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2022

Fight Like a YA Girl: Fourth Wave Feminism, Defense, and Weaponization Through the Lens of Object Relations, Amanda Blakeman
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Humanizing the Maternal Symbol in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Buchi Emecheta’s Joys of Motherhood and Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, Unglid Paul
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2021

The Evolution of Protest and Social Movements in the National Basketball Association from the Mid-20th Century to the Present Day, Luke Messersmith
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Ethnicity and “Women Religious”: How Irish-American and Other Ethnic Nuns Were Presented in American Newspapers from 1865 to 1915, Lydia Hursh
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The Evolution of Protest and Social Movements in the National Basketball Association from the Mid-20th Century to the Present Day, Luke Messersmith
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American Identity: The Political Consequences of Defining America Throughout the Nation’s Most Formative Moments, Cate Llewellyn
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2019

Cartel Practices and Policies in the World War II Era, Caleb Yoken
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What Do Women Want? The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, Hannah Ruth Ellen
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2017

A Monumental History: Stories of the Berkshires, Kimberly Bolduc
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Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature Writers, Robert Pinkham
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From Woody Guthrie to the Big Muddy: The Evolution of Political Music in America From World War I to the Late 1960s, Alexander B. Kouwenhoven
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2016

Faithlessly or Faithless Lie?: The Name Symbolism Conundrum in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, Erin Wade
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A Critical Study of the African-American Comedic Tradition, Allison Longo
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American Popular Culture, Politics, and Comedy: How Saturday Nigh Live Delivers the "News", Jillian Callanan
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A Study of Artistic Development from Early German Expressionism to the Artistic Industry of Today, Kathryn McKean
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Caesars and Corleones: Augustan Rome and The Godfather, Edythe Malara
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Art Deco: A Visual Articulation of Modern Urban America in the 1920s and 1930s, Danielle Frederick
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2015

What's "Really Real": David Foster Wallace and the Pursuit of Sincerity in Infinite Jest, Henry Clayton
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The Psychology of Girlhood: The History of Nancy Drew, the Rise of the Nancy Drew Archetype, and Nancy Drew’s Daughters, Shayna Han
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2014

Who's Laughing Now? From Lovable Lucy to Top-of-the-Rock Tina: How Women in Comedy Changed from 1950-2014, Caroline Hershey
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2013

Cultivating Americans:19th Century College Football and American Identity, Carleton Shorey
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Running to Lose: Gender Stereotypes in Memoirs by Geraldine Ferraro Pat Schroeder and Nancy Pelosi, Meredith Fierro
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The Public History of John Adams: How and Why a Fresh Portrayal of the Founding Father Americans Previously Looked Past Has Recently Formed, Brianna McCarthy
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Going to the movies The Origins of the American Cultural Experience, Phoebe Cooper
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Education and Liberation: A Look at the Early Development and Directions of the Virginia Public School System (1879-1899), John B. Terzian
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South Carolina: From a State of Rebellion to a State of Change A Study of Reconstruction in South Carolina from 1866-1872 Through A Partisan Press, Samantha Killeen
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The Idol, 2013, Jessica Doran
The Idol

2012

The Implications of Female American Ideals Presented in Popular Television and Advertising, Siobhan Matty
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Social Television: A Broad Look at the Changing Television Landscape in the Digital Age As New Media Converge with Old Media, William Mahony
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2011

If you label it this then it cant be that: Revisiting New Journalism in Mailer, Didion, and Wolfe, Jill E. Radwin
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Robots Are People Too: Posthumanism in Battlestar Galactica, Rebecca Seel
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2010

The role of the media in influencing presidential elections, Sarah A. Doucett
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2009

America's elderly population in relation to the social systems, Margaret Joy Licht
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The guide that never was : the Federal Writers’ Project in Schenectady, New York, Sara E. Callahan
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Social constructs : the American dream and masculinity, Jenna Brynne Frisch
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2008

Live free or die : women who choose death in twentieth-century American literature and film, Carly B. Chasin
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