The History Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's History Department doctoral and master's students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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ARMING THE NAKED PUBLIC SQUARE: AMERICA’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFRONT THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION, 1980-1983, Brooke Tranten

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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The Alliance Apart: Anticommunism and the Anglo-American Relationship, 1948-1954, Edward Longe

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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On Sides: Reading Irish National Identities through Soccer, 1920-1998, Abigail Bernhardt

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Believing in God and the Youthful Manhood of Our Time: Gender, Race, Empire and the Making of Irish Nationalism 1860-1882, Patrick M. Bethel

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Born in Defiance: The Public Career of Virgil C. Blum, S.J., William M. Fliss

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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'Our Duty is to Furnish Such Education:' Black Children and Schooling in Baltimore City, 1828 - 1900, Lisa Rose Lamson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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"The Colored Problem:" Milwaukee's White Protestant Churches Respond to the Second Great Migration, Peter Borg

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The Progressive Center: Midwestern Liberalism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, Cory Haala

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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India: A Historic Survey of the Social, Political and Economic Changes, Nand Singh

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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"The Age Demands It": Progressivism in Zion City, Illinois, a Conservative Protestant Theocracy, Gayle A. Kiszely

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Transmitting Revolution: Radio, Rumor, and the 1953 East German Uprising, Michael Palmer Pulido

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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"The Property of the Nation": Democracy and the Memory of George Washington, 1799-1865, Matthew Ryan Costello

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Long Journeys to a Middle Ground: Indians, Catholics, and the Origins of a New Deal in Montana and Idaho, 1855-1945, Aaron David Hyams

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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"Breaking Up, and Moving Westward": The Search for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828, Bethany Harding

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In Harm's Way: Wisconsin Workers and Disability from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, Karalee Donna Surface

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Big Men On Campus: Administrative Response To Title Ix And The Development Of Women's Sports In The Big Ten Conference, 1972-1982, Jeffrey T. Ramsey

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Illuminating The Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, And The Promotion Of The Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme, McKayla Kay Sutton

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Mass Consumption in Milwaukee: 1920-1970, Christopher Chan

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Urban Rifts and Religious Reciprocity: Chicago and the Catholic Church, 1965-1996, Dominic E. Faraone

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Imperially-Minded Britons: A Study of the Public Discourse on Britain’s Imperial Presence in the Cape-to- Cairo Corridor, Military Reform, and the Issue of National and Provincial Identity, 1870-1900, Timothy Ramer Lay

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Irish-American Identity, Memory, and Americanism During the Eras of the Civil War and First World War, John French

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Introducing the Incomparable Hildegarde: The Sexuality, Style, and Image of a Forgotten Cultural Icon, Monica Gallamore

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Girls "in Trouble": A History of Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Midwest, 1946-1964, Charissa Keup

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A Place Under Heaven: Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence in Colonial New France, 1609-1729, Adam Stueck

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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A Want of News in an Occupied Zone: Newspaper Content in Occupied Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing, Candice Addie Quinn

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Lack of Oversight: The Relationship Between Congress and the FBI, 1907-1975, Aaron Stockham

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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"Irish Blood, English Heart": Gender, Modernity, and "Third Way" Republicanism in the Formation of the Irish Republic, Kenneth Lee Shonk, Jr.

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Strategic Air Warfare and Nuclear Strategy: The Formulation of Military Policy in the Truman Administration, 1945-1950, Patrick William Steele

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Gender and Crime, 1815-1834, Julie C. Tatlock

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"Justice Without Partiality": Women and the Law in Colonial Maryland, 1648-1715, Monica C. Witkowski

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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"Ordinary Talents and Extraordinary Perseverance": The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, David Bruce

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West Meets East: British Perceptions of China through the Life and Works of Sir George Thomas Staunton, 1781-1859, Jodi Rhea Bartley Eastberg

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Smokestacks and Steeples: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relationship between the Catholic Church and Industrial Milwaukee ,1870-1929, Jason Hostutler

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Smokestacks and Steeples: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relationship between the Catholic Church and Industrial Milwaukee, 1870-1929, Jason Houstutler

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A Window into their Lives: The Women of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 1725-1765, Julie Elizabeth Leonard

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Sounding America: Identity and the Music Culture of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860, Ann Ostendorf

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Middle Ground in the Middle East: American Quakers & Palestinian Women at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, 1889-1948, Enaya Othman

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More than a Fraction: The Life and Work of Justice Pierce Butler, David Schroeder

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"A Golden Opportunity for Reaping a Harvest of Souls": A History of the Ministry to African American Catholics in Milwaukee, 1908-1963, John M. Vietoris

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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The Ecclesiastical Response in Britain to World War I: A Study of the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and the Roman Catholic Church, Wayne M. Riggs

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The Imperial Enterprise: Anglo-American Reaction to the Spanish-American and Boer Wars, 1898-1902, Thomas M. Sobottke

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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The strange case of Adolf Beck: Press Influence and Criminal Justice Reform in Edwardian England, Paula C. Dicks

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Milwaukee's First Suburbs: A Re-Interpretation of Suburban Incorporation in Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee County, Christopher Mark Miller

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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The U.S. Marines of the Legation Guard, Managua, Nicaragua, 1912-1925: a case study in leadership, professionalism, and cultural awareness, Brian A. Ross

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"A Great Promise and a Great Threat": Milwaukee Children in the Great Depression, Daryl Webb

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Women, Crime, and Work: The Case of London 1783-1815, Kathy Callahan

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Leisure pursuits in ethnic Milwaukee, 1830-1930, Paul-Thomas Ferguson

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The Presbyterian Rebellion: An Analysis of the Perception That the American Revolution Was a Presbyterian War, Richard Gardiner

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The Reluctant City: Milwaukee's Fragmented Metropolis, 1920-1960, John McCarthy

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From Pioneers to Wheat kings: The Development of Regional Image and Identity in Western Kansas, 1890-1929, Martin W. Quirk

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Corrupting Portland: Municipal Corruption, Organized Crime, and the Teamsters Union in a Post-World War II City, Robert C. Donnelly

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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"Not A Moment for Delay": Benevolence in Wisconsin During the Civil War Era, Karen A. Kehoe

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A Humane Struggle: Robert Kennedy and the Problem of Poverty in America, Edward R. Schmitt

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A humane struggle: Robert Kennedy and the problem of poverty in America, Edward Robert Schmitt

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era, Kathryn M. Galchutt

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Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord: Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655, Timothy L. Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Catholic Response to the Ku Klux Klan in the Midwest, 1921-8, Michael D. Jacobs

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Autonomy and Antagonism in Early Modern France: The Protestants of Bergerac, 1545-1685, David A. Pigott

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"The Home to the Camp:" Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort, Patricia L. Richard

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A Cold War Shadow: United States Policy Toward Indonesia, 1953-1963, F. X. Baskara Tulus Wardaya

Submissions from 2000

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Crusader in the Cold War: A biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908--1994), John Timothy Donovan

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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A Navy Second to None: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I, Michael D. Besch

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The Other Polonia: Polish Rural Settlements in Central and Northern Wisconsin, 1850-1920, Dariusz A. Ciemniewski

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"Just Deserts": Public and Private Institutional Responses to Poverty in Victorian London. Space, Gender, and Agency, Jessica Ann Sheetz

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Patriot Bishop: The Diplomatic and Episcopal Career of Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley, 1937-1967, Charles R. Gallagher

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Guarantors of Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen As Soldier and the Military Ethos of Republicanism, 1775-1861, Ricardo Adolfo Herrera

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Whether to the Haven or the Maelstrom?: The Rise and Development of Agrarian Reform Doctrine in Antebellum America, John C. Savagian

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Old Sturbridge Village: An Institutional History of a Cultural Artifact, Laura E. Abing

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Influences on Anglo-French relations, 1814-1818, Mary T Duarte

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Influences on Anglo-French Relations, 1814-1818, Mary T. Duarte

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Forge, Destroy, and Preserve the Bonds of Empire: Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and Métis on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1634-1856, Patrick J. Jung

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Counterrevolutionary Catholicism in Western France: The Battle of Belief At Machecoul, 1774-1914, Edward J. Woell

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Fort Ridgely and the Settlement of the Minnesota River Valley, 1853-1867, Paul N. Beck

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Les Femmes et le Poison: L'empoisonnement Devant les Juridictions Criminelles en Belgique, 1795-1914, Monique I. Septon

Submissions from 1995

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A fall from grace: Thomas Johnson and the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, 1839-1862, Kevin J. Abing

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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The Drummer Changed Cadence: The Impact of the Dissident Movement on the Churches in the 1960s, Linda Marie Bos

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Le Chemin de fer de l'Est: The Railroad Company of the East and Its Effect on Industrialization (1845-1937), Delbert Patrick Thomas Carey

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Work and Corporate Life in Old Regime France: The Leather Artisans of Bordeaux (1740-1791), Daniel Joseph Heimmermann

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Polonia's Child: The Public Life of Clement J. Zablocki, Stephen M. Leahy

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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De-Christianizers and De-Christianization in the Gironde During the Year II, Kenneth R. Fenster

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"A Program of Cooperation": The FBI, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, and the Communist Issue, 1950-1956, Christopher John Gerard

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Dissent in the Upper Middle West During the First World War, 1917-1918, Robert L. Hachey

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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Dublin's American Policy: Irish-American Diplomatic Relations, 1945-1952, Troy D. Davis

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Evoking the Eagle: The July Monarchy's Use of Napoleonic Imagery, Walter R. Herscher

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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Challenges to Cold War Orthodoxy: Women and Peace, 1945-1963, Susan F. Dion

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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Humphrey J. Desmond, the Catholic Citizen and Catholic Liberalism, Richard Scheiber

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The Duke of Wellington and the Army of Occupation in France, 1815-1818, Thomas Dwight Veve

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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United States Citizens vs. Mexico, 1821-1848, Peter M. Jonas

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"Daughters of Eve": Female Offenders and the Criminal Justice System, St. Paul, 1858-1929, Cheryl Toronto Kalny

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John Redmond and Irish nationalism, 1890-1910, Alan D Lane

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John Redmond and Irish Nationalism, 1890-1910, Alan D. Lane

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Anglo-American Relations in the Era of European Supranational Unity, 1953-57, Wendell R. Mauter

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Expressions of Nationalistic Sentiments in Early American Newspapers, 1776-1826, Charles A. Pilant

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Expressions of nationalistic sentiments in early American newspapers, 1776-1826, Charles Alan Pilant

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Great Lakes lumber on the Great Plains: The Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota, John N. Vogel

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Great Lakes lumber on the Great Plains: The Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota, John Nunn Vogel

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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The United States, Germany and the Problem of Convicted War Criminals, 1946-1955, Frank Michael Buscher

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The diplomatic career of Sir Charles Bagot. The early years: London, Paris, Washington, St. Petersburg (1807-1824), James Stephen Krysiek

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The Diplomatic Career of Sir Charles Bagot. The Early Years: London, Paris, Washington, St. Petersburg (1807-1824), James Stephen Krysiek

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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The Papacy in Mid-nineteenth Century American Catholic Imagination, Sandra Yocum Mize