Senior Theses

Every Carthage student is required to submit a senior thesis or capstone project to demonstrate their mastery of their chosen area of study. Here is a look at the projects Carthage history majors have created for this requirement.

• “Groppi: The Forgotten Ally”
• “The Dark Past to the Las Vegas Strip”
• “Periods of History”
• “The Red Scare: Commies in K-Town?”
• “Rajneeshpuram: Cultures Collide”
• “Milwaukee Socialism and the Effects on Racial Segregation”
• “A Verdant Wind: The Transformation of Japanese Civilization through the Meiji Restoration”
• “The Ideal Black Identity as set by the Divine Nine”
• “Students for a Democratic Society at UW-Madison”
• “The Children’s View: Response to Social Change in Progressive Era Chicago, ca. 1900-1925”
• “The Chicago Riots of 1919”
• “A Push Towards Industrialization: Japan’s Encounters with the West between 1853-1900”
• “Driven Agents in the Grassroots Revolution: American Evangelical Missionaries in Cold War Central America”
• “They Passed: The Strategic Impact of Foreign Intervention in the Spanish Civil War”
• “Reflections of Social Change in Irish Society through Broadcast Media”
• “Blood on the Ice: The Diplomatic Implications of Cold War Hockey”
• “Memory and History in the Guatemalan Community of Nuevo Horizonte”
• “Medellín Cartel, U.S./Colombian diplomatic relations, and Plan Co.”
• “Alcohol in Norse Society: Mead the Wisdom Granter, and Ale the Wisdom Taker”
• “Winston Churchill and the British Bombing Survey”
• “The Panama Canal: How Panama Defeated Nicaragua for a Modern Marvel”
• “Irish Whisky after the Act of Union”
• “‘My People Are In Distress’: The American Indian Movement and the Struggle for American Indian Self-Determination Rights”
• “Misdirected Blame: Ronald Reagan and the Ramifications of Deinstitutionalization”
• “Identifying the Catholic Immigrant Role in the Temperance Movement”
• “A Culture of Consumption: How quack medicine dominated nineteenth-century American” advertising
• “What They Fought For: the Irish Rebellion of 1798”
• “The Boston Tea Party: The Radical Agenda Spread Through Newspaper”
• “War in Iraq: Reasons for America’s Struggles”
• “The Forgotten War: Using the television series M*A*S*H as social gauge for the Korean War”
• “‘Black Water Rising:’ How Racism Made and Killed the Blues”
• “The Menace of The Machine: Robert La Follette & The Wisconsin Idea”
• “How the Armenian experience in World War I constituted genocide”
• “The Back Door to War Theory in the context of conspiracy scholarship in regards to the bombing of Pearl Harbor”
• “The reasons for the failure of FDR’s National Recovery Administration”
• “The ways in which the Beatles impacted class in Great Britain”
• “The relationship between the Kennedy White House and the fine arts world”
• “The evolving role of U.S. military generals during WWII”