• A History of North Dakota's Petroleum Industry, 1917-2017 

  Herz, Clarence Anthony (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  North Dakota’s petroleum industry can be traced back to 1917, when Arthur Blum found a small amount of oil in a well drilled to water his cattle. The unsuccessful exploration for oil continued from 1917 until 1951, when ...

• Beryl Levine: North Dakota's first female State Supreme Court justice 

  Stanley, Cody Benard (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  The intent of this thesis is to explore the life and perspective of the North Dakota State Supreme Court's first female justice, Beryl J. Levine. The overarching question throughout this thesis is, whether or not, because ...

• Lawton's Bloodhounds: Indigenous Recruits in the Service of the United States Army in the Philippine American War, 1899-1902 

  Butcher, Carole Irene (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Following the Spanish American War, the United States became embroiled in a guerrilla war with Filipino insurgents who had sought independence from Spain. They objected to the purchase of the Philippine Islands by the ...

• An Unintended Activist: Judge Ronald N. Davies and the Influence of the Northern Plains on Twentieth-Century Civil Rights and Judicial Progressivism 

  Reikowsky, Stacy Michelle (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  A devotion to an open and progressive interpretation of human rights and the law secured Judge Ronald N. Davies’ legacy as an unintended, yet influential activist for advancing civil rights and of the twentieth century. ...

• Farming Democracy: American Agricultural Policy from the Great War to the Great Society 

  Biles, Amanda Belle (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  In the days of the early republic, agriculture provided more than just an economic foundation; it shaped the country socially, and politically, too. Thomas Jefferson and others wrote at length of the role farming played ...

• The Woman’s Club of Moorhead 1868-1946 

  Eidem, Katie Ann (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  Far from upholding the domestic ideal of the Victorian Era, the Moorhead Woman’s Club helped establish the first public library in the city and strove for changes in education through active engagement in the public “sphere.” ...

• Shattering the Color Barrier: Black Students, White Colleges, and the Story of Project E-Quality at Moorhead State College (1968-1974) 

  Vanorny, Hannah Mae (North Dakota State University, 2005)

  During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many predominantly white colleges began admitting larger numbers of black students. According to a 1974-1975 University of Michigan study, these schools shared similar predisposing ...

• The Battleground for the American Past: The Influence of the Vietnam War in Contemporary Memory 

  Olmsted, Chelsea Dawn (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Commemorative programming for historic anniversaries reveals an interpretive and narrative evolution between public memory and history. The divisiveness of the war and the public’s ambivalence about its meaning allowed for ...

• 'They Ain't Afraid of no Ghosts': Dark Tourism at Historic Sites 

  Johnson, Kaci Lynn (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Dark tourism, a subsection of heritage tourism, is growing in popularity and center around historic sites and museums. Those sites are put in the position to take advantage of the surging popularity of dark tourism by ...

• Between Sea and Steppe: A Historical Foray in Three Parts 

  Pogge, Asha Marie (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Examinations into marine environmental history, Great Plains environmental history, and the city of Odessa, Ukraine, demonstrate these three areas have strong methodological and topical foundations and even stronger potential ...

• Makȟóčhe Wašté, The Beautiful Country: An Indigenous Landscape Perspective 

  Goodhouse, Dakota Wind (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  The Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires; “Great Sioux Nation”) occupied an area from the woodlands to the Great Plains. The landscape and the wind influenced their language and culture in a way that suggests a long ...

• Publishing Public History: Publishing Options for Small Organizations 

  Beaton, Angela Ann (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Publishing books and catalogs has long been the domain of large museums and historical societies that have an equally large budget. While large organizations can commit vast amounts of time and resources to publishing, ...

• Raven and the Russians: An Environmental History of Looking at Animals in Siberia, 1582-1867 

  Abbe, Spencer Paul (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  The history of Russia’s eastern empire was largely defined by disjointed disparities between a Russian-speaking culture and the numerous indigenous groups of Siberia. Among these disparities were differing conceptions of ...

• Construction, Adaptation, and Preservation of Earth Homes on the Northern Plains 

  Kurtz, Robert Kevin (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  The earth home, in its many varieties and styles, played an important role in the development of the American Great Plains during the mid-nineteenth century. However, the lack of further study into the material culture of ...

• Katharina Schütz Zell: The Religious Vocation of a Female Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg 

  Howard, Samantha (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  Katharina Schütz Zell lived in the free imperial city of Strasbourg during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. Commitment to a lifelong faith led Katharina to embrace early protestant beliefs: salvation ...

• “Read and Be Convinced”: The Image of the Nonpartisan League in Its Creative Production, the Early Histories, and Wider Popular Culture 

  Hest, John (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  In this thesis, I examine the image of the Nonpartisan League in several different contexts, arguing that the League carefully crafted their advocative political image and their opponents painted them as disloyal socialists. ...

• The Importance of the Schleswig-Holstein Conflicts in German Unification: A Primordial Case Study, 1839-1871 

  Ahlers, Christian Anthony (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  Considerations of German Unification usually center on Otto von Bismarck and Prussian power politics, the German Confederation, and Austria along with the Franco-Prussian War. Often overlooked are the important events that ...

• Roosevelt, Ranches, and Resources: Theodore Roosevelt National Park's Search for a Balance Between Human and Natural History 

  Wiese, Lauren (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  National parks share the same challenge debating the significance of their cultural and natural resources. In the past, many parks decided to emphasize the value of natural resources over that of their human histories. ...

• The Emperors of Sport: Dominican Baseball during the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924 

  Larson, Karl (North Dakota State University, 2017)

  While baseball is typically associated with the United States for most Western readers, the sport was already being played in Cuba, Japan, and the Dominican Republic before the United States fully realized its own Major ...

• Caretakers of the Community's Past Volunteers in North Dakota Museums 

  Lien, Amber (North Dakota State University, 2017)

  The bulk of museum studies research focuses on professionalized museums. Little research has been conducted on the challenges of small museums. This study looks at volunteers in small North Dakota museums. Sparsely populated ...

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