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Honors Theses

1978          Blacks in Carlisle, 1870-1880 (Susan Cavenagh)

1980          Sixteenth Century Witchcraft in France: A Comparative Study (Charles A. Rector)

1983          Carlisle 1880: A Historical Demographic Approach (Nancy Van Dolsen)

1983          Public Opinion in Central Pennsylvania During the First World War: The German-American Influence

                 (Gregory E. Zimmerman)

1985          American Personnel Prisoner of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia: The Absence of Conclusive Evidence

                 (Richard R. Hayes)

                 The Republican Ideology of Charles Nisbet (Mark Thayer Ruzicka)

1993          The Cumberland County Poorhouse: A Case Study in Nineteenth-Century Poor Relief Reform (Jodi A. Michael)

1995          Liberty and Union: The Civil War and Moncure Conway (Elizabeth A. Woods)

1995          The Impact of the American Civil War on Masculine Gender Ideals of the North (Melissa D. A. Troxell)

2005          The Transformation of the Republican Party: National Jurisprudence and Partisan Politics During the Civil War

                  (Matthew J. Sheehan)

2007           “When the Papists were there rampant”: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in the English Popular Prints, 1660-1688

                  (Rachel McCool)

2007           The Fugitive Slave Crisis and Personal Liberty Laws in Pennsylvania: The Breakdown of Comity in Antebellum

                  America and the Coming of the Civil War (Leah Suhrstedt)