Honors Theses from 2024
Maine as Modernism’s Vernacular Muse: The Ogunquit Artists Colony as Microcosm for the Transition to American Modernism, Lydia C. Burke
The Social Implications of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: An Analysis of Feminist Discourse and Popular Media, Charlotte S. Buswick
Publishing Power: A Historiographical Investigation Into Treatments of American Slave Narratives, Maya Sachs
The Elastic Empire: The Disruptive Transformation of Malaysia into Britain’s Rubber Plantation Colony and Resulting Contemporary Ethnic Tensions, Peter E. Sanford
Baseball: A Vehicle for Exchange Between Two Complicated Global Powers, Cole W. Tully
Honors Theses from 2023
Geology, Uranium, and Apartheid: South Africa’s Nuclear Program and the International Politics of the Cold War, Andy Rightmire
From Schleswig to Anschluss: The Plebiscites and Referendums of Interwar Germany, Matthew J. Rocha
Map, Census, Museum: Imagining the Malaysian Nation-State and the Malay Identity, Jackson Rockett
Jewish Presence in the Venetian Empire: A Challenge to Venetian Mythology, Avery Rosensweig
Merchants of Blood and Gunpowder: The English Arms Trade in West Africa, Jaime K. Schneider
Honors Theses from 2022
The Bittersweet Tooth: Understanding French Identity Through the Colonial Empire, Commodity Fetishism, and Pâtisserie, Clarisse D. Allehaut
“They Were Planning on It”: Recasting the 1967 Buffalo Uprising as a Student-Driven Insurgency, Matthew P. Gawley
The Chosen One?: Reflections on Mid-Century Egyptian Nationalism, Gamal Abdel Nasser's Charismatic Leadership, and the Suez Crisis of 1956, Owen P.S. Hobbs
Memories and New Beginnings: Chinese American Restaurants and Food as a Contact Zone in Early-Twentieth Century California, Nicholas Kim
Whose Nation is This? Conceptualizing Burmese National Identity Through Case Studies of Inter-Ethnic Conflict, Jason Leong
A Prosaic People? Literature, Propaganda, and National Identity in Second World War Britain, William L. Maines
Honors Theses from 2021
Golden Mountains: Pike's Peak, Western Capitalism, and the Making of the Colorado State: 1858-1876, Jason T. Dunn
Honors Theses from 2020
Abraham Lincoln, the United States, and Mexico: The Implications of Memory in a Continental History, Emilie E. Ginn
The “Humanitarian Mystique:” Tracing the Rhetoric and Politics of Aid in Southeast Asia from the Age of the Civilizing Mission to the Present, Elizabeth M. Holland
Honors Theses from 2019
On Writing and Righting History: The Stakes of Holocaust Interpretation and Remembrance in Poland and the United States, Noa Gutow-Ellis
Honors Theses from 2018
The Colby Community in World War I, Eleanor A. Hanson
Honors Theses from 2015
Honors Theses from 2014
La Identidad de Los Carabineros de Chile: The Evolving Identity of Chile's National Police Force and the 1973 Military Coup, Jeffrey O. Lamson
Honors Theses from 2013
The American Rifled Musket: Technical Revolution or Tactical Redundancy?, Alexandre F. Caillot
Green Light over the Drop Zone: American Army and Marine Paratroopers in World War II, Audrey Lomax
"Kill the Indian, Save the Man," Americanization through Education: Richard Henry Pratt's Legacy, Lindsay Peterson
Gendered Geographies and Coded Spaces in Urban Tehran, Shireen Smalley
When the Confederates Terrorized Maine: The Battle of Portland Harbor, Carter Stevens
Honors Theses from 2011
Hastening the Wheels of Change: International Cold War Pressure and Civil Rights Reform During the Truman Presidency, Caley A. Robertson
Honors Theses from 2010
Soviet Education: Communism in the Classroom, Alison W. Berryman
The Budworm and the Mill: The Spruce Budworm Epidemic and the Evolving Forest Products Industry in Maine from 1975-1985, Steven A. Tatko
Honors Theses from 2009
The Dust Between Two Fires: Civilian Militias in Ayacucho, Peru and Middle Magdalena, Catherine S. Coffman
Honors Theses from 2008
Moments of Strength: Iranian Women's Rights and the 1979 Revolution, Caroline M. Brooks
Honors Theses from 2007
Demon Rum, Devious Politics: the Lessons of Neal Dow’s Crusade for the Maine Prohibition Law, Andrew J. Herrmann
Short History of Waterville, Maine, Stephen Plocher
Museo de la memoria: an exploration through memory of ESMA, Cornelia Sage
Obstacles and Stepping Stones to the Hero’s Pedestal: Reunified Germany’s Selective Commemoration of Resisters to National Socialism, Suzanne J. Swartz
Honors Theses from 2002
Soviet history reconsidered: the reform of undergraduate history teaching in contemporary Russian universities, Amy Hirschauer
Honors Theses from 2001
Immigrants as cultural revitalization? A study of the American quality magazines, Erin Clark
Looking for Nathan Bedford Forrest: negotiating historical controversies, Karin Felmly
Civil War in Missouri: a look at Confederate guerrillas' four-stage devolution, Drew Johnson
Honors Theses from 2000
American Holocaust Films: A Case Study in Jewish American Identity (1937-1993), Jeff Daniels
Hero for the ages: the personality and character of Arnold Palmer, David Normoyle
The Myths & Realities of the Soviet Partisan Movement - An Analysis of the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Second Workd War: 1941-1945, Emmanuel M. Thomann
Honors Theses from 1999
Humanism and the Ignatian Spirit, Sam Atkins
The Rise of Russian Jewish Politics: Russian Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Political Response At the End of the Nineteenth Century, Eric N. Suchman
The Makhnovist Movement: Peasant Rebels as Anarcho-Communists in War-torn Ukraine, Russell Young
Honors Theses from 1997
Honors Theses from 1994
Spies like us? : An analysis of six 1980s spy films and the images they presented about the Cold War, Jason Bologna
Studies directed toward the synthesis of natural products, Sarri Salah Salman