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Submissions from 2024 2024.
The Destruction of Louisiana Wetlands: An Environmental History, 1900-2000 , Gloria H. Adams
The Perpetual Progression in the Schleswig-Holstein Duchy: History, Politics, and Religion, 1460-1864 , Christian Anthony Ahlers
Shine a Light into the Darkness: Illuminating the Battles Fought by Civil War Prisoners of War , MaryBeth Allison
The Impact of U.S. Air Force Close Air Support of the Army on Joint Doctrine and the Battlefield 1943 - 2003 , Nathan Andre Pierre Bachand
A Refinement on the Principle of Resistance: The Puritan Roots of Political Resistance in America , Michael P. Berry
Politics and the Catholic Church: The Rise of Communism, the Modernization of the Church, and American Involvement in Early Cold War Italy , Victoria L. Bolds
Just What They Have Been Looking For: The Significance, Importance, and Journey of the Negro Motorist Green Book in the State of South Carolina and the City of Columbia in the Twentieth Century , Justice Iyana Briscoe
Herschel V. Johnson: The States Rights Unionist , William Coleman Brown
The Official POW’s Rights Beginning in the Civil War Forward: Co-Authored by Francis Lieber , Delynn Antoinette Burrell
We Are Better for Having Survived: Tejanas in World War II , Ashleigh Champagne
African, American, and Southern: The Survivors of the Clotilda and the Wanderer , Kirsten Chaney
Lighting the Lamp of Learning: Florida Freedmen’s Education During Reconstruction , Jessica L. Damron
Battle of Antietam: Why Sixteen Regiments Suffered Over 50% Casualties , Michael D. DeBarto
Conventional Commanders in an Unconventional War: The U.S. Army in Vietnam 1965-1973 , Patrick Richard Eaton
Good Samaritans: Applications of Social Christianity by Southern Baptists During the Early Twentieth Century , Alyson Marie Fagan
Outsider: Major Characteristics of Andrew Jackson’s Populism and its Commonalities with that of Theodore Roosevelt and Donald Trump , Victor W. Fordham
Communism and Socialism: Their Influences On Wisconsin's Political, Economic, and Cultural Foundations, with a Special Focus on Milwaukee, 1890-1950 , Jean Marie Froelich
Catalysts for Change: The Sacralizing Impulse of the Second Great Awakening and Its Transformative Impact on American Higher Education , Blake S. Hart
The Australian Woolen Industry; British Investment in Colonial Australia: Unraveling the Threads of Economic Development 1788-1850 , Marie Cecilia Hedrick
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: A Moral Compass That Established an American Political System , Rebecca Hodnett
Outlaw Country Chronicles: Rebels, Roots, and Cultural Change , Ashleigh Diane Howell
We Clear the Way: United States Army Combat Engineers in the Second World War's Southwest Pacific Theater, 1942-1945 , Marc C. Jeter
From Covenants to Classrooms: Uncovering the Impact of Racial Segregation on Education in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth , Alexis C. Jones
The Impact of WWII and Changes Brought by the War on a Small Kentucky Community , Barry A. Kennedy
The Battle of Mobile Bay: A Joint Masterpiece , Thomas Rutherford Key
Antislavery White Supremacists and the Mistreatment of African Americans in Indiana, 1787-1870 , Mark A. King
Vietnam WACs: An Exploration of Women’s Military Service During the Sociopolitical Upheaval of the Vietnam War Era , Carmen M. Latvis
"More Nobility of Soul": Honor at the United States Naval Academy, 1845-1875 , Samuel J. Limneos
Fear, Racism, Agriculture: The Drive for Japanese Internment , Brandon James March
The Shaffer Thesis Arthur Harvey Shaffer: American Founding History and History Education , C. C. Mathis
Diverting the Mob Mentality: The Real Dam History of Las Vegas , Stephen J. Mislan
The Lone Star on Relief: The Story of the Texas Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 , Michael William Mitchell
The Cold War Never Ended , Paul Mitura
The Protestant Vatican: Black Churches Involvement in The Nashville Civil Rights Movement 1865-1972 , Samuel Dingkee Momodu
Print Culture in New York: The Essence of the Benevolent Empire from 1816 to 1837 , Merritt Morgan
Harbingers of A New Age: Irish and Scots Irish Indian Fighters on the Colonial American Frontier , Christina A. Neely
America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman: Marquis de Lafayette in American Pop Culture , Joshua Neiderhiser
Paternalism and Preservation: Curating Charleston’s Peninsula with Heritage and Policy , Amanda Nestor
Uniform Intelligence: The United States Military Liaison Mission and the Cold War 1947-1990 , Frank Christopher Ofner
Hellenic Cohesion: A Historic Approach to Transnationalism, Particularism, and Cosmopolitanism in the Greek Immigrant Communities of Wyoming , Patrick Michael Pace
Cold War Merchants and the Commercialization of Space , Sandra Jeneane Piseno
Charles Lummis: Spanish Knight-Errant , Benjamin J. Prior
The Iconography of Phrygia and the Phrygian Ethnonym as the Hypothetical Cognate of “Free” , Ava Anne Quattlebaum
"That They May Become Efficient Agents, Under God.": Antebellum Scientific Medical Education at the University of Michigan as Preparation for the Civil War , Jesse A. Roberts
From Enemies to Friends: German Prisoners-of-War in Michigan during World War II , Abigail J. Runk
Malama Aina in Hawaii: Unraveling the Legacy of the Post-World War II Land Sovereignty Movement , Rachel Lynn Sample
Our Enemy, the State: Liberty versus Power on the American Home Front during the First World War , Michael Schearer
There and Back Again: Oklahoma’s Metanarrative as a Southern State , Kenneth P. Schell
Question of Revolution in the Carolinas and Georgia from Colonial Times to the Time of the Early Republic , Megan Shirley
Foundational American Faith and Support for Zionism, the Yishuv and the Haganah, 1945-1948: Ein Brera! , Tara K. Simpson
Obedience, Courage, and Loyalty: The 81st “Wildcat” Division during World War I , Harold Allen Skinner Jr
A Position of Strength: The Reagan Military Buildup and the Conventional Forces , Kevin D. Smith
Task Force 57: The British Struggle of Implementing a Pacific Fleet , J Robert John Streit
Where Duty Called Them: Comparing the Lives and Civil War Service of Generals Jerome Bonaparte Robertson and his son, Felix Huston Robertson , Jerod Thomas
The Case of Slavery in Colonial Georgia: The Failure of the Trustee Period and Georgia’s Peculiar Approach to Revolution, 1732-1782 , Charles Thornton
The Ideological Background of National Socialism in Regard to Its Central Narrative Convictions , David Joseph Thrower
If The Balloon Goes Up: A History of U.S. Army Maneuvers and Their Effectiveness, 1902-1944 , Randall S. Wells Jr.
For the Defense of Themselves and the State: Pennsylvania's Contribution to the Second Amendment and Firearms Ownership , Harris R. Zeiler
Submissions from 2023 2023
Undivided Loyalty and Unwavering Leadership: The Life and Times of David Wooster (1710-1777) , Jason Edwin Anderson
Compelling Libya: Operation El Dorado Canyon as Coercive Diplomacy and Counterterrorism , Ronald Tracy Boyd
Historical Understanding in the U.S. Constitution , Kristopher W. Chesterman
Cochran's Coup: The Legacy of Jacqueline Cochran Through Her Service with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots , Elisabeth B. Chivers
With Sand in Their Pockets: Lessons of the American Expeditionary Force’s Mobilization for the First World War , Kasey James Comstock
The Importance of the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War , Todd Alan Conn
Before Facebook and Twitter: The Online Computing Revolution of the 1980s , David Scott Cooper
Bedford Springs Resort: A Political and Social Annex of Antebellum America: 1840-1860 , Sara Grace Davis-Leonard
The Road to Armageddon: American Culture and Politics during the Late Cold War, 1970-1991 , David Lee Denham III
A Brief History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with Emphasis on the Charismatic Roots of the Race-Based Priesthood Denial , Wayne A. Denton
The Reasons for the Success of Colonial Pennsylvania Farmers , Mark V. Durfee
Building the Hill City: Internal Improvements and Political Economy in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1791-1829 , Mark Ryan Feld
The Emergence of Radical Christianity: The Mystical Dunkers, its Antecedence, Hermetical Founding, Germanic Diaspora, and its Apogee on the Frontier of Colonial America , Daniel Jason Geyer
Lying-in Transition: The Modernization and Professionalization of Childbirth in Rural Alabama 1870-1910 , Jennifer Megan Gmuca
Rangers and Rebels: The Americanization of War in the Colonial South , Garrett DeWayne Hall
The Political Evolution of Howell Cobb on the Road to Secession in Antebellum Georgia History , Kathryn M. Haney
They Tore Down the King’s Colours: How the Colonial Legal System Emboldened Resistance , Cynthia D. Hatch
French Military Tactics in the American Civil War: An Analysis of the Influence of Antoine Henri Jomini’s Principles in Two Selected Battles and a Campaign , Michele M. Hawes
Tsenacommacah’s Role in the Survival of Jamestown , Brandon J. Hewitt
The Growth of Human Capital and the Progressive Education Movement in Houston, Texas: A History of Houston Independent School District, 1876–1970 , Wesley Patrick Jackson
The History of Systemic Racism in the Texas Rangers , John E. Jordan Jr.
Coping with Adversity and Trauma in War: The Perseverance of Alabamian Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War , Charles Henry Lahmon
Thomas Jefferson: Slavery, Education, and the Public Mind , Brendan Lenahan
Jena and Auerstadt: Reorganization of the German Military from 1807-1945 , Blake Cole Lucy
The Mormon Battalion, Cooke’s Wagon Road, and the Making of the New West , Nicholas Paul Mihora
It’s Black and White: An Investigation into the Founding of Three Post-Civil War Black Colleges , Melvin Gamble Miller
“Go, Then, to the Front as Temperate Men:” The U.S. Army, Temperance Advocacy, and Lessons Learned to 1873 , Megan M.S. Nishikawa
The Veneration of Charlemagne in Divine Kingship: From Charlemagne to the Last Crusade , Lindsay Michelle Olson
Gridiron Reconstruction: The Struggle for the Soul of the Post-Civil War South as Embodied in the UGA vs Georgia Tech Rivalry , Wendi Jo Pollard
“Always Said to be of Indian Extraction”: Native/African American Freedom Suits in Virginia 1773-1853 , Cress Ann Posten
The Intellectual and Diplomatic Discourse of American Progressives and the late Ottomans, 1830–1930 , Brigitte Maricich Powell
Only a Matter of Time: The Battle of Cold Harbor 28 May-12 June 1864 , Nathan Lee Provost
Who Should I Trust? Dynamics within Hitler's Inner Circle , Sarah C. Randow
At Any and All Hazards: Manifest Destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Balance of Power in North America , Keith Thomas Ressa
Thinking on a Higher Plane: The Evolution of a Strategic Mindset in the Navies of America and Great Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century , Bryan Keith Robbins
The Cajun Traiteurs , Shelby Kathleen Robert
The Relationship between Christianity and Slavery: An Examination of the Defense of Slavery within Christian Thought, Practices and Methodologies from 1619-1865 , Decorie Lee Smith
Clawhammer: Vincent A. Witcher and Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Southern Appalachia , Melanie Greer Storie
The Chiefs of Chota and the Charles Town Merchants: A Vital Alliance That Ensured the Growth and Success of South Carolina, 1692-1760 , Nicola Symonds
A Jus in Bello Comparison of Lee’s Gettysburg Campaign and Sheridan’s Valley Campaign , Jonathan Scott Thomas
The Impact of World War II on Hawaii , Darrel Raymond Van Hoose
American Military Cemeteries: Temples of Nationalism and Civic Religion , Kyler James Webb
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