Theses, Dissertations, and Creative Activity from students in the History Department.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The Civil Rights Act of 1875: A failure reconsidered, Barbara N. Luckett
Maria Edgeworth: Novelist as a social historian of early nineteenth century Ireland, Patricia Neumann Shreves
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
American policy toward the defense of Formosa and the offshore islands, 1954-1955, Donald H. Chang
Palestine: The origin and establishment of a mandate, 1914-1922, Pamela M. Haviland
Calhoun's western military program, 1817-1825, Ronald L. Johnson
The acquisition of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by the United States Steel Corporation: A legend re-examined, John W. McLaughlin
The Demise of "Separate-But-Equal": The Role of the Supreme Court in the Racial Desegregation of Education, Phillip J. Nelson
London and its main drainage, 1847-1865: A study of one aspect of the public health movement in Victorian England, Lester J. Palmquist
The formation of the Omaha Public Power District, Martin H. Pennock
The public life of Elmer S. Dundy, 1857-1896, David H. Price
An American fantasy--The crucible of the frontier: Montgomery County, Iowa, 1870-1920, Charles Emery Richards
The great debate: Truman's decision to deploy American ground forces to Europe, 1950-1951, Gary L. Ruppert
Constitutionalism, human concerns, and the Dominican revolution of 1965, Cynthia Schneider
The House of Coburg and Queen Victoria: A study of duty and affection, Terrence Shellard
John Adams and the Western Appeal: Advocates of the protest tradition, David Vasser Taylor
The Adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, Martin Fred Thonen
The emergence of futurism in Italy, 1900-1916: The influence of science on art., Isabella B. Threlkeld
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
A study of nineteenth and early twentieth-century British history as reflected in the writings of Francis Brett Young, Mary Miller Anzulovic
Russell and the revolutionaries: A study of Anglo-Irish relations, 1842-1852, Barry B. Combs
Edmund Burke: Establishment and dissent, Henrietta Lee Hardy
Sir George Grey in South Africa, 1854-1861: His policies, scheme for federation and recall, James Kozol
The causes of the American Revolution as seen by the New England Tories, Connie J. McCann
The founding of Florence, Nebraska, 1854-1860, Marian G. Miles
The Mexican punitive expedition and the United States Army Aviation Section, Perry R. Nuhn
A history of First Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Bruce A. Odenbach
The Abrogation of the 1832 Treaty of Navigation and Commerce Between the United States and Russia: Influence of a Minority Group on International Affairs, Ned Herman Rubinstein
Monetary internationalism, the war debts and Anglo-American preparatory negotiations for the 1933 London economic conference, Dale N. Shook
Populism and Industrialism: The Ideology of the Official Organ of the Nebraska Populist Movement, Samuel Emlen Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
British propaganda: Its impact on America in World War I, Robert V. Banks
John Mercer Langston, United States Minister to Haiti, 1877-1885, John Dirk Fulton
The Formation and Adoption of the 1956 Omaha Home Rule Charter, 1954-1956, Harold T. Muir
Henry Hunt: The "orator" of the radical agitation in England, 1815-1819, William S. Nelson
A History of the National Declaration on the League of Nations and Armaments in Great Britain between May 24, 1934 and June 27, 1935, David J. Olson
Social criticism and comment in the novels of Howard Spring, Sarah L. Paskins
Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, United States Minister to Haiti, 1869-1877, Robert Plante
Agricultural credit in Nebraska during the depression of 1920-1923, Carol A. Valdrighi
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Martin Van Buren and the internal improvements question, Paul R. Alwine
The United States and Great Britain on the African slave trade, 1842-1862., Richard J. Bilger
The Ishii mission and the Lansing-Ishii negotiations of 1917, John Edgar Endicott
Jewish disabilities in nineteenth century England, Gene Ray Freitag
The development of Missouri Valley, Iowa to 1931, John W. Gard
The Jews of Omaha: The first sixty years, Carol Gendler
French diplomacy at the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815, Janice Edelman Greenberg
A History of Health and Safety Conditions in the Omaha Public Schools from 1872 to 1908, Jacqueline Johnson
The defense of New Zealand: Internal problems and diplomatic relations, 1935-1943, Allen Longe
The Chamizal settlement, Samuel Martinez
The Maynooth grant and the Conservative Party, R S. McGregor
United States foreign policy with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1945-1959, Otis C. Moore
The need for reform: A study of the British Army, 1815-1854, Carter Morey
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sigrid Marie Sorensen
A study of the activities of James Dunwoody Bulloch: Confederate naval agent in Great Britain, Michael T. Young
American partiality in World War One during 1914-1917 as reflected through a critical study of editorial cartoons appearing in selected American, British and German publications, Leonard J. Zajicek
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Richard Haldane and the British Army reforms 1905-1909, Harry H. Bendorf
The evolution and change of allied war-time policy and diplomacy as revealed through a study of postwar four power arrangements for dealing with the city of Berlin, Carola Erika Bergfeld
The Anglo-French naval conversations of 1912: Prelude and aftermath, John H. Harrington Jr.
A study of the editorial attitude of the Omaha World-Herald toward the Cuban crisis, 1895-1898, Roger J. Jacob
Marking the coterminous boundary line between the United States and Mexico 1848-1856, Donald Ralph Judge
Count and democrat ; Brockdorff-Rantzau as the Weimar Republic's first foreign minister, Marilyn Senn Moll
The Napoleonic police under the administration of Joseph Fouche, 1799-1810, Marian Purrier Nelson
General George Crook and the Sioux war of 1876, Forrest Delmont Newman
A history of Bancroft, Nebraska, Donald Schnier
Fort Omaha and the winning of the West, Walter C. Sharp
The New Deal in Dawson County, Nebraska, Jerold L. Simmons
Canada, imperial foreign policy and the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1921, Thomas P. Socknat
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Charles William Frederick Dumas and the American Revolution (1775-1783 ), Allan J. Buach Jr.
The administration of the Illyrian provinces of the French Empire, 1809-1813, Frank J. Bundy
Edward Cardwell and the reform of the British Army, 1868-1874, Dennis R. Dubs
The backgrounds and organization of the great Oregon migration of 1843, Michael B. Husband
The domestic program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first administration as viewed in the editorials of the Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, Charles Warren Ohrvall
Cuba and its good neighbor: A microcosm of changing United States policy toward Latin America, Thomas Lyle Olson
Establishing the Royal Air Force: A study of the military-political background, Paul Clinton Phillips
The formative years of Onawa, Iowa, 1857-1912, Donald Lloyd Reed
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
An analysis of the factors which limited the strategic air offensive against Germany in World War II, Robert McLean Behr
Jeremy Bentham and the development of English utilitarianism, James William Gepson
A short social history of Restoration England as derived from the humorous plays of Dryden, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve and Vanbrugh, Carolyn Ruge Lorenz
The Charleston South Carolina press and Abraham Lincoln, 1860, Robert Kahle Pierce
A history of the Episcopal Church in Omaha from 1856 to 1964, James M. Robbins Jr
Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the development of his theory of "Systematic Colonization", Robert J. Shultz
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
The anti-Greek riot of 1909: South Omaha, John G. Bitzes
An inquiry into the Far Eastern provisions of the Yalta agreement and a consideration of some of their later interpretations, Leonard Boasberg
The early years of Friedrich Naumann, 1860-1896: German Protestant reform and Christian socialism as seen in his works, John C. Fout
The Vote, The Vote, Nothing But The Vote!: A Survey of Public and Press Reaction to the Woman's Suffrage Movement In Great Britain, 1906-1914, Mary Jane Fout
The history of professional baseball in Omaha, John Harrison Freeland
Friedrich von Holstein and the attempt at an alliance between Great Britain and Germany in 1901, Larry Dean Klein
Sir Robert Laird Borden at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Larry L. Kulisek
An analysis of the effect of civil-military relations in the Third Reich on the conduct of the German campaign in the West in 1940, John Ogden Shoemaker
William Cobbett and the corn laws: A study of corn legislation in early nineteenth century Great Britain, Rosalie Powell Stringfellow
The history of Blair, Nebraska, 1869-1920, Frieda M. Wurdemen
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
A history of the Boyd Opera House in Omaha, Nebraska (1881-1889), Lucille Barbe
Jan Christian Smuts at the Paris Peace conference, 1919, Naomi Howerton Coryell
The Anglo-German agreement over Portugal's African colonies, 1898, Robert Dennis Fiala
Renaissance, reform and revolution: A study of the effects of the May 4 protest on these movements in China, 1919-1921, Marie-Louise Gebhardt
Omaha press reaction to the Versailles verdict: A study using three Omaha newspapers January, 1919-March, 1920, Beverly Geffert
Oil, diplomacy and intervention: A study of United States petroleum interests in Mexico, 1917-20, Dennis J. O'Brien
The consolidation of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads in 1880, Gene R. Pugh
Municipal Reform in Omaha from 1906-1914: As Seen Through The Eyes of the Omaha Press, William F. Schmidt
The independent candidacy of George Norris in the 1936 Nebraska senatorial contest, Frederic L. Splittgerber
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
The causes of the Mexican War: A survey of changing interpretations, Augustus Cerillo Jr.