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2023

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A Country Torn Asunder: Deliberations Over the Fate of Post-WWII Germany, Ziv R. Y. Carmi

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Who Tells Your Story? Microhistory and Historical Biography, Stellarose B. Emery

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“The Same Service as Our Soldiers”: Metropolitan-Colonial Military Discourse in New France, 1754-60, James E. Lemons

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Blood Cries Out From the Ground: The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in Ukraine, Lauren R. Letizia

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“In the Spirit of a Millennial Inheritance:” The Nazi Ambition to Regenerate German Civilization through the Visual Arts, Marco J. Lloyd

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Redefining the Agency of Jewish Communities Through Ghetto Humor, Addison E. Lomax

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"Life Unworthy of Life" Aktion T4: The First Nazi Genocide, Alexander M. Remington

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Nazi Education in Vienna: The Solidification of Antisemitism and German Nationalism in the Classroom, Abigail J. Seiple

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Mental Illness and the Spanish Inquisition: A Tale of Uncertainty and Suspicion, Alessandro M. Zuccaroli

2022

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Monster Theory and the Book of Enoch: Angels and Giants as Chaos and Identity, Jordan C. Cerone

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Complacency and Conformity: The Female Experience at Gettysburg College, 1956-1966, Greer Garver and Emily B. Suter

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Epidemiology in Higher Education: Scarlet Fever at Gettysburg College, Addison E. Lomax

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Redefining Gender Roles in Higher Education: Women at Gettysburg College during World War II, Addison E. Lomax

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"The Bottom Would Drop Out of Everything": A Brief History of the Battle for Blair Mountain, Brandon Neely

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The Bedouin in Arabia: A Nomadic Success, Cole D. Quinn

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Unlocking Rosenberger's Research, Victoria N. Ramsay

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The American Soldier: The Contested Existence of the Continental Army, Alexander M. Remington

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Academic and Intellectual Life for Gettysburg College Women, 1960-1980, Theodore J. Szpakowski

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Homer Rosenberger: Learning Beyond the Classroom, Theodore J. Szpakowski

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Co-education and Collaboration: Women at Gettysburg from 1945-1955, Olivia N. Taylor and McKenna C. White

2021

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For Just Business, It’s Pretty Personal: The Impact of Money on the Early Republic’s Economically Elite Families, Abigail L. Adam

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Eisenhower and the Interstate, Brian H. Berry

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Beneath the Tower: The Story of a Campus Icon, Ziv R. Carmi

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Dr. Seuss and Uncle Sam, Ziv R. Carmi

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Women’s Advocate or Racist Hypocrite: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink and the Contradictions of Women in Nazi Ideology, Mary C. S. Frasier

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The Function of Memory from the Warsaw Ghetto as Presented by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Hannah M. Labovitz

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Australia and A Wire Through the Heart, Addison E. Lomax

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Memory, Identity, and World II in Australia: Liz Reed's "Bigger Than Gallipoli", Christopher T. Lough

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The Importance of Letter Writing in the Letters of Hernán Cortés, Gavin J. Maziarz

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An Education in Hate: The “Granite Foundation” of Adolf Hitler’s Antisemitism in Vienna, Madeleine M. Neiman

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The Fall of the Ikko Ikki: The Demise of the Honganji in the Late Sengoku Period, Alexander M. Remington

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Barmaids: A History of Women’s Work in Pubs, by Diane Kirkby, Lindsay R. Richwine

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Covert Imperialism: The Eisenhower Administration and Cuba, Patrick R. Sullivan

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, Patrick R. Sullivan

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No Tolerance for Cowards or “Yankees:” The Letters of Reuben Allen Pierson, a Confederate Officer, Erica L. Uszak

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The Stolen Children: Their Stories: Aboriginal Child Removal Policy and Consequences, Peter U. Wildgruber

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Clash of Totalitarian Titans: Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the Racial and Ideological War of Annihilation on the Eastern Front, John M. Zak

2020

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The USSR and The GDR: Mutual Collapse, Jessica M. Alessi

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The Life and Legacy of James I, King of England, Nicholas S. Arbaugh

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“Strike Up” and Mobilize the Band: Musical Activities in the United States Military During World War II, Max R. Bouchard

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Brexit, A Brief Historical Analysis, Amy E. Cantrell

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The Holodomor: A Tragic Famine or Genocide Against the Ukrainian Peoples?, Jordan C. Cerone

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The National Intelligencer Validating Cowardice: How a Washington D.C. Newspaper Redefined Defeat into Republican Victory, Wesley C. Cline

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The Komsomol Experience Under Stalin, Grace E. Gallagher

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The Silent Reich: Austria’s Failed Denazification, Henry F. Goodson

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"I Am Not A Prisoner of War": Agency, Adaptability, and Fulfillment of Expectations Among American Prisoners of War Held in Nazi Germany, Jessica N. Greenman

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The Contradictions of Freedom: Depictions of Freedwomen in Illustrated Newspapers, 1865-1867, Carolyn Hauk

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Manly Mud: Portrayal of Masculinity in Infantry Units in World War Two as Seen in the Comics of Bill Mauldin, Aren G. Heitmann

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Cives Arma Ferant: Reconstructing Infantry Combat and Training in the European Theater of Operations, Phil R. Kaspriskie

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Elmer McKee: A Window into the Past, Erin H. Keener

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The 'Spanish Flu': A True Global Pandemic, Erin H. Keener

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Be Good: Hatred and Hope in the Letters of Gerald Koster, Steven M. Landry

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“Reds Driven Off”: the US Media’s Propaganda During the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Steven M. Landry

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Before Barbarossa: The Nazi Occupation of Western Poland, September 1,1939-June 22, 1941, Lauren R. Letizia

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Bangor Revisited: Bishop Benjamin Hoadly and Enlightenment Ecclesiology, Christopher T. Lough

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Homosexuality During the Transition from Weimar Republic to Third Reich, Abigail Minzer

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Girl Talk: How Friendships between Moravian and Native Women Sustained the Moravian Mission at Shamokin Pennsylvania, 1742–1749, Lindsay R. Richwine

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"Here all seems security and peace!": How Brookeville, Maryland Became United States Capital for a Day, Lindsay R. Richwine

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Close, But No Cigar: Tobacco Usage During the Civil War Era, Benjamin M. Roy

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Military Occupation, Sexual Violence, and the Struggle over Masculinity in The early Reconstruction South, Cameron T. Sauers

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Illusions of Grandeurs: Washingtonian Architecture as Seen by White and Black People of the Early Nineteenth Century, Lillian D. Shea

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Sport Under the Iron Curtain: Alliance, Defection, and Competition During the Cold War, Samuel A. Sheldon

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Night Falls, Fighters Fly: The Development and Evolution Of Navy Night Fighters In World War II, Mark A. Urbon

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“Peace for Our Time”: Past and Present Receptions of Neville Chamberlain’s Speech and the Munich Agreement, Erica L. Uszak

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Thinking of Home: The World War Two Letters of Gerald Koster, Erica L. Uszak

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The Great Wave: Margaret Thatcher, The Neo-liberal Age, and the Transformation of Modern Britain, John M. Zak

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John B. Bachelder’s Artistic Vision for the Gettysburg Battlefield, Shannon R. Zeltmann

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Religious Schism: A Case Study of Social and Political Critique in Sāmoa, Alexis M. M. Zilen

2019

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"Ein Pakt mit dem Teufel": Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, and the Nature of Guilt, Andrew O. Burns

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The Actions and Reactions of Trajan and Decebalus: A Brief Reconsidering of the Causation of the Dacian Wars, Wesley C. Cline

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Sororities at Gettysburg College During the Haaland Era, 1990-2004, Elizabeth C. Hobbs and Madeleine M. Neiman

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Education in Nazi Germany, Ian R. James

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Expansion and Acquisition: The Built Environment Under Gettysburg College President, Gordon Haaland, 1990 to 2004, Hannah M. Labovitz and Lillian Shea

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Drinks, Hijinks, and Policy Change: Fraternities at Gettysburg College in the Haaland Years (1990-2004), Lindsay R. Richwine and Lindsay K. Waller

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The Constant Struggle of Life and Death During the Siege of Leningrad, Anastasia N. Semenov

2018

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Gettysburg Cyclorama: A Digital Annotation, Rebecca A. Burak, Abigail A. Coakley, Francesca M. Costa, Andrew I. Dalton, Mattea H. Ghaffary, James T. Goodman, Carolyn Hauk, Benjamin T. Hutchison, Lucas J. Kiesel, Hannah M. Labovitz, Emma K. Lewis, Lucy A. Marks, Jeremy D. Porter, Benjamin M. Roy, Cameron T. Sauers, Lillian Shea, Isaac J. Scoop, Jonathan E. Tracey, Laurel J. Wilson, Abigail C. Winston, and Shannon R. Zeltmann

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A Monument to Culture and Achievement: The Samurai Suit of Armor and Katana at Gettysburg College, Carolyn Hauk

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Best of Intentions?: Rinderpest, Containment Practices, and Rebellion in Rhodesia in 1896, Brandon R. Katzung Hokanson

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Vietnam: A War with Two Fronts, Justin D. Winkel

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A Tradition of Bells: Glatfelter Bell and Hall, Shannon R. Zeltmann

2017

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"A Delirious Welcome to Anyone in Uniform:" The GI Experience in Paris, July - September 1944, Bridget E. Ashton

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"My Brigade suffered severely & behaved well" - Longstreet’s Attack of July 2nd and its Greater Memory, Jesse R. Campana

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Longstreet’s Attack from Seminary Ridge to the Rose Woods, Caitlin T. Connelly

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The Centennial of the Great War, Thomas J. Crafa

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Visual Culture Analysis of "The Last Ditch of the Chivalry, or a President in Petticoats", Sarah A. Hansen

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Visual Culture Project: Confederate War Etchings: Searching for Arms by Adalbert Johann Volck, Lynn B. Hatcher

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A Moment in History Relevant to the Modern Era, Brandon R. Katzung Hokanson

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Saving Grace on Feathered Wings: Homing Pigeons in the First World War, Brandon R. Katzung Hokanson

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Interpreting a Commemorative Landscape: The Eleventh Corps and Cemetery Hill, Bradley J. Klustner

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Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue: The Co-Evolution of Popular and Art Music in the United States during World War II, Douglas A. Kowalewski

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Religion and the State: The Influence of the Tokugawa on Religious Life, Thought, and Institutions, Savannah A. Labbe

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The Letters of Stewart Winfield Herman Jr. An American Pastor in Berlin, 1936-1941, Lucy A. Marks

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The Legend of the Wehrmacht’s “Clean Hands”: The Attempt to Remove Nazism from the German Military, Kenneth R. McCracken

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Bringing Stories to Life by Sharing Archival Material, Christina M. Noto

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"Avenging Furies": The Memoirs of American Women in the Philippines during the Second World War, Meghan E. O'Donnell

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A Gettysburg "Streetscape," North Washington Street in 1925, Zachary C. Polley and Andrew I. Dalton

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The Great War Then and Now: Reflections on America’s Declaration of War, Thomas S. Potter

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Neurasthenia, Robert Graves, and Poetic Therapy in the Great War, Juliette E. Sebock

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The World War II Letters of Richard Schade, Ashley N. Sonntag

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Captive Body, Free Mind: Euphrosinia Kersnovskaia, the Gulag, and Art Under Oppression, Laura G. Waters