History, M.A. Thesis Directory
| Name | Title | Year |
| Abram, Susan Marie | To Brighten the Chain of Friendship: The Cherokee Indian Agency Record, 1801 | 2002 |
| Alexander, William K. | “Fought Like Them Tigers:” The Life and Times of the Thirty-Third North Carolina Infantry Regiment | 2003 |
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Altizer, Whitney
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Determined to Rise: Politics, Labor, and Black West Virginians in the Era of Brown “Poor and Unknown and Very Ambitious:” A Study of W.W. Holden the Person, 1843-1865 |
2007 1977 |
| Armstrong, Elaine Hamby | Faith of our Mothers: Formation of Woman’s Missionary Societies in the United Brethren and the Methodist Episcopal Churches, North and South, 1870-1920 | 1980 |
| Banerjee, Ruby Barksdale, Kevin T. |
From Saris to Skirts: A Study of Changing Lifstyles of Indian Women Immigrants to
the United States The Cherokee’s Obedient Servant: The Missionary Life of Dr. Elizur Butler, 1821-1839 |
2009 1999 |
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Bartlett, Nathan
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Crime and Crisis: The Conjuncture of Social Forces in Early Modern Leiden |
2005 1979 |
| Bishop, Chris Bissett, James Scott |
The Highest Style of Humanity: Religion, the New South Creed, and Holland Nimmons
McTyeire The Espionage and Sedition Acts, 1917-1918 |
2010 1984 |
| Bowen, Michael Lee | Slavery Among the Brethren | 1974 |
| Brayon, Bill | Preachers of Social Peace | 1990 |
| Brown Jr., Anthony E. | George III, England and the French Revolution, 1789-1793 | 1978 |
| Brown, Jane L. | Out of their Gardens: The Application of Murdock’s Model to Cherokee Acculturation | 1995 |
| Bridges, Glenda Lynelle | “Rescue the Perishing”: Alexander Jeffrey McKelway Social Gospeler and Social Reformer | 1997 |
| Bryan, David Martin | The Atlanta Project: Former President Jimmy Carter’s Attempt to Revitalize Urban Atlanta | 1998 |
| Burrell, Dagan LaMont | All Quiet at the Western Front: A History of Black/White Race Relations at Western Carolina University | 1992 |
| Cahoon, Bruce Camichos, Lisa Catherine |
The Sacralization of the Southern Social Order and the Foundations of American Confessionalism,
1837-1865 Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study with the Truman Doctrine |
2007 2000 |
| Carriker, Frederick Thompson | Wheels of Progress: The Social and Economic Ramifications of The Automobile in Buncombe County, 1930-1939 | 1996 |
| Castano, Vincent J. | Saviors from Above: The Close Air Support Mission of the USAF During the Korean Conflict | 2000 |
| Conkle, Justin Marcus | South of the Dixie: The American Diplomatic Response to Voluntary Confederate Exiles in Peru and Latin America | 2000 |
| Coyle, Alexander Ethan | Birth of the Airmobile Division: The Howze Board and the 11th Air Assault Division | 1995 |
| Culpepper, Linda Parramore | Blood, the Tie that Binds: The Role of Scottish Clans in North Carolina Loyalism during the Revolutionary Era | 1998 |
| Ellis, Naomi Elniff, Terrill Irwin |
Breaking the Bonds: Women Who Refused to Conform to the Ideal Feminine Image in Postwar
America The Guise of Every Graceless Heart: Human Autonomy in Puritan Thought and Experience |
2006 1976 |
| Evans, Joel C. | “We Were Real Experts in Unconventional Warfare:” U.S. Army Special Forces Doctrine and its Application During the Vietnam War | 2003 |
| Felts, Joe Monroe | The Interpretation of the Slave Code by the North Carolina Supreme Court | 1974 |
| Ferguson, Joan Wright | Gertrude Dills McKee: A Biographical Analysis | 1988 |
| Ferguson, Robert Hunt | Carolina Mountain Home: Place, Tradition, Migration, and an Appalachian Musical Family | 2004 |
| Fortwendal Jr., Cletus Francis Joseph | Federal Agent Silas Dinsmoor and the Cherokees: A Study in Frontier Policies, Politics and Personalities | 1996 |
| Frizzell, George E. | The Legal Status of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians | 1981 |
| Frizzell, Earl Nathan | Ante Up, Mister President: The Impact of the New Deal in Jackson County | 1998 |
| Fulcher, Kristina Gillespie, Elizabeth Seay |
Scenic Pleasure Grounds of Industry: The Relationship Between Industrialism and Tourism
in Western North Carolina, 1900-1920 North Carolina School Integration: The Rhetoric of Resistance, the 1860s and the 1950s Compared |
2008 1996 |
| Gilmer, Robert Greene, Joan |
"A Lake of Tears": Place and Identity in the Little Tennessee River Valley Federal Policies in the Schools of the Eastern Cherokees, 1892-1932 |
2006 1986 |
| Head, Constance |
Justinian II: A Study of his Life and of the Byzantine Empire Under his Rule (685-695; 705-711) | 1966 |
| Helton, Michael Edward | Eastern Cherokee Tribal Court: The Evolution of Indian Law | 2002 |
| Herdman, Catherine Nicole | The Effectiveness of Cultural Programs in Grass Roots Social Change at Highlander Folk School and Research and Education Center | 2004 |
| Hirschten, Sean Hogsed, Daryle Horstman, Jonathan William |
"Made Useful by the Grace of God": Sophia Sawyer's Life as a Missionary Among the
Cherokee "If Only We Were as Well Cared for as Them Tarheels": The North Carolina Quartermaster's Department, 1861-1865 The African-American’s Civil War: A History of the 1st North Carolina Colored Volunteers |
2006 2005 1994 |
| Howe, Tyler Barrett |
“For the Regulation of Our Own Civil Affairs”: The Broomstown Cherokee Law of 1808 and the Creation of the Cherokee Light Horse Guard | 2005 |
| Huddle, Mark Andrew | “Incendiaries in Our Midst”: Wesleyan Methodist Abolitionism in North Carolina, 1847-1860 | 1995 |
| Hudson, Harold O. | An Analysis of the 1868 North Carolina Constitutional Convention: A Study in Partisan Control | 1971 |
| Hurley, Joseph Ingram, Jill Isenbarger Jr., Dennis Lee |
A Vision of Progress: Identity and Urban Development in Asheville, 1919-1931 Man in the Middle: The Boarding School Education of Will West Long Perpetual Stubbornness: The Relationship of President Jefferson Davis and Major-General Daniel Harvey Hill, C.S.A. |
2006 2008 1997 |
| Jones, Greg Kehoe, Denise M |
Out of the Mountains: The Motivations of Confederate Soldiers from Western North Carolina The Forgotten Intervention: Morale of the American North Russian Expeditionary Forces, 1918-1919 |
2007 2001 |
| Koski, Geoffrey A | A Check Upon the Slave Trade: The Buchanan Offensive and the United States Navy’s Attempt to Suppress the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1858-1862 | 2004 |
| Laffin, Seth McClellan | Spit Swapping in Western North Carolina: The Effects of the 1918 Flu Pandemic | 2001 |
| Leatherwood, Jeffrey M. | Nine from Aberdeen: Colonel Thomas J. Kane and the Genesis of U.S. Army Ordnance Bomb Disposal | 2004 |
| Ledford, David Lee | A Different Call: Covenant Christian Church and Jesus People USA | 2002 |
| MacDonough, Matthew Manganiello, Christopher John |
"The Eagle's Call": The Evolution of Manifest Destiny, 1835-1848 From a Howling Wilderness to a Howling Tour: Revisiting the Wolf in North Carolina, 1585-2000 |
2007 2003 |
| McDowell, Suzanne Hill | Affirmation of Faith: A History of the Cullowhee United Methodist Church | 1991 |
| McKay, Joanne | To Begin the World Anew: Arthur Dobbs, Mid-Eighteenth Century Colonial Speculator | 1998 |
| McLachlan, Carrie Ann | Cherokee Cosmology | 1999 |
| McTyre, Barbara Ann Chapman | American Indian Policies from Settlement to the Administrations of George Washington | 1996 |
| Menestres, Daniel P. | “Where Do You Stand, Jim?” Jim Hunt, Jesse Helms and the Emergence of Two-Party Politics in North Carolina, 1948-1984 | 2003 |
| Morgan, Lynda Joyce | The Status of Women in New Hanover County, 1750-1800 | 1978 |
| Moore, Stacy Barton | The Onset of Liberty: Triumphs and Tribulations of Eastern North Carolina Freedman, 1862-1865 | 1996 |
| Murray, Heather M.
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“Pushing the Bus Up the Hill:” The Effects of Public and Private Education on Black Community Cohesion; Jackson County, North Carolina, 1950-1966 | 2002 |
| Nash, Steven E. | Presidential Reconstruction in Western North Carolina, 1865-1867 | 2001 |
| Northington, Leonard M. III | “Death of the Machine”: Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., and the Downfall of the Byrd Political Machine in Virginia | 1998 |
| Nugent, Christine Ragan, Angela Raxter, Linda Hoxit |
German Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, 1961-1999: Selected Historiographic Controversies and Their Impact on National Identity From the Red and White to the Red, White, and Blue: Continuity in the Cherokee Warrior Ethos The Orphan Strip Community: Crucible of Cultural Change |
2010 2007 2002 |
| Reavis, Scott Aaron | Wachovia During the Revolutionary Era: Societal Transformation and Cultural Assimilation | 1998 |
| Redding, Kristi Rohr, Karl Barousse |
One's Place in the World: Prostitution and Space in Classical Athens and Late Medieval Europe “Climbin’ on Top of the Hill”: The Socioeconomic Background of the North Carolina Blues | 2007 1994 |
| Ruff, Rowena McClinton | To Ascertain the Mind and Circumstance of the Cherokee Nation: Springplace, Georgia, 1805-1821 | 1992 |
| Stair, Margaret J. | A Peculiar People in a Strange Land: The Development of Mormonism in Western North Carolina | 1990 |
| Siegle, Brian Eugene | Run of the Mill: A Case Study of The Royle & Pilkington Textile Firm, 1928-1968 | 1993 |
| Smith, Ngaire Isobel Robyn | What Will Become of the Aristocrats of the South? Wilmington’s De Rosset Family in the Civil War Era | 2004 |
| Smith, Susan Clarke | The Benighted South: North Carolina as a Case Study | 1996 |
| Sowards, David Steward, Rodney J. |
Julian Shakespeare Carr: A General in the Army of the New South “If We Be Wise in Our Day”: David Schenck and the Make-up of Confederate Identity |
2005 2001 |
| Stewart, Bruce E. | “The Weather-Cock Ukases” of the IRS: Moonshining, Klan Violence, and the Politics of Liquor Taxation in Western North Carolina, 1865-1876 | 2001 |
| Sullivan, Julia M. | Resource Extraction with Human Consequence: The Hazel Creek Story | 2000 |
| Suttlemyre Jr, Charles Greer | Gold Mining in North Carolina: 1799-1860 | 1970 |
| Swafford, Tamrala Greer | Self-Determination in the Smokies: The Cherokee Boys Club, 1964-1984 | 2002 |
| Taylor, James Carlisle | The 60th North Carolina Regiment: A Case Study of Enlistment and Desertion in Western North Carolina During the Civil War | 1998 |
| Tate, Jerry W. | The Failure of Methodism’s Social Creed in North Carolina, the 1920’s | 1983 |
| Webnar, Cynthia Lee | Alexander Stephan’s Nance and the AFL-CIO Rupture in Georgia | 1994 |
| Wesolick, Duane L. | Old Hickory: The 30th Infantry Division in Normandy | 1998 |
| Yang, Xiao-yan | Salvation and Social Services in China: The Work and Life of F.A. Brown (1910-1949) | 1988 |
| Yarochowicz, Helen Anne | Studies in North Carolina Elections, 1836-1860 | 1976 |
| York, Lynn Fuller | The Demagoguery of Coleman Livingston Blease | 1976 |