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Historical Simulations and the Mechanics of Conquest: How Game Mechanics Tell Stories About the Past
(2020-01-20)Over the past decade, historical simulations have become one of the most popular genres of video games. With audiences in the millions, these historically themed games represent mass-market works of popular history. This ... -
Quarantined and Sequestered: Tattoo Charlie's and Tattoo Regulation in Baltimore, 1938 to 1980
(2020-01-20)The scholarship on American tattoo history is characterized by its chronological gaps and lack of varied perspectives or methodological approaches. This research focuses on a Baltimore tattoo business?s history from 1938 ... -
Sexuality, Socialism & Sandals: Studying the Obsolescence of Uranian Epistemology, 1867-1933
(2020-01-01)This thesis examines the history of the word ?uranian? and its place in modern LGBTQ studies. I compare the ideologies revolving around uranianism, and its progression from its creator Karl Heinrich Ulrichs to their ... -
?A Town Within A Forest?: The Walking Tour of Washington Grove, 1873-Present
(2020-01-01)The town of Washington Grove is uniquely placed in the middle of the suburban development of Montgomery County, Maryland. The Washington Grove Camp Meeting Association (WGCMA) was originally founded in 1873 and was dedicated ... -
?We Are the First to Unabashedly Go Out and Ask For a Prison?: Deindustrialization and the Politics of Prison Siting in Maryland, 1975-1996
(2020-01-20)This study investigates the geographic expansion of Maryland?s prison system in the late twentieth century by tracing debates over prison siting. The study aims to expand upon state specific studies of the twentieth century ... -
SOCCER IN THE SUBURBS: SPORT AND CLASS IN PRINCE GEORGE?S AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
(2020-01-20)Ten years ago, a high school soccer team comprised mostly of Hispanic players was inches away from claiming championship gold but fell short, and they mainly were defeated by teams consisting primarily of Caucasian players. ... -
Democracy Deferred: Race, Politics, and D.C.’s Two-Century Struggle for Full Voting Rights
This report provides a summary and analysis of the circumstances that led the citizens who lived in the area designated as the seat of government to lose their right to vote in 1801, why Congress has only partially ... -
The 51st State America Needs
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A MONUMENT TO BLACK RESISTANCE AND STRENGTH
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Using Archival Research to Develop Historical Thinking Skills in an Introductory Interdisciplinary Course
Though the value of working with historical primary sources to conduct independent research is wellestablished in the literature, opportunities for this kind of research are usually confined to classes for advanced majors. -
Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany
(2020-08-14)Beginning in early 1976, West Germans learned through media reports of the existence in the country of what were referred to, somewhat misleadingly, as “Qurʾan schools.” These were extracurricular courses where Muslim ... -
Black Power in Washington, D.C., 1961-1998
In late 1967, Stokely Carmichael, the nation’s foremost Black Power advocate, surveyed the landscape of U.S. politics looking for a place where concerted black organizing could have its deepest impact. He chose Washington, D.C. -
The Life and Times of John Graham Chambers: Sports and Commercialization of Leisure in Victorian Britain
(2018-01-01)The profound changes in middle-class athletics that began around the third quarter of the nineteenth century, both cultural and commercial, have been widely recognized by historians. Yet, one of the earliest and most ... -
Reciprocity Matters During the American Civil War: Canadian Raw Goods and the Union Supply Line
(2018-01-01)This thesis examines the economic benefits provided by the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 to several of the Union’s wartime suppliers. The vigorous trade between Canada and the Union that was facilitated by the treaty provided ... -
TAMING THE DESERT: FASTING, REFORM, AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD
(2019-01-01)This thesis tracks the development of monastic thought in the western Mediterranean by examining Saint Jerome and Saint John Cassian’s competing approaches to fasting. First this work places each man into his historical ... -
The Friends They Loathed: The Persecution of Maryland Quakers During the Revolutionary War
(2018-01-01)Maryland’s Revolutionary government persecuted Maryland Quakers for their declared neutrality throughout the Revolutionary War in more extreme ways than the governments of neighboring states. Quakers were targeted because ... -
??Re-thinking "The American Dream of Integration" in Suburbia: Race, Class and Resegregation in Randallstown 1956-2003
(2018-01-01)This research focuses on the suburban community of Randallstown in the northwest corner of Baltimore County, Maryland. During the approximately fifty years covered in this narrative (1956-2006) Randallstown underwent a ... -
"What White Nonsense is this?" Investigating the Seldom Seen or Heard Stories of Latinxs in the National Register of Historic Places
(2019-01-01)I am studying the master narrative of the United States told through the National Register. I want to understand how the National Register presents the place of Latinxs in our national story and what factors have led to ... -
Mistresses of the Press: The Roles of Women in Print Houses in 17th Century England
(2019-01-01)This thesis examines the participation of women in the seventeenth-century English print trade. While previous research emphasizes a lack of the study of women in early print, this thesis highlights seven women who actively ...
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