Submissions from 2023-2024
“Alas Poor Ireland!”: British Prejudice, “the Irish Precedent, ” and the Origins of the American Revolution, David Arthur Salzillo, Jr.
The Whore Queen of Incestuous Canopus: The Eroticization of Cleopatra VII in Roman Literature and Art, Carley M. Medeiros
Defining Womanhood: Ancient Greek Inspirations for Our Modern Ideas, Carrie Selwood
Reconsidering Dorothy Day: The Distinctly American Catholic, Emma Strempfer
Georgia’s Deportation of the Creeks and Cherokees: A Prelude to the Trail of Tears, Sean Michael Ahearn II
Art as a Form of Therapy: Afghan Women and their “War Rugs” Highlight the Trauma and Violence of the Soviet-Afghan War, Abigail Turano
Submissions from 2022-2023
We Can Do It, Or Can We?: Women’s Domestic and Workplace Roles in Advertising During WWII and Postwar America, Jillian Brissette
Obelisks and the Power of Monument, John Brockelman
A Soldier and a Statesman: The Evolution of George Washington’s Political and Military Career During the Encampment at Valley Forge, Dean Costalas
Redefining Roman Women: Powerful Benefactresses & Patrons of the Early Roman Empire, Jacqueline Elia
I-195 in Providence, Rhode Island: Urban Development or Dislocation?, Alec Fraggos
The Formation of a Hellenic Identity: The Impact of Herodotus on the Ancient Greek and the Reception of his Histories, Conor James
“A Scepter of Terror or a Sword of Freedom”: Elaine Brown’s Time in the Black Panther Party, Maeve Plassche
Twentieth Century Education Reform: Centralization and the Integration of Providence Public School, Emily Cavanaugh
The Christmas Never Forgotten: December 1914, Michael Facenda
May We Remember How the Great War Changed the Practice and Ceremony of American Memorialization in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1868-1939, Grace Heffernan
James Madison and the Supreme Court The Evolution of the Madisonian First Amendment in Early America, Thomas McSweeney
When the Silenced Became the Voice: Argentina’s Military Dictatorship and the Fight for Memory and Justice, Brigid McEvoy
Submissions from 2021-2022
"In my end is my beginning": Families, Factions, Faith and Femininity as the Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Archbold
The Power of Mothers: A Comparison of the Egyptian Goddess Isis and Virgin Mary During the Roman Empire Through Literature and Art, Katherine Burdick
Mit Deutscher Gründlichkeit: The People Behind the World’s Most Effective Police State, Evan Diliberto
Solidarity and the Soviet Union, Jillian Forrester
Augustan War and Peace: Analyzing the Role of the Military in Maintaining the Pax Augusta in the Augustan Age, Maxwell Hovasse
Terrible Terrell: Black Women’s Activism The Forgotten Story of Carolyn Daniels, Olivia Moll
A Genealogy of Ideas: From Transcendentalism Onward, Jakob Resnik
The Obedient Servants of Opportunity: Bermudians in the Revolutionary Eighteenth Century Atlantic World, Gretchen Richardson
Let Us March On: LaVilla, Florida, and the History of the Harlem of the South, Christine Sullivan
Submissions from 2020-2021
Spymaster of Setauket: The Impact of Benjamin Tallmadge and the Culper Spy Ring on the American Revolution, Kyle Burgess
Give Peace a Chance: Responses to the Vietnam War on Catholic College Campuses, Elizabeth Gleason
Bringing “Justice to Every Man’s Door”: John Jay’s Struggle to Build the Supreme Court, Sean Gray
Reagan’s State of Grace: J. Peter Grace and the Effort to Cut Government Expense at the Public’s Expense, Kevin Michels
Waning Imperium: Valentinian I’s Projection of Power, Philip Piscopo
Aerial Terror: The Shift in American Daylight Bombing Over Europe During World War II, Joseph Sullivan
Re-thinking Pandemics: State, Society, and Disease in British History, 1830-1960, Meghan Walsh
“Educators of the Public Taste”: Post-Civil War Textbook Publishing and the American History Textbook, Andrea T. Traietti
Soaring with Eagles: The Life and Legacy of Janina Lewandowska, the Only Female POW Killed in the Katyń Forest Massacre, Joshua Chlebowski
The Legion of the Archangel Michael: The Past and Present Appeal of Decentralized Fascism, Andrew Bennet Gillen
The Perfect Tree: The American Chestnut Tree in American Culture, Economics, and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Sarah Heavren
Beneath the Surface: Hadrian’s Underground Contributions to Roman Greece, Michaiah Elizabeth Kojoian
Submissions from 2019-2020
Unheard Voices Against the Invisible Empire: Black and Catholic Responses to the Second Ku Klux Klan, William Hartl
“Este Pueblo Deicida”: The Roots of Antisemitism during Argentina’s Década Infame, 1930-1943, Shannon Moore
Women in Roman Republican Literature: The Use of Mulier in Sallust and Plautus, Emily Conley
The Polish Question at Yalta, 1945: Public Opinion on the Polish Agreements, Christopher Maxim
The Evolution of United States Supreme Court Jurisprudence under the Leadership of Chief Justices Melville Fuller and Edward White from 1888 to 1911, Christine Cromie
Submissions from 2018-2019
Italian Immigrants in the Early 20th Century and How They Have Impacted American Opinions on Immigration, Colleen Keating
Allah and the Armalite: The Origins, Religiosities and Material Conditions of Anti-State Terror-Nationalist Groups in Belfast and Gaza, James Fanning
When Art Becomes Political: An Analysis of Irish Republican Murals 1981 to 2011, Maura Wester
The Independent Reign of Queen Victoria, Emilee Serwan
Pledges of Faith: The Development of Ancient Roman Business Law and Contemporary Applications, Devon Guanci
The Dominican Liberator: Father Edward Paul Doyle, O.P.’s Response to the Holocaust, Jacqueline Michels
Contemptible Cravens and Dumb Beasts: The Story of the Wiggans Patch Massacre, Kevin Cranney
Soldiers’ Motivations to Fight in World War II: The United States Army and the German Wehrmacht in the European Theatre, Anthony E. Hart
Submissions from 2017-2018
Planning Chaos: The Foundations and Organization of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, Michael Bartels
Institutional Negligence: The AIDS Crisis in 1980s America, Alison Patterson
“The Price of Their Blood and of Your Independency”: The Social and Economic Disparities within the Connecticut Line, Ernest Lucian Andreoli III
Submissions from 2015-2016
Fata and Fanda: The Role of Fate in the Speech and Silence of Aeneas, Megan C. Lescault
Brewing Identity: The Tavern’s Imprint on the American Revolution, Cailin Edgar
Mons Maiorum: Roman Aristocracy and the Palatine Hill's Appropriated Memory, Charles T. Rainville III
Expectation Gap: The Accounting Profession, Regulators, and the Investing Public in the Aftermath of the Great Depression, Benjamin Swiszcz
“Custom Has Rendered it Somehow Necessary; We Must and Will Have it”: English Transferware and National Identity in the Early American Republic, Rebecca Marisseau
Submissions from 2014-2015
Monnet, the General, and the Community of Six: French Policy on European Integration in the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel A. Gagnon
"The Garden of Forking Paths": Islamic Legal Transformations in the Ottoman Empire During the Nineteenth Century, John Bugnacki
Nuns in the Newsroom: The Sisters of Marillac College and U.S. Sisters’ Involvement in Social Justice Reform, Elizabeth D. Nako
Submissions from 2013-2014
The Legacy of 1940: The Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Third Term, Kyle Lindsay
‘The People’s Own MP’: How the 1981 Hunger Strike Changed the Republican Movement in Ireland, Ryan Fink
Submissions from 2012-2013
A Plagued Mind: The Justification of Violence within the Principles of Maximilien Robespierre, Kevin Lynch
"Go, Going, Gone": Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Washington Territory, 1885-1886, Naomi Eide
“The Honorable Order of Flappers": A Historical Discussion on Defining THE FLAPPER, Carolyn DeDeo
Submissions from 2011-2012
The Nature and Extent of the French Resistance Against Nazi Occupation During World War II, Jeffrey Folker
Is Islam the Solution?: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Search for an Islamic Democracy in Egypt, Erica Devine
Shooting Arrows Through Myth and History: The Evolution of the Robin Hood Legend, Kathleen Rose Mulligan
A Union of Negatives: Ayatollah Khomeini and the Mobilization of Dissent in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Nicholas G. Sumski
New World Rivals: The Role of the Narragansetts in the Breakdown of Anglo-Native Relations During King Philip’s War, Lauren Sagar
Submissions from 2010-2011
Walking the Tightrope: The United States’ Policy in Vietnam, 1952-1954, Erin Flynn
Submissions from 2009-2010
The Albany Movement and the Limits of Nonviolent Protest in Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962, Brendan Kevin Nelligan
Hopedale, a Moderate Utopia: Distinguishing Practical Christianity from Radical Idealism, Noah Symynkywicz
