Theses/Dissertations from 2021
“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
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD: THEORIES OF NOBLESSE OBLIGE IN CAROLINGIAN FRANCIA, Megan R. Perry
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
IN MEMORIES OF A GLORIOUS PAST: TRANSYLVANIA COLLEGE AND THE LIBERAL ARTS IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, 1945-1975, Jonathan Tyler Baker
A STUBBORN COURAGE: MEAN AND ORNERY JOURNALISTS IN EASTERN KENTUCKY, William Farley
ONE DEAD FREEDMAN: EVERYDAY RACIAL VIOLENCE, BLACK FREEDOM, AND AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, 1863-1871, Jacob Alan Glover
BLUEGRASS CAPITAL: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO 1860, Andrew P. Patrick
THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF JUSTINIANIC RELIGIOUS POLICY PRIOR TO THE THREE CHAPTERS CONTROVERSY, Joshua McKay Powell
THE HOPES AND THE REALITIES OF AVIATION IN FRENCH INDOCHINA, 1919-1940, Gregory Charles Seltzer
‘SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT TASTY’: WOMEN AND THE RISE OF NUTRITION SCIENCE IN INTERWAR BRITISH AFRICA, Lacey Sparks
Historiography and Hierotopy: Palestinian Hagiography in the Sixth Century A.D., Rod M. Stearn
MAKING RELIGION ACCEPTABLE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA AND THE SOVIET UNION, 1943-1989, Ryan J. Voogt