The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001

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Evolving Relationship Between American Society and American Football: Focusing on the Victorious Struggle of African Americans in Professional Football, Felix H. Catheline
Department: History

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Modernizing China's Medical Elite: the Medical Missionary Movement in China From 1834-1951, David Chidester
Department: History

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Origins of Gambling in American Society, Sean E. Conway
Department: History

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Brown V Board of Education An Investigation of the Progress of African-American Education Since 1954, Katherine A. Daly
Department: History

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Revisionist History of Pearl Harbor, Nathan Gaubatz
Department: History

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The Hunted: Francis Marion and Partisan Warfare in Occupied South Carolina During the American Revolution, Brian W. Gulotta
Department: History

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Reasons to Riot: a Closer Look at the Rodney King Incident and the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, Douglas R. Harper
Department: History

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The Journey to the American Dream: The Patterns and the Developments of Chinese Immigrants into the United States From the 1850's to the Present, Yukha A. Lam
Department: History

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American College Football: the Black Experience, Seth T. Mastrine
Department: History

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We'll Make Heaven a Place on Earth: An Examination of Three Millenarian Societies in Nineteenth Century America, Angela B. Merritt
Department: History

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Ecofeminism and History: Making Connections, Elizabeth B. Palchak
Department: History

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Turning the Tide: Creating Successful HIV/AIDS Public Health Policies in South Africa?, Everett J. Peachey
Department: History

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Hail the Holy Innocents: May 4, 1970, Justin C. Rath
Department: History

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Wiseguys and Good Guys: An Investigation of the Mafia's Infiltration of Legitimate Business and Federal Responses, Michael D. Ray
Department: History

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Pennsylvania Goes to War: a Study of a State's Participation in the American Civil War, Kyle Rooker
Department: History

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"All-Out War:" The Evolution of Violence in Professional Football, Stephen P. Thompson
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000

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An Investigation of the Curse of King Tutankhamen, Katie E. Aldrich
Department: History

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Medieval Literature As Historical Source: the Le Morte D'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and the Fifteenth Century, Jacob O. Burt
Department: History

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"Dear Father:" How Gender Construction Among Emigrants to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century Compared to Gender Constructions in the Antebellum South, As Revealed Through Letters Written By Freed Slaves to Their Former Owners, Marjorie J. Clayman
Department: English; History

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Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Great Society", Frank Galati
Department: History

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Who Cared? The Role of the Chinese Off-Shore Islands of Quemoy and Matsu in the Presidential Debates of 1960, Elizabeth K. Gill
Department: History

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Major League Baseball Integration Focusing on the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians, Jennifer L. Green
Department: History

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Irish Republican Prisoner's Effects on Irish Nationalism, Timothy Robert Harrison

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Prescriptions For An Integrated Medical System: The Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sarah P. Hibler
Department: History

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Pearl Harbor: What Is the Truth and Who Is Responsible, Daniel J. Maurer
Department: History

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Off the Top Rope Reflections of Society in Accordance With Professional Wrestling, Chad Peterman
Department: History

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Fastballs Overseas: A Historical Analysis of Baseball in Japan, Nicholas P. Sanyk
Department: History

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The Battle of Lake Erie: What We Don't Know, Bryan J. Solomon
Department: History

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How Tuscarawas County, Ohio Contribution to World War I and II, Brian Watkins
Department: History

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The British Ruling Elite and Hong Kong: A Perspective of Chinse Foreign Relations, Max Alec Wilson
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999

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A Man Among Men: A Critical Analysis of the Life and Teachings of Marting Luther King, Jr., Daniel W. Broehl
Department: History

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Slave Rebellions in the American South, Carl Crumbaker
Department: History

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A Detailed Analysis of a Hastily Called Presidential Investigation into the Reasons for the Pearl Harbor Disaster: the Roberts Commission of 1941-1942, Todd K. Grubich
Department: History

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The Militia Movement in America, Nicholas Lacy
Department: History

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World Wide Web War: An Examination of Information Warfare, Samuel Howe Lincoln
Department: History

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"Ange Ou Demon, Qu'Importe?" Napoleon Bonaparte vu a Travers Six Hommes De Lettres Français de XIXe Siecle, John R. Lytle
Department: French and Francophone Studies; History

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In the Beginning There Was the Word?, Christopher T. Mace
Department: History

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The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II

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The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II
Department: History

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Lacrosse: the Fastest Growing Game on Two Feet, Jared R. McKee
Department: History

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An Examination of Vaclav Harvel's Synthesis of Theater and Politics, David J. Moore
Department: History

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A Patchwork of Quilt Stories: Using Cherokee Histories As Cultural Narratives, Margaret F. Odle
Department: History

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Identity Through Communalism: Politics and Religion Among Indian Muslims in the Century Before Partition, Dawn M. Packer
Department: Religious Studies; History

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Authority and Opposition in Austrian Politics, 1933-1945, Matthew Sondre Peterson
Department: History

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Dinosaurs and Memory Wars: A Dialogical Interpretation of Historical Experience in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Graham Swift's Waterland, and Bradley Me. Rank's Untitled, Bradley M. Rank
Department: English; History

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What Were Animals Like When You Were Little?, Nathan P. Renkes
Department: History

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The Americanization of Golf, Matthew M. Riva
Department: History

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The Role of Air Power in Operation Desert Storm, Todd Seney
Department: History

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Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998

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A Study of the U.S. Army Special Forces From 1952 to the Present, Adam D. Cornett
Department: History

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Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology

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Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: The Forgotten Victims of Prostitution and Rape during World War II and the Vietnam War, Eliza M. Gerlach

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A Historical Investigation of American Society During the Establishment of the Consitution From a European Perspective, Brian M. Grindall
Department: History

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Mexica (Aztec) and the Maya Religious Beliefs and Their Role in the Practice of Human Sacrifice, Ian V. Kopf
Department: History

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A Critical Study of Hip-Hop and the Messages That Hip-Hop's Music Express, Bernard L. McGinley III
Department: History

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Snakes and Ladders: a Study of Indian Democracy in the Context of Emergency Powers, Zaheer Nooruddin
Department: History; Political Science

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Why the M-16 Rifle: a Case Study of Infantry Small Arms During the Vietnam War, Timothy A. V. B. Pollard
Department: History

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Russia Under Ivan the Terrible: a Widowed Nation, Frank L. Reutter
Department: History

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Subversive Dreams: An Historical Analysis of the Evolution of French Feminist Consciousness With Specific Emphasis on Enfranchisement, 1789-1914, Kristen S. Schermer
Department: History

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The Reluctant Exodus: The Last China Missionaries and American Culture, Church, and State, Jonathan A. Seitz

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The Civil Rights Movement: Events That Changed the Movement, Sylvester S. Slaughter
Department: History

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The ETA and the Continual Struggle For Basque Independence, Sarah L. Soroos
Department: History

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Kids Far From Home: International Adoption, 1948-1998, Catherine M. Swartz
Department: History

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The Role of Mothers As Portrayed in the Ladies' Home Journal During Three Decades: 1920, 1950, and 1980, Jennifer L. Toll
Department: History

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If the Grass Is Greener on the Other Side, Kill It!!! or the Ecological Impact of the Vietnam War, Richard L. Updegrove II
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997

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To Compute or Not to Compute?: An Historical Analysis of Past Experiences and Modern Opinions About the Role of Computer Technology in Education, Chris Comito
Department: History

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The Water Is Wide: An Analysis of Maine Folktales and How They Define a Coastal People, Sarah L. Farley
Department: History

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Black and White: a History of the Racial Theology of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1845-1995, Wade C. Halva
Department: History; Religious Studies

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Chick Flicks: Reinforcing Gender Roles Through Film, Leslie E. Hammer
Department: History

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An Artistic Exploration of the South American Art Form, Arpilleras, Amy Hansen

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The Negro Leagues: the Catalyst For Change, Matthew R. Jackson
Department: History

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Pray Love, Remember: a Novella, Antonia Mandry
Department: English; History

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Christian Line of Authority From the Apostasy to the Restoration, Carrie A. Zuro
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996

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Developing the Atomic Bomb: Cooperation, Collaboration, and Success Within the Manhattan Project, Clinton Behm
Department: History

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Women in the Military: the Evolution of the Struggle For Equality in the United States Military With An Emphasis on the Debate of Women in Combat, Brijin L. Boddy
Department: History

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Mainstreaming in Elementary Education: a Study of Handicapped Children and Their Right to An Appropriate Education, Susan H. Bunch
Department: History

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Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost: the Evolution of German Blitzkrieg Doctrine, 1914-1942, Kenneth W. Casais
Department: History

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The Impact of British Rule on Indian Society: a Discussion, Neelabja R. Chowdhury
Department: History

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Yitzhak Rabin An Extinct Breed of Leadership in the Middle Eastern Conflct, Eric G. Core
Department: History

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Grunts, Brass Hats, and the Media: World War Two and Images of Battle in the American Imagination, Scott A. Crawford
Department: History

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Reform in Russian History, Thomas F. Della Torre
Department: History

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The No-Win Situation: Shedding Light on the Indian Woman's Romantic Heterosexual Relations, Meher D'Mello
Department: English; History

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How America Won the Vietnam War: the Rise of Capitalism in Southeast Asia After the Fall of Saigon, Ethan A. Dunsford
Department: History

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Northern Teachers in the Antebellum South: a Search for Independence, Janet L. Engle
Department: History

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Propaganda in the Third Reich, J. Alexander Henderson III
Department: History; Political Science

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Propaganda in the Third Reich, J. Alexander Henderson III

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Dream Versus Reality: Prisoner's Views 1905-1975, Erin L. M. Marks
Department: History

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Medieval Reader in England, 1356-1500, Carolina Miranda
Department: English; History

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A Cry For Justice: the Re-Examination of German Industrialists I.G. Farben and Friedrich Krupp A.G., in the Trials of Major War Criminals, David G. Parsons
Department: History

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Living in the Future: Frontier Women in the Old West, Kristen L. Shepherd
Department: History

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From the Shores of China to America: the Culmination of Experiences Felt By the Chinese Immigrants in Early America, Seon Wu Won
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1995

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Comic Books and Cartoons: the Social Mirror of Our Society, Todd E. Adamson
Department: History

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Charles Evans Hughes and His Influence in the Washinton Conference Treaties, Eric H. Black
Department: History

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Woodstock: a Whole Generations Rebellion or a Commercial Effect on American Society, Susan H. Bunch
Department: History

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The Construction of Identity: The Effects of Defining the Personal and Collective 'Self' in the German and American Feminist Movements, Erin G. Cross

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Student Protests at the College of Wooster, Cristina A. Das
Department: History

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The Public's Image of the American Public School Teacher, Mike Doty
Department: History

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The Holocaust in the American Mind From 1940 to 1990 and the Impact Roosevelt Had in Its Development, Daniel C. Ephraim
Department: History

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The Evolution of the Aircraft Carrier and Its Effects on Naval Warfare, Michael H. Gale
Department: History

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The Growth and Development of the Irish Republican Army, Terence M. Gladis
Department: History