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 2003Beyond 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







