History Senior Theses

Recent Senior Theses Titles

• "From Wise Woman to Witch: The Role of the Midwife in the Witch Trials of Early Modern Scotland and Germany"
• “Women of the Golden Gate: Prostitution in San Francisco, 1848-1870”
• “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equality: An Examination of the American Civil Rights Movement and the Approaches Taken by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party”
• “Education in the Hands of the United States Supreme Court: Why is Racial Segregation Still an Issue?”
• "Mao versus Khrushchev: An Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1963)"

• "Visions of Conflict: How Artists Portray War"
• "When Civil Liberties and National Security Collide: Freedom of Speech in Wartime during the Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries"
• "The Effect of World War I on Carl Jung and Alfred Adler: Witnesses of War and Fathers of Psychology"
• "Rosie the Riveter vs Donna Reed: World War II Acted as a Catalyst for Change in American Women's Lives"
• "The Paradox of the Emancipation of Blacks in the Southern U.S."
• "America's Secret Weapon on World War II: Navajo Code Talkers"
• "Emmeline Pankhurst: The Making of a Militant"
• "The Walt Disney Studio During World War II: How Donald Duck Fought for Democracy"
• "Charles Hamilton Houston: Indispensable Architect and Legal Strategist in the NAACP's Battle for Civil Rights"
• "A Study of the Inevitability of Japanese Internment Camps in the United States of America During World War II"
• "Remember the Ladies:" How Abigail Adams and Edith Wilson Helped to Shape the Image of the American First Lady"
• "Whaling from Europe to San Francisco Bay (1750 – 1972)"