This seminar meets throughout the year under the supervision of a department faculty member and offers students a small-seminar format for learning about historical research and writing, as well as for sharing and critiquing their own work. By the end of the year, each student will, in conjunction with this seminar, produce a thesis based on original research.
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2024
Musical Memory and Chile’s Late 20th Century, Maxam A.B. Daniels
‘Making of a Woman Minister’ Rev. Annis Ford Eastman and Elmira, New York, Mary Lemak
Confessions in the Salem Witch Trials, Caylie McAree
School Discipline, the Little Rock Crisis, and Aaron v. Cooper, Lauren Misco
The Occult and Elizabeth I: How the Virgin Queen Used Magic As a Political Tool, Aiden Whitehead
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2023
Legend of Freedom: Rethinking the Role of Robert the Bruce in Shaping the Scottish Identity, Deina Carbonara
Civil War Journalism: Two Rough Drafts of One History, Brianna Collora
Rafael Trujillo is Not Dead: The Role of the Memory of the 1937 Massacre in Reshaping Anti-Haitianism and Education in the Dominican Republic, Galilea Estrella Rosario
In a Pickle: African Americans Struggles with Racism and Progress in Mount Olive, North Carolina, 1930-1955, Devin Lamb
Acquitted by Reason of Paroxysmal Insanity? Science and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Murder Trial of Mary Harris, EmmaLee Morgan
Bleeding Green, White, and Red: The Relationship Between Separation and Assimilation, Trends in Italian American Political Radicalism, 1927-1969, Andrew V. Nicolella
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2022
Franco’s Failed War of Legitimacy: Constructing the Historical Memory of the Spanish Civil War in Education., Cameron Cupp
Battlefield Women: How Nurses, Soldiers, and Spies Challenged Gender Roles during the American Civil War, Kaitlyn Thomas
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2021
America’s Greatest Statesman: Henry Clay in the American Memory, Emmet P. Golden
The Fabric of Labor: A Study of Labor History Through the Upstate New York Textile Industry, 1950 – 1968, Anthony Parillo
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Drone Warfare and the Expansion of American Executive Authority (2001-2020), Joseph Pignataro
The Terrifying Convergence: A Legacy of the U.S Far-Right’s Leaderless Resistance in the Twentieth Century, Ryan Szpicek
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2020
Reenivisioning War Through Children’s Eyes: Northern and Southern Literature in Post-Civil War America, Hannah Cast
“No Popery! No French Laws!”: Anti-Catholicism during the American Revolution, Nicholas Dorthe
The Agrarian Gentleman: Elkanah Watson and the Birth of the Agricultural Society in Early National New England, John Ginder
Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Malik: Titans of Peace and Architects of Post-WWII International Cooperation, Ankeith Prince Illiparambil
Imperial Evolution: Walter Lippmann and the Liberal Roots of American Hegemony, Lukas Moller
“Learned from Black Friends”: The Asian-American Struggle for Housing and Equal Employment in New York City, 1969 – 1974, Shouyue Zhang
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2019
United States v. Dennett:The Battle for Sex Education in the Early 1900s, Hannah Breda
The Invention of Frederick the Great, Matheson Curry
What Goes Up Must Go Down: Denunciations in the Great Terror, Cassidy Griffin
A Good Education for All? Desegregation and Educational Reform in Albany’s Schools, Joshua Levine
Nuclear Families for the Nuclear Age: Disney's Part in Creating Gender Roles in the 1950s, Carlee T. Litt
Liberalism and the Lessons of Weimar Arnold Brecht, Hans Speier, and Mid-Century America, Alexander McKenna
Roger Bacon: The Christian, the Alchemist, the Enigma, Victoria Tobes
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2018
Isaac Wise and the path to American Jewish Unity through American Nationalism, Ryan Fox
When the World Seemed New: UE Local 301 and the Decline of the American Labor Movement, Jacob Houser
Reframing the Republic: Images and Art in Post-Revolutionary America, Lauren Lyons
Road to Ruin: Elias Boudinot and the Internal Conquest of the Cherokee Nation, Sarah Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Lawyers, the Public, and the Origins of America’s Culture Wars, Haley Cook
The Ideal of Liberation: Women in Sri Lanka’s Civil War, Akeela Makshood
Islam as a Liberating Force for Muslim Slaves on the Georgia Sea Islands, Raiber (Salah) Muhiddin
Authority's Last Stand: Mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Albany’s Tumultuous Sixties, Calley Quinn
Women’s Liberation, Family, and the Fight for Daycare at the University at Albany, Sheri Sarnoff
Tangled Subjectivities: An Examination of the Japanese Subject from 1868-1912, Haylee Shepard
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Decimation, Rejuvenation, Motivation: How Disease and Murder Set the Stage at Saratoga, Nicolas Soto
Undergraduate Honors Theses from 2014
Constituting a Revolution: Gouverneur Morris, John Quincy Adams, and the French Revolution’s Imprint on American Identity, Tyler Norton
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Rise of Totalitarianism in Germany, As Seen in Albany Editorials: 1933-1941, Jamie Rose Brinkman
$1,000: The Price of Life and Honor in the 1834 North Carolina Supreme Court Case, State v. Will, Bria Cunningham
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Oprah Winfrey v. Texas Cattlemen, Food Libel Laws in the United States and the Constitutionality of the Texas False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act, Kathleen Mullins
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A Situation for Revolt: A Study of the Situationist International’s Influence on French Students During the Revolt of 1968, Ryan Gallagher
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser’s Fight against Intellectual Censorship and Early Hollywood, Brittany Jolles
“You Must Fight to Win”: The Media, State Department and Vietnam 1967-1968, Jeffrey H.S. Knaack