Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Research - MARCUS 2009

Seventeen History majors presented their original research at the 11th annual MARCUS gathering at Sweet Briar College on October 10.

• Sarah Hope Berlinger, “Daring Dame of Dixie:  The Contributions of Female Spies to the American Confederacy.” 

• Brandon Bower, “The Spithead Mutiny Revisited.” 

• Peter Fogarty, “The Limitations of a Revolutionary Ideology:  The Issue of Slavery at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.” 

• Maretta Krista, “Pleasure and the Pursuit of White Skin: A Look at Change in Eighteenth-Century England.” 

• Paul McDowell, “Guilty until Proven Innocent:  A New Orleans Tragedy that Swept the Nation.” 

• Caitlin McPartland, “The Role of Rosie:  The Impact of Propaganda on Female Home-Front Intervention.” 

• Kelly Murray, “White Virginia’s Reaction to the Haitian Revolution.” 

• Heather Newlin, “Refusal to Convict:  Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey, 1624-1803.” 

• Michelle Ojeda, “Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party:  A Unique Campaign for Woman Suffrage.” 

• Matthew D. Parker, “Robert Clive:  The Heaven Born General?” 

• Nicholas Powers, “Warfare in the Seven Years’ War:  White and Warriors.” 

• Daryl Rathgeb, “Justice Henry Fielding:  Views on Execution and Pardons in the Eighteenth Century.” 

• Sam Riley, “Devil’s Toothpicks and Coffin Nails:  George Trask and Lucy Gaston’s War on Tobacco.” 

• Rebecca Rodgers, “Teaching Tools of the 1950s:  Exploring Dating and Marriage.” 

• Amanda Scheffer, “Symbolism in Eighteenth Century Revolutions:  A Comparative Study of the Liberty Cap in America and France.” 

• Sonya Thomas, “Plessy v. Ferguson:  The Ill-fated Battle for Inequality.” 

• Robert Woodside, “The Best Capitalist during World War II:  Andrew Jackson Higgins.”