Theses/Dissertations from 2023
TAKEN: SLAVERY, FORCED MIGRATION, AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES, Christopher L. Leadingham
'Grave Fears of Collision' : James Beecher and the Administration of Freedmen's Bureau Policy in Reconstruction South Carolina, Cameron Sauers
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
COLONIAL CONTRACEPTION: AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATES AND THEIR WORK IN APPALACHIA, PUERTO RICO, AND INDIA; 1930-1970, Dana Johnson
What is the Sound of Holiness? The Regulation of Sound and Silence in Early Medieval Monastic Communities, 600-900, Melissa Kapitan
"Not Just Whites in Appalachia": The Black Appalachian Commission, Regional Black Power Politics, and the War on Poverty, 1965-1975, Jillean McCommons
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Appalachia on the Airwaves: A History of Public and Educational Television in the Southern Mountains, Carson Benn
A Holy Tug of War: US Christians Against the Contras (1970-1990), Mark Maxwell Brown
“ESCAPED FROM DIXIE:” CIVIL WAR REFUGEES AND THE CREATION OF A CONFEDERATE DIASPORA, Stefanie Greenhill
“THEY DID THIS WORK”: BLACK ACTIVISM, EDUCATION, AND THE ROSENWALD RURAL SCHOOL-BUILDING PROGRAM IN KENTUCKY, Le Datta Denise Grimes
"To Claim That Greatness for Themselves”: A History of the Kentucky Horse Park, Emily Elizabeth Libecap
Building Public Health in a Rural State: Strategies for Preventing Disease in Kentucky, 1883-1914, Abigail Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
ENVISIONING CATHOLICISM: POPULAR PRACTICE OF A TRADITIONAL FAITH IN THE POST-WWII US, Christy A. Bohl
Narratives Afield: An Oral History Experience, J. D. Carruthers
Patronage Politics in Eastern Kentucky: The Turner Family of Breathitt County, Frank Allen Fletcher II
THE COULTER PRINCIPLE: FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANKIND, Marshall Graham
Breaking Habits: Identity and the Dissolution of Convents in France, 1789-1808, Corinne Gressang
“DISTANCE LEARNING” IN THE NINTH CENTURY?: MICRO-CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTOLARY NETWORK OF ALCUIN AFTER 796, William James Mattingly
In the Shadows of Apollo: The Space Age Legacies of Dispossession in Hancock County, Mississippi, Stuart Simms
TWILIGHT OF NEWHAVEN: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN ANCIENT FISHING VILLAGE INTO A MODERN NEIGHBORHOOD, Asa James Swan
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
HISTORY SPEAKS FROM THE SOIL: A CASE STUDY OF COMMONS ENCLOSURE IN THE CLEARANCE ERA ON NORTH AND SOUTH UIST, Anna Rachel Herrington
KEEPERS OF THEIR PARTY: HAPPY CHANDLER, ALBEN BARKLEY AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT’S FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, Christa Kieffer
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
"A BEACON OF HOPE": THE AFRICAN AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH AND THE ORIGINS OF BLACK HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS IN KENTUCKY, Erin Wiggins Gilliam