This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of History. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Motown Movie Magic: Respectability, Gender, and Authenticity in Crossover Films, 1972-1989, Nicholas Andrew Ambs
THE POLITICS OF ABUNDANCE: AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Elizabeth Berit Barrs
Spirited Debates: Montana Prohibition, Politics, & Repeal, 1925 - 1938, Hunter A. Richardson
Black Deathways: An African Methodist History, 1829-1916, Christina M. Varney
Navigating the Soviet Experiment: Travels and Writings of John Dos Passos and Edmund Wilson In Soviet Russia, 1928-1935, Robert Allan Winslow
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
MANSFIELD, MARINES, AND MOTHERS: THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE TO THE AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN NORTH CHINA FROM 1945-1946, James Robert Compton
"It Costs Us Something": Mike Mansfield and the Effort to Evaluate the American Foreign Aid Program in South Vietnam, 1953-1960, Kristin D. Gates
“Making a Science of Cooperation”: Labor, Business, Government, and the Defense Council System in the Wartime American West, 1916-1921, Robert Michael Joseph Lambeth
"A Blacker List of Crime Was Never Looked Upon": Mormon Violence, Utah Statehood, and the Memory of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Lerene K. McFarland
Damming Paradise: Public Power, Free Enterprise, and Tribal Sovereignty in the Mountain West in the Twentieth Century, Jacob T. Schmidt
“THE LONG ARM OF THE DREADED B.I.”: THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL SURVEILLANCE STATE, William Schuman-Kline
Battles of the Mind: The Reaction Against Progressive Education, 1945-1959, Ben Yturri
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The New Monumental Era: Daniel Webster and the Commemoration of Compromise in the Age of Disunion, 1853-1865, Michael James Larmann
The Road to Self-Support: Vocational Rehabilitation and the Associational State, 1917-1945, William Jared Norwood
Evaluating a Need for Somatic Access to Classical Objects in Public Museums, Jerod G. Peitsmeyer
"A Splendid Investment": Black Colonization and America's Pacific Empire, 1898-1904, Jolie Colette Scribner
THE RADICALISM OF REBECCA FELTON: REFORMING SOUTHERN MASCULINTY and CREATING AND DESTROYING HISTORY: BUTTE, MONTANA’S MODEL CITY PROGRAM, 1968-1975, John C. Stefanek
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
WORTH A DAM: GLACIER VIEW AND THE PRESERVATION OF WILD AMERICA, Shawn Patrick Bailey
Marketing the Golden Rule: Near East Relief and Philanthropy’s Role in the Political Economy, 1915-1930, Elizabeth Berit Barrs
FLOWERS FROM THE DEVIL: AN AMERICAN OPIATE CRISIS, THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE PROHIBITION STATE, 1840-1940, Clinton David Lawson
Beyond Nationalism: James and Grace Lee Boggs and the Black Radical Tradition in 1980s Detroit, Ryan A. McCarty
"Black Colorism and White Racism: Discourse on the Politics of White Supremacy, Black Equality, and Racial Identity, 1915-1930", Hannah Paige McDonald
"A Pressure Not To Be Resisted or Evaded": Military Occupation, Reform, and the Incorporation of Northern Montana, 1879-1916, Hayden Nelson
How the West was Fun: Constructing the Western Tourism Experience in the Yellowstone Wylie Camps, 1880-1916, Jennifer E. Simpson
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE, RACIAL CONFLICTS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM, 1945-1980, Timothy Paul Ballard
TOBACCO POLITICS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN GOVERNANCE, 1862-1933, Patrick Mulford O'Connor
A Capitalist's Social Gospel: Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus and the Promise of Upward Mobility, 1875-1921, Joshua Pretzer
Blasting the Farm: Chemical High Explosives and the Rise of Industrial Agriculture, 1867-1930, Patrick Benjamin Swart
"How About the Tariff and Homestead?" Homestead, Tariff Rhetoric, and Wage Insecurity in 1892, Paul T. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A NEW AND FAMILIAR POWER: THE RISE OF PENTECOSTALISM AMONG THE BLACKFEET IN MONTANA, 1940-1975, Scott A. Barnett
The Beautiful Game as a Soviet Game: Sportsmanship, Style, and Statecraft during the Golden Age of Soviet Soccer, Caleb Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Business of Empire: American Capitalists, the Nicaraguan Canal, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1849-1858, Jonathan D. Del Buono
The Russian Mission: Seventh-Day Adventism, Bolshevism, and the Imminent Apocalypse, 1881 - 1946, Garett B. Tree
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
“The Most Poisonous of All Diseases of Mind or Body”: Colorphobia and the Politics of Reform, April J. Gemeinhardt
Prescribing the American Dream: Psychoanalysts, Mass Media, and the Construction of Social and Political Norms in the 1950's, Daniel P. Kamienski
All That Jazz: Federal Cultural Exchanges and Jazz Diplomacy, 1956-1964, James Vaughn
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"Why Wait Until They Commit a Crime?": Moral Imbecility and the Problem of Knowledge in Progressive America, 1880-1920, Chelsea D. Chamberlain
ANATOLII LUNACHARSKII AND THE SOVIET THEATER, John E. Dunkum
We Are Against Socialized Medicine, But What Are We For?: Federal Health Reinsurance, National Health Policy, and the Eisenhower Presidency, Jordan M. Graham
Hounded: Dogs, Humans, and the Rise of the American City, Jonathan William Hall
July 4, 1865: A Nation in Search of Itself, Sorn A. Jessen
The Piegan View of the Natural World, 1880-1920, Rosalyn R. LaPier
Alpine Experiments: The National Parks and the Development of Skiing in the American West, Jeffrey T. Meyer
A Public Revolt against Spitting: Education and Politics in the Progressive Era, Patrick J. O'Connor
"Spitting Positively Forbidden": The Anti-Spitting Campaign, 1896-1910, Patrick J. O'Connor
Cases of Conscience: The Supreme Court and Conscientious Objectors to Military Service During the Post World War II Era, Robert S. Rutherfurd
RELIGION, RUSSO-BRITISH DIPLOMACY AND FOREIGN POLICY IN ANNA IVANOVNA’S RUSSIA (1730-1740), Kyeann Sayer
Green Voters, Gun Voters: Hunting and Politics in Modern America, Randall Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Public Power, Private Matters: The American Social Hygiene Association and the Policing of Sexual Health in the Progressive Era, Kayla Blackman
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Grizzly West: The Story of the Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Michael Jacob Dax
"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915, Sydney Rene Gwinn
"We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable": Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893, Dylan Fredric Huisken
The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West, Ian Robert Stacy
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation, David James Brooks
Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era, Cody Dodge Ewert
Between the Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert and Louise Line, Heather Ashely Mulliner
King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah's Iran, 1968-1978, Bennett Gabriel Sherry
GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA, Virginia Lyndsay Summey
Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatments, Nicholas VanHole
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Columbia Gardens Amusement Park: Company Sponsored Community in Butte, Montana, Matthew R. Carl
Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971, Aaron David Hyams
The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska, Ahnie Litecky
"WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING OURSELVES:" CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, SOUTHWEST DENVER AND THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM, 1964-1994, Elizabeth Mary Ryan
FROM CAMPING TO PERMANENCE: A HISTORY OF MONTANA MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES, Zoe Ann Stoltz
Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era, Molly Kathleen Burnett Varley
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Lumber Baron, Gregory Llewellyn Gordon
A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong -- their History, Culture and American Journey, David A. Keightley
From Subsistence to Dependence: The Legacy of Reclamation and Allotment on Quechan Indian Lands, 1700-1940, Ian Michael Smith
Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection, Reuben Jay Swindall
"The Lawmen Faced the Outlaws, No Badge Upon a Breast:" Historical Memory and the Legacy of Henry Plummer and the Montana Vigilantes, Melissa Poindexter Thomasma
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana, Anna Claire Amundson
Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885-1915, Shawn Patrick Bailey
James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991, Milena Oganesyan
Montana Zion: American Communalism in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community, Lesley June Weidow
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Rewilding of New York's North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines and the Adirondacks, Peter Aagaard
Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico, Doris Swann Avery
Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy, Margaret Ashley Caldwell
British Foreign Policy Under Canning, Andrew Montgomery Endorf
The Mirror of Nature: Chesapeake Perceptions of Wilderness, 1650-1787, Katie Elizabeth Green
Mistaken in the Man: The Life, Death, and Estate Trial of John McClellan, Peter Nels Olsen
Children at War: Underage Americans Illegally Fighting the Second World War, Joshua Pollarine
Independent Internationalism and Nationalistic Pragmatism: The United States and Mexico Relations during the 1920s, Rodolfo Villarreal-Rios
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Salmon oysters and the spotted owl: Environment and economy in coastal Washington 1985-2006, Robert A. Bauer
Religious outsider: Episcopalian Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle in frontier Utah 1867-1886, Benjamin M. Cater
Douglas MacArthur's occupation of Japan| Building the foundation of U.S.-Japan relationship, Mieko Endo
From Newgate to the New World: a study of London's transported female convicts 1718-1775, Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey
Lettie Conrad and Victorian ideals in the American West, Jennifer Delaney Rose
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Clif Merritt and wilderness wildlife : Learning how to live in paradise, Robert N. Baker
Coming full circle: Poverty and public assistance in the United States: Colonial days to 2004, Danielle Jeanne Bird
Montana's environmental place-based writers, Annie Probst Kilgour
The Fryingpan Arkansas Project: A political economic and environmental history, Brian D. Petersen
Then and now: Blackfeet subsistence and Glacier National Park, Charlie Presti
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Thunder over the North| Air-to-air combat over North Vietnam, Benjamin B. Donnelly
Michelangelo and Leonardo| The frescoes for the Palazzo Vecchio, Paula Rae Duncan
Relationship between nationalism and human rights: A Macedonian case study, Allison M. Fromm
Joy in Minersville| A study of the Butte Mines and independent leagues, Richard D. Gibbons
MiG! 6 o'clock high!: A history of the Design Bureau and an analysis of its aircrafts combat history, Ethan J. Johnson
Heinrich von Treitschke| Creating a German national mission, Johnathan Bruce Kilgour
Alternative or traditional?: A history of solar and wind energy, Nathan S. McConnell