Journal of Historical Studies

Theta Beta鈥檚 members collaborate in publishing a yearly journal, 吃瓜网鈥檚 Journal of Historical Studies. The journal provides a venue for 吃瓜网 University students to get their work in print. All 吃瓜网 University students are encouraged to submit papers they have written for history courses at 吃瓜网.

Read the most recent issue here.

Eligible papers must address a topic of historical significance in a scholarly manner. Papers should be no longer than 25 pages in length. Submissions must follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or 16th edition.  

Eligible book reviews must address a book or film of scholarly and historical significance, or one that pertains to a certain event or topic of historical significance. Submissions should remain under 2500 words although considerations will be made based on the length of the book and quality of the review.

Any papers or reviews considered for publication must be accompanied by a professor recommendation ensuring the article鈥檚 quality and academic integrity.

To submit to the journal, please email a copy of your work to TUHistoricalJournal@gmail.com. Please include your name and, if applicable, the class for which it was written.

For further questions, contact our faculty advisor, Dr. .

Issues of the Journal of Historical Studies

  • Karl Senula, "American Foreign Policy and the Creation of the Panama Canal: 1846-1914"
  • Regina Sztajer, "FDR and the Yalta Conference"
  • Shannon L. Stevens, "Trial by Fire: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Polio"
  • Myron I. Scholnick, "Review: Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From by Daniel Pipes"
  • Mark Whitman, "Review: Original Meanings by Jack Rakove"
  • Grant O. Martin, "Review: A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the pacific by Robert M. Utley"
  • Arnold Blumberg, "Essay: Changes in Two Generations of Historical Research"

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  • Brandi Robinson, "Lazaro Cardenas and the Realization of the Mexican Revolution"
  • Lauren Suls, "Jews: From Europe to Argentina"
  • William Ward, "Review Essay: Strategies for a New China: The Policies of Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-Sen"
  • James Lawlor, "Book Review: Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose"
  • Lynn Johnson, "Book Review: Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy"

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  • Caitlin Hughes, "The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Strategies of Diplomacy"
  • Ashley Link, "Exposing Children's Literature of the 1950s"
  • Melissa Moore, "The Struggle Between Obsolescence and Cultural Acceptance"
  • John Stachura, "The Medieval Friars in Literature and History"
  • Ryan Williams, "German Occupation of Eastern Europe During World War II"
  • Robert Zimmerman, "The Hatian Revolution: Yellow Fever and the Defeat of the French"

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  • Michael P. Meehan, "Constitutional Contradiction: Habeas Corpus and the Arrest of Judge Richard B. Carmichael"
  • Mike Keenan, "The Lexington Market: Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday"
  • Cameron McPherson, "Prohibition's Lack of Effectiveness in Baltimore"
  • Harrison Van Waes, "The Growth of Labor During World War II and the Rise of the Baltimore Transit Company"

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  • Joyce Latham, "White House Health Secrets: How Historians View the Hidden Maladies of FDR and JFK"
  • Kyle Brickhouse, "Soviet Veterans and the Post-War Years: A History of Struggle"
  • Monica Lynch, "Using Lincoln: The Power of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Throught the Ages"

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  •  Jeremy Brown, "The Rise and Fall of John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community"
  • Matthew Prevo, "The End of Sakoku: How the Cutthroat Diplomacy of Commodore Matthew Perry Unlocked Japan"
  • Nathan Painter, "Shinto Transformation and Government Support in Meiji Japan"
  • Brittnye Smith, "Jefferson and the Women Who Loved Him"
  • Paris Thalheimer, "The Education of Samuel Clemens"
  • Shelby Zimmerman, "'The Streets Were The[ir] True Homes: ' Working Class Children in New York City at the Turn of the Century"
  • James Trimmer, "Book Review: Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible: A Delicate Treatment of a Contentious Issue"

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  • John Platt Jr., "Consumer Culture During the Late Tokugawa Period"
  • Amna Rana, "The West as an Inspiration for Imperial Japan: Mahan, Fukuzawa, and the Japanese"
  • Henry Smith, "Japan's Red Sons and Daughters: Japanese Socialism as Opposition to Meiji Imperialism"
  • Harrison Reed, "University Endowments: Jess Fisher and the Making of Fisher College"
  • William Lippincott, "Media Review: 'The Monuments Men' and Why Both Historians and World Leaders Need to Watch it"

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  • Morgan House, "Sounds of Resistance: Noise Music and the Japanese Precariat Class"
  • Ian Lazarenko, "Human Dust: General Wrangel and the Russian Exiles"
  • Sarah Patarini, "Fraternizing in the Face of Femininity"
  • Michael Scire, "Jadids, Muslim-Marxism, and the Soviet State: 1880s-1930s"
  • Morgan Sigur, "Black Representation on Campus"

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  • Jordyn Saltzman, "Magnets, Magic, and the Work of William Gilbert"
  • Ian Lazarenko, "The Efficiency of Evacuation and Deportation in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945"
  • Sara Cantler, "Looking Back: American Summer Culture"
  • Andy Semenza, "Finding the Soldier's Cure: The Interpretations Behind Shell Shock Treatment and the Negative Impact it had on the Battlefield and the Home Front"
  • Grace Hotung, "The Transformation of Chinatowns and the Perceptions of Chinese Immigrants During the Early cold War Years"

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  •  Brandon Grosch, "The Use of Terror as a Weapon by the Luftwaffe, 1937-1945"
  • Kieron Lynch, "Reagan and the AIDS Crisis"
  • Catherine Campbell, "'The Great American Race Problem:' The Eugenics Movement and Scientific Racism in the United States during the 20th Century"

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  • Sydnie Trionfo, "Civil War Nurses: A New Era for Professional Women"
  • Sarah Young, "Silenced Voices: The Oregon Trail鈥檚 Toll on the Women of Pioneer-era America"
  • Genevieve Lambert, "The Internment and Relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII"
  • Catherine Bonomo, "Brazilian Musicians and Their Ideologies on Black Consciousness"

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  • Daniel Ashby, "Tanizaki Jun鈥檌chir艒 and the literary foundations of Japanese 鈥淢odern Girl鈥� hysteria"
  • Al鈥檒yienah Howell, "Ascribing Words of Collaboration: Defining and Dealing with Japanese Collaborators in Korea"
  • Nora Windsor, "The Legacy of the Rape of Nanking: History and Influence in Public Education"
  • Brandon Kelly, "The Joy of Coffee: Union Army Soldiers Camp Life and Hardships"
  • Rasul Wright, "Black Women in the Shadows of the Civil War"
  • Eric Ports, "The Haitian Revolution and its Effect on American Slavery"
  • Wuraola Adesunloye, "Replication Cycles: Fanon, Social Death, and the Endurance of Slavery"
  • Sabrina Sutter, "Ottoman Janissaries and Military Servitude: Insights from the Memoir of Konstantin Mihailovi膰"

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  • James N. Johnson, "All We are Saying is Give Peace a Chance: Student Protest of the Vietnam War at 吃瓜网 State College"
  • Joseph Castillo, "鈥淣ot One Step Back鈥�: Soviet Ideology, Stalin, and the Massive Losses at the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942-February 1943)"
  • Madison Gillin, "Pride and Indignation: Attitudes of Soviet Nationalism During 
    the Khrushchev Era (1953-1964)"
  • Charles Hess, "Soviet Environmental Transformation and the Ramifications 
    (1953-2020)"
  • Caleb Ruby, "The Military Implications of the Sino-Soviet Split: Devolution of 
    Sino-Soviet Military Cooperation in the Khrushchev Era (1953-1964)"
  • Rachel Martinez, "Differences between the Oneida Community and mainstream Society in the 19th Century"
  • Sarah Minihane, "Women鈥檚 Liberation: Propaganda and Practice"
  • Sabrina Sutter, "An Attack on Campus: How an Incident of Discrimination 
    Demonstrates the Power and Bias of Heterosexual Involvement in Queer Advocacy"

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  • Marjorie Perry, "Krushchev and Berlin 鈥� How the Wall Came to Be Built"
  • Madeleine Mason, "Broken Promises: The Disconnect between Soviet Theory, 
    Legislation, and Female Experience (1920-1930s)"
  • Michael Fowler, "Women as Codebreakers during World War II: How the Wrens 
    and WAVES helped bring the Allies to victory"
  • Selena Funk, "Perpetrators during War Time: Nazi Women"
  • Noah Ulrich, "The Fall of Democracy in the Empire of the Rising Sun: An 
    Analysis of Political Shifting in Imperial Japan "
  • Sabrina Sutter, "'A Deliberate, Systematical Plan of Reducing us to Slavery:' 
    Thomas Jefferson鈥檚 Belief in Conspiracy as Shown in his Public 
    and Private Writings"

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  • Emma Kawicz, "The Neglect of Women by the Soviet State"
  • Lillian Norbeck, "China鈥檚 Great Famine鈥檚 Impacts on Women鈥檚 Health"
  • Ryleigh Stine, "Eternal Flame, Eternal Virgin: Vestal Virgins, Crimen Incesti, and the Stability of the Roman State"
  • Anh Quynh Nguyen Do, "Shared and Comparative Unionism among students in the US and Vietnam during the 1960s"
  • Noah Glorioso, "From Popes to Princes: Martin Luther鈥檚 Shift from Clergy to Nobility in the Early Reformation"
  • Aspen Huls, "Manipulations of Death and Dying: Sanitarians and the American 
    Funeral Industry" 

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