History Senior Capstone

Projects in this collection are completed by history undergraduate students in their final year.

Capstone Projects from 2020

World War I and the Policing Power of the State
Clifton Eddie
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), A Unifier in the Late Sengoku Era
Gabriel Yanez
Japanese American Internment Camps: Resistance and Perseverance
Nicholas H Sieber
Diplomatic Relations between Russia, China and Mongolia: The Creation of the Mongolian People's Republic, 1881-1924
Jeffery Pittsenbarger
Death Squads: The Hidden Killers of Colombia
Cullen Rance

Capstone Projects from 2019

You Say You Want A Revolution: Slavery in Haiti and the United States in the Early 1800s
Owen Reutlinger
The Teutonic Order and the Baltic Crusades
Alex Eidler
The Creation of a King: How Geoffrey of Monmouth Influenced the Story of King Arthur
Marcos Morales II
Restraint and Patient Agency: Institutional Control at the Oregon State Hospital in the 1920s
Hudson Kennedy
Misinformed but Well Meaning: "Ethnic Cleansing" and United States Newspaper Coverage of the Bosnian War From 1992-1995
Brant Cheeley
Mental Hospitals and their Effect on Race and Gender in the 1920s
Dayna Ragasa
Immigrants, Mental Health, and the Oregon State Hospital
Andres Alvarez
Eugenics In Practice at the Oregon State Hospital
Damon Solomos
Confronting the Early Relationship Between the United States and Saudi Arabia
Alexandra Bell
Actualization of Calvin’s Eucharistic Theology in Geneva
Austin Jones

Capstone Projects from 2018

'To The Dishonor of God': Religious Roots for Puritan Morality Laws During the Interregnum
Carter D Craig
The Progressive Era, the Depression, and the American Mental Institution System
Andrew Dobrowolski
The Mental Health Records of Progressivism from the Oregon State Hospital
Carliee M Leach-Provancha
The Bracero Program and the Migration from Michoacán to Oregon: 1942-1995
Martin Salinas
Schießbefehl and the Issues of Retroactivity Within the East German Border Guard Trials
Keegan McMurry
Mental Illness Ideologies and the Asylum: Individual Case Files from the Oregon State Hospital
Erika Dyer
Jacek Kuron: An Activist of Solidarity's Future
Brandon C Meredith
El Camino Real: Commercial Trade Route to Santa Fe
Jodi R Harrison

Capstone Projects from 2017

Sin, Salvation and the Medieval Physician: Religious Influences on Fourteenth Century Medicine
Chloe Buzzard
Concerning Peasants: The Underlying Cause for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
Dylan Vosti
Character, Crafts, and Physique: American Men and the Meaning of Masculinity in World War I and Its Aftermath
Keegan G Le Bleu
Working for Walpole: Restorative Spaces in the Progressive Era
Spencer M Welter
The Power of Nine: Federalists, Antifederalists, and Natural Law Synthesis in the Ninth Amendment
James Masnov
Violence in Algeria: From Colony to Independent Nation
Ryan D Steele
Proposition 187: California's Fear of Immigration
Tyler Larsen
The White Rose’s Resistance to Nazism: The Influence of Friedrich Nietzsche
Katilyn R. Kirkman
God and Revolution:Religion and Power from Pre-Revolutionary France to the Napoleonic Empire
Alexa Weight

Capstone Projects from 2016

Eugenics and Racial Hygiene: The Connections between the United States and Germany
Nicholas Baker
Reforming 'the Sacred': Standardization of Church Space in Laudian England (1633-1641)
Ashley Fierstadt
Giving Voice to Silent Destruction
Michelle A Smail
The Irish Theology: Formation of Celtic Christianity in Ireland (5th to 9th Century)
Emma M Foster
Peron, Argentina and the Nazis
Daniel Correa
Head of State: An Exploration of Developing Concepts of Kingship as Portrayed in the Severed Heads of Medieval Literature
Emily Walley
The Assertion of English Royal Authority in the American Colonies and Royal Revenue: 1651-1701
Benjamin Lesh
Technology and Strategy: The War in Vietnam
Isaac Keister
The Violent Revolution: Nationalism and the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Allan Chet Emmons
The Nuremberg Laws: Creating the Road to the T-4 Program
Jennifer V Hight

Capstone Projects from 2015

French vs France: Vichy Government Attempts to Save the Empire
Jennifer R Roberts
American Citizen or Internal Enemy: Reasons Behind the Creation of the Japenese-American Interment Camps
Konner Monk
Silencing Lord Haw-Haw: An Analysis of British Public Reaction to the Broadcasts, Conviction and Execution of Nazi Propagandist William Joyce
Matthew Rock Cahill
Pulling the Strings: The Influential Power of Women in Viking Age Iceland
Kendall M. Holcomb
Manipulating the Medieval Past: Convivencia and the Politics of Religious Identity
Gregory Baker
Zoot Suit Riots and the Role of the Zoot Suit in Chicano Culture
Rebecca Grizzle
Forgotten Bravery: The San Patricio Battalion and the Irish Experience
Brian D. Reese
Tricolor and the Union Jack at Sea: How the French Revolution Decapitated Napoleon's Navy and Thereby Ruined His Ambitions
Dominic Annen
Social Implications of the Eruption of Mount Saint Helens
Jordan Sterling
A History of the Book: Disrupting Society from Tablet to Tablet
Alyssa Adams
Anna O. Funk
Richelle McDaniel
Alissa McAlpine
Meghan Link
Jennifer Hight
Kristin Eck
Robin Roemer
Reina Morgan
Julia Grabhorn
Audrey Jones
Braden Shribbs
Keelie Daquilanto
Janel Chandler
Sarah Ellen Pettigrew
Chapter 15 - The Future of the Book and the Slow Book Movement
Sarah Ellen Pettigrew
Chapter 14 - The Electronic Book as a Disruptive Technology
Janel Chandler
Chapter 13 - The Genre
Keelie Daquilanto
Chapter 12 - Revolution of Printing Technology and the Development of Paperbacks
Braden Shribbs
Chapter 11 - Developing Printed Forms of Fiction
Audrey Jones
Chapter 10 - The Path to Present-Day Libraries
Julia Grabhorn
Chapter 09 - Publishers and Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Roles
Reina Morgan
Chapter 08 - Mechanization of the Printing Press
Robin Roemer
Chapter 07 - Evolution of the Codex
Kristin Eck
Chapter 06 - Voltaire: An Example of Enlightenment Censorship
Jennifer Hight
Chapter 05 - Censorship
Meghan Link
Chapter 04 - Printing as a Catalyst for Social Revolution
Alissa McAlpine
Chapter 03 - The Spread of Knowledge via Print
Richelle McDaniel
Chapter 02 - From Scroll to Codex: New Technology and New Opportunities
Anna O. Funk
Chapter 01 - The History of Early Materials
Alyssa Adams

Capstone Projects from 2014 and earlier

Zoot Suiters and Pachucos
Alyssa Penn
Young Ernesto Guevara and the Myth of Che
Dan Sprinkle
Wrong Time? Wrong Place? Wrong Side? The Confederate Prison System
Patricia A Darling
Women in Nazi Propaganda
Jonathan Moch
Without Bread or Work in the New Millennium: Effects of Argentine Economic Policy on the Crash of 2001
Michael Granat
Winegrowing in Chile
Luke Martin
Who Put the "Cuba" in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Gregory J. K. Garcia
What Happened to the Radical Left in Mexico?
Dan Sprinkle
United Fruit Company: The Banana Empire
Clinton Trimmer
The Templar Knights
Mark Rouska
The Tango
Michelle Haynes
The State of Brazil Leading to WWI
Allan C Bacon
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