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Recent Thesis Titles

Department of History

East Tennessee State University


Below is a list of some of the theses produced by Masters students in the graduate program in History. The list covers approximately the last nine years.


Robert Carver. "Wernher von Braun and the German Rocket Team in America. 2001 (Fritz, Day, Hungate)

Philip J. Murphy. "The 'Gypsy' Camp in Auschwitz: How Personal Views and Propaganda Conflicted to Creat an Aberration within the Nazi Concentration Camp System." 2000( Fritz, Antkiewicz, Burgess)

Frank J. Savasta II. "The Impact of the First World War on the Holocaust." 2000 (Fritz, Baxter, Day)

Gary Alan Taylor. A History of the Navy V-12 Program at Milligan College, July 1, 1943 -June 30, 1945." 2000 (Fritz, Day, Baxter)

Michael Bowen. "A Politician of Principle: Three Events in the Congressional Career of B. Carroll Reece," 1999. (Day, Essin, Watson)

Ronald W. Davidson. "Saltville, Virginia, 1892-1998: Riding the Crest and Sruviving the Wake of Twentieth Century Industiralization in Central Appalachia," 1998. (Wolfe, Schmitt, Fritz)

Jeffery Golden. "Origen and Celsus: Dialogues in Christianity," 1999. (Burgess, Gold, Day)

Michael Kelly Jackson. "The Netherland Inn: Its Evolution in History, Its Restoration for the Future," 1999. (Baxter, Schmitt, Burgess)

William A. Mullin. "The French Defeat in the Hundred Days Campaign, 1815", 1999. (Baxter, Day, Antkiewicz)

Leslie A. Rollins. "Southern Exposure: The Coverage of the Italo-Ethopian War in the Southern Black Press", 1999. (Page, Drinkard-hawkshawe, Watson)

Rita Urquhardt. "Making History Come Alive: Methodology Used in Researching Local History," 1999. (Schmitt, Fritz, Burgess)

Jonathan Billheimer. "The Symbiotic Relationship between the Cold War and Mass Media Culture," 1998. (Antkiewicz, Baxter, Royalty)

Teresa Bohannan. "The Ladies and their Library: The History of the Johnson City, Tennessee Public Library as Revealed through the Monday Club Archive," 1998. (Schmitt, Royalty, Burgess)

Farid al-Salim. "War and Oil: The Beginning of American Influence in the Middle East." 1997 (Day, Essin, al'Imad)

Jason Blevins. "Western Stoicism and Its Influence upon the Early Church Fathers." 1997 (Burgess, Gold, Day)

Larry Bushman "General George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army, 1985-1945: A Historiographical Study in Leadership, Personality, and Persona." 1997 (Fritz, Baxter, Day)

Ronald F. McCallister III. The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians: Meeting the Educational Challenge of a Changing World (1981-1981)," 1996. (Odom, Page, Schmitt)

Joel Collier. " 'Give 'em Hell and Pass the Buck': The Palestine Policy of Harry Truman, 1945-1948." 1997 ()

Khette Cox. "Giving Meaning to the Holocaust: Two Jewish Views, Richard Rubenstein and Emil Frankenheim," 1997 (Fritz, Burgess, Day)

Stuart Frye. "The German Campaigns of Nero Claudius Drusus, 14-16 A.D." 1997 (Burgess, Baxter, Day)

Ada Gunn. "The Pneumatics: A Comparison of Ancient Gnosticism and American Pentacostalism." 1997 (Burgess, Gold, Day)

Robert Hon. "The Holocaust: An Abberation in German History." 1997 (Fritz, Day, Hungate)

David L. Knowles. "Days When Futures Passed: Confronting the Great Depression in Asheville, North Carolina, 1929-1933." 1997 (Wolfe, Schmitt, Fritz)

Sherman L. Patrick. "The Desegreggation of the Kingsport City School System." 1997 (Drinkard, Essin, al'Imad)

Gary Shipp. "Gun Versus Torpedo: Operations of United States Heavy Surface Units in the New Georgia Campaign." 1997 ()

Raleigh Sloan. "The Quest for Sovereignty: Irish Neutrality during World War II." 1997 ()

Barbara B. Cross. "The Ballet Russe: Origins, Standards, and Legacy." 1996 ()

William W. Drumright "The Highlander Resource and Educational Center and the Congress for Appalachian Development, 1962-1982", 1996 (Wolfe, Schmitt, Baxter)

Wesley V. Hilton "Legal Ramifications of Otto Skorzeny's Military Career", 1996(Fritz, Baxter, Day)

Penelope Lane "Cultural Preservation, Educational Reforms, and Economic Development Among the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians", 1996(Fritz, Baxter, Day)

Erin J. Shelor. "Lessons in Fultility: General Practitioners and the British Medical Reform Movement, 1815-1858." 1996 (Baxter, Schmitt, Wolfe)

A. Todd Yazdi. "Winston S. Churchill and the Formation of Grand Strategy: The Mediterranean and the North African Theater, 1940-1943." 1996 (Baxter, Fritz, Schmitt)

Mario Misciagna. " 'Talking Them Out of It': A Survey of American Combat Propaganda Against the German Army from D-Day to V-E Day." 1997 (Fritz, Baxter, Day)

Wendy M. Webber. "Off the Front Porch and Onto the Stage: Women in Country Music, 1900-1970.", 1995 (Day, Essin, Speer)

Alan R. Marcum. "Cicero's Defense of Sextus Roscius of Ameria", 1995 (Burgess, Day, Antkiewicz)

Wayne Rasnick. "The Orphan Regiment: The History of the 147th Infantry, 1940-1943", 1995 (Day, Wolfe, Baxter)

Shane Allen Smith. "The Filthy Weed: Anti-Tobacco Sentiments, 1800-1870", 1995 (Schmitt, Royalty, Burgess)

Mustafa Aksakal. "Why are Turks in Germany?", 1995 (Fritz, Hungate, Day)

Patrick S. Bolling. "Expressions of Modernism: German Expressionist Art and Modern Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler", 1994 (Fritz, )

Sue H. Skidmore. " 'Out of the Whirlwind': The Judenrate in the Ghettos of Poland under the Nazi Regime", 1994 (Fritz, Baxter, Day)

Cynthia B. Winters. "Death and Becoming: The Impact of World War I on Germany as Seen Through the Literature of Thomas Mann" 1991 (Fritz, Day, Hungate)

Sherry Bellamy Curtis. "Literary, Social, and Immoral Diversions Enjoyed by Settlers of the Northern Regions of America during the Colonial Era, 1620-1800", 1994 (Schmitt, Royalty, Fritz)

Wayne Winkler. "To Die with Dignity: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943", 1993 (Fritz,Day, Wolfe)

Anthony L. Bishop. "The Shawnee/English Conflict in the Ohio River Valley, 1720-1778", 1995 (Schmitt, Royalty, Essin)

Glenn A. Robbins. "Morristown-Hamblen County and the Tennessee Valley Authority: The Modernization of an Appalachian Community", 1994 (Wolfe, Schmitt, Burgess)

Bradley S. Thomas. "Japan and Russia at Nomonhan, 1939: A Battle Which Altered Japanese Aims in Siberia and China", 1994 (Antkiewicz, Fritz, Baxter)

Craig H. Anderson. "Did the Role of the Tank Change Between 1916 and 1940?", 1993 (Fritz, Day, Schmitt)

Billy R. Storie. "Hitler's Elite versus "Old Hickory": The Battle of Mortain", 1991 (Fritz, Day, Baxter)

Timothy N. Jones. "Modern Military Strategy: Clausewitz, Jomini, and the Development of German Theory", 1994 (Fritz, Baxter, Day )

Sandra J. Grimes. "Rabid Watchdog or Cowering Pup: The Sensational Media's Effect and Influence on Historical Events", 1995 (Essin, Schmitt, Fritz)

Bryan A. Culp. "The Writings of Walter Pater: Manner and Meaning", 1990 (Day, Baxter, Burgess)

Bryan K. Reed. "The Origin and Impact of the German Church of God", 1994 (Fritz, Burgess, Hungate)

Beverly Ramsburg. "Nazi-Vatican Relations During the Hitler Era, 1933-1945", 1994 (Fritz, Burgess, Hungate)

J. Michael Ramey. "Shepherd's Crook or Rod of Iron: Papal Reactions to Nonconformism in the Later Middle Ages" (Burgess, Fritz, Hungate)

Antony Joseph Shipley. World War I and the Crisis of Modernism in Weimar Germany: A Quest for Community., 1992. ( Fritz, Day, Baxter)

Frank E. Mitchell. "The Common Soldier on the Eastern Front During World War II", 1995
(Fritz, Baxter, Day)

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