverImposing Order on the My Lai Massacre Through Personal Narratives and Tim Obrien's Novel In The Lake of Woods
97Brady SommaIrish Female Gender Experiences in Late 19th Century America
97 Graham TraceyFrom Real Estate Mecca to Myth: The Writer's Hatred of the Hollywood Dream
97 Katherine LynchStations of the Cross Irish Catholic Women and the Development of the American Catholic Church, 1850-1950
97 Travis AldrichThe Cultural Influence of a Selected Number of Traditional Northeastern Summer Camps

1998

98 Jonathan ElderIs Baseball Still Our National Pastime? The Effects of the 1994-95 Strike on the Game of Baseball in America

98 Molly KroonVietamese Immigrants in Burlington: Their Lives in Viet Nam, Their Journeys to Amerian, and the Obstacles They have faced in the U.S.

98 Lela Moore "An Unfortunate Situation": Reaction to the Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1960-62

98 Heidi WiemeyerPropagandizing Gender: The Relationship Between Advertisements and Female Identity, 1939-1946

98 Davin Wilfrid"Give You What I Got": How American Poplular Cuture was Re-defined by the Black Popular Music Explosion of the 1960's
98 Matthew SaxtonHow We Learned the War: Stories of the Children of Vietnam Veterans
98 Katherine Stirrat"The Real Thing": Coca-Cola's Advertising in the 1920 and 30's
98 Adam PascalAnzia Yezierska: A Trailblazer
98 Amy DongWomen and the Cultural Ideals of Body Image: Mass Media and Seventeen Magazine
98 Brady PriestThe Two Ends of the Capital Punishment Spectrum in the US: Michigan and Texas What Led to Their Divergent Policies and What Does the Future Hold?
98 Alison KillileaThe American Government and Art in the Post World War II Decade: Issuses Raised by the State Department Collection
98 Will CartyThe Alternative to Hip Hop is Dead Silence


1999

99Elizabeth FrankelSenseless Voilence: The Distortion in Print Media Portrayls of Child Violence as Rep. of the Racial Bias in American Scoiety of the 90's
99 Evan FreundFor the Union Makes Us Strong: (A Study of ...Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty, Louis Coman's Lumber and Clara Weatherwax's Marching! Marching!


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2000

00Meghan KregerIn the Spirit of Walt Whitman: Isadora Duncan and the Vision of a New American Modern Dance
00Meegan Murphythe Battle Over the American Myth: A Study of Filmmakers, Ken Burns and Oliver Stone


2001

01Rachel ArnotFells Point: A New Hotspot for Development in Baltimore City, But What About The Fells Point Community
01 Britta WiesnerA Study of American Immigration: 1880-1930
01 Katherine HarringtonModern American Adoption: The Ethical Complexities of Adoption Practices in the United States
01 Kristy LarameeSeparated by Oceans, Joined by History: A Comparative Analysis of the Parallel Struggles of the Ainu and Native Americans
01 Kate KlapfishAn Evaluation of the Efficacy of Arts Outreach Programs for Youth
01 Annie KloppenbergModernity and Modernism Meet: American Culture and Modern Dance in the 1920's and 1930's
01 Lauren CullingsNorman Rockwell's Wartime America
01 Justin KingsonSports Media and Social Deviance


2002

02 Roy CoppedgeTed Williams and the Boston Press Wars
02 John StevensThe Power to Persuade: Cigarette Advertising in the 1940's and 1950's
02 Eliza deForest-JohnsonAutumn Rhythm: A Portrait of Jackson Pollock, His Creative Process, and it's Presence in American Culture
02 Erica RosenthalPersonalizing the Presidency: How Kennedy Press Conferences Shaped the President's Relationship with the Public and Press
02 Hilary MunsonThe Common Cowboy: The Development of Ronald Reagan's Public Image
02 Brain FerryMasters of the Universe: Popular Images of Wall Street Bankers and the Dilemma of Selfhood in the 1980's
02 Elizabeth RudnickBeyond the Mothership: The Tension Between the Matenity and Sexuality of Women in Science Fiction Films of the Eighties and Early Nineties
02 Clay MooreheadThe Roaring Yankees: The New York Yankees as a Symbol of 1920's Popular Culture
02 Abbey HaberThe Cultural Representation of the Holocaust and the Jew in American Postwar Film and Television, 1945-1961
02 Michael Hacker"Jews are not Sportsman": Hank Greenberg and the Anti-Semitic Culture of 20th Century America
02 Elinor RobertsThe Construction of Development Disability: The Influences of Public Opinion, Cultural Climate and the Court System on the Role of the Intellectually Disabled in Am. Society


2003

03John Prescott"How to Tell Japs from the Chinese"
03 M. Katie ShutteInfamous Days: Coping with Crisis AfterDecember 7, 1941andSeptember 11, 2001
03 Margaret GoedeckeThe Color of Commuting: A Historical Analysis of Race Politics inSouth Bostonin Relation to the Busing Crisis of the 1970's


2004

04 Daniel RussellMaking it New: From Jazz to Hip Hop
04 Elizabeth MeyersThe Means to Escape: Scotland's Highlands, the Road Less Traveled
04 Matthew Wolf"As the Sons of Immigrants, Baseball...Made us Americans": Baseball and the Second-Generation Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1905-1935

2005
05 Kimberly Quicksilver Operation Babylift:Mission of Mercy or Might?
05 Marisa Cawley "Literary and Artist Reflections on the Emmett Till Case"
05 David Irwin "Assimilating Native American Masculinity: The Impact of the Woodcraft Movement on American Boys"
05 David Lindholm "Shakespeare, Cultural Hierarchy, and the Emergence of Mass Culture"

2006
06 Erica Goodman Media and Masculinity: Citizenship As Seen Through the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars
06 Heather WrightAfrican American Memory in the Civil War: Remembering the Massachussetts 54th Regiment
06 Alexandra Golden Constructing the White City: The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the Workers That Built It

06 Liza Reed Eating For Credit: The Role of Schools in America's Obesity Crisis
06 Constance Winner
A Return to Samhain: The Impact of Post-World War II American Culture on Halloween Through the Rise of the Urban Legend and Slasher Film
06 Jessica VanWagenen Representations of Teen Culture on Television: How Teenage Viewers Create Meaning From the Cultural Norms Embedded in Teen Programming
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