Search

Start Over Degree B A Thesis Supervisor Dr. Michael James Milligan

1. "The Ballot is Stronger Than The Bullet": The Issue of Race in the 1864 Presidential Election Campaign

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Black, Bianca Leigh
Title:
"The Ballot is Stronger Than The Bullet": The Issue of Race in the 1864 Presidential Election Campaign
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Lincoln
McClellan
1864 election
race
slavery
File:
Download BLACKTHESIS.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Mark E Neely Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Mark E Neely Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Catherine Wanner, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Faculty Reader

2. Of Victims and Victory: The Modern Memory of the Gulag and Joseph Stalin's Terror in Russia

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Felt, Katherine Emma
Title:
Of Victims and Victory: The Modern Memory of the Gulag and Joseph Stalin's Terror in Russia
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Russia
Gulag
Stalin
Memory
File:
Download Thesis_Felt_FINAL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Catherine Wanner, Thesis Supervisor
Catherine Wanner, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Faculty Reader
Catherine Wanner, Thesis Honors Advisor

3. The State of Faith: Religion and Race in the 1985 Alabama Case of Wallace v. Jaffree

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Mcgehrin, Drew Steven
Title:
The State of Faith: Religion and Race in the 1985 Alabama Case of Wallace v. Jaffree
Area of Honors:
Interdisciplinary in History and Religious Studies
Keywords:
George
Wallace
Ishmael
Jaffree
William
Rehnquist
Religion
Race
Faith
Alabama
1985
File:
Download McGehrin_Drew_State_of_Faith.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Anne Carver Rose, Thesis Supervisor
On Cho Ng, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Faculty Reader

4. Did the US Constitution Fulfill the Ideology of the American Revolution?: An Exploration of Presidential Powers

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Alleva, Heather Robyn
Title:
Did the US Constitution Fulfill the Ideology of the American Revolution?: An Exploration of Presidential Powers
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Constitution
American Revolution
fulfillment
presidential powers
President
Commander in Chief
Veto
presidential pardon
File:
Download alleva_heather_thesis2.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Mark E Neely Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Anne Carver Rose, Faculty Reader

5. Race, Slavery, and Children's Literature: Navigating Childhood Innocence during the Civil War and Civil Rights Eras

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Rudoy, Beth Michelle
Title:
Race, Slavery, and Children's Literature: Navigating Childhood Innocence during the Civil War and Civil Rights Eras
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
childhood innocence
slavery
race
children
File:
Download Rudoy.Beth.HonorsThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Gary Scott Cross, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Hester Maureen Blum, Faculty Reader

7. Tensions of Trade and Migration: The Origins of Transoceanic Steamship Companies and China-u.s. Exchange

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Stephens, Ryan Michael
Title:
Tensions of Trade and Migration: The Origins of Transoceanic Steamship Companies and China-u.s. Exchange
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Chinese Exclusion
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Subsidy
Immigration
Burlingame-Seward Treaty
Exclusion Act of 1882
File:
Download Stephens_Thesis4.9.13final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Grace Peña Delgado, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Amy S Greenberg, Faculty Reader

9. Presidential Politics and the Formation of Drug Policy 1968-1986

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Plevelich, Jake Bonarrigo
Title:
Presidential Politics and the Formation of Drug Policy 1968-1986
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
war on drugs
nixon
ford
carter
reagan
crack
cocaine
marijuana
heroin
shafer commission
len bias
southern strategy
File:
Download Plevelich_Jake_DrugPolicyFormationPresidentialPolitics.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Charles Lloyd Lumpkins, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

10. An Investigation of the Norman Conquest and Parallels in the Earlier Anglo-saxon Invasion of England

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Johnson, Jay
Title:
An Investigation of the Norman Conquest and Parallels in the Earlier Anglo-saxon Invasion of England
Area of Honors:
Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Keywords:
History
Norman
Conquest
Anglo-Saxon
Invasion
England
Medieval
History
Jay
Johnson
File:
Download Jay_Johnson_Honors_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Kathryn Elizabeth Salzer, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

14. An Economic and Historical Analysis of Turkish Guest Worker Migration To Postwar West Germany

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Weaver, Chloe Quinn
Title:
An Economic and Historical Analysis of Turkish Guest Worker Migration To Postwar West Germany
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
History
Germany
West Germany
Turkey
Labor
Migration
Economics
Postwar
Guest Workers
Mercedes-Benz
File:
Download THESIS_FINAL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Tobias Heinrich Albert Brinkmann, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Samuel Mark Frederick, Thesis Honors Advisor

16. Travels in the Middle East: An Exploration into the Ethnography of Gender and Islam in Istanbul and Egypt

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Allen, Chelsea Thomas
Title:
Travels in the Middle East: An Exploration into the Ethnography of Gender and Islam in Istanbul and Egypt
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
ethnography
gender
Islam
File:
Download ALLEN_THESIS.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jonathan Eugene Brockopp, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

17. Confederate Atrocities: The Northern Perception of the Confederacy's Conduct of the War

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Thomas, Victoria Ann
Title:
Confederate Atrocities: The Northern Perception of the Confederacy's Conduct of the War
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Civil War
atrocity
massacre
Confederate
Confederacy
perception
conduct
rules of war
hard war
total war
File:
Download Thesis_Final_Draft_in_Format.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. William Alan Blair, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

22. Beating a Small Town Goliath: A Social History of Citizen Resistance to Wal-mart Development

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Wynosky, Kevin Joseph
Title:
Beating a Small Town Goliath: A Social History of Citizen Resistance to Wal-mart Development
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Wal-Mart
Land Use
Zoning
Development
Social Activism
Citizen Resistance
Social Elitism
File:
Download wynosky_kevin_beatingasmalltowngoliath.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Gary Scott Cross, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

26. Media Within a Movement: the Vossische Zeitung's Coverage of the Eugenics Movement in Weimar Germany, 1919-1933

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Marcucci, Keirstyn Nicole
Title:
Media Within a Movement: the Vossische Zeitung's Coverage of the Eugenics Movement in Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Eugenics
Germany
Weimar Germany
Race-Hygiene
Eugenics Movement
Vossische Zeitung
File:
Download Thesis_final_submission.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Greg Eghigian, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

27. Pride of the Fatherland: The Impact of Nazi Racial Ideology on the 3. Ss Totenkopfdivision

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Metheny, Aaron Matthew
Title:
Pride of the Fatherland: The Impact of Nazi Racial Ideology on the 3. Ss Totenkopfdivision
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
World War II
Holocaust
Hitler
Himmler
Eicke
Concentration Camps
Nazi
SS
Totenkopf
File:
Download Metheny_Aaron_Pride_of_the_Fatherland.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Tobias Heinrich Albert Brinkmann, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

28. I am a Roman Citizen: The Shrinking of Roman Identity during the Macedonian Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, c. 867 - 1025

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Brandt, Trevor Carl
Title:
I am a Roman Citizen: The Shrinking of Roman Identity during the Macedonian Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, c. 867 - 1025
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Byzantine
Empire
Language
History
Religion
Orthodoxy
Christianity
Greek
Greece
Identity
Medieval
Middle Ages
File:
Download Trevor_Brandt_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Anthony Gregg Roeber, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

29. “’What society refused you, books gave you’: Self-identification and French Education in the Written Works of Mouloud Feraoun, Yasmina Khadra, Mariama Bâ and Ken Bugul.”

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Durham, Brooke A
Title:
“’What society refused you, books gave you’: Self-identification and French Education in the Written Works of Mouloud Feraoun, Yasmina Khadra, Mariama Bâ and Ken Bugul.”
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
France
French Colonialism
Africa
Francophone literature
postcolonialism
history
Algeria
Senegal
File:
Download Brooke_Durham_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Janina M Safran, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Faculty Reader

31. The Secular, Religious, and Courtly Development of Medieval Chivalry

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Cunningham, Kyle Glenn
Title:
The Secular, Religious, and Courtly Development of Medieval Chivalry
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Chivalry
Knighthood
History
Religion
Courtliness
Romance
Medieval
Middle Ages
France
England
Feudal Relations
File:
Download Cunningham_Kyle_developmentofmedievalchivalry.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Kathryn Elizabeth Salzer, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

32. Chautauqua Phoenix: The Twentieth Century Rebirth of a Nineteenth Century American Institution

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Snyder, Emily
Title:
Chautauqua Phoenix: The Twentieth Century Rebirth of a Nineteenth Century American Institution
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Chautauqua
Chautauqua Institution
John Heyl Vincent
Lewis Miller
Chautauqua Movement
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
George E. Vincent
File:
Download SnyderThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Amy S Greenberg, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

37. What the Other Didn’t See: An Intersectional Analysis of the Writings of Two Civilians in World War I German-occupied Belgium

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Eckel, Katrina Marie
Title:
What the Other Didn’t See: An Intersectional Analysis of the Writings of Two Civilians in World War I German-occupied Belgium
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Belgium
WWI
World War I
Military Occupation
1916
1917
Brand Whitlock
Mary Thorp
Diary
War Diaries
Intersectionality
File:
Download Eckel_Final_Thesis_FA17.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Sophie De Schaepdrijver, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

39. HOLLYWOOD AND BIG TOBACCO’S UNHOLY ALLIANCE: THE TRAJECTORY OF ON-SCREEN TOBACCO PLACEMENTS FROM THE 1920s TO PRESENT DAY

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Lingwall, Noah Andrew
Title:
HOLLYWOOD AND BIG TOBACCO’S UNHOLY ALLIANCE: THE TRAJECTORY OF ON-SCREEN TOBACCO PLACEMENTS FROM THE 1920s TO PRESENT DAY
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Cigarettes
Tobacco
Product placement
Advertising
File:
Download Noah_Lingwall_Honors_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Lesley Anne Ross, PhD, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

43. Mit Pulver und Blei: Radical German-Americans and the Ideological Struggle of the American Civil War

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Benner, Brandon Ty
Title:
Mit Pulver und Blei: Radical German-Americans and the Ideological Struggle of the American Civil War
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
American history
American Civil War
Political ideology
American political history
German-Americans
German Revolution of 1848
Forty-Eighters
Liberalism
Carl Schurz
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Frémont
Franz Sigel
Intellectual history
Reconstruction
Abolitionists
File:
Download Benner_-_Mit_Pulver_und_Blei_-_Radical_German-Americans_and_the_Ideological_Struggle_of_the_American_Civil_War.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. William Alan Blair, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

44. A Pastoral State: The Morgenthau Plan and the Debate Over Germany's Postwar Future

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Labecki, Nicholas
Title:
A Pastoral State: The Morgenthau Plan and the Debate Over Germany's Postwar Future
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
History
Second World War
World War II
Morgenthau Plan
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Special Relationship
Nazi Germany
Second Quebec Conference
Postwar
File:
Download Labecki__Nicholas_Honors_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Cathleen Denise Cahill, Thesis Honors Advisor

45. Analyzing "Detreimental Psychological Harm": Social Science Evidence and Segregation in the Supreme Court Post-1950

open_access
Open Access
Author:
McKenna, Sarah Ann
Title:
Analyzing "Detreimental Psychological Harm": Social Science Evidence and Segregation in the Supreme Court Post-1950
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
US Supreme Court
Psychology
Constitutional History
Psychological Harm
Segregation
Amicus Briefs
NAACP
Social Science Evidence
Twentieth Century
Twenty-First Century
Vinson Court
Warren Court
Roberts Court
File:
Download McKenna_Sarah_AnalyzingPsychHarm.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Cathleen Denise Cahill, Thesis Honors Advisor

46. "Nothing Less Than a Revolution": Henry Prentiss Armsby and the Role of Scientists in Society, 1862-1921

open_access
Open Access
Author:
Tonkel, Joshua R
Title:
"Nothing Less Than a Revolution": Henry Prentiss Armsby and the Role of Scientists in Society, 1862-1921
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Henry Prentiss Armsby
The Pennsylvania State University
Land-Grant University Movement
Wilbur O. Atwater
Ellen Swallow Richards
Eugene Davenport
Respiration Calorimeter
Experiment Station
Agricultural History
Agricultural Science
Late 19th Century
Early 20th Century
File:
Download Tonkel_Joshua_NothingLess.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Cathleen Denise Cahill, Thesis Honors Advisor