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 1981

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The Role of Black Soldiers in the Union Army During the Civil War, Charles C. Dearborn
Department: History; English

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From Zadruga to St. Clair Neighborhood: The Progression of Events in the Assimilation of Cleveland's Croatian and Slovenian Immigrants, Nancy E. Duncan
Department: History

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Teng Hsiao-P'Ing: Party Man or Pragmatist?, Nanette R. Fausnaugh
Department: History

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The Costs of Implementing Rail Transportation From 1830-1900, George T. Fitzelle Jr
Department: History

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Three English Manors From 1250 to 1350: the Relationship Between Agriculture, the Economy, and the Community, Kerri L. Ford
Department: History

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Combat and the Infantryman; World War II, Korea and Vietnam; a Study of Warfare and Its Effects, Tracey G. Hancock
Department: History

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Alexander III and the Politics of "Fusion", Wiles Heater
Department: History

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Great Britain and France: 1919-1940 An Uneasy Alliance, Gretchen Jahrling
Department: History

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Gründen des Aufstiegs und des Untergangs der Jungdeutschen Bewegung, Patricia A. Kollander
Department: German Studies; History

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The Peninsular Campaign and Chancellorsville: a Study in Tactics, Strategy, and Leadership, JC Lee
Department: History

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Witchcraft in England: a Case Study of Essex 1563-1603, Linda L. Leidy
Department: History

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Looking For Reflections: Using Chronicle and Legend to Explore the Life and Thought of Twelfth-Century England, Karen McCartney
Department: History

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Uzbek Nationalism, Kenneth L. McElwee
Department: History

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Johnny Did Not Come Marching Home: a Study of the Vietnam Veteran Prior To, During, and After the Vietnam Conflict, Martha McKee
Department: History

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From Mountainman to Druid: The Conservation Movement and the Rise of the Sierra Club, Frank C. Oehl
Department: History

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One Hundred Years of Black Disfranchisement: The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Robert W. Owen
Department: History

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European Emigration to the United States: the Italians: a Generational Experience, Lee J. Svete
Department: History

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Edward Abbey: One Obnoxious Man, Mark D. Thomas
Department: History

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A Look at Old Russia Through Its Own Writings, Edith M. Wilks
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1980

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Presbytarians and Civil Rights: An Intellectual History, James D. Beumler
Department: History

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"A Circle of Wrongs:" Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Soviet Regime, John L. Carwile
Department: History

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Constitutional Faith: Problems in the Judicial Philosophy of Justice Hugo L. Black, Robert B. Culbert
Department: History

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Swedish Immigrant and the Americanization Process of the Ethnic Church (1845-1930) Example: the Augustana Synod, Bruce Englund
Department: History

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Thomas Jefferson and the Question of Slavery: Words and Actions, James O. Epps III
Department: History

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Saints in the Wilderness: Puritans, Indians, and the Puritan Quest For Utopia, 1630-1676, Carol M. Gates
Department: History

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The IRA - Their Role in the Irish-English Question in Relation to Their Counter Forces, Cynthia M. Leber
Department: History

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The Decline and Fall of the Liberal Party, Thomas D. McGuire
Department: History

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The Brezhnev Era: a Preliminary Survey, E. Blake Moore Jr.
Department: History

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The Division of Germany and the Prospect of Reunification, Hobson Pusey
Department: History

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The Effects of the Test-Ban Treaty and the International Relations of America, Russia and China Toward Chinese Nuclear Development, John B. Rogan
Department: History

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U.S. and Soviet Naval Development, John Ross
Department: History

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The Fall of the Gang of Four, Elizabeth S. Runyon
Department: History

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Facing the Brink of War: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Andrew C. Smith
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979

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The Sian Incident: An International Perspective, Richard S. Bardine
Department: History

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With Justice for All? The Development of the Juvenile Justice System in the United States Until 1940, Linda K. Fox
Department: History

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The Marine Corps Experience in Vietnam, Steven D. Glick
Department: History

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Tools of Domination: a Study of the Enforcement of South African Apartheid, Gregory W. Hammond
Department: History

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Is the Female of the Species More Deadly Than the Male: the Women's Surface Movement in Edwardian England, 1901-1914, Dorothy J. Hasbrouck
Department: History

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Society and Literature: Comparison of Günter Grass's 'The Tin Drum,' Heinrich Böll's 'Group Portrait With Lady' and Siegfried Lenz's 'The German Lesson', Kathleen M. Heller
Department: History

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Mao Tse-Tung and Liu Shao-Ch'I, Ideology in Conflict and Flux, Timothy S. Kerr
Department: History

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Federal Government Support of the Arts: the Works Progress Administration Music Project and the National Endowment For the Arts, John K. Manchester
Department: History

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The Truman Doctrine: the Role of Publicity Consciousness in the Evolution of Foreign Policy, Ellen T. McKnight
Department: History

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Making the World Safe For Democracy: American Patriotic Hysteria in World War One, Karen E. Schoenewaldt
Department: History

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Intervenening Techniques: a Necessity For Women's Equality in Higher Education, Elizabeth de V. Seymour
Department: History

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Career, Marriage and Motherhood: Five Women in Search of a Solution, Karen L. Stapf
Department: History

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A Comparative Analysis of the Urban Political Machine: William M. Tweed and Richard J. Daley, David P. Wardlaw
Department: History

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The Power and Impotence of Martin Luther King's Nonviolent Philosophy in the Civil Rights Movement, James P. Wilkins
Department: History

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The Social and Economic Effects of the Great Depression Era of 1929-1939: With a Focus on Life on the National Scene, at the College of Wooster, and in the Community of Wooster, Ohio, John J. Yankello Jr
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1978

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American Role in the Rearmament of West Germany: 1945-1975, the Debate Over the Control of Nuclear Weapons, James E. Abraham
Department: History

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Wooster and the Nation During the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, Lawrence J. Baldanza
Department: History

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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a Reassessment and Revision, Cynthia S. Barr
Department: History

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Franchise Issues, Feminism and Reform: the Formative Years in Britain, Polly A. Beals
Department: History

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"The Circuit of My Sum" - the Black Female Perspective As Recorded in Three Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson -, Linda S. Berry (Baker)
Department: History

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The Cult of the Home: The Middle-Class Family in Early-and Mid-Victorian England, Diane M. DeBacker

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Vietnam: Decline and Fall of the American GI, John R. DeWaal

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The Desegregation of the United States Armed Forces, 1914-1953: a Revolution in American Race Relations, Larry Farrow
Department: History

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Sino-Japanese Relations, 1950-1972: From Hostility to Rapprochement, John H. Gill
Department: History

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Slavery: The Economic Institution a Comparative Analysis of the Slave Systems of Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, and The United States, Andrew H. Griffin II

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Hungarian Revolution, 1918-1919: A Cause for Alarm, Jeffrey Griffith
Department: History

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American Industrial "Take-Off" 1800-1910, Edward R. Kay
Department: History

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Pope John XXIII: "Ut Unum Sint" ("That They May Be One"), Judith Ann Kean

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The Evolution and Ultimate Peace Negotiated Between the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, and the British Empire at Vereeniging in May 1902, Joseph Liptak

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Biological Consequences of the Great Migration, 1890-1920, Don P. Matthews II
Department: History

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Nuclear Power: a Study of a Technology, Mark May
Department: History

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The Role of the Woman in Traditional China As Reflected in the Dream of the Red Chamber, Elizabeth Morrison
Department: History

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Background to the Young Turk Revolution, John Neely

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Kent State University: A Microcosm of Change, Terry Peters

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The Indian in Montana History, 1800-1978, Sarah B. Pfouts

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New Fields of Action: the Changing Role of Women in Seventeenth Century England, Anne L. Schoch
Department: History

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Containment of Communism: the Foreign Policy of Lyndon Johnson in Latin America and Vietnam, Phil C. Shaffer
Department: History

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Struggle in Chile: the 1973 Chilean Coup, Cecily E. Sprouse
Department: History

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National Progressivism in the Early 1900's, JR. Steenburg
Department: History

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Nixon and the Press: An Assessment of Positions, Timothy H. Stenner
Department: History

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Children of the Wooster Family: Student Life in the 1920s, Ellen Thomas
Department: History

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Civil War Generals: a Prospography, Edward Painter Thompson
Department: History

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Crimean War and Army Reform, Eric Van Heyst
Department: History

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The Struggle For the Ohio County 1783-1795, John C. Weinberg
Department: History

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Churchill and the Dictators: The Enigma Made Clear, Elizabeth S. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 1977

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The Great Debates and their Impact Upon the Presidential Election, Wm. H. Bovers

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The Brannan Plan: Agricultural Policy and Politics, Douglas F. Brush
Department: History

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The Evolution of American Indian Policy 1763-1802, Ruth E. Crissey
Department: History

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An Examination of the Relations of the Chinese Communist Party with the Kuomintang and the Soviets in the Year 1927, Maryann A. Dempsey
Department: History

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The Revolution of 1688: A Dimensional View, Edward M. Furgol
Department: History

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Chou En-Lai's Role in the Cultural Revolution and the Aftermath: 1966-1976, Wendy Gretchen Galloway
Department: History

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The Loyalists of New Hampshire, Elinor A. Griffin

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The Assimilation of the Chinese and Vietnamese in America, Deborah L. Gurney
Department: History

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The Development of Indian Dependence from 1803 to the 1970's, Lisa Holbrook
Department: History

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Prince Eugene of Savoy: the Indispensable, T. H. Igler
Department: History

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Nkrumah: Positive Action, Scott W. Lafferty
Department: History

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Hannibal: a Reassessment, Cheryl Laugherty
Department: History

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The Role of the Woman in Traditional China as Reflected in the Dream of the Red Chamber, Elizabeth Morrison

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Edith Abbott: Pioneer in Human Equality, Martha Petersen

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Mary Queen of Scots: Her Role in Sixteenth-Century European Diplomacy, Barbara A. Pleasance
Department: History

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United States Relations with China in the Administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Peter Pocock

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The Domestic Role of Women on the American Reality Prairie Frontier: Its Reality and Myth, Eleanor Frances Reeder

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Free and Uninterrupted Transit: The United States' Acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone, James Clinton Reed
Department: History

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The People, the Press and the Spanish-American War, Sue Rodhe
Department: History

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With God on Their Side, Don Snow
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1976

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The Problem of Black Capitalism in the United States, Mechelle L. Dille
Department: History

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Development Economics in Ghana: The Political Questions, John R. Dilyard
Department: History