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  The Portrait of a Lady : Identity, Gender, and Power in Colonial American Portraiture 

  Greening, Claudia Quinn (2017)

  In eighteenth-century Boston, elite families commissioned portraits to hang in their city mansions as decorations and reminders of a specific moment in their lives. The custom, which gained prominence in the second half ...
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  Not Al Diamonds Are Created Equal : The Transition from Women's Baseball to Women's Softball in Midwestern Colleges, 1902-1955 

  Heldt, Frances (2017)

  The forces of culture and gender at work in the Midwest in the first half of the twentieth century, and their relation to women's baseball, can only be understood by examining when and how colleges presented women's ...
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  The German Empire's Jewish Subjects 

  Scheck, Katharine (2017)

  The goal of this paper is to look not just at the status Jews had during this period, but at what measures Jews took to both integrate into the majority German community— to adapt into their community a sense of "German-ness"—and ...
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  The Trek : The Evolution of National Identity Among WWII Polish Refugees Deported from Soviet-Occupied Poland 

  Bell, William (2017)

  The author conducted interviews with three Polish refugees, including his grandfather. Polish national identity and connection to home appeared to evolve throughout the journey of Polish deportees-turned-refugees during ...
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  Racial and Ethnic Tensions as Sources of Civil Unrest in Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century America 

  Brown, Drew W. (2016)

  While a comparison and contrast between the history of civil unrest in the United States and those of other nations would undoubtedly yield enormous fruit, major American civil unrest events can also be analyzed, to great ...
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  Historiography of Military Conducts for the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) 

  Hirakawa, Daichi M. (2016)

  The following paper examines how scholars have conceptualized three different aspects of the war: (1) Japan's aggressive and coordinated approach to avoid a protracted war, (2) the tactics used to counter both Communists ...
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  Storyville : The Story of New Orleans's Legal Red Light District, 1897 to 1917 

  Corrigan, Colleen (2017)

  Storyville represents more than sex and scandal. Our modern day assumptions about prostitution and what is now called sex work cloud our ability to look at red light districts as something more than institutions that exploit ...
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  The Rejection of Mexican Political Asylum Seekers in the United States : The Mexican Drug War and Its Legal and Political Implication 

  Neumann, Jenna (2017)

  This research demonstrates that political biases do exist toward Mexican asylum seekers, causing their cases to be denied; it further posits that by understanding Calderon's war on drugs as a failure that has made the state ...
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  Boundaries on the "Wild" : Late Nineteenth-Century Governmental Language Concerning Yellowstone National Park and the American Indian 

  Hansen, Jessica P. (2017)

  This project examines how these two differing land preserves with opposite goals were promoted and defended in similar ways and run in similar manners. It examines the reservations and the park through the governmental ...
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  Laying the Cornerstone of War : Colonial Fraternity and the American Revolution 

  Finch, Emily G. (2017)

  The voluntary organizations and social groups of the Revolutionary War became ingrained in American society, and increased in popularity after the war. These bodies became an essential marker of class and social distinction ...
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  To Protect American Interests : An Evaluation of Justice Sutherland's "Sole Organ" Doctrine 

  Kirchen, W. Calvin (2017)

  This paper attempts to explain Sutherland's controversial language by placing Curtiss-Wright in a deeper historical context. It will be broken into six sections. Section I revisits the beginning of Sutherland's political ...
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  The Hundred Years War : The Chagrin of Nobles and Delight of Kings 

  Feilla, Collin (2017)

  During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries England and France were tied in a conflict that would come to be known as the Hundred Years War, a string of conflicts fought for control of the French crown and an era that ...
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  Unsucessful But Not Unimportant : Analyzing the Story of the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien 

  Pielemeier, Katherine (2017)

  This 1825 treaty was unique because it was one of very few treaties that did not ask the nations who signed it to give up anything to the United States in terms of land cessions or land access. Its purpose, at the most ...
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  The Secret History of Birth Control : American Birth Control until 1900 

  Lovaas, Elise (2017)

  For centuries, America women have attempted to gain control over their bodies and uncouple sex from childbirth. And for those same centuries women have had varying success in this. However, this success has come at a cost ...
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  The "Black Death" and the Catholic Church in Fourteenth Century England 

  Buchholz, Andrew (2017)

  The "Black Death" is the name given to the outbreak of Yersinia pestis, a strain of the plague-causing bacterium, in the fourteenth century that emerged in Europe in 1347 and spread to England in the autumn of 1348, achieving ...
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  St. Theresa of Avila : History and Legacy 

  Nobbe, Danielle (2016)

  This SIP links Saint Teresa of Avila's history to the legacy that she has left in Spain and on the Carmelite Order as a whole. She came from a mixed household, one side moderately wealthy Jewish and the other Spanish ...
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  "London's Greatest Store" : Selfridge's and the Evolution of British Retail 

  Schmitz, Katie (2016)

  Born and raised in the United States, Harry Gordon Selfridge was a revolutionary entrepreneur who changed the way shopping was done in Great Britain during the twentieth century, a time when British retail was not necessarily ...
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  The Prague Spring and the Evolution of the Brezhnev Doctrine 

  Ragen, Jacob (2016)

  The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that a threat to socialism within any single socialist nation constituted a threat to socialism within the entirety of the Eastern bloc. Consequently, any such counterrevolutionary threat would ...
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  The Trial of Warren Hastings : The Court of Law and the Court of Public Opinion 

  Key, Graham N. (2016)

  The first chapter of this work lays the foundational contexts necessary to understand London's political environment, media landscape, and the history of British colonial interests in broad terms, as well as basic details ...
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  Chicago Vice Districts at the Tum of the Twentieth Century : The Battleground between the Middle Class and the Working Class for Control 

  Ciaramitaro, Isabelle (2016)

  As Chicago became a center of social, cultural, and political activity at the beginning of the twentieth century, the growing presence of working-class places of leisure galvanized the anti-vice reformers and pushed them ...

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