Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in History

Dissertation on post-emancipation labor struggles in the American South

Study of Cold War propaganda in U.S. and Soviet educational systems

Oral history project on immigration narratives in 20th-century Maryland

Archival analysis of early feminist periodicals in Latin America

Research on African independence movements and colonial bureaucracy

Historiography of historical memory in post-Franco Spain

Digital mapping of Civil War troop movements using primary sources

Documenting transatlantic trade and enslaved peoples in port records

Analysis of imperial urban planning in British colonial India

Dissertation on printing presses and the Enlightenment public sphere

Study of U.S. veterans’ reintegration after World War II

Research on Jewish cultural life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust

Exploration of Black intellectual networks in 19th-century U.S. cities

Project on Indigenous language revival and colonial education systems

Analysis of Cold War-era resistance in Eastern Bloc film and literature

Historiography of U.S. national parks and conservation ideology

Document study of suffrage petitions across U.S. congressional districts

Study of climate and agriculture in early modern European economies

Dissertation on migration and diasporic identity in postcolonial Africa

Digital exhibit curating archival materials from Maryland’s abolitionist past