The Department of History is proud to present the 2021 Senior Capstones. The presentations were given virtually on several dates during Spring Term. Click on each student name to see their presentation title. April 15, 2021Gracie AndersonBrennan CostelloAndrew WelchGracie Anderson``From Spring to Fall: A Study of Memory and Collective Action in 1968 and 1989 Czechoslovakia``Brennan Costello``Dying with Honor: The Sobibor Revolt and Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust``Andrew Welch``The Conflicting Legacy of Margaret Sanger``April 22, 2021Zackery GostishaMatt LeakeZackery Gostisha`` 'those cogent reasons, which justify a cruel outrage against humanity': The Construction of British Identity in the First Carib War, 1771-73``Matt Leake``Stories of Revolution``April 29, 2021Celeste BloedelEmily GibbonsMaddie LamwersBreanna LightbodyCeleste Bloedel``Kirishitan Persecution in Japan in the 16th and 17th Centuries``Emily Gibbons``How Well Are You Sleeping? American Civilian Responses to the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust``Maddie Lamwers`` 'The Handsomest Man I Ever Seed': Cowboys as a Regrettable Allegory for American Masculinity``Breanna Lightbody``The Role of Women in the Rwandan Genocide of the Tutsi``May 6, 2021Kathryn EinanLeif EricksonSpencer IzettDelaney MoyerNicole QueryKathryn Einan``Legislative Linguistics: Developing Language to Erase Identities``Leif Erickson``Scottish Independence: The Kingless Kingdom``Spencer Izett``The Nazi's War on All Things Queer``Delaney Moyer``The Indoctrination of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany``Nicole Query`` 'We owe it to our children and to their children': International Discrimination and Roma Holocaust Memorialization``May 13, 2021Kenzie BurgessGreyson HoyeGaven MeyerJames SecorKenzie Burgess``Polish Complicity in the Holocaust: Denial and Modern Impact: Government, Militias, Employees, and Citizens``Greyson Hoye``Classroom Walls: State Education and the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic``Gaven Meyer``Justification of Domination: The Nez Perce War of 1877``James Secor``When Words Do Kill: Nazi Propaganda from the Beer Hall Putsch to Kristallnacht``