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UNCA SENIOR PAPERS

HISTORY

A Selective List of Student Research Papers 

All students in the History Department are required to write a senior paper or to produce a senior history project. Senior Theses constitute the majority of Senior Papers. These are written on a variety of history topics and fulfill the departmental requirement for graduation.  Ramsey Library Special Collections holds bound volumes of senior papers from 1995 to the present.  Beginning in 2003 some papers were selected for full-text display.

Students wishing to release their papers for inter-library loan and/or for web publication will need to sign and date a RELEASE AGREEMENT. . Also, Submission Guideline for Students, will guide students wishing to review format for submission to their department. Please check with your department for full description of Submission Guidelines, as these guidelines may change.

1995  1996  1997 1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006 2007

AUTHOR TITLE DATE PERMISSION
INFORMATION
photocopy/publish
1995      
Arnold, Kendra

"Enforcing White Womanhood"

November 21, 1995 no/no
Brown, Celine

"Blanford Barnard Dougherty: Great Innovator of Watauga County, North Carolina"

October 1995 no/no
Byrd, Travis

"Mt. Kephart and Mt. Chapman: North Carolina, Tennessee, and Hagiography in the Movement to Establish a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains"

October 1995 no/no
Jump, John

"D. Hiden Ramsey and the North Carolina Educational Crisis"

November 21, 1995 no/no
Krishinger, John

"Success in Surgery: Lister, The Lancet Debate, and Modern Historiography"

October 1995 no/no
Leonard, Benjamin "Confederate Chief, Southern Culture, State Citizenship, and Land Claims: The Role of the Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Confederate Forces as Thomas' Legion" November 21, 1995 no/no
Paige, Tracy "Charles Dickens: Angel of the Wretched" November 21, 1995 no/no
Peek, Jennie "Beyond Racial Barriers: African-American Participation in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union" November 21, 1995 no/no
Rolfe, Nadeen "Medical Technology vs. the Midwife: A Study of Women's Health in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" November 2, 1995 no/no
Wood, Johnnie "Congressman Robert Lee Doughton and the Blue Ridge Parkway" October 1995 no/no
1996      
Ballard, Michael "Zeb Vance: The Defining Later Years of a Legend" November 19, 1996 no/no
Battle, Hayden "Morning Star of Nations: Texas, the U.S. and Mirabeau Lamar in the Annexation Debate of 1835-36" November 19, 1996 no/no
Benison, William M.  "Eleanor Roosevelt and the 'New Deal' in Women's Rights" November 19, 1996 no/no
Crisp, Jeffrey "The Father of Baseball: Kenesaw Mountain Landis and the 1919 Black Sox Scandal" November 19, 1996 no/no
Cunningham, Amy "The Road to Compliance: Asheville's Reaction to the Brown Decision" November 12, 1996 no/no
Davis, Keith "A Mouthpiece for Victory: The Northern News Media during the American Civil War" November 19, 1996 no/no
Davis, Kevin "Wartime Benevolence: A Portrait of Northern Philanthropy during the Civil War" November 19, 1996 no/no
Everhart, Donald "Partisan Review: Preparing for the Cold War" November 19, 1996 no/no
Holland, Crystal "Eleanor Roosevelt, A New Woman of the 1920s" November 19, 1996 no/no
Hutchinson, James "Henry Laurens: The Making of a Revolutionary" November 19, 1996 no/no
Kellion, Kimberly "The New Deal and North Carolina's Men in Power: The Reaction of North Carolina's Governors to Roosevelt's Depression Policy" November 19, 1996 no/no
Kohler, Douglas "Wilderness and American Identity: Writers, Painters, and Poets Help America Find a Common Culture"
(shelved in vertical file)
November 19, 1996 no/no
Law, Michelle "A Gentleman in the County: The Legacy of a Farmer" November 21, 1996 no/no
McClure, Stephanie "Their Young Morning: The Children's Aid Society and Young Female Vagrants" November 19, 1996 no/no
McGrane, Jennifer "A Hard Road to Haul: Saluda, North Carolina from 1873 to 1930 and the Importance of the Railroad" November 19, 1996 no/no
Maynor, Dawn "The Child Saving Movement in the Progressive Era" November 20, 1996 no/no
Mitchell, Melissa "Lovers of Peace and Humanity: Quaker Actions and Social Relief Work in World War I" November 19, 1996 no/no
Morrison, Charles "The Fight for White Southern Methodist Souls: A Study of the Conflict between the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South" October 31, 1996 no/no
Palmer, Douglas "Cardinals and Curés: The Paris Clergy and the Fronde" November 19, 1996 no/no
Petitt, Symantha "Weaving, Molding and Whittling the Past and Present of Western North Carolina: The Socioeconomic Impact of Handicrafts on Western North Carolina" November 19, 1996 no/no
Robinson, Stephanie "Education in Nazi Germany: The Indoctrination of Supremacy" Fall, 1996 no/no
Rukeston, Mark "Indian Policy Under the Lincoln Administration" October 31, 1996 no/no
Schneider, Matthew "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" November 19, 1996 no/no
Walton, Robert

"Lowry Davis: Missionary to China 1910-1941"

November 19, 1996 no/no
Young, Jason "Casting a Long Shadow? Thomas Jefferson and the Madison Presidency"    November 19, 1996 no/no
1997      
Bell, Shawna  "Christ School: The Evolution of a Mountain Mission" November 20, 1997 no/no
Birchfield, April  "The Tuberculosis Sanatoria of Asheville, North Carolina" November 20, 1997 no/no
Calloway, Kevin  "An Unsung Hero: Roy Taylor’s Role in the Battle for the New River" November 20, 1997 no/no
Cutshaw, Merinda  "Blackwater or Backwater: The Effects of Modernization on an Appalachian Farm Community" November 20, 1997 no/no
Flizack, Carolyn  "Murder and Appalachian Ballads: The Peoples Representation of Justice" November 20, 1997 no/no
Greenawalt, Anne  "Right Wing Spiritualism: William Dudley Pelley" November 20, 1997 no/no
Higgins, Amy  "Yancey’s Railroad: The Account of a Community’s Struggle to Preserve Their Railroad" November 20, 1997 no/no
Jacobson, Harold  "James Johnston Pettigrew’s Search For Fame And Glory" November 20, 1997 no/no
King-Owen, Gregory Scott  "'We Think It Good For Us To Adapt Some Rules of Civillisation': The Walton War, 1803-1813"  November 20, 1997 no/no
Lee, Bryan  "The Irony of Desegregation on Eagle and Market Streets" November 20, 1997 no/no
Messinger, Denise  "In Black and White: Images of African Americans in the Asheville Daily Citizen" November 20, 1997 yes/yes
Noack, Lisa  "Ambition Over Ideology: Lord Lovat and Jacobite Motivation" November 20, 1997 no/no
1998      
Bernard, Diane "The Consolidation of the YWCA-Asheville: The Promotion of Integration and Fiscal Responsibility." November 18, 1998 no/no
Bernard, Jeff "The Influence of Parks and Schools in the Fight for a Less Urbanized Sylvania, Ohio." November 19, 1998 no/no
Buchanan, Kelli "Buncombe County: Her Sacrifice for Freedom." November 19, 1998 no/no
Cavanaugh, Heather "Olive Tilford Dargan: A New View of a New Woman." November 19, 1998 yes/yes
Galloway, Lori "Photographer R. H. Scadin and the Turn of the Century Boom of Tourism in Western North Carolina." Fall, 1998 no/no
Guevara, Aldo G. " The Official Story: U. S. Diplomacy and the Perpetuation of the Myth of the Communist Conspiracy Following the 1932 Rebellion in El Salvador." November 18, 1998 no/no
Huskins, Erin "The Role of Money and Politics in the Trial and Execution of Francis Silver." November 19, 1998 no/no
Jones, W. Doug "The Germ of Nineteenth Century Scottish Nationalism: A Perspective on the Highland Clearances (ca. 1760-1886)." November 18, 1998 no/no
Kelly, Charles W. "Weaverville College and its Methodist Heritage." November 19, 1998 no/no
Millin, Eric "The Meaning of Orthodoxy: Historical Continuity in the Thompson-Glasgow Controversy." November 19, 1998 no/no
Mitchell, Robert "Tobacco's Lost Culture: Post-War Mechanization and Cultural Transformation." November 19, 1998 no/no
Patterson, Jody "Fort Pillow and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War." November 19, 1998 no/no
Ramsey, Scott "A History of Nantahala School." November 19, 1998 no/no
Rice, William "Down By the River: Development Efforts on the French Broad River in Western North Carolina, Asheville and Beyond." November 19, 1998 no/no
Schneider, David "Philemon: An Account of Love between Master and Slave in the Ante-bellum South." November 19, 1998 no/no
Spence, Leah "Charlotte Young: North Carolina's Progressive Educator." November 19, 1998 no/no
Toms, Louis "The Battle of Asheville: The Federal Expedition into Western North Carolina." November, 19, 1998 no/no
Wright, Eliviah L. "Re-Evaluating the Frontier Nursing Service as a Part of the Women's Club Movement." November 19, 1998 no/no
Zaval, Tracey "Lucy Herring: North Carolina's Most (Forgotten) Influential Educator of the Twentieth Century" November 19, 1998 no/no
1999      
Baggett, Sharon "'Molasses Catches More Flies Than Vinegar': Local Press Relationships to the Woman Suffrage Movement in North Carolina" November 23, 1999 no/no
Cobb, Charles Casey "'Ecstasies of Grief': Effects of the Chickamuaga Campaign on Confederate Morale" November 23, 1999 no/no
Dakoski, John III "Amelia Earhart: A Philosophy of Equality" November 23, 1999 no/no
Davis, Rebecca "A Tree of History: The American Chestnut" November 23, 1999 no/no
Fox, Cheryl "Up from Slavery Into Middle Class: E.W. Pearson's Burton Street Community" November 23, 1999 yes/yes
Hood, Charles "Red Tide: American Troop Perceptions of the NKPA" Fall, 1999 no/no
Lance, Barry "Reverend Lucius B. Compton: Economic Survival Through Social Change" November 23, 1999 no/no
Maness, Jennifer "Embreeville, TN: A Century of Broken Promises" November 23, 1999 no/no
McGruder, Melodie "Never Too Old to Learn the ABC's: The Adult Literacy Education Efforts of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morriss" November 23, 1999 no/no
Mooney, Keelin "Rediscovering Never Land: The Story of Turn-of-the Century Tourism in Asheville" November 23, 1999 no/no
Moss, Richard "A Club of One's Own: The Jewish Aid Society of Asheville, 1903-1925" November, 23, 1999 no/no
Nix, Tonya "The Breaking of the Color Barrier in Asheville" November, 23, 1999 yes/yes
Philbeck, Kimberly "Shaping Young Girls into Society's Mold: Women Reformers and the Lindley Training School, 1893-1939" November, 23, 1999 no/no
Presnell, Karen "Land of the Polluted Sky?" November, 23, 1999 no/no
Wood, Reed "Resisting Cultural Occupation: The 1680 Pueblo Revolt and the Maintenance of Native Tradition" November, 23, 1999 no/no
2000      
Baldwin, Melissa "Changes in Women's Lives during the Meiji Era" November 17, 2000 no/no
Bartlinski, Joe "Impact of Manufacturing on Transylvania County Mid Twentieth Century" November 17, 2000 no/no
Bauso, Louise A Language for a Nation: Risorgimento Intellectuals and the Linguistic Debates" November 8, 2000 no/no
Becker, Jessica "Innovative Mobilization: the Grove Park Inn" November 17, 2000 no/no
Berry, Cathie "There is Strength in Solidarity: The Struggle of Women Textile Workers in the Strikes of 1929" n.d. no/no
Brooks, Spence "'Much Madness is Divinest Sense': An Examination of the Naylar Scandal of 1656" November 15, 2000 no/no
Costant, Miron "The Change of Portrayal of Women in American Car Advertising from the Late 1980's to the mid-1990's" November 17, 2000 no/no
Cushman, Robert "Howard Bement and His Efforts to Save Asheville School" November 17, 2000 no/no
Ellington, Elizabeth Claire "Severed Selves: European Medicine and the Fragmentation of Souls and Bodies" November 17, 2000 no/no
Ferrell, Jeremy "A Study of the Confrontation of Cotton Mather and William Fly As an Example of the Puritan Declension Theory" November 17, 2000 no/no
Franks, Alison "The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: The War to Promote Peace" November 17, 2000 no/no
Graybill, Lara "The Transformation of Leicester: The Fall of the Farmer" November 17, 2000 no/no
Hart, Stacy "Charlotte Young: The Teaching Profession's Offer For Personal Freedom and Independence for Women" November 17, 2000 no/no
Kelly, Michael "Shinto and Jihad: A Study of the Development of Holy War in Japan During the Seventh, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" November 17, 2000 no/no
Lowery, Denise "The Waldensians of Valdese" November 17, 2000 no/no
Maddalena, Daniel "Integration and the Asheville YWCA" November 17, 2000 no/no
Sweeney, Tara "The Fusion of the Fine Arts and the Political Left: The Russian Avant-Garde and Socialist Realist Configurations" November 17, 2000 no/no
Young, Sarah "'What Sort of Woman is She?': Margaret Thatcher, the Miners' Wives, and the British Coal Strike of 1984-85 October 2000 no/no
2001
 
     
Bensyl, Rodney "Avoiding the Trail of Tears: The Struggle of the Oconaluftee Cherokees to Remain in Western North Carolina" November
2001
yes/yes
Bowser, Sherrie "Does Prejudice Vanish When Art Steps In?: The Representation of African-American Blues Women in Advertising" November
2001
yes/yes
Cahoon, Bruce W. "Ecclesiastical Arguments of the Southern Presbyterian Church that Influenced White Racial Attitudes: 1850-1900" November
2001
yes/yes
Chalfant, Don "On the Threshold of the Space Age: General John Bruce Medaris, Wernher Von Braun and the ABMA 1955-1960" May
2001
yes/yes
Chester, Kenneth "Jacques Maritain: Machiavellian Thought and the End of Machiavellianism" November
2001
yes/yes
Currie, Melanie "Jewish Businessmen and Their Impact on the Development of Asheville Between 1890 and 1930" November
2001
yes/yes
Davis, Kristi A. "Disruptive Elements: A Study of Ideological Conflict in the 'Ruskin Cooperative Association' from its Founding until 1899" November
2001
no/no
Gann, Carol "A Contrast of Tennessee Valley Authority Policies in the Norris Dam Tennessee Area and the Fontana Dam North Carolina Area" May
2001
no/no
Hauser, Victoria "The 1964 Mississippi Summer Project and the Volunteer Experience" November
2001
yes/yes
Hickman, Emily "The Mother of Modern China and the Acceptance of Communism" November
2001
no/no
Kloman, John Keith "Marketing the Biltmore Estate" [see also Biltmore Estate VF] November
2001
yes/yes
Martin, Hayes C. Jr. "J. Weldon Weir and Asheville Machine Politics" November
2001
yes/no
Maynor, Arnold "Forty-Seven Years Under the Code: Marvel and the Comics Code" November
2001
no/no
Miller, Jason "Labor Relations and Champion Fibre Company" November
2001
no/no
Phillips, Nicholas G. "The Consolidation of Mesopotamia under the Akkadian Dynasty: A Marxist Perspective" November
2001
yes/yes
Randall, Melisa P. "What Would Jesus Do if He Were to Come to Carolina: The Role of Local Mill Churches in the Marion Textile Strikes of 1929" November
2001
no/no
Vogel, Edward R. "North Carolina's Race to the Clouds and the Evolution of  Motorsports Event: A History of the Chimney Rock Hillclimb 1956 to 1995" November
2001
no/no
2002      
Biddix, Tommy  "African-American Slave Owners" November 2002 yes/yes
Fairbanks, Heidi Rollins "We Will Not Be Number Two: African-American Women's Struggle for Equality Within the North Carolina Women's  Christian Temperance Union and their Decision to Create Their Own State Union" Novermber 2002 yes/yes
McKinney, Windy A.  "The Use of Arthurian Legend as a Means of Promoting Nationalism in the Medieval Period" November 20, 2002 yes/yes
Shaddix, Julie "Asheville North Carolina, a Place to Call Home: The Suburban Boom and Residential Development in Asheville, 1910-1930" November 2002 yes/yes
Shelton, Michael "Motivation for Highland Scots' Loyalism in the American Revolution in North Carolina's Cape Fear Valley Region" December 2002 yes/yes
Wells, Katherine " The Effects of Christians on Cherokee Removal" December 2002 yes/yes
2003      
Ambro, Davis-Paul Shane "The Planting and Uprooting of the Church: An Analysis of the Origin and Change of the Nature of the Church During 33-200 CE" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Amico, Sarah. "The Creation of the North Carolina Museum of Art" November 21, 2003 yes/no
Armstrong, David "Tourism in Cherokee, North Carolina From 1910 to 1930" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Atwell, Jared "The Work of a Super-Patriot: Allen Zoll and the National Council for American Education" November 2003 yes/yes
Bentley, Melissa "The Van Eeden Settlement: Alvin Johnson's Attempt to Rescue Jewish Refugees and Turn the Tide Of American Public Opinion in Favor of Jewish Resettlement In the 1930s and 1940s" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Breitschwert, Edward Brett "The Dred Scott Decision and the Democratic Party in 1857" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Buchanan, Ben "Ben Hooper's Crusade For Prohibition Law Enforcement" November 20, 2003 yes/yes
Carson, Homer Shannon, III "Penal Reform and the Construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad 1875-1892" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Chapman, Jennifer "Rural to Modern: The Shift From Agriculture to Industry in the Enka Community and the Enka Plant's Uniqueness in its Concern for Their Women Employees" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Clay, Isaac Starr " 'A Long Way From Guns to Shoes': The Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panthers Party" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Conner, Jessie. "The Introduction of Slavery Into the Moravian Community Through the Eyes of the Records of the Moravians in Antebellum Salem, North Carolina" November 21, 2003 no/no
Coolik, Daniel "Moonshine Reception: On the Air with Wonderful Western North Carolina (WWNC) in the 1920s and 1930s" November 2003 yes/no
Councell, Gail "The Ties That Bind: Unionization Attempts in Roanake Rapids, N.C.; How the TWUA and J.P. Stevens Battled to Claim Worker Representation" November 2003 yes/yes
Fryar, James "Asheville City School Board: Efforts to Successfully Desegregate the School System" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
* Gehris, Granville. "Francis Marion: As Seen By the British Military Perspective" *Paper is unavailable in bound form November 2003 no/no
Gibson, Tyson Gray "A Loss in the Community: Integration and the End of a Unique Educational Heritage" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Gilmer, Robert "Chickasaws, Tribal Laws, and the Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Grantmyre, Laura "The Attacks on the Highlander Folk School: A White Supremacist Response to Anti-Racist Activism" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Harmon, Kelly "A Period of Deceit: The Patent Medicine Business Between 1865 and 1906"  November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Hicks, Martha. "Space Promotion Throughout the Media, Collier's Magazine, and Disney with Wernher Von Braun, 1940's - 1960's" November 21, 2003 yes/no
Iglesias, Loralee Kendall "Colonel Joseph Cathy of Haywood County, North Carolina: Nineteenth Century Merchant, Entrepreneur, and Community Leader" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Jaksa, S. Nick "Louis Sockalexis: An Analysis of the Media Coverage Given to Baseball's First Native American" November 2003 yes/yes
Johnson, Melissa. "Historic Preservation of Sacred Spaces in the Late 20th Century" November 2003 yes/no
Johnston, Rita "Boon or Bane?: How the Speculation Land Company Affected Western North Carolina" November 2003 yes/yes
Kirchner, Matthew Michael "The Carolina Mountain Club's Campaign to Create Shining Rock Wilderness Area" November 2003 yes/yes
Kohler, Gary Wayne Jr. "Western North Carolina During the Civil War" November 21, 2003 yes/no
Lewis, Jessica Reel "George L. Carter's Clinchfield Railroad: The Construction of a Monopoly in the Appalachian Mountains" November 20, 2003 yes/yes
Liden, Annie Fain "The Business of Taking the Egg and Turning it Into the Baby Chick: The Farmer's Federation in Western North Carolina" November 2003 yes/yes
Lindquist, Nathan "The Reaction of the Charlotte Elite to Growth and City Planning, 1900-1930" November 2003 yes/yes
Lyon, Virginia " 'Shikataganai': The Internment of the Japanese and the Effects on the Family" November 2003 yes/yes
McConiga, Jake "The Sacramento Story: How it Became the Capital of California in 1854" November 2003 no/no
McLemore, Cam "Charleston and the Stono Rebellion of 1739: The Direct Oppression of Colonial Statues from 1690-1739" November 2003 yes/yes
Michaels, Laurence "The Tragedy of Modern Education" November 2003 yes/yes
Mitchell, John "Southern Mythology and Marshal Michel Ney" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Padgett, Brian " 'A Traitor That Should Have Been Ousted Earlier?': Tench Coxe and his Land Speculation in Early America" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Patterson, Jesse "Soldier for Tradition: Quaker Traditionalist George Keith and the Changed Environment of American Quakerism During the Seventeenth Century" November 2003 yes/yes
Pfeiffer, Henry Allen "Subduing the Oligarchs: Punishing and Pardoning North Carolina's Greatest Sinners" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Potter, Timothy " 'A Couple of Years Ahead of His Time': Robert F. Williams and the Tactic of Self-Defense in the Civil Rights Movement" November 2003 yes/yes
Robinson, Laura. " 'It's Not What God Intended': The Impact of the Human Betterment League of North Carolina's Eugenics Movement" November 21, 2003 yes/no
Schleupner, Tony "The National Woman's Party, 1945-1949" November 20, 2003 yes/yes
Shuman, Amos "Feudal State in the 20th Century: Life, Unionization, and Armed Revolt in the Strike on Paint and Cabin Creek, West Virginia, 1912-1913" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Skaggs, Cheryl "Oscar Micheaux - Pragmatic Filmaker" November 4, 2003 yes/yes
* Smith, Christopher "Extending the Progressive Mystique: Look into Greensboro, North Carolina’s Governmental Reaction to Civil Rights Violations” [* Some sources in paper are restricted. Author will not allow publishing of paper in copyrighted journals. ] November 21, 2003 yes/no
Sobie, David

[paper is only available online]
"Renewed Vigor: How the Confederate Retaliatory Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Sanctioned the Unleashing of Sherman's Destructive March Through the South" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Thompson, Natasha "The 'Giant Drunk' of Boone, North Carolina: A Historical Examination of the Mod-1 Wind Turbine" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Voit, William " 'A Great Event, and Even Greater for its Consequences': Re-examining the Metanarrative of the Galileo Affair" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Wallace, Jenny "Making Congregation out of Segregation: the African American Culture and Community in Asheville, Early 20th Century" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
Walker, Laura "North Carolina Folk Pottery: A Look At Its Struggle for Survival in the Early Twentieth Century" November 21, 2003 yes/yes
2004      
Alspaugh, Brandon

“A Semiotic Analysis of the Menorah from the Period of the Nascent Israel to the Construction of the First Chanukah Menorah in Third-Century Alexandria”

November 2004 no/no
Andrews, Ben 

“…For whose sake heaven and earth came into being”: James, the Brother of Jesus and his Presence in Christianity”

November 2004 yes/yes
Ball, Lauren     

“Through the Rain: An Analysis of General Winfield Scott Hancock’s Role in the Battle of Williamsburg”

November 2004 yes/yes
Batten, Lisa

“Hard Times, Hard Work, and Young Men: The Civilian Conservation Corps and Western North Carolina”

November 2004 yes/yes
Blalock, Nathaniel

“Improving Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin’s Thirteen Virtues and Family Relations”

November 2004 yes/yes
Braniecki, John

“Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Education and Its Role in the Irish and American Bids for Independence”

November 2004 yes/yes
Brater, Ian D.

“’The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny’ and the American Press: An Analysis of Antebellum American Media Influence upon the Filibustering Career of William Walker”

November 2004 yes/yes
Bristol, Justin   

“Asheville High School: A Grand Project Built During Asheville’s Population Explosion"

November 2004 yes/yes
Carlson, Rebecca

“More Than Family: B-17 Crews in WWII Europe”

November 2004 yes/yes
Dupont, Christina

“Trailer Slums to Suburban Paradise: The Golden Age of the Mobile Home”

November 2004 yes/yes
Ensley, Matthew          

“’I Hold in My Hand’: How Dr. Fredric Wertham Exposed the Comic Book Menace"

November 2004 yes/yes
Glazier, Philip

“Yellow Journalism and the USS Maine Explosion: An Analysis of Yellow Journalism’s Dominant Coverage of the USS Maine Explosion, and How It’s Coverage Affected the Traditional Press”

November 2004 yes/yes
Jones, Patricia C.       

“Margaret and Emily Hughes, Victorian Colonists of the Cumberland Plateau: Their Life at Rugby, Tennessee”

November 2004 yes/yes
Jordan, Carol Fronckowiak

“Treatment with a Habit: Asheville, Tuberculosis and The Sisters of Mercy”

November 2004 yes/yes
*Lancaster, Emily

“Granny Metcalf Meets Florence Nightingale: The Medical Settlements of Pine Mountain Settlement School” [* Restricted paper:  if published in any form, certain quotations must be darkened.]

November 2004 see note

 

LeFebvre, Rainer

“Sealing the Fate of American Radicalism: The Communist Party of the USA during the Second World War”

November 2004 yes/yes
Mullen, Brendan

“The Trials of Wilbur Hobby: ‘Everything I Did, I Did For the Union'"

November 2004 yes/yes
Naylor, Jackie

“’As Always You Prove Your Loyalty to Us Girls’: Fred Seely’s Attitude Towards Women in the Workforce and in Education”

November 2004 yes/yes
Queen, Arlis O, Jr.

“The Homefront and Women of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee During the American Civil War”

November 2004 yes/yes
#Stites, Lydia Gretchen

“A Study of Loyalist Experiences Within Massachusetts and Connecticut” # Restricted paper: Author stipulates she is to be contacted before publication

November 2004 see note

 

Sturdevant, Joshua Slocum

“Common Underpinnings, Shared Beliefs: Mormonism and Masonry”

November 2004 yes/yes
Tate, William C.

And Here They Come to the White Flag: The Piedmont-Triad’s Role in Early NASCAR History: 1940-1958”

November 2004 yes/yes
Whisnant, Heather

“Poor White Trash: The Legacy of Carrie Buck and Eugenical Sterilization in the United States”

November 2004 yes/yes
2005      
Abbott, Max "Technology of World War I and the Soldiers Who Experienced It" November 2005 yes/yes
Austin, Ian "Pastor Chuck Smith and the Calvary Chapel Movement" November 2005 yes/yes
Baker, Sarah

"Oranje zal Overwinnen: The Dutch Resistance to the German Occupation of World War II"

November 2005 yes/yes
Collins, Emily

"Eyes on God and Gold: The Importance of Religion during the Golden Age of Caribbean Piracy"
 


May 2005
yes/yes
Descieux, Kathryn "Dianetics, Scientology, and the American People: America's Attitude Towards L. Ron Hubbard's Creation, 1950-1975" November 2005 yes/yes
Dumond, Jennifer "The Archaic Korai Statues and The Women of Athens" November 2005 yes/yes
Kastelberg, Karl "German Nationalism and Identity During the Age of Unification" November 2005 yes/yes
* Keonig, Matthew "Navajo Code Talkers: Forgotten Heroes of WWII" * author stipulates any proceeds must go to him November 2005 yes/yes
Laverdure, Brian Patrick "Sabotaža: The Special Operations Executive's Involvement in the Yugoslav Civil War and Josip Broz Tito's Rise to Power" November 2005 yes/yes
McFarland, Rochelle "Photography: A Reflection of Society 1877-1914" November 2005 no/no
Norman, Megan "A Community, A Permanent Asylum, A Refuge, and A Home - Broughton Hospital, Morganton, North Carolina 1883-1891" November 2005 yes/yes
Osment, Timothy Nane "The Hatfields and the McCoys Aren't the Only Fight in Town: The 1960's War on 'The War on Poverty' In Pike County, Kentucky" *photographs included in the appendix are only available in the paper copy November 2005 yes/yes
Pittman, Brandon "The Other Soldiers: The Men and Women of the Medical Corps in WWII" November 2005 yes/yes
Poag, Christina "The Road to Nowhere: A Road Lost" November 2005 no/no
Ross, Clifford Byron, II "Rube Foster and Negro League Baseball as a Social Institution with Black Societies" November 2005 yes/yes
Scott -Rosehart, Shannon "A Reason to Fight: the Opposition to the ERA in North Carolina" November 2005 yes/yes
Stone, Matthew "Attempting to Take Out the Garbage: Senator Sam J. Ervin and the 'Law and Order' Syndrome" November 2005 yes/yes
2006      
Baughn, Graham The Brink of War: Misconceptions and False Information during the Cuban Missile Crisis November 2006 yes/yes
Burnette, Jeremy Powdered Wigs to Buckskin: Mountain Men Aiding the Spread of Empire and Progression of Colonialism in the American West November 2006 yes/yes
Dellinger, Steve L Jerusalem for Christmas: The EZF and the Foreign Office's Quest for Palestine in 1903-1917 England November 2006 yes/yes
Hicks, Dusty 'Tying the Knot': Marriage Traditions in Cherokee Society November 2006 yes/yes
McDougald, Boyce 'Kickers, Soreheads, and Cocked Hats': Mayor John H. Cathey's Fight for Asheville's New City Hall November 2006 yes/yes
Moss, Amina Joy A Croacker's path: Charles A. Webb, a look into the reporting of Race Related Issues in the Asheville Citezen in 1923 November 2006 yes/yes
Sanders, Samantha Leonidas Polk's The Progressive Farmer: Remodeling Reconstruction November 2006 yes/yes
Segars, Wendy "Power to the Ice Pick:" Remembering the Joan Little Murder Trial November 2006 yes/yes
Spoon, Jonathan Silent Mountains: The Silent Film Industry in Asheville from 1914 to 1921 November 2006 yes/yes
Whitton, Michael Overmountain Men: The Militia Leaders that Defeated Patrick Ferguson at King's Mountain November 2006 yes/yes
2007      
Allred, Rachel Ann The Negro Has Been Served Skunk on a Platter for So Long Half Dressed, It Is Time Now, For Him to be Served Steak: The Rent Strikes in Asheville's Public Housing Communities—December 1967 to March 1968 November 2007 yes/yes
Berger, Kristen Tyler The Belles of St. Mary's: A New Kind of Education for Southern Women in the 1850's November 2007 yes/yes 
Bergland, Eric North West Company Fur Traders' Impressions of Native Americans and Alcohol November 2007 yes/yes  
Bradley, Cindy "A Great National Sin" - Opposition to Dueling in Early National America November 2007 yes/yes  
Estilow, Erich The North Carolina College for Negroes, the Veterans Administration, and The “G.I. Bill of Rights” November 2007 yes/yes  
Garvey, Brendan Western North Carolina Whitewater November 2007 yes/yes  
Gibert, Eleanor S. Shaving His Face is Easier than Changing His Faith: The Religious Reforms of Peter the Great November 2007 yes/yes  
Greene, Bryan The Rock: The Legacy of North Carolina Motor Speedway November 2007 yes/yes  
Griffin, Lee Ann "An Act of Wrong" : Opposition to the Annexation of Hawaii November 2007 yes/yes  
Hallyburton, Jeff 40 Agencies and One Mule: The Unified Religious Tradition of African
American Resistance 1920-1939
November 2007 yes/yes  
Henson, Matthew The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Impact of the Media November 2007 yes/yes  
Hildreth, Graham The Judgment of Fred Tayama and Exoneration of Harry Ueno: Intergenerational Perspective on the Revolt of Manzanar During the Japanese American Internment Era November 2007 yes/yes  
Jones, Rachel Stacking the Deck: Indian Involvement in the Fight for Control of Fort Mackinac During the War of 1812 November 2007 yes/yes  
Jordan, Carrie Alexandra Mendez v. Westminster: Documenting School Segregation November 2007 yes/yes  
Leonard, Dawn A Spoonful of Education Helps the Medicine Go Down: Dr. Hilla Sheriff Brings Public Service and Education to Spartanburg County 1929-1940 November 2007 yes/yes  
Lippard, Brittany Gray Wilma Dykeman: Battling the Waste of Resources November 2007 yes/yes  
Matera, Heather R. The Social Power of Food: Food's Relationship to Gentility and Power for Eighteenth Century Americans November 2007 yes/yes  
McHone, Laurel Prick Their Consciences: The Politicization of Sewing in America from the Nineteenth Century Through the Twentieth November 2007 yes/yes  
Parker, Alyse The Development of Tourism in the Beautiful Sapphire Country: A History of the Toxaway Inn, 1903-1947 November 2007 yes/yes  
Payne, Lewa Sir Thomas More: A Manifold Man who Persecuted Reformists, Composed Humanist Literature and Became a Martyr in the Catholic Church November 2007 yes/yes  
Payne, Tina Takoma Home Demonstration in North Carolina from 1920-1950: Revitalizing the North Carolinian Farm One Woman at a Time November 2007 yes/yes  
Peters, Miranda L. Images of Vulgarity and Crudeness: European Opinions of American Eating Habits from 1810-1850 November 2007 yes/yes  
Russell, Jessica Antebellum Anti-Catholicism in North Carolina: 1840-1860 November 2007 yes/yes  
Shirkey, Nina A New Home in the South: A Look at German Immigrants and Their Responses to Southern Institutions on the Eve of the American Civil War November 2007 yes/yes  
Stamper, Gregory For Christ and Country: The Vision and Ideals of William Pelley November 2007 yes/yes  
Wallace, Jessica Becoming “All Things to All Men”: Jesuit Father Jean de Brébeuf as a Cultural Intermediary   November 2007 yes/yes