Theses & Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations by graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Boundary Lines Crossed? Seeking Honor After the Vietnam War Took Their Sons, Hannah Ackerman Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
You can't live off pride: Welfare and farm aid in the Reagan era, Jeremiah David Brockman Open Access Thesis
"Land of the Silver Birch": Environmental attitudes and place-making in a Northern Minnesota Boy Scout camp, 1960-1975, John Mark Fretham Open Access Thesis
The path from paramilitary to politics: Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin, and the Good Friday Agreement: 1986-1998, Brenann Hamilton Open Access Thesis
The medieval ideal: Utopian medievalism in the life, thought, and works of William Morris, Benjamin Michael Kimball Open Access Thesis
Frank Capra's America: The fall of political ambiguity, 1930-1950, Lydia Lennice Pakala Open Access Thesis
Women Provos: Women in the Provisional IRA and their impact on Irish republicanism and Northern Irish society during the 1970s, Sean Alexander Riley Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Labor's unsettled vagrancy: The rise and fall of the hobo labor movement, 1865-1929, Laura Kathryn Carpenter Open Access Thesis
Advertising patriotism: Gender and sacrifice in Ladies' Home Journal, 1942-1945, Travis John Carrier Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Richard Walther Darré, National Socialism, and Bauernpolitik, Andrew P. Harnois Open Access Thesis
Vietnam: A soldier's story, Ryan Charles Villarreal Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
"Half-breeds," squatters, land speculators, and settler colonialism in the Des Moines-Mississippi confluence, Matthew Hill Open Access Thesis
The price of progress: American agricultural innovations in relation to economic and social change, 1920-1989, Zachary Cass Moye Open Access Thesis
Tangled twilight. Destiny, horror, and transformation in nature: American culture of progress during the Vietnam War 1965-1975, Alexander Newkirk Open Access Thesis
The legality of aerial bombing during World War II in Europe, Robert I. Umsted Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
From Bosnia to Waterloo, Iowa: Bosnian refugee and immigrant experiences, 1996-2017, Zijad Mahmutovic Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Saving local communities using scrip money to fight the Great Depression in north central Iowa, Bryan Carl Bjorklund Open Access Thesis
Protests, pageants, and publications: Narratives of labor agitators, 1913-1914, Jayme Edmund Open Access Thesis
Iowa schoolmarms: The significance of rural schools and the feminization movement, 1865-1920, Ashley Nicole Loper Open Access Thesis
Inside Queen Victoria's household: The ladies of the royal nursery and schoolroom, 1839-1889, Kayla Jo Seppelt Thesis (UNI Access Only)
JFK: A body of evidence - 1955-1965, Vicki J. Simpson Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Constructing identities in the West Branch landscape: Herbert Hoover's life and legacy as a common man, 1935-1992, Ryan Lucas Wurtz Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dying to live forever Sophia Harris journal 1860 to 1861, Shirley Ilene Davis Open Access Thesis
Three men in the wilderness: Ideas and concepts of nature during the Progressive Era with Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and John Muir, Jeffrey A. Duke Open Access Thesis
Unions in Waterloo, Iowa: How organization, political activism, and community outreach led to the rise and fall of organized labor, 1947-1990, Dylan Christian Krauter Keller Open Access Thesis
From soprano to barking dog : John Cage, the avant garde, and the counterculture, 1940-1975, Heather M. McAlpine Open Access Thesis
"Rock Against Reagan": The punk movement, cultural hegemony, and Reaganism in the eighties, Johnathan Kyle Williams Open Access Thesis 2017 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
August Becker and traditional vs. modern culture in the first decades of the twentieth century, Michelle Lea Becker Smith Open Access Thesis
Rethinking the Conquest : an exploration of the similarities between pre-contact Spanish and Mexica society, culture, and royalty, Samantha Billing Open Access Thesis
Danish Cedar Falls : The immigrant experience, Carrie L. Eilderts Open Access Thesis
The disintegration of Yugoslavia and football, Adnan Kajtezović Open Access Thesis
“Our Navy” : women accepted for voluntary emergency service at Iowa State Teacher's College, 1942-1945, Marissa Krein Open Access Thesis
An American's Paris: tourism and the American consumer, 1947-1961, Margaret Nervig Open Access Thesis
Stars, stripes, and swastikas : the American Turners and national identity, 1935-1945, Amy Rekward Open Access Thesis
Caged manhood : office culture and how Walter Camp's Daily Dozen revitalized the workforce, 1903-1940, Nick Sly Open Access Thesis
“God will deliver us” : human rights abuses from Guatemala to Iowa and back, 1980-2014, RaeAnn Lillian Swanson Open Access Thesis
In connection with all things : the memory of Alexander Humboldt and his works in the context of 19th century thought in Europe and America, Ray Joseph Werner Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dennis Mahony, "At the Disposal of Tyrants": An analysis of a newspaper editor's intentions during the Civil War, Ryan Robert Engelman Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Education at its corp, Steven Michael Pals Open Access Thesis
"Democracy put in action": Experiences of African Americans in the Women's Army Corps at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 1942-1945, Rebecca Singer Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
From sidebets to sideshow: The influence of gambling on the development of professional wrestling in America, 1870-1911, Lee Casebolt Open Access Thesis
A Midwestern culture of civility: Student activism at the University of Northern Iowa during the Maucker years (1967-1970), Christopher J. Shackelford Open Access Thesis
From saeter to sod: Single women homesteaders of Norwegian descent farming their land in Dakota territory, 1862-1929, Sara Marie Skindelien Open Access Thesis
Playing by new rules: board games and America's cold war culture, 1945-1965, Matthew John Sprengeler Open Access Thesis
"The most deadly spot on the face of the earth": The United States and antimodern images of "Darkest Africa" 1880-1910, Melinda Stump Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Baseball in the heartland: Semi-pro baseball survives in Iowa, Todd Michael Hospodarsky Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
From a weak tribual to a branch of government: The Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to Marshall, Dale Edward Paul Yurs Open Access Thesis 2012 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Obscenity and pornography: A historical look at the American Library Association, the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, and the Supreme Court, Gretchen Brooke Gould Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Those magnificent men or their flying machines?: Tradition and modernity in the 1928 National Air Races, Joshua James Waddle Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Cedar Falls Civil War, Cynthia Rae Huffman Sweet Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Commonweal in the heartland: Charles T. Kelly and Iowa's industrial army, Ryan James Sprau Open Access Thesis 2000 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The morality issue: How Darlan influenced the Allied unconditional surrender pledge in World War II, Brian Fiderlein Open Access Thesis 1999 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Invisible walls: Milliken v. Bradley and America's urban apartheid, Sonia E. Ingles Open Access Thesis 1998 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Iowa's wolf in populist clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936, Eric Scott Juhnke Open Access Thesis 1995 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
A pretension of place: The industrialization of corn belt agriculture, 1940-1965, Philip Jeffrey Nelson Open Access Thesis 1993 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union, Michael Torrance Prahl Open Access Thesis 1991 Award
