The Apprentice Historian

The Apprentice Historian Index

The Apprentice Historian was an annual collection of student essays, published by Northeast Missouri State University and Truman State University from 1994 to 2011.

AuthorTitleVolumeYear
Allen, Carrie NThe Long Road Home: The United States’ Decision to Recognize the State of Israel72000
Baker, Gabriel DVirtus Vulnerum: The Virtue of Wounds from the Roman Republic to the Early Roman Empire142008
Becker History ClassFall 2003 Latin American Revolutions: Homeland or Bust!112005
Bell, DeniseThe Louisiana Purchase Exposition: A St Louis Celebration21995
Blanders, ErinSudden Death: An Examination of Previous Historical Theories Regarding the Collapse of the Classic Maya152009
Boehm, AllisonIdeology Versus Ethnicity in Eastern Europe: Why We Were Surprised11994
Bormann, CynthiaDyeing and Depression: The Early Seventeenth-Century Woolen Industry and the Failure of the Cockayne Project92001
Brenner, GregoryLocal Opinions on the Significance of the Railroads in the Development of Kansas City72000
Brickey, MissyThe Grimke Sisters: God’s Chosen Reformers11994
Brink, ChristopherSaint Augustine and his Son51998
Bruening, LauraSurvival of the Fittest: Darwinism and Nazi World War II Propaganda122006
Bryant, ErinCauses of the Extermination Order41997
Caniglia, Alfred IIICaniglia Family and Italian Immigration112005
Cannon, JeromyFor My Country Against All Assailants: The Patriotism of Stephen Douglas92003
Cannon, Jeromy“The Union–Next to Our Liberty the Most Dear”: The Republicanism and Ambition of John C Calhoun, 1810-1850102004
Carney, SeanThe Fall of Ngo Dihn Diem: The Role of the United States Foreign Policy Makers in the Coup of November 1, 196351998
Clark, SaraOn Again, Off Again: A Historical Look at the Role of Eugenics in Margaret Sanger’s Campaign for Birth Control142008
Cox, JeffVillain or Victim? A Historiographical Look at General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn132007
Dance, JessTechnological Developments and the New Copyright Crisis: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and the Challenge of Copyright on the Internet72000
DeCostanza, Angela LEarly Soviet Family Policy: Experiments in Social Construction21995
Dunham, ElisePrejudice or Military Necessity? An Exploration of the Decision to Evacuate and Incarcerate Japanese Americans During World War II152009
Ellis AngelaArgula von Grumbach and Her Use of the Doctrine of the Priesthood of all Believers as a Justification for Her Public Discussions of Religion41997
Ellis, AngelaThe Province of Ladies: A Study of Mercy Otis Warren and Her Views on Gender Roles31996
Flieger, Christopher MItalian Unification: The Roles and Relationships of Cavour and Garibaldi61999
Fontane, WalterCahokia: A Stupendous Pile of Earth Wrought by Bloody Hands82002
Foster, Christopher GThe Southern Clerical Response to Slave Culture in the Late Antebellum South61999
Frederick, DavidChanging the Course of History: Otto von Bismark and German Unification102004
Freese, KevinWhen the Whole World Fell Apart: The History of the Division of the Roman Empire between East and West and How it Erupted During the Third Century AD11994
Goyer, Matthew JDevelopment of the Argentine Right, 1900-1946: An Explanation as to Why the Government of Peron Was Not Fascist41997
Haar, KevinThe Battle for Men’s Minds: United States and Soviet Ideology During the Early Space Race, 1957-60152009
Harris, Justin AU S Government Utilitarianism and Indian Alcohol Prohibition Laws: 1802-183431996
Huebel, Anne“The War Really Did a Number on All of Us”: The Nurses of Vietnam11994
Huitt, ElizabethHow “Bloody Mary” Became “Bloody”102004
Jakel, ElanaThe Formidable Task: America, the Holocaust, and Refugee Policy92003
Jakel, ElanaPrinciples, Politics and Patriotism: Philadelphia’s Quakers and the American Revolution82001
Jewell, BenEditorial Reaction to the New York City Draft Riots of 1863: Mass Hysteria in the Civil War Era Mass Media51998
Kilpatrick, RobFighting for Humanity, Truth and Immortality: Zola and the Dreyfus Affair61999
Koonce, Ryan PThe Mormons in Missouri, 1831-1839: An Example of Antebellum Culture Clash within a Southern State82002
Koonce, Ryan PThe Whiskey Rebellion and Its Historiography61999
Kotteman, MarciaOliver Cromwell: Self Serving or Selfless?112005
Kuntz, AnnaThe Flexibility of Germany’s Environmental Movement, 1871 to the Reunification82002
Lacey, KateFor the Sake of the Kingdom: The Debate Over Marriage and Celibacy in Second-Century Christianity11994
Lanis, Betsy AEleanor Roosevelt’s Exploitation of the Media: Advancing American Women in World War II Society31996
Lecaque, Thomas WThe Guns that Almost Won the West: Repeating Weapons and the American Western Frontier142008
Lechner, Zachary JImperialists vs Anti-Imperialists: A Comparison of the Views of The New York Times and the Senate Committee on the Philippines92003
Lechner, Zachary JSherman’s March to the Sea: An Historiographical Perspective82002
Leslie, J MarkThe Continuity of the Saints: Elizabethan Calvinists and the Maintenance of Monarchical Modes of Thought102004
Leslie, J MarkDevereux Jarratt and Adjusting to a Changing Ecclesiastical Order112005
Lewis, ColinPainting the Executive Office Red: The Role of McCarthyism in the Political Struggle between Truman and Eisenhower122006
Lewis, RyanInterpretations of America’s Open Door Policy in China122006
Lucas, Christopher JThe Mongols and Their Limited Conquest of Russia31996
Macionus, JasonThe Great Calamity: Conflicting Perspectives on the Armenian Genocide132007
Magruder, MatthewLee’s Old War Horse: General James Longstreet at the Battle of Gettysburg112005
Marchland, AdamYoung Woman’s Blues: Bessie Smith, Race, and Sexual Politics21995
Marstall, JamieThe Rise and Fall of the Kulaks61999
McCall, PeterInnovation and Ignorance: Manhattan Island’s Struggle for Better Public Transportation152009
McFarland, ErinThe Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank, 1913-191582002
Meissen, AndrewThe Cuban Missile Crisis: Resolution and Revision41997
Meyer, JulieHitler’s Victims or German Nationals? An Analysis of the Progression of Perspectives on the Austrian Anschluss142008
Mueller, GregWe Didn’t Cross Borders, Borders Crossed Us: Nineteenth-Century U S Expanionist Policy and the Southwest132007
Mundt, CassieCircuit Chautauqua: Providing Rural America with a Liberal Education152009
Murawski, Michael GThe Lost Sepulchre; A Study of the Burial Tomb of Alexander the Great51998
Norton, AndreaWorking Women in Victorian England: Job Preferences of Married and Unmarried Women21995
Norton, ChrisThe Phoenix Program and Counterinsurgency: A Bibliographical Review31996
Ory, VeronicaJacob Morgan and the Indian Reorganization Act112005
Pauls, JeffMonster and Monk: The Dual Nature of Ivan the Terrible51998
Pennington, DavidThe Secession Crisis and the Politics of Slavery in the 1850s72000
Peterson, ChristopherPatriarchal Dissidence: An Analysis of the Relationship between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency until 1989132007
Peterson, JayThere Were No Survivors: Native American Perspective on the Battle of the Little Bighorn72000
Pey, LaurenThe French Experience in the California Gold Rush152009
Pfeiffer, MarkThe Scottish Wars of Independence: Freedom Through Unity41997
Preston, DennisSpooky Springs and Community Recreation11994
Ritchie, BobbyGettysburg: Critical Event of the Civil War’s Most Pivotal Engagement152009
Schwartz, LoriPoint Four: Its Origins within the Truman Administration and Progression through Congress82002
Showmaker, RebeccaResilience and Renown: The Massachusetts Moderates and the Dominion of New England132007
Silea, KeriWomen’s Influences and Roles During the American Revolution: A Historiographc Essay61999
Strathmann, HenryThe Calvary of Classical Athens: An Underappreciated Contributor to Military Engagements in Greece142008
Strauss, PaulSeeking Order in a Disordered World: Stephen Gardiner and the Royal Supremacy in the English Reformation142008
Sutter, KateMore than Just Reporters: How Black Sportswriters Aided Integration in Major League Baseball122006
Swain, Bryan“A Psychological Moment”: United States Foreign Policy in the Occupation of Veracruz41997
Underwood, KelseyAttaining Spiritual Perfection: Ability and Disability in Zoroastrianism and the Persian Empire132007
Weddle, JaniceHussies or Housewives? An Examination of American Opinion Regarding World War II War Brides through the Press122006
Wire, PhilipA History of the Prairie Chicken in Missouri142008
Wohletz, RogerThe Second Great Awakening: An Historiographical Interpretation11994
Wright, Catherine MTheir Hearts Were Not on the Ground: Understanding Native American Women’s Realities through European American Men’s Writings102004
Zerkel, EmilyWitches for the Prosecution: The Judiciary’s Role in Developing the Cumulative Concept of Witchcraft152009
Duff, BethDeaf President Now! A University’sResponse To A Woman Who Could Hear162010
Hartman, HannaShaping Post-Soviet Turkmenistan: Niyazov’s Cult of Personality and Abuse of Positive Neutrality162010
Hinrichs, RachelHeroes or Victims: Civil War Soldiers and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder162010
Lecaque, ThomasAn Englishman in Byzantium: Political Motivations For Ethnic Change in The Varangian Guard162010
Moe, ChristoopherIraq: The Creation of a New State162010
Rogers, JoeD. Boone Killed A Bear: The Values of Daniel Boone Throughout History162010
Stander, RyanFaith, Freedom, and Foreign Policy: A Historiographic Approach to the American Idealists and the Second Iraq War162010
Taylor, John“Members of One and the Same Christian Nation”: Alexander I’s Motivations For Proposing the Holy Alliance, 1815162010
Cain, EmilyOrganized Sport in Victorian Public Schools: A Reflection of Changing Ideals of Morality and Manhood172011
Tran, DucRetaliation or Military Necessity? an Examination of Historical Interpretations Regarding the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan During World War II172011
Megahan, JamesTurning On, Tuning In: The Mobile Radio in Post-War America172011
Marlot, LindsayThe Industrial Revolution, Women, and the Public Sphere in Great Britain172011
Rogers, JosephComanche Culture and the Failure of America’s Peace Policy172011
Ryder, JonathanThe Responsibility of the Failure at Pearl Harbor: A Historiographical Overview172011
Schurbusch, Samuel“All Men Up”: Theodore Roosevelt and Race172011