Research
Senior Theses completed in 2008-2009
- "Newark Riots" by Thomas Brisbane (advisor: David Sowell)
- "Hemis, TV and The King: NASCAR's Transition to National Sport, 1960-1980," by Steve Crow (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "J. Robert Oppenheimer: the Obedient Physicist," by Clayton Diehl (advisor: Dave Hsiung)
- "The Minister's Collar or the Colt .45?: Martin Grove Brumbaugh and the Shift from Pacifist to Patriot during World War I," by Keenan Drenning (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "The Battle of Thermoyplae: Oral vs. Film," by Michael Hansen (advisor: Belle Tuten)
- "White Robes and High Heels: The Women of the Ku Klux Klan," by Jessica Kline (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "LBJ's Struggle for Civil Rights" By Jessica Topel (advisor: David Sowell)
Senior Theses completed in 2007-2008
- "Nazi Propaganda and Children's Literature," by Meghan Chapuran (advisor: Belle Tuten)
- "The Road Forks at Nuremberg: an Analysis of Two Nazi Defense Strategies," by Troy R. Crumrine (advisor: Belle Tuten)
- "John Mellencamp, Advocate for the American Dream, 1980-2007," by Victoria R. DeFrate (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "Bergen's Witch: Anne Pedersdatter Beyer," by Linda Guy (advisor: Belle Tuten)
- "A Soldier's Experience in the Great War: Second Lieutenant David Rexford Maxey," by Ryan Hollister (advisor: Dave Hsiung)
- "Non adulteres genus tuum: John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis," by Jonathan Knepp (advisor: Belle Tuten)
- "A Soothing Voice in a Tumultuous Time: the Fireside Chats and how President Roosevelt used them to Sway Public Opinion for the New Deal," by Matthew Lovell (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "Montgomery C. Meigs: Underrated and Practically Unknown," by Matthew Lukens (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "Tracing Back the Day of the Dead: Nahua Religion in Mexican Catholicism," by Andree Mueller (advisor: David Sowell)
- "The Captivity of Massy Harbison," by Anna Sowash (advisor: Dave Hsiung)

2008 Graduates
Senior Theses completed in Spring 2007
- "A Study on the Social Reaction to Capital Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania," by Erica M. Rhodes (advisor: Dave Hsiung)
- "An Analysis of J. Glenn Gray's Themes of War as Related to the U.S. Airborne Soldier in World War II," by Landon Lose (advisor: Dave Hsiung)
- "Invasive Plants along the United States' Eastern Seaboard and the Human Attempt at Controlling Nature," by Christian McClure (advisor: Dave Hsiung)
- "Horror and History," by Stephanie Fryling (advisor: David Sowell)
- "The Media's Fascination with President Kennedy," by Jacqueline Truland (advisor: Jim Tuten)
2007 Graduates
Senior theses completed in Spring 2006
- "Terror in the Coal Fields: Franklin B. Gowen and the Molly Maguires, 1860-77," by Wesley R. Langenbacher (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "A Personal Look into the Juniata River Valley, 1740-1775," by James C. Hayden (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "Patchwork, Pride and Power: A History of Quilts and Quilting among African-American Women in the Southern United States," by Laura Hebert (advisor: Jim Tuten)
- "The Beast: the American Enemy Image of Japan and the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb," by Emily O'Donnell (advisor: David Sowell)
- "Where Protest Found a Cause: External v. Internal Influences during the Mexico City Student Movements of 1968," by Janet Marie Howe (advisor: David Sowell)
- "Sex, Love and Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, and Their Stances on the Woman Question," by Julie Kennedy (advisor: David Sowell)
- "The Formation of the Tuition Plan Consortium," by Kevin Kasun (advisor: David Sowell)


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