Undergraduate Student Work
This collection contains works by undergraduate students in the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa. All student works require department, unit, or individual faculty review.
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Events from 2025
Outlaws, Lawmen, and the Emergence of Justice on the Western Frontier, Kaci Krier Open Access Poster Presentation
Submissions from 2024
We Did What? To Whom? An Analysis of How US Educational Materials Present the Philippine-American War and Occupation, Jude Beekman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Redefining 21st Century Evangelicalism, Anna McDowell Open Access Poster Presentation
Events from 2023
Underground Iowans, Cyrus Emmet Cummings Open Access Poster Presentation
A Snapshot of War: First World War Postcards from the Cedar Falls Historical Society, James Alexander Schmitt Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Breaking the Marble Ceiling: The Construction of Athena in Greek Thought, Elizabeth Tulley Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2023 Award
Submissions from 2022
Alexander the Great and Achilles: The origin of the connection between the Homeric hero and the king of Macedon, Katie Thessen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2021
On beauty: Ancient perceptions of beauty from classical Greece to Imperial Rome, Maya Jess Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Events from 2020
Base & Summit: American Women's Right on Either Side of the Passing of the 19th Amendment, Abigail Fer Open Access Poster Presentation
Events from 2019
Can Human Rights be Ignored for a Price? An Analysis of Lobbying Power and U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Human Rights [Poster], Collin Lint Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Submissions from 2017
"A special program for highly gifted students:" The evolution and growth of UNI's Honors Program, 1959-2009, Matthew Christian Miller Open Access Honors Program Thesis
“Long Cold Days”: The Natural Ice Industry, 1880 to 1940, Andrew Olson Open Access Poster Presentation
African-American Labor History in Waterloo: The Exhibit, Niria White Open Access Paper
Submissions from 2016
The Civil Rights Movement through the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Hannah Lodge Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Submissions from 2015
The early demagogues : the rise of the plebeian tribunate and their exclusive interests, c. 550-450 BCE, Conner James Brakeville Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Submissions from 2014
Muddied waters: exploring Iowa's water policy and practices, Jorgen D. Rose Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2013
More than a quick and easy meal: convenience food advertising in Ladies' Home Journal, 1945-1954, Molly Franta Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Chicago Americanization movement: Solutions to the immigrant problem, Heather Greel Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An American's Paris: Tourism and the American identity, 1947-1963, Margaret Nervig Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Memories of College Hill: A historical view, Emily Marie O'Loughlin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2012
Thomas Jefferson and His Religious Beliefs in the Contexts of History and Today, Nolan Christian Hovland Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2011
Girl's Basketball in Iowa: The Game of Six-On-Six and Its Impact on the State's Athletic Culture, Sarah Gronemeyer Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Raising good Soviets: Media depictions of Soviet life and upbringing under Khrushchev, Chelsea Miller Open Access Honors Program Thesis
"With a Woman's Bitterness": Early Propaganda Against Female Rulers in Medieval Chronicles in the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries, Elizabeth Anne Wiedenheft Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2010
Steamboat Bill : William J. Peterson: Iowa's river historian, Nathan J. Gruber Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Submissions from 2007
Thomas Jefferson's Biographers: Historiography and Sally Hemings, Courtney Ihde Open Access Honors Program Thesis
St. Peter Canisius and the Youth: Jesuit Educators in Counterreformation Germany, Kendra Anne Willey Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2006
Striking Out: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League Failed to Break Gender Barriers, Lindsey Letcher Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2004
A look at the Little Rock Nine, Stacey Noble Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 2000
The wrath of Poseidon: The influence of water on strategy and tactics of ancient Greek warfare, Ben Nietzel Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1996
The Farmers' Holiday Association in Eastern Iowa, 1932-1933, Joel Dinger Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1995
The generation gap: A comparison of the negative portrayals of hippies and Generation Xers, Greg Becker Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Church and state in the early fifteenth century: Henry V's persecution of the Lollards, Heather Lee Martin Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1993
Reversal of fortune: Dick Clark, John Culver, and Iowa politics in the 1970s, Clinton R. Boddicker Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Salus populi suprema lex: The impact of three major European thinkers on the Constitution of the United States, Corey W. Smith Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1990
The English Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century, Aaron T. Bicknese Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
