The Department of History affords students the chance to dive deeper into their studies and earn a Master of Arts in History. Students can also be active participants in Phi Alpha Theta and the History Club.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Scientific Imperialism: Science, Nature, Race, and the U.S. Conquest of California, Jared Dewight Allinson
Indigenous Women in Southeastern War Culture, Kyra Jordan Franks
The Military Order of the Serpent and Philippine War Memory, 1904-1974, Eric Jason Kriner
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Classical Origins of the United States, Samuel White
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Not Damsels in Distress: Women and the Video Game Industry, Abby Jayne Pucik
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Horror of History: Medieval and Early Modern Christianity and the Use of Narratological Persecution, William Cole Younger
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Tale of Two Culpers: Social Context of Revolutionary Espionage, Kelsey Samantha DeFord
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Arkansas’s Rosenwald Schools 1917-1924, Chelsea Deserea McNutt
Stemming the Tide of Death: American Prisoners of the Japanese at Cabanatuan #1 in the Philippines, 1942, Will Edward Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Snags, Sawyers, and Shifting Opinion: The Usage and Response to Snag Boats and Improvement on the Arkansas River from 1800-1860, Michael Colton Adkisson
Gendered Confines: Women's Prison Reform in 1920s & 1930s Arkansas, Ryan Anthony Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Intellectual Diversity in Revolutionary America: Anarchism, Feminism, Abolitionism, and Classicism Surrounding the Early National Period (1750-1800), Zachary W. Deibel
Prejudice, Progress, and Preservation: The "Bertig Dynasty" of Northeast Arkansas, 1870 - 1950, Elizabeth Elaine Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Case Studies of Tolerance and Intolerance in Northeast Arkansas circa 1900-1970, Monica Campbell
Defeat and Memory at the Arkansas State Capitol: The Little Rock Monument to the Women of the Confederacy, 1896-1914, Zachary Lynn Elledge
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Transnational Multivariate Analysis of American Civil War Diplomacy, Thomas Gilbert Henry
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Kirchenleute Argument and the Evolving Language of Protest: Popular Constitutionalism or "Licentious Liberty?", Nathaniel Payton Conley
