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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1976

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The Schlieffen Plan: An Overall View, Glenn E. Forbes
Department: History

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The Ili Crisis and Its Place in Chinese History, Bruce B. Heater

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Libertarianism: The Minimal State, the New Anarchism and the Utopia of Freedom, William R. Henley Jr
Department: History

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Misperception: The Sino-Soviet Border Clashes of March 1969. What Does the Future Hold?, Thomas Ewen Holmes
Department: History

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Children in Bondage: The Movement to Enact Federal Regulation of Child Labor, Carol A. Jackson
Department: History

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The Relationship of the Life and Work of John Calvin to Renaissance Humanism, Jonathan R. Kelly

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In Search of Che: Reality or Myth, Carol Ann Lister

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The Charity Organisation Society: "Twice Cursed", Deborah Philips Little
Department: History

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The Tet Offensive, Linda Mayer

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La Revolucion Mexicana: Game Rules and Player Profiles, Robert Morrow
Department: History

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Work, Industrialization, and Change in Gilded Age Wooster, Daniel H. Owens
Department: History

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Confidence, Challenge, and Reinterpretation: A Study in Renaissance Humanist Historiography, 1402-1596, Nadine E. Roddy

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The Social Responsibility Theory and the Commission on Freedom of the Press, John W. Sharp
Department: History

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The Decline of the American Melting Pot Ideal, Margaret C. Udics

Theses/Dissertations from 1975

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Yuan Shih-K'ai, Bob Adamson II

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La Violencia in Colombia: A Problem of Interpretation, Christopher S. Bates

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Nature of the Monarchy in Renaissance France, Mary Baxter
Department: History

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The Duality of Russian Diplomacy and the Formation of the First United Front, James E. Becker

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Economic Change and Rural Society in Eighteenth Century England (1715-1815), Mary Beveridge

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The History of the American Bibliographical Center - Clio Press 1953-1973, Ronald Boehm

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Political Education of the "New Chinese Man", Caroline Dawsey

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From Main Street to Zenith: Visions of a Middle Class Odyssey, Leonard T. Garfield

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The Church of the Desert: An Historigraphical Study, Miriam D. A. Gelzer

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Collusion During the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Cynthia H. Hastings

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The United States Government's Participitation in the Overthrow of the Arbenz Administration in Guatemala in 1954, Michael M. Henty

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Chinese Social Structure and Thought in the Development of Wen-Jen Hua Theory of Painting, Hilary L. Howarth

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Politics and Religion: Cardinal Richelieu in the Age of Absolutism, Catherine R. Jones

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T. E. Lawrence: A Psycho-Historical Study, Richard Jon Miller

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Death of a Dream: The German Revolution and the Russian Party Struggle, 1923-1924, Susan K. Purves

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Pioneers in Art: the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939, James Cleve Ricksecker
Department: History

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The Battle of Britain, Mark Stephens

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Mao Tse-Tung: The Process of Synthesis in the Development of Maoist Revolutionary Warfare: 1921-1935, Mark Stornelli

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Orthodoxy and the State in the U.S.S.R.: 1917-1943, Malcolm A. Widness

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The Practice of Medicine in the British Colonies of North America, Wayne Zacour

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Swords and Tanks: The Italio-Ethiopian War 1935-1936, Bertha J. Bailey

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The Slave Personality: A Historiographical Inquiry, Annie Baird

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The Impact of the Korean War on Sino-American Relations, Ralph Blevins

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Realism and Idealism in Tension: A Study of Legalism and Confucianism in the Politics of the First Chinese Empire, Timothy J. Breiner

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The Acceptance of Surface Mining in the United States a Historical Explanation, Ruthann Briggs

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The Moravian Missions in Ohio, Karen Bunning

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A Comparative Study of Two Reformers- Wendell Phillips and William lloyd Garrison, Jefferson Crosby

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The Gentry Society: China in Transition, 755-1279, Christine Durfee

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Northern Ireland: A Divided Society, Barbara Adele Freer

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Intellectual Revolution in Modern China: The May Fourth Movement and the Growth of Marxism, Thomas Henderson

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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, David Forest Hitchcock

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The Development of the S.S. Mentality: Influences of Education and Youth Movement, Craig A. Levinsky

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The Crimeans and the Communists: Theory Versus Reality in Soviet Nationality Policy, Ellen Clark Lilichow

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Elizabeth, Empress of Russia: A New Interpretation, Gail MacLachlan

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Brandeis: The Struggle for Judicial Appointment, David Peoples Maloney

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Mythology of Joseph Campbell, Randall Powell
Department: History

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Evolution of a Civilization: The Incas of Peru, James A. Robertson

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Study on George F. Kennan: An American Diplomat's Views on Foreign Policy, Janice L. Skidmore
Department: History

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Aggression in International Law, Carol Thomas

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The White Island European Settlers in Kenya 1900-1920, Marilynn A. Williams

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The Chilean Coup of 1973: Failure of a Non-Violent Revolution, Susan Kay Yoder

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1973

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Irish Famine: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations, 1845-1849, Valerie Batza
Department: History

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Cotton Tenancy, Paul Blackwood
Department: History

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The Lonely Crusade of Woodrow Wilson, Robert Brannan
Department: History

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China's Intellectual Revolution: Its Development and Lu Hsun's Role, Jeffrey W. Foxx
Department: History

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Charades of Justice: The Federal Repression of the IWW, Donald G. Gifford

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Nationalism and the National Problem in the Habsburg Empire, Patricia Hayden

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Cather, Garland and Rolvaag: Midwestern Realism as a Perspective on the Social Roles of Women and Immigrants during the Period of Settlement, 1870-1900, Patricia R. Hill
Department: History

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Catherine II of Russia: A Psychohistorical Interpretation, Darcey Lynn Johnston
Department: History

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The Genesis of Chinese Nationalism: 1895-1900, Richard K. Kettler
Department: History

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The Effect of Three U.S. Government Agencies on the American Citizen during 1942, Charles E. Lee Jr
Department: History

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The United Presbyterian Church: A Study in Race Conciousness, Charles E. Lindner

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American Indian Activism, 1960-1972: A Historical Perspective of National Indian Organizations and Their Effectiveness, Paul J. Meinhofer
Department: History

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A Study in Political Self-Deception: The Second International on the Outbreak of World War I, Lois A. Mendenhall

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Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Revolution: The Mexican Years, Stephen Montgomery

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The Puritan Millennium: Radical Religious Thought in England, 1640-1659, Lisa Morris

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The Worker and His Union: The Development of Industrial Organization, Mitchell Alexander Naumoff
Department: History

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Apartheid, The Afrikaner, and Racism, Dale Elizabeth Newson

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The United States and Cuba: The Machado Years 1925-1933, George Russell Oechsle

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The Algerian War 1954-1962 and Its Impact on French Politics, Susan J. Orr
Department: History

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Getting Involved: The Foundations of the Second Indochina War, Randall Powers

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Pearl Harbor: The Product of Divergent Views and Irrecouncilable Differences, Warren H. Prill

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The Genesis of the American Army: Colonial Militia 1607-1713, Christopher B. Rainey
Department: History

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Venceremos!: The Role of Ernesto Che Guevara in the Cuban Revolution, Kent M. Shimeall
Department: History

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Genocide of the Navajo People, Ann G. Stamp
Department: History

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The Rise of Organized Crime as a Result of Prohibition and the Negligence of the FBI, John M. Timken

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The Evolution of the American Indian Image in Motion Pictures, Thomas Viehoefer
Department: History

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Salisbury: The Reluctant Democrat, Garth D. Wilson
Department: History

Theses/Dissertations from 1972

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Rasputin: A Russian Riddle, Robert Borley

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Thaddeus Stevens: His Role in Reconstruction Legislation, Terry E. Chance

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Sino-Japanese Relations, 1895-1897 Japan's Commitment to a National Mission, Edward L. Driskill

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Sino-Japanese Relations, 1895-1937: Japan's Commitment to a National Mission, Edward L. Driskill

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Stalin and Trotsky: Struggle for Power, David C. Enslen

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Ramsay and the Raj, Susan H. Farnsworth

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American Intellectuals and War: The New Republic and American Entry to the First World War, Susan Stewart Fisler

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Forging the Anglo-American Alliance: The Decision to Invade North Africa in 1942, Michael D. Grenert
Department: History

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American Concepts of Insanity: Colonial Period to 1870, Sally Griffin

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John Marshall: State Vs. National Sovereignty, Peter Havris

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Revolt of the Governed, Bruce Hightshoe

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Rutherford Birchard Hayes the Foreign Diplomacy of his Administration, Thomas E. Hilt

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French Canada: From Nationalism to Separatism, Jane Himes

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The Growth and Expression of American Nationalism, 1815-1846, H. Susan Jones

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The Irish, the Cromwellians and Ireland, Connie Kelly

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Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon: A Study in Anglo-Spanish History, Kathleen Maltarich

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The Memoirs of Margery Kempe, Self Margaret Ann

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Evolution of a Tragedy: The History of the Osage Indian Tribe, Rebecca McNeese