To ensure that students can develop breadth and depth across time periods and subject areas, the department offers a variety of courses covering U.S., European, and African/Caribbean histories. On-demand courses focus on smaller geographical and chronological pieces of history. The publications in this collection shows student works exploring historical research, analysis, and presentation as well as available professional and career paths (some of which requires graduate study).
Submissions from 2020
Chivalry and the Knight, Kyle Burrow
The Southern Baptist Convention's Shift: The Echo of a Movement Upon a Whole Denomination, Austin Clements
Dream Visions as a Safe Space for Purgatorial Speculation, Tucker Douglass
A God of Unity and a People of Division: Segregation in the Christian Churches of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, Zackary Kelley
What can People Learn about the American Revolution through "Assassin's Creed III"?, Katie Kitchell
Public Verses Private Desegregation: A Comparison of Integrating into Arkansas' Public and Private Education Systems, Kaleb McAdams
"Meeters in Secret": The History of Freemasonry and Its Influence on Conspiracy Culture in the United States, Emily McGee
African American Service in the United States Civil War: The Forgotten Ten Percent, Jacob Roberts
Knights of the Middle Ages, David Sikes
Submissions from 2018
Left in Limbo after Lumumba: An Analysis of the Decolonization of Resource Rights in the DRC, Austin Clements
What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness: The United States Constitution's Ideas on Race, Austin Clements
Decolonization of Thought: A Critical Look into the Memorialization and Remembrance of the Ukrainian Holodomor, Margaret Ann Donnell
Eugenics, Margaret Ann Donnell
Floral Imagery within Wartime Era Poetry: How Its Usage Transforms Memory and Remembrance, Margaret Ann Donnell
Carter Family Tree, Mattison Griffin
Becoming Informed about Refugee Resettlement, Elise Nelson
World at War: Final Research Paper, Elise Nelson
The Jewish Response to the Nuremberg Trials, Melody Pruitt
Submissions from 2017
Negritude and the Black Pen, Sarah Carnahan
Granada, Is it Pronounced Gruh-NAY-duh or Gruh-NAH-duh: I Don't Know, but Reagan's Foreign Policy Sucked, Austin Clements
Rhetoric for Rearmament: How the Eisenhower Administration sold West German Rearmament to the World, Wesley Oliver
Walt Disney's War on the Perception of Propaganda, Hailey Thompson
Submissions from 2016
Biographical Sketch of Martha Green, Elizabeth Lizzie Hall
Estelle Blake, Hailee Lanier
Daisy Scott Sharpe Ball, Kyndall Miller
Franklin Haltom O'Baugh: A Short Biography, Hannah Pearce
Winnie "Mom" Sanders, Kacie Richards
Biographical Sketch: James Winfield Whipple, Abigail Wise
Similarities Between Groups on Irish Home Rule and Independence, Cassie Young
Submissions from 2015
Landisfarne Gospels, Tye Boudra-Bland
World War II Films and Patriotism in America, Breanna Fehlman
The Bayeux Tapestry, Andrew Gatlin
The Nine Who Changed Central, Trey Hart
The 1970's Counter-Culture through the Lyrics of Janis Joplin, Chelsey Hess
The Book of Roger, Brady Hibbs
Carcassonne: A Medieval Citadel Rich in Historical Eloquence, Bridget Hosey
Textbooks and their Portrayal of Japan in World War II, Harry Lah
The Battle of Pea Ridge, Robert Lewis
The 8th Wonder of the World: Deutsch Bier, Nathan Lowman
A Medieval Treasure: The Story of a Hoard of Chess Pieces, Lana Rose
Material Object Project: The Hagia Sophia, Jessica Saunders
Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Hannah Sweeden
Modern Italy's Changing Language and Its Role in Nationalism, Abby Thomas
The Landisfarne Gospels, Abby Thomas
The Madrid Skylitzes, David Willhite
The Declaration of Arbroath, Cassie Young
Submissions from 2014
Ebbs and Flows in the Relationship of Two Intriguing Men: Churchill and Stalin, Richard Burke
Naval Tactics and the Introduction of the Aircraft Carrier, Jackson Carter
Art of the Great War, Zack Deyoung
Propaganda: World War 1 Usages, Garrett Evans
Women in World War II, Kaycee Giammarco
FDR & The Public, Dylan Haney
Wartime Love, Chelsey Hess
College Life During World War I, Grace Hevron
Women at War, Lacy Hollingsworth
From Sultanate to Republic, Kevin Jackson
Textbooks and their Portrayal of Japan in World War II, Harry Lah
Children at Auschwitz, Nicole Plott
In a Different Light: The World Wars in the Experience of Adlai Stevenson Turner, Lana Rose
Japanese American Internment and the Jerome Relocation Center, Paul Spann
The Confessing Church, David Willhite
Submissions from 2013
Mary Surratt: The Unfortunate Story of Her Conviction and Tragic Death, Leah Anderson
An English Struggle (1980's), A.J. Bauckman
The Rise and Fall of Order 5281, John Mark Burgess
The Journey for Justice of the Japanese Americans, Richard Burke
Taken: The Theft and Recovery of the Quedlinburg Treasures and Surrounding Legal Issues, Ellen Flint
From Bullets To Bribery, Lacy Hollingsworth
Islam's Education Spectrum, Kevin Jackson
Gurdon and the Ghost Orb, Nicole Plott
The Alexander Hamilton and Slavery Debate, Jake Sowell
Submissions from 1968
The Truman Election: Was 1968 A Repeat?, Cloene Biggs