History Senior Theses • History • Carthage College

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.

“Ancient Egyptian and Viking Death and Burial: Similarities and Differences
“The History of the forgotten battalion of WW2”
“La Matanza de Tlatelolco: Social Impacts as Reflected in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Theatrical Works”
“Suez: A Doomed Quest for the West”
“Communism: Red Scare on the Silver Screen”
“Kennedy’s Gamble: Examining Kennedy’s High-Risk diplomacy during the first week of the Cuban missile crisis”
“Curious Rubish’: An Analysis of Fairy Belief in the Scottish Highlands and Problematic 19th Century Ethnography”
“Molding Modern America: Columnist Murray Kempton’s Description of the Vast Changes of the Fifties into the Sixties”
“Understanding Evil: An Analysis of the Ideology, History and Lasting Legacy of Nazism”
“Psychiatric Sexism: A Gendered History of American Mental Health Diagnoses, Treatments, and Institutionalization”
“Putting together a bunch of papers’: Queer Zine Networks in Chicago & Milwaukee”
“An Election System Under Stress: A Deep Dive into Election Administration in Wisconsin”
“’Progressive and Progressing’: Illuminating the Work of the White Missionary Teachers in the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island”
“A Tale of Two Cities: Czechago and the ’68 Democratic Convention”
“Reconstruction: The issues that kept us broken”
“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”