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Recent Honors Graduates

Copies of past Honors Theses are archived, cataloged, and may be consulted in Leyburn Library, Special Collections.

2011
Gregory Clarke Franke
     A Cowardly Lion? The German Catholic Episcopate and the Third Reich
Daniel David Van Denburgh
     'Charlantanerie,' Humburg, and the Evolution of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz in Brazil

2010
Rebecca J. Beeson
     Remembering Franco: Spanish Collective Memory from the Civil War to Today
Kevin T. Corn
     From Brown to Green: School Desegregation in Roanoke, Virginia
Rachael C. Langdon
     Louisa Cheves McCord: Portrait of a Southern Woman

2009
Seth Richard Bullard
     Judah P. Benjamin: Cosmopolitan jew and Confederate Statesman"
Kavita Merry DeVaney
    
The Fall of france as Viewed from French West Africa
Alexandra Mary Locking
     Eleanor and the Three Matildas: A Study of Power among the Major Anglo-Norman Queens of Twelfth-Century England
Benjamin Daniel Wilson
     The South and the Constitution: States' Rights, Sectional Crises, and Southern Constitutionalism before the Civil War

2008
Randolph Chamberlain Wilson IV
     Byzantine Emperop Nikephoros II Phokas and Military Expansionism: Tenth-Century Developments Reflected in a Reign

2007
Emma Lynn Burris
     The Tale of 'Jockey' John Robinson, His Slaves, and Washington College
James Shelley McKay
     Religion and Foreign Policy during the Truman Years: Catholicism, Congressmen, and the Cold War
Emily Beth Robideau
     The History of Gay Life at Washington and Lee in the Twentieth Century
Lisa Marie Zevorich
     'The Only True Defence of the South': Uncle Tom's Cabin and Pro-Slavery Response Novels

2006
Charles John Fagan
     Negotiating with the Enemy: Kennedy and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Matthew Lloyd Layton
     Origins of Brazilian Independence: The Rise of An American Empire
Lauren Nicole Rowe
     Desegregation in Rockbridge County: Reasons, Reactions, and Lasting Consequences