• Unfit: Eugenics on the Northern Great Plains 

  Magnuson, Levi (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  The early twenty-first century saw the emergence of the eugenics movement in the United States, which culminated in the sterilization of people with mental or physical disabilities. State institutions across the country ...

• The Missile People: A Cold War Public Memory 

  Engeland, Shane (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Disrupting the horizon with a startling physical presence on the flat North Dakota prairie, the remains of the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex are the physical remnants of a decisive stage of the Cold War. The complex ...

• A Survey of Certified Athletic Trainers: The Report of Skin Infections Incidence 

  Wilde, Ashley Ruth (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  The purpose of this study was to evaluate the common types of skin infections occurring in United States athletes within the past year and the types of athletes that are most likely to contract them. Surveys were constructed ...

• Canadian Confederation andAusgleich: A Comparative Case Study in Imperial Devolution as Imperial Rule and the Effects on National Formation, 1867-1918 

  Carter, Thomas Lachlan (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Scholarly thinking on empires is changing. These scholars see empires as flexible states which are fully capable of meeting the challenges of modernity. This newer line of scholarship challenges the standard narrative ...

• Lucas Alaman and the Historians 

  Gannon, Grael Brian (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This study considers the life, thought, and work of Lucas Alaman, Mexican statesman and historian of the early nineteenth century, as seen by historians from his time to the present with reference to his political ...

• The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Christianity and the Environment in the 1970s 

  Pogue, Neall, M.A. (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This study examined the history of the relationship between conservative Christians and environmentalism during the 1970s. It illuminated how conservative Christians met environmental concerns in response to the Earth ...

• Latin America Mission: An Exploration of Evangelical Growth in a Catholic Continent 

  Ptacek, Cassandra Joy (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This thesis strives to explore Evangelical Protestant growth in Latin America during the twentieth century through the example of Latin America Mission, a nondenominational, evangelical mission organization founded in ...

• Solidarity Forever: A Call for Inclusive Holocaust Memory and Coalition Building Amid Forgetting & Denial 

  Fricker, Elisabeth (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  According to a recent survey, less than half of American Millennials can name a Holocaust concentration camp, and more than two-thirds of the respondents did not know the number of Jewish people the Nazis killed in the ...

• “Only as Strong as We All Make It:” The Limitations of Fargo’s Civil Defense during the Early Cold War (1950-1964) 

  Rudebusch, Aaron (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  In this thesis, I argue that civil defense failed to take hold in the United States because it required local communities to take responsibility for protective measures. Fargo, North Dakota provides a case study for this ...

• The Fluidity of Gender Roles on the Northern Great Plains 1890-1950 

  Aulner, Stefanie Michele Pililani (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The relative infancy of the Northern Great Plains social environment compared to the well-established social systems of the United States east of the Mississippi fostered growth and allowed the redefinition of women’s ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

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