PUBLIC HISTORY ---- Sample of Recent M.A. theses in Public History
Kevin Allen, The Civil War Centennial in South Carolina: A Case Study in the Construction of Memory, 1961-1965.
Aimee Berry, An Asylum is a Sad Prison House: Insanity, Commitment, and Community in Late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina.
Elizabeth Bilderback, Women Welfare Workers in South Carolina Textile Mills, 1890-1935.
David Blick, Preservation and Interpretation of the Rural African-American Schoolhouses of Richland County, South Carolina.
Roger Christman, "Dear Governor Blackwood have you a little boy? Would you wont him burned in the electric chair?": Juvenile Justice and Executions in South Carolina, 1894-1962.
Jelain Chubb, Sharing the Wealth: The Establishment and Development of the National Archives Regional Branches.
Parker Hubbard Cohen, The Salem Boys' School: Reflecting Community Values from 1771 to 1898.
Steven Davis, Historic Preservation and the Social History of the New South.
Kristin Davidson, Forms of Celebration, Forming a Nation: The Evolution of Ritual in the Southern Colonies, 1765-1776.
Kimberly Dillon, Reconstructing Aiken: Resort Development in Aiken, South Carolina, 1830-1900.
Heather Erskine, This Fellowship without Barriers of Race: The Desegregation of the Young Women's Christian Associations in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1946-1970's.
Elizabeth Fields, Post World War II Development of Surplus Military Installations in South Carolina.
Rickie Good, South Carolina Imprints, 1732-1775.
Angela Gray, Unionizing an Industrial Utopia: The CIO, the AFL, and the Hershey Chocolate Corporation.
Richard Groening, The Rice Landscape in South Carolina: Valuation, Technology, and Historical Periodization.
Krista Hampton, The Progress of Preservation: Municipal Preservation Programs in Columbia, South Carolina, 1956-1999.
Jill Hanson, A Room of One's Own: Preserving Twentieth-Century Women's History in Columbia, South Carolina.
Darrick Hart, Overcoming the Flames of Prejudice: The Integration of the Columbia Fire Department, 1948-1968.
Natalie Harvey, The History of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Albert Hester, The Sumter National Forest and Social Welfare, 1934-1942.
Kathleen Hilliard, Merging Potential with the Past: The Construction of Civic Identity in 1920's Charleston.
Mari Julienne, A Woman's World: A Female Household in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1880-1900.
Victoria Kalemaris, No Longer Second-class Students: Women's Struggle for Recognition and Equity at the University of South Carolina.
Mary Lehman, Social Segregation and Residential Patterns in Colonial Charleston, South Carolina.
Stacia Partin, Accessibility and Historic Integrity: Old Salem, North Carolina.
David Puckett, "The chains which had bound us so long were well nigh broken": The Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Columbia, S.C., 1850-1865.
Lisa Randle, The History of African Americans in Richland County, South Carolina.
Bradley Sauls, Desegregation in Columbia, South Carolina, 1960-1963.
John Sherrer, A Comprehensive History of the Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina.
Carrie Taylor, Collecting Georgia: A Study of the Collections Policies and Practices of the Atlanta Historical Society.
Marta Thacker, Working for the City Beautiful: Civic Improvement in Three South Carolina Communities.
Rose Thomas, Eighteenth-Century Childrearing.
Sarah Venezian, The Development of a Local Preservation Group: Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Historical Society, 1966-1995.
Daniel Vivian, Railroad Development and Community Change in the New South: A Social History of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in the South Carolina Midlands, 1898-1915.
Meghan Wallace, Selling Armageddon: An Analysis of the Promotion of Cold War Civil Defense in Columbia, South Carolina.
Zinnia Weise, Re-inventing Main Street: Planning Efforts in Downtown Columbia, 1945-1995.
Shannon White, The Development of the Statewide Tax Supported Public Library System in Alabama, 1901-1974.
Laird Whitmire, South Carolina's Struggle for a Statewide Tax-Supported Public Library System.
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