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Past Distinction Comps Paper Titles, essay/journal-length, 1996-2008

Are You Qualified to be Abbot? A Culture of Leadership and Authority in the Case of Late 12th c. Bury St. Edmunds, Peter Fritz, 2008

Autonomy, Community Study, & Social Protest: Antebellum Urban North Black Historiography... Jake Williams 2003

Beyond a Literal Motherhood: Superfluous Women, Imperial Feminism, & the “Englishwoman’s Review,” 1866-1911 Erin Keyes 1996

Beyond Modernity or Tradition: Memory, or Tradition: memory, Historiography & the Great War, Jeffrey M. Severson, 2004

Beyond Mountains and Office Walls: Revolutionary Reconceptions of the Guatemalan Indigena, 1944-1949 Annaka Larson 2006

Booker T. Washington The Wrongful Resurrection: Booker T. Washington and Contemporary Black Conservatism Anthony Klug 1998

Charles Loring Brace and the 19th century American Philanthropy and Class Conflict Kirk McEwen 1998

Breakdown of Civilian Government in Chile:Perspectives on the Causes of the 1973 Military Coup D’etat McWethy, Loren P. 2004

Bridging the Gap Between History and the Public: Public History's Role Within the Discipline of History Melanie Wood 1999

The Cohesion of the Crusading Army During the Fourth Crusade David Kamin 2006

A Critical Essay on George Basalla's The Evolution of Technology Nicholas C. Baker 1999

Culture Contested: The Russian Peasantry and Collectivization, 1927-1930 Ben Zajicek 1998

Dashikis or Bullets? False Oppositions between Organization US and the Black Panthers, John Kilpatrick Bardes, 2008

Dilemmas in Enlightenment Historiography Resolved through the 'Problem and Debate Approach' KumRae Helbig 1999

The Enormous Condescension of Poverty: E.P. Thompson and the Moral Economy Sarah Robinson 1998

Fighting the Last War Nationalist Memories in Serbian Americans, Julia Hanagan, 2007

Filling the Gaps: Using Second Wave Memoir as a Historical Source Lauren Benditt 2005

"Gaitu Guiliu" Reform on the Miao Frontier in High Qing Dynasty, Yanging (Claire) Du, 2008

Gender and the Study of Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Queenship Ashley Short 1999

Gender, Women, and Industrial Change: A Historical Essay Andrew Carlson 1999

Historiography in Film: World War II in Hollywood’s ‘Historical’ Films O'Konek, Nathan J. 2004

The Historiography of the Idea of Wilderness: Evaluating the Relationship between Humans & Nature in American History Jason Mulvihill-Kuntz 2001

History, Great Men, and the Roman Revolution Benjamin Flaumenhaft 1998

Holocaust Denial and a Methodology of Evidence Daniel Garrison 2002

How the Fourth Estate Opened Its Doors to Longshoremen: Media and the San Francisco General Strike, Peter Lee, 2008

Ideology & Policy: Millenarianism, Messianism, & the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 Jonathan M. Munetz 2004

Image, Myth, and Meaning in the Historiography of the American West Melanie Schmidt 2002

Imagining Indians: Historians, King Philip’s War, and New England’s Algonquians, Jeremy D. Gantz, 2004

In all ages have not the Saints of God been persecuted? Memory, History, and Reinterpretation of the Early Mormon Colonies in Mexico, Kelsey Barale, 2007

In Safe Hands? Muhammad Ali and The Nation of Islam in the Biographical Realm Matt Brown 2002

The International Brigade of Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War & the Comintern: Motivations & Experiences William (Bill) Fischer 2005

Interrogating ‘Whiteness’: The Construction of Racial Identity for Irish Immigrants in Whiteness History Amanda Hane 2003

The Lion and the Lamb Would Now Lie Down Together: The Black Approach to White Populism Matt Engel 1996

The making of orthodoxy in early modern Islam using a case study of the Bosnian Hamzeviyya: Comparing Ottoman history, Sufism, and Islamic institutions, Emin Lelic 2007

May 1970 in New York City: Student Activists, Construction Workers and the Future of American Society, Jason Perkins, 2008

The Mexican Tradition: A Discussion of the Spanish & Nahua Contact & Conflict Amanda Narvaes 2000

More than Ideology: W.E.B. DuBois's Niagara Movement as a Response to Booker T. Washington's Hard-line Accommodationism Carl Copenhaver 1996

Mother Knows Best? The Women’s Co-Operative Alliance of Minneapolis Creates Professional Motherhood 1917-1932, Mollie Gurian 2007

Multi-Culturalism, Vikings, and the Disuniting of America: The Lessons of Norwegian-American Ethnic Heritage Joshua Gardner 1997

Museums and Memory: "Remembering Slavery" at the Slave Lodge (Capetown, South Africa), Heather LaChapelle, 2008

Myth, Memory & the Historiography of the Paris Commune David A. Harrison 2001

The Nanjing Massacre Memorial and The (Im)Possibility of Institutionalized Memory Andrew Tulloch 2006

Nature in the National Parks: Policy and Perception in the Late 20th Century Ethan Mooar 2006

No Place for Pastoralists: Land Laws And the Ideologies of Development in Tanzania, 1961-1991 Cara Chomski 2006

No Stage Large Enough Josephine Baker and the Performance of Social Action, Amelia Hintzen 2007

Paying Tribute to Piracy in Early American Nationalism Meredith Goddard 2006

On the Complexities of Diaries: A Critique of the Use of Diaries in Historical Inquiry Elizabeth T. Crouse 2001

Political Power & the Control of Nature: Two Case Histories in American History Benjamin H. Johnson 1994

Politics and Agency in the Historiography of African American Communists during the Depression Susannah Masur 2003

Power and Money: Money Exchangers and Japanese Monetary Transformation, 1858-1879, Yotaro Komatsu, 2008

Power Plays: Authority Sharing & the Development of Oral History Sidsel Overgaard 2000

“Pursue me at Law but I will not give up my property”: Honor, Property Crime & the Middle Class in 18th-c. Scotland Emily Brimsek 2006

The Queue and the Illustration of Chinese Men in American Pop Culture, 1838-1915, Megan Ward, 2008

A Radical New Meaning: Turkey, Kemalism, and the Weakness of Existing Historiography Seth Hyatt 2005

Reading the Spanish Civil War: The State and Historians Megan Thomas 2002

Rereading Orientalism: A New Interpretation Based on an Analysis of Intervening Eastern Europe & Imagining the Balkans Pawel Konczyk 1999

Revisiting Pocock’s Plea: The Politics and People of the Atlantic Archipelago’ in 1688 Peter Brejcha 2003

La Revolution Tranquille: Change & Nationalism in Quebec's Quiet Revolution Robert Valaas 1998

Rewriting Selves: Rewriting Culture: The Autobiographical Space in Women’s History Writing Kate Van Gundy 2003

Rules of Illusion: Growth in the Study of Jean Renoir, Sam Lowry 2007

Saved and Sinner: The Ambiguous Identity of the African Leper as Constructed by Christian Missionaries, 1900-1950, Kathleen Vonsangthorn 2007

Shrine, Patron, Icon, Sufferer, Martyr: Visibility in the Lives of Simeon Stylites and Daniel the Stylite Eric Wilson 2006

"Soldiers of Liberty": Tirailleurs Sénégalais and French West African Independence, Madelyn White, 2008

Studying the Lives of Immigrants to the United States: Class, Ethnicity and Race Greg Pearson 2001

Subnationalism, Education, Wealth and Power in Fujian and Singapore: Tan Kah Kee and Chen Yi from the 1910s to 1940s, Wayne Soon, 2008

Walking in the Forest of Knowledge: King Alfred’s Soliloquies and the ninth-century West Saxon Literary Revival, Rawdon Bergquist 2007

The Weimar-Russia Analogy: the Necessary Role of History in Comparative Analysis Andrew D. Sherman 2001

Who was Fuhai? Ethnicity, Identity and Modernity in Late Imperial China Max G. Oidtmann 2001

"With so much credit": The Iconicization of Common Sense, Katie Bates, 2008