Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Reconstructing baseball's image: Landis, Cobb, and the baseball hero ethos, 1917 – 1947, Lindsay John Bell
Slaveholders’ Paradise: Conceptions of heaven in antebellum southern Presbyterian thought, Matthew Dawdy
A valley so sweet: Community and market development in the antebellum Midwest, Wayne Duerkes
Lost lake: A deep map of a farm field, Kristen A. Greteman
Heinrich Himmler's solution to his homosexual question: Guiding the youth to resist temptation, Adam B. Grimm
Immovable force: The survival of Parisian Haute Couture, 1940-1944, Piper Head
Polarization of American identity over HUAC propaganda: Ideological conflicts at Iowa State University in the early 1960s, Cole Foster Knutson
Forces of nature: An environmental history of Inkpaduta's 1857 attack on Spirit Lake, Kevin Timothy Mason
The benevolent dictator of North Dighton: A case study in welfare capitalism, Kelsey Lynn Murphy
An honorable problem: A case study in the pursuit of honor in the antebellum and Civil War South, Kelsey Joann Sissel
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Managing the Missouri: Federal water projects, the landscape, and the law, Maria Elizabeth Howe
Science and the steppe: Agronomists, nomads, and the settler colony on the Kazakh steppe, 1881-1917, John Britton Seitz
Whose child? The battle to legalize homeschooling in Iowa, Kristen Van Der Weide
"Rosie the homemaker": How national and local publications influenced women in Central Iowa on the home front during World Wars I and II, Alyssa Kay Yanni
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Chinese alphabetization reform: Intellectuals and their public discourse, 1949-1958, Wansu Luo
Sandinistas and prostitutas: Reeducation and rehabilitation of prostitutes in revolutionary Nicaragua, 1980-1987, Sydney Marshall
Desegregating the Stands: De facto segregation redrawn through social interaction and sports at the University of Mississippi in the 1970s, Nathan Robert Smith
Children with a cause: Training antebellum children for the abolition of slavery, Erik A. Stumpf
Tourist-Technicians: Civilian Diplomacy, Tourism, and Development in Cold War Yucatán, Katherine Warming
Manufacturing the American way of farming: Agriculture, agribusiness, and marketing in the postwar period, Margaret Baker Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Woman Lies Bleeding on the Ground: Prostitution and Underground Economy in Nineteenth Century Charleston, Sarah Pillman Amundson
"To Dress Against Nature and Reason": fashion and transgressive dressing in the mid-to-late eighteenth century British North Atlantic, Brenna Buchanan
Success and failure in the Dakota Territory: Individuals and their unique definitions during the homesteading era, Brandon W. Duxbury
Reforged in fire: The Central Building of Iowa State, Daniel Kaiser
Bridewell’s Fall: Summary Justice in London, 1730-1800, Benjamin Nelson
“Where the west began: Environment, transportation, and capitalism in Marion County, Indiana, 1820-1860”, Kelly Stephen Wenig
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Charleston merchants 1790-1819: the structure of a profession, Aaron Michael Benson
Outlaws: A tale of two histories, William Carlton
Still in the fight: The struggle for community in the Upper Midwest for African American Civil War Veterans, Dwain Conrad Coleman
America's Progressive Army: How the National Guard grew out of Progressive Era Reforms, Matthew Margis
Pictures, not merely photographs: authenticity, performance and the Hopi in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian, Heather Lin Skeens
Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955, Nick Waldrop
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Mothers for Germany: a look at the ideal woman in Nazi propaganda, Karin Lynn Brashler
The role of soul: Stax Records and the civil rights movement in Memphis, Tennessee, Jason Danielson
The chronicles of agrimusic, Seth Hedquist
An Iowa anomaly: Robert Ray and the Indochinese refugees, Matthew Ryan Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The farmers' millennium: the ideology of agricultural improvement in Iowa, 1855 to 1865, Michael Belding III
Grains of God: planting faith and growing cold war fears in Iowa during the 1950s, Lindsay John Bell
Sacrificing our daughters: changing perceptions of prostitution in Iowa, 1880-1915, Hope C. Mitchell
Seizing the stake: Female martyrdom in England during the Reformation, Douglas Winkey
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Science Service and the origins of science journalism, 1919-1950, Cynthia Denise Bennet
`You must make it the fashion:' selling utopia in Roycroft and Arden, 1895-1915, Rachael A. Beyer
Mapping the mosaic: Travel writers and the construction of urban imaginaries of Prague and Breslau, 1700-1914, Robert Patrick Jameson
"What to Do With Our Girls": Prescriptive literature and the girl problem in the rural Midwest, 1865-1900, Rachel Erin Kleinschmidt
Gender in the modernist city: shaping power relations and national identity with the construction of Brasilia, Larissa Pires
Radicals in the Heartland: The farm crisis, immigration, and community organizing, Tyler C. Reedy
Time to grow up: The rise and fall of spring break in Fort Lauderdale, James Joseph Schiltz
Making the Best Better: 4-H and Rural Anxiety in the Early Twentieth Century, Margaret Baker Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy: A late twentieth-century history of tennis, youth specialization, and entrepreneurship, Mark Barlett
"Truly Theatrical" Deborah Sam(p)son Gannett: an analysis of cross-dressing, gender, and virtue in Revolutionary America and the Early American Republic, Brenna Buchanan
"When we get to voting": rural women, community, gender, and woman suffrage in the Midwest, Sara Egge
The Varsity Theater: A case study of the one-screen locally-owned movie theater business in Iowa, Mohammad Sadegh Foghani
Building iron rails to their future: Examination of Davenport, Iowa's antebellum relationship with the Rock Island Line and Mississippi and Missouri railroads, Chad Allan Hauser
Reclaiming the Little Sioux River Valley: A history of drainage along the Monona-Harrison Ditch in western Iowa, Maria Elizabeth Howe
Ensuring Survival: How Mexican Border Service and World War I was Vital for the Survival of the National Guard System, Matthew Margis
peter the hermit: straddling the boundaries of lordship, millennialism, and heresy, Stanley Perdios
"Habits of Mercy": Iowa farm animal welfare, 1900-1945, Andria Parks Pooley
State policy, agricultural research and transformation of Indian agriculture with reference to basic food-crops, 1947-75, Madhumita Saha
The Second Lane Debate: Voices from the Wilderness Surge Across the Nation, Erik Andrew Stumpf
the collapse of the iowa democratic party: iowa and the lecompton constitution, Garret Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
American Journalism and the Tibet Question, 1950-1959, James August Duncan
Bystanders, blackmailers, and perpetrators: Polish complicity during the Holocaust, Jacob Flaws
Wisdom in the earth: an examination of the history of intellectual property rights in plants and seeds, Kevin Frank Howe
A lifetime of change: Robert Lee Durham and the New South, William Allen Hunt
Why we were not there: American intervention policy and the failure to act in Rwanda, Jeremy Ryan Lund
A spatial approach to culture, agriculture and political economy in the late nineteenth-century corn-belt, Peter Noll
Iowa's Lincoln Highway: The Social and Political Transformations of Automotive History and the Economic Impacts of Small Town Iowa, Nicholas Michael Sherman
The American futures studies movement (1965-1975); its roots, motivations, and influences, Kaya Tolon
The Incomplete Shield: The Distant Early Warning Line and the Struggle for Effective Continental Air Defense, 1950-1960, Samuel Edward Twitchell
Forage Liberally: The Role of Agriculture in Sherman's March to the Sea, Robert Christopher Welch
The impact of anti-German hysteria in New Ulm, Minnesota and Kitchener, Ontario: a comparative study, Christopher James Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Greek cities on the western coast of the Black Sea: Orgame, Histria, Tomis, and Kallatis (7th to 1st century BCE), Smaranda Andrews
Iowa statewide voting patterns:1891-1912: naturalization does not create voting citizens, Sue Ann Atkinson
Public skies: telescopes and the popularization of astronomy in the twentieth century, Gary Leonard Cameron
Waste, energy and the crisis of confidence: the American people and the history of resource recovery from 1965 to 2001, Angela Shannon Gumm
From foxhole to classroom: world war II veterans at iowa state college, Evan Daniel Hill
Free trade and the New Deal: The United States and the international economy of the 1930s, Scott Michael Nystrom
Treatment, warehousing, and dispersion: Mt. Pleasant Insane Asylum 1844-1980, Bryan Riddle
The beginnings of agricultural education in Midwestern rural schools, 1895-1915, Audrey Renee Shoemaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Creating a "piratical state organization for benevolence," the Commission for Relief in Belgium: 1914-1915, Ryan Thomas Austin
General Nathaniel B. Baker and the grasshopper plagues in northwest Iowa, 1873-1875, Matthew M. Colbert
Hive society: the popularization of science and beekeeping in the British Isles, 1609 -1913, Adam Wayne Ebert
Protecting mental health in the Age of Anxiety: The context of Valium's development, synthesis, and discovery in the United States, to 1963, Catherine (cai) E. Guise-richardson
Rifle development, standardization, and procurement in the United States military 1950-1967, Robert Dale Hinrichs
Constructing Criminalities: Gender, Labeling and Social Control in London, 1720-1760, Catherine Marietta Mccabe
The decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, Justin Ott
Navigating internal improvement: rivers, canals, and state formation in the nineteenth-century midwest, Rick Lee Woten
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
"Our cherished ideals": rural women, activism, and identity in the Midwest, 1950-1990, Jenny Barker Devine
A culture of technical knowledge: professionalizing science and engineering education in late-nineteenth century America, Paul Nienkamp
Gradual development: Midwestern geological surveys in the nineteenth century, Michael Daryl Severs
Juntos: vivieron, trabajaron y aprendieron (together: they lived, worked and learned); the history of Latinos In Valley Junction, Iowa, Andrea Kay Tucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Opposition to female enfranchisement: the Iowa anti-suffrage movement, Libby Jean Cavanaugh
Life, Rockwell, and Radio: exploring religious iconography in America, 1944-1950, Rebecca A. Koerselman
Immigrant identities in the rural Midwest, 1830-1925, Knut Oyangen
Common roots of a new industry: the introduction and expansion of cotton farming in the American West, Cameron Lee Saffell
"Perhaps we can hit upon some medium of course": Rockefeller philanthropy, economic research, and the structure of social science--1911-1946, David Lee Seim
Because we are here: a new approach to the history of the anthropic principle, Blair Robert-Wilton Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Settling the sunset land: California and its family farmers, 1850s-1890s , Alexandra Kindell
