Theses/Dissertations from 2024
From Extraction to Attraction: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, Heritage Tourism and Interpretation, 1945-2010, Paige Figanbaum
Incarcerated Nations: Confinement, Removal, and Policing on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Mary Ludwig
Parsing the Plains: Placing Emporia, Kansas in the Great Plains Midwest, Joseph Noce
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Getting Hitched and Unhitched: The History of Marriage and Divorce in Las Vegas, 1931-1965, Angela Christine Moor
A Tale of Two Townsites: The Formative Years of the Las Vegas Valley 1902-1907, Joseph Thomson
The Floating World Around and Between; Print Culture, Racial Blurring, and Japanese Views of Black People from the 15th to the 19th Century, Angel J. Wakiihuri
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Exodus Arena: Cashman Field and the (Re)Development of Sports and Recreation in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Ryan Browar
“Who Says Lowriders Are Only For Men?”: Lowriders In Las Vegas, Nevada, Alejandra Herrera
Policing Sin City: The Creation and Impact of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 1973-1985, Richard Kim
Saving the Bad Kids, Caging Los Chicos Malos: Racialized Juvenile Justice and Latinx Youth in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands, 1900-1970, Doris S. Morgan Rueda
Promoting Paradise: The Recruitment of Volga German Immigrants to the American Midwest, 1870-1900, Kassidy N. Whetstone
Scientific Collaboration and the Cold War: 1945-1970, Autumn Wyland
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Frontier of the Labor Movement: Latinas and the Longest Strike in Twentieth-Century Las Vegas, Maribel Estrada Calderón
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Fabric of Civil War Society: The Effect of Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1861 to 1939, Shae Cox
Changing Paradigms: Creating an Apache Borderland Cattle Economy, 1730-1799, Jenni Tifft-Ochoa
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Eyes on the Street: Los Angeles Police Department Surveillance, Policing, and Crime in Black South Central from William Parker to Rodney King, Stephen Bohigian
“On the Altar of Sectarianism”: Orson Murray’s Anti-Biblical Thought and the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1863, James Carson Howard
Beyond Suffrage: Intermarriage, Land, and Meanings of Citizenship and Marital Naturalization/Expatriation in the United States, Shiori Yamamoto
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“Need We Mention Our Fashions? “The Educational, Entertaining, and Nostalgic Uses of Godey’s Lady’s Book Fashion Plates, 1830 To 1940, Maggie Bukowski
Mixing the Business of Pleasure: How Mixing Shaped the Labor and Narratives of Female Entertainers in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Evan Maryl Casey
To Remain Near the "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty and United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover
"The Only People Who Can Get AIDS-Are People": The AIDS Crisis in Mainstream Crisis, 1981-1995, Franklin Howard
Power and Authority of Royal Queen Mothers: Juxtaposing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan During the Early Modern Period, Reneé N. Langlois
Outer Space in a Western Place: How Environmental Perceptions of the American West Shaped the Space Race, William Marino
Cultivating Children: Continuity and Change in African-American Child Labor During the Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877, Alan Mattay
Case Study: Armenian and Cuban Ethnic Interest Groups in American Foreign Policy, Harry H. Terzian
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Historical Case Study of Title IX in Nevada: An Excellent Investment in Our Youth, Jason Clark
Reaching across Land and Ocean: Daughters of Bilitis, Minorities Research Group, and Resistance Formation in the International Lesbian Network, Linsey Scriven
The Transformation of American Federalism, 1848-1912, Lance Sorenson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Family, Housing, and the Political Geography of Gay Liberation in Los Angeles County, 1960-1986, Ian M. Baldwin
Homeland, Homestead, and Haven: The Changing Perspectives of Zion National Park, 1700-1930, Sara Black
“The Ground You Walk on Belongs to My People": Lakota Community Building, Activism, and Red Power in Western Nebraska, 1917-2000, David Christensen
Nindanishinaabewimin: Ojibwe Peoplehood in the North American West, 1854-1954, Margaret Huettl
From Access to Excess: Agribusiness, Federal Water Programs, and the Historical Roots of the California Water Crisis, Tracy Marie Neblina
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Nevada Legal Services: The Legal Services Corporation Restrictions and the Diminishing Capacity of Access to Justice for the Poor, William Todd Ashmore
Alaska Natives And The Power Of Perseverance: The Fight For Sovereignty And Land Claims In Southeast Alaska, 1912-1947, Bridget Lee Baumgarte
Creating the Black California Dream: Virna Canson and the Black Freedom Struggle in the Golden State’s Capital, 1940-1988, Kendra M. Gage
Regulating the Dead: Rights for the Corpse and the Removal of San Francisco's Cemeteries, Lance Muckey
Reviving a Spirit of Controversy: Roman Catholics and the Pursuit of Religious Freedom in Early America, Nicholas Pellegrino
The Will of the Master: Testamentary Manumission in Virginia, 1800-1858, Catherine Wisnosky
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
No Prejudice Here: Racism, Resistance, and the Struggle for Equality in Denver, 1947-1994, Summer Marie Cherland
Las Vegas in an Era of Limits: Urban Water Politics in the Colorado River Basin, Christian S. Harrison
Slavery, Sacred Texts, and the Antebellum Confrontation with History, Jordan Tuttle Watkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dressing Indian: Appropriation, Identity, and American Design, 1940-1968, Alison Rose Bazylinski
Actresses Redefining Theater and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France, Rebecca Anne Bolen
Claiming Citizenship: Las Vegas' Conventional Women's Organizations Establishing Citizenship Through Civic Engagement, Cynthia Cicero
From Daimon to Demon: The Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity, Hailey Marie Fuller
The Quebec Act and the Demise of Greater Britain, Trevor Michael Henson
Our Turn: Working Women In The Las Vegas Valley, 1940-1980, Irene B. Scholl Rostine
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity: Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900., Michael Kay Bennion
New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy, Michael Dean Duchemin
American Propaganda, Popular Media, and the Fall of Jacobo Arbenz, Zachary Carl Fisher
Creating a Nation in Adversity: Advent of Egyptian Nationalism in British Occupation, Kathryn Louise James
Reclaimed from a Contracting Zion: The Evolving Significance of St. Thomas, Nevada, Aaron James Mcarthur
"So Much for Fond Five-Dollar Memories": Prostitution in Las Vegas, 1905-1955, Marie Katherine Rowley
To Set the World Right: Religious Pluralism and the Progressive Era, Lance Sorenson
Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Germany. A Transnational History., Julia Simone Stetler
Die Deutschen in Kalifornien: Germans in Urban California, 1850-1860, Carole Cosgrove Terry
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin, Leisl Ann Carr Childers
From khaki to brown: Community formation, homeownership, and mobility in Santa Ana, California, 1950-2000, Stefani Jan Evans
1983: The most dangerous year, Andrew R. Garland
Newe country: Environmental degradation, resource war, irrigation and the transformation of culture on Idaho's Snake River plain, 1805--1927, Sterling Ross Johnson
For the benefit of others: Harriet Martineau: feminist, abolitionist and travel writer, Laura J. Labovitz
Taming the waters that taketh from the devil’s playground: A history of flood control in Clark County, Nevada, 1955-2010, Jarvis Marlow
Jackpot! A legal history of Indian gaming in California, Aaron Peardon
Gambling with lives: A history of occupational health in southern Nevada, 1905--2010, Michelle Ann Turk
The Whiter lotus: Asian religions and reform movements in America, 1836-1933, Edgar A. Weir Jr.
On the back of the army: A comparative study of Romanization in Britain and Egypt, Renee Wiseman
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
From ‘baggage’ to not ‘non-persons’: Levy v. Louisiana and the struggle for equal rights for ‘illegitimate’ children, Sherrie Anne Bakelar
Fire on the mountain: Growth and conflict in Colorado ski country, Michael W. Childers
Saints in Sin City: Religion and community building in twentieth century Las Vegas, Matthew R. Davis
The Gendering of Nevada politics: The ERA ratification campaign, 1973-1981, Caryll Batt Dziedziak
Multiform segregation in the context of the urban crises in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, 1930 - 1980, Colin M. FitzGerald
Weapons labs and city growth: Livermore and Albuquerque, 1945-1975, Layne Rochelle Karafantis
Building DuPont: Capitalism, manufactures, and place in early America, 1800-1820, Christopher Manning
Preserving the past and planning the future in Pasadena, Riverside and San Bernardino, Charles Conway Palmer
Atomic governance: Militarism, secrecy, and science in post-war America, 1945-1958, Mary D. Wammack
Transforming space into place: Development, rock climbing, and interpretation in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, 1960-2010, Megan Sharp Weatherly
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
'So manie gallant gentlemen': Imperial humanists and Tudor imperial identity, Karin Alana Amundsen
Governor James G. Scrugham and the search for economic prosperity for Nevada, 1923--1927, Paul Robert Bruno
Chinese transnationalism and the creation of a liberal public sphere, Lanelle Elizabeth Christman
Stigma Cities: Dystopian Urban Identities In The United States West And South In The Twentieth Century, Jonathan Lavon Foster
"The Varied carols I hear": The music of the New Deal in the West, Peter L. Gough
Water use and natural limits in the Las Vegas Valley: A history of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Christian Harrison
Gray Zones of modern genocide, Megan Dale Lee
The plunge into secession: The Presbyterian schism of the Reverends. Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell and Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Deborah Jane Rayner
"The latent enmity of Georgia": Sherman's March and its effects on the social division of Georgia, Michael Jason Spurr
Mining wars: Corporate expansion and labor violence in the Western desert, 1876-1920, Kenneth Dale Underwood
Shuttle to serenity: The history and impact of Zion National Park's transportation system, Reuben Edward Wadsworth