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A Reporter and Citizen: Harrison Salisbury’s Trip to North Vietnam
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
Bombing Sterling Hall: Protest, Rhetoric, and Violence in 1960s Madison, Wisconsin
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2013-04-12)
Exploring Men "On the Down Low": Race, Sexuality, and HIV in the Twenty-First Century
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2014-04-28)
Between Professionalism and Polemics: Historian Frank L. Owsley Writes his South
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
“The Rule of Unreason: the Reserve Clause before the Law, 1879-1953”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2015-04-24)
“Detroit ‘Polar Bears’ in the Land of Lice and Snow: The American Soldier Experience in North Russia, 1918 – 1919”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-26)
This thesis examines the experience of American soldiers serving in North Russia in 1918 – 1919, an expedition often referred to as an offshoot of World War One. It bases its conclusions by utilizing the comprehensive Polar ...
“Jeffrey Sachs and the Costs of Capitalism. Shock Therapy in eastern European Transition Economies”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-20)
This thesis examines economist Jeffrey Sachs’s implementation of shock therapy in transition economies from 1985-1994. Analysis begins with the foundation of the practice in Bolivia, and examines the changes in the approach ...
“Benign Negligence: U.S.-South Korean Relations at the End of the Carter Administration”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)
President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
A Most Divisive Year: The Year of Europe and the Special Relationship in 1973
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-15)
This thesis examines Anglo-American relations in 1973, an especially turbulent year in the history of the post-World War II "special relationship." It draws on a wide range of documentary evidence and telephone transcripts ...
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing and American Civil Religion
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04)
This thesis examines the importance of the first Moon landing through the lens of civil religion. It concludes that civil religion inspired the Moon landing and led to its success in July 1969. Furthermore, it finds that ...