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Dissertations in Progress

Altenhofel, Jennifer L., "Keeping House: Irish and Irish American Women in the District of Columbia, 1850-1890"

Cawley, Alexandra, "The Status of Indentured Servants in the Colonial Chesapeake Household and Community: Kent County, Maryland"

Clavin, Matthew, "'Men of Color, to Arms!': Remembering Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War"

Derickson, Christopher, "Singin' for the Silent Majority: Country Music and the Countercultural Revolution of the Sixties and Seventies"

Fishman, Aleisa, "June and Ward Were Jews: Gender, the Market, and Jewish Identity in Suburban Nassau County, 1946-1960"

Giese, Michael, "A Federal Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: The Evolution of the National Wildlife Refuge System, 1920-1973"

Hackford, Heidi, "'Faking It': The Meaning of Malingering in Middle Class America, 1830-1880"

Halderman, Keith, "A Useful Mythology: Marijuana Prohibition in the 1930s"

Hanson, Kurt, "The Ideology of American Imperialism, 1892-1919"

Henry, Mary Ellen, "Virginia's Poorhouses, 1870-1930: Refuge from Want?"

Hindley, Meredith, "Allied Relief to Nazi-Occupied Territories during the Second World War, 1939-1945"

Kagan, Robert, "Inherit the World: An Interpretative History of American Foreign Policy, 1607-1865"

Kramer, Alisa, "William H. Parker and the LAPD: The Politics of Law Enforcement in Los Angeles, 1950-1966"

Nelson, Katharine, "The Temperance Positions: Developign Concepts of Addiction"

Onkst, David, "The Triumph and Decline of the 'Squares': Grumman Engineers and Production Workers in the Space Race of the 1960s"

Paehler, Katrin, "Espionage, Ideology, and Personal Politics: The Making and Unmaking of a Nazi Foreign Intelligence Service"

Rush, Anne Spry, "West Indians and Britishness, 1900-1970"

Schmitz, John, "Enemies Among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War"

Winter, Jennifer M., "Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty: The Women's Relief Corps and the Politics of Female Reform, 1883-1940"

Recently Completed Dissertations

Doyle, Debbie Ann, "'The World's Playground': Tourism and Mass Culture in Atlantic City, New Jersey" (2003)

Gessler, Christina, "Harvest of the Heart: Themes from the Diaries of 19th-Century New England Farm Women" (2003)

Greenberg, Joshua, "Advocating 'the Man': Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840" (2003)

Stewart, Elizabeth, "Who Shall Decides When Doctors Disagree?: Hoaxes and American Men of Science in the Nineteenth Century" (2003)

Unti, Bernard, "'Humane Society': A History of Organized Concern for Animals in the United States before the Second World War" (2002)