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 1989

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Children, From "Young Vipers" to "Potential Servants of God", Wendy F. Watson
Department: History

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"I'm Going to Shoot Anything That Moves and Is Black:" An Analysis of Two Riots, Edward W. Weintraub
Department: History

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My Lai Massacre Reconsidered, H. F. Wood III
Department: History

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Colonial Taverns in the Boston Area and Their Influence on Pre-Revolutionary Politics, John C. Zazzaro
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988

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Presidential Lyndon B. Johnson and the Development of Peace With Escalation in 1964, David B. Allen
Department: History

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The Nixon Supreme Court Nominations of Clement F. Haynesworth and G. Harrold Carswell, Thomas M. Ballentine Jr
Department: History

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Film As a Reflection of History: Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe and the Bedford Incident, David S. Banigan
Department: History

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An Independent Study of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the American Federation of Labor -- Congress of Industrial Organization Past and Present, James P. F. Dowling
Department: History

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No Place, No Power, and No Voice: the Era of Women's Union Participation and Activism in the Garment Industry, 1900-1912, Sarah E. Heath
Department: History

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Somoza, Sandinisimo, and Uncle Sam: the Making of the Nicaraguan Revolution, John H. Hemann Jr.
Department: History

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Perceptions of a Name: Facts and Testimony Following the Bolshevik Revolution and Anna Anderson-Manahan's Claim to the Title of Grand Duchess Anastasia, Cynthia Hoepf
Department: History

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Function of Afro-American Trickster Tales in Slave Culture As a Means of Gaining Freedom and Resisting Oppression, Anita Homily
Department: History

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The United States in the First World War: The Question of Amalgamation, Thomas R. Karsten
Department: History

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Meade's Missed Opportunity: a Speculation of the Battle of Gettysburg and Its Aftermath, John P. Mead
Department: History

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From Myth to Reality: International Politics and the Olympic Movement, Scot Mellor
Department: History

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Atlanta: Black Children Missing and Murdered Case; An Assessment of Black Leadership, Kristen A. Patton
Department: History

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Red Cloud's War, Daniel D. Pope
Department: History

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Refugee Experience of Lithuanian Displaced Persons, Marcie Ray
Department: History

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La Filosofía Política De Martí y su Influencia en la Política Cubana, Eileen C. Robinson
Department: History; Spanish

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Fruits of Labor: Impact of Missionaries on the Hawaiian People, Eric Schoenke
Department: History

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An Oral History of Ukrainian, Baltic, and Russian Displaced Persons, Kathleen R. Smythe
Department: History

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History of Grenada 1498 to 1983: The Struggle For Independence, John A. Taylor
Department: History

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Frederick W. Taylor and the Changing Interpretation of Scientific Management, Laura A. Tuennerman
Department: History

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COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret Counterintelligence Program, Lisa M. Vacca
Department: History

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Hong Kong's 1997 Deadline: How It Became and What It Will Become, Ralph E. Wadleigh III
Department: History

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The "Patton Affair" and the American Public: Changing Perceptions of the Military, Richard J. Williams
Department: History

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Women in the Colonial Period, Glenn J. Winter
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1987

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Nikita Khrushchev's Tour of the United States September 15-27, 1959, David Albion
Department: History

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The Plight of the Loyalist Clergy During the American Revolution, Timothy D. Austin
Department: History

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Organized Labor in America: Unions in Transition: a Crisis in Labor-Managment Relations in the 1980s, J. Sterling Davis III
Department: History

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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, Patrick Donegan
Department: History

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Shattering the Cult of Domesticity: Women's Immigration Experience in America, Emily A. Drage
Department: History

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Philosophies of Liberation: A Comparative Analysis of Nonviolence in the Perspectives of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, Paul Fleming
Department: History

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United States Involvement in South Vietnam During the Eisenhower Years, 1954-1960, William T. Hickey
Department: History

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Vietnam An Oral History, Elizabeth L. Humphreys
Department: History

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Dominant Culture, the Family, and Feminism Women in German Society, 1865-1945, Karen D. Johnson
Department: History

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Fighting on Two Fronts: Negro Soldiers and the Union Army, 1861-1865, Sharon E. Kaufman
Department: History

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President Jimmy Carter's Fatal Encounter With Iran, John R. Kiker
Department: History

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Grant at Vicksburg: A Study of Leadership, Grant Mason
Department: History

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The Human Toll of the Great Depression, Jane A. McCutcheon
Department: History

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"The Best We Could Do Was Hold Them While They Died", John D. Orsborn
Department: History

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Military Critique of Civilian Leadership During the Vietnam War, Archibald D. Rodgers
Department: History

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Federal-Republicans and Their Program For National Union, Daniel J. Rozmiarek
Department: History

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Title: Censored, Michele L. Smith
Department: History

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The Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Abortion Law and the Fourteenth Amendment, Rebecca M. Weimar
Department: History

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The Journey From St. Petersburg to Leningrad, and Back, Through the Poetic Voice of: Anna Gorenko Akhmatova, Megan V. Wiesen
Department: History

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Emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt, Amy M. Zuberbuhler
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986

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Recovering the Lost Vision: Dostoevsky's Hope For Russia in the Brothers Karamazov, Clayton F. Allard
Department: History

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Alienation and Redemption in William Faulkner's South, Michael A. Barnhill
Department: History

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Uncle Tom, the Klan and Scarlett: Legacy of a Stereotype, Douglas J. Chilcott
Department: History

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Public Enemies, Public Opinion: Prohibition Chicago, Crystal J. Dodd
Department: History

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The Ineffectiveness of the Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany in World War II, Park W. Espenschade
Department: History

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New Realism: A Brief Blooming of Literature in China 1979-1980, Mary A. Feist
Department: History

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Korea and the Limits of War, Robert Geist
Department: History

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Homosexuality and Christianity: The Emergence of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches as a Protestant Denomination, Elizabeth H. Guonjian
Department: History; Religious Studies

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An Analysis of CIA Involvement in the Vietnam War, Eric M. Hartman
Department: History

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Themes in Chinese Foreign Policy, Jonathan J. Johnson
Department: History; International Relations

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Dutchman: The Play, the Criticisms and the Experience, Sara Lake
Department: History; Theatre and Dance

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The Iranian Hostage Crisis: A U.S. Response to International Terrorism, Erin May
Department: History

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We Want to Be Your Partners: The Request of American Catholic Sisters, Marcia L. Obermiller
Department: History

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Simplicity As An Alternative Lifestyle in America, Marjorie J. Olivet
Department: History

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Illustrated Imperialism: Punch and the Evolution of the Pictorial Section of the Fourth Estate, Lydia S. Porter
Department: History

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Late Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction: a Literary and Historical Study, Patricia A. Skidmore
Department: History

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The American Conscientious Objector in World War II: Conflict Between Conscience and the State, Andrew T. Thorp
Department: History

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A Critic of Contemporary Civil War Scholarship, David S. Weiss
Department: History

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Shaka/oo-Sha-Ga/: The Zulu King Revisited, Andrew G. Wert
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1985

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Western Cultures South of the Sahara and How Western Influence Altered Traditional Life; Rites of Passage!, Sharon Abreu
Department: History

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The Hybridization of Zionism, Practical and Political, As Utilized By Baron Edmond De Rothschild, Christopher Altier
Department: History

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Slavophilism: a Search For National Self-Identity, Lorraine Aten
Department: History

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1927 The Wuham Period: the Failure of the Chinese Communist Party in the First United Front, Matthew E. Bieniek
Department: History

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Presidential Power: a Comparative Study of the Presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, David A. Bracken
Department: History

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Douglas Macarthur in Asia: a Study in Civil-Military Conflict, Pek L. Choo
Department: History

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Navajo Education and the Evolution of Government Involvement in Native American Education, Julia K. Church
Department: History

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Investment in China's Special Economic Zones, Thomas E. Crissman
Department: History

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The Relationship Between Artists and the State During the Reign of Napoleon III, Jonathan Deenik
Department: History

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Etiquette Books and Women's Magazines: "Conscious Virtue and Self Control" 1860-1920, Patricia L. Dunn
Department: History

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Afro-American Education: A Struggle For Civil Rights, Sharon A. Echols
Department: History

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Terrorism - Two Historical Case Studies Algeria (1954-1962) and Uruguay (1963-1972), Susan L. Fenderson
Department: History

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American Intervention in Nicaragua 1926-1927, Victor M. Frank
Department: History

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Henry L. Stimson, the League of Nations, and the Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1933, Gregory P. Guelcher
Department: History

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Oe Kenzaburo: Survival of the Maddest; a Study in Bridging Understanding, Robin Heginbotham
Department: History

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Eleanor Roosevelt Her Emergence Into Politics, Martha E. Horst
Department: History

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East-West German Relations: 1949-1975, Jonathan D. Huener
Department: History

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Japan's Article 9 in a Cold War Context, Gilbert R. Kirkham
Department: History

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Critical Episodes in Zimbabwean History, Amy L. Leander
Department: History

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Stephen A. Douglas and the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, Christopher A. Luse
Department: History

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Quest For African Nights: the Pattern of African Nationalism in Kenya, 1922 - 1956, Douglas E. McCullough
Department: History

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Benito Mussolini and His Relationship With the Catholic Church, Jacqueline A. Musacchia
Department: History

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Another Kind of Spirit: Towards a Feminist Understanding of Anne Hutchinson, Karen C. Sapio
Department: History; Religious Studies

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The Pentagon Papers: A Landmark Case That Established the American Press As a Critical Institution, Sarah E. Simmons
Department: History

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The Origin of Total Warfare (William T. Sherman's March to the Sea and Beyond), Hugh P. Slesinger
Department: History

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Industrial Relations, Economic Policy, and the Fall of Heath, Peter Van Hartesveldt
Department: History

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Reclaim the Past: Historic Preservation of the Blackstone Valley, Susan E. Wagner
Department: History

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Queen Elizabeth I and the Aristocracy, Cara Watters
Department: History

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Occupation: Housewife; Women's Roles in the Home During World War II, Kathleen M. Whalen
Department: History

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Shelter From the Storm: the Sanctuary Movement and the Central American Refugee Problem, Kenneth J. Wilkinson Jr
Department: History

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Party and Individual Politics of the Parliamentary Opposition During the English Civil War: Stephen Marshall, John Lilburne, and Hugh Peter, Ried R. Zulager
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1984

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Sino-American Relations During the Nixon-Kissinger Years, Mark D. Boillotat
Department: History

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Pursuit of Faith and Integrity, Heather R. Brownell
Department: History; Religious Studies

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Huwad Na Kalayaan - Empty Freedom: The Role of the Church in Struggles For Liberation in the Philippines, Lakshmi K. Daniel
Department: History; Religious Studies