History

• Clio at College Park: The Teaching of History at the University of Maryland, 1859-1968 

  Ross, Martha Jackson (1978)

  The evolution of the teaching of history at the University of Maryland reflects both the changing role of history as a course of study and the altered status of history as a scholarly discipline. After a succession of ...

• PRINTING POWER, PRESSING POLITICS: M.N. KATKOV AND THE RISE OF PRIVATE NEWSPAPER PRESS IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1860s-1880s 

  Graff, Ala Creciun (2022)

  This dissertation examines the rise of the private political press and its engagement in Russian politics during the 1860s-1880s. During these three decades, Russia’s newspaper press underwent a dramatic cultural, ...

• "A Decent External Sorrow": Death, Mourning, and the American Revolution 

  Dye, Dusty Marie (2022)

  This dissertation argues that the study of eighteenth-century deathways provide important perspectives on the lives and experiences of those who lived through the colonial era, the Imperial Crisis, the American Revolution, ...

• Henry Theodore Tuckerman as Revealed in his Published Works 

  Ellsworth, Richard Grant (1959)

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman, as revealed in his published works, was, in many ways, a model of the mid-nineteenth century American. In his travel accounts, his historical and biographical scholarship, his social and political ...

• Schools as Laboratories: Science, Children's Bodies, and School Reformers in the Making of Modern Argentina (1880-1930) 

  Gonzalez, Sabrina (2022)

  This dissertation examines the influence of scientific ideas in the school to illuminate teachers’ participation in the production of scientific knowledge about pedagogy and childhood. I interrogate how scientific theories ...

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