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History

Ph.D. Graduates -- Class of 2024

Michael Larmann

Dissertation Title: "'I Still Live!' Daniel Webster and the Politics of Commemoration in the Age of Disunion"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Anya Jabour, Claire Arcenas, Tobin Shearer (African American Studies),  Thomas J. Brown (History, University of South Carolina)

Ph.D. Graduates -- Class of 2023

Elizabeth Barrs

Dissertation Title: "The Politics of Abundance: American Philanthropy and the Political Economy of Food in the Twentieth Century"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Jody Pavilack, Jeff Wiltse, Robert Saldin (Political Science), Stephen Porter (History, University of Cincinnati)
Placement: Director, Defense Critical Language and Culture Program, Mansfield Center

M.A. Graduates -- Class of 2023

Nicholas Ambs

Thesis Title: "Motown Movie Magic: Respectability, Gender, and Authenticity in Crossover Films, 1972-1989"
Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair), Jeff Wiltse, Matthew Strohl (Philosophy)

Hunter Richardson

Professional Paper Title: "Spirited Debates: 猎奇重口 Prohibition, Politics, and Repeal, 1925-1938"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Claire Arcenas, Wade Davies (Native American Studies)
Placement: Political Consultant, Congressional Candidate

Christina Varney

Thesis Title: "Black Deathways: An African Methodist History, 1829-1916" 
Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair), Anya Jabour, Ashby Kinch (English)

Ph.D. Graduates -- Class of 2022

Robert Lambeth

Dissertation Title: "'Making a Science of Cooperation': Labor, Business, Government, and the Defense Council System in the Wartime American West, 1916-1921"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Jody Pavilack, Jeff Wiltse, Wade Davies (Native American Studies), Greg Hall (History, Western Illinois University)

M.A. Graduates -- Class of 2022

James Compton

Thesis Title: "Mansfield, Marines, and Mothers: The Politics of Resistance to the American Intervention in China From 1945-1946" 
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Michael Mayer, Steven Levine (Mansfield Fellow)
Placement: Ph.D. Student, Department of History, 猎奇重口

Kristin Gates

Professional Paper Title: "It Costs us Something: Mike Mansfield and the Effort to Evaluate the American Foreign Aid Program to South Vietnam, 1953-1960"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Jody Pavilack, Donna McCrea (Mansfield Library)
Placement: Manuscript Curator, Mansfield Library Archives & Special Collections

Lerene McFarland

Thesis Title: "'A Blacker List of Crime was Never Looked Upon': Mormon Violence, Utah Statehood, and the Memory of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857-1896"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Jody Pavilack, Tobin Miller Shearer (African American Studies)

Jacob Schmidt

Thesis Title: "Damming Paradise: Public Power, Free Enterprise, and Tribal Sovereignty in the Mountain West in the Twentieth Century"
Committee: Tobin Miller Shearer (Chair), Jeff Wiltse, Brian Chaffin (Forestry)
Placement:  Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Oregon

William Schuman-Kline

Thesis Title: "The Long Arm of the Dreaded B.I.: The Bureau of Investigation and the Origins of the Federal Surveillance State"
Committee: Michael Mayer (Chair), Kyle G. Volk, David Aronofsky (Former UM Legal Counsel)

Robert Winslow

Thesis Title: "Navigating the Soviet Experiment: Travels and Writings of John Dos Passos and Edmund Wilson in Soviet Russia, 1928-1935"
Committee: Michael Mayer (Chair), Claire Arcenas, Clint Walker (World Languages and Cultures)

Ben Yturri

Thesis Title: "Battles of the Mind: The Reaction Against Progressive Education, 1945-1959"
Committee: Michael Mayer (Chair), Jeff Wiltse, Adrea Lawrence (Education)

Ph.D. Graduates -- Class of 2021

Jared Norwood

Dissertation Title: "The Road to Self-Support: Vocational Rehabilitation and the Associational State, 1917-1945"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Anya Jabour, Claire Arcenas, Rob Saldin (Political Science), Lisa Pruitt (History, Middle Tennessee State University) 
Lecturer: Lecturer in History, Middle Tennessee State University

M.A. Graduates -- Class of 2021

Michael Larmann

Professional Paper Title: "The New Monumental Era: Daniel Webster and the Commemoration of Compromise in the Age of Disunion, 1853-1865" 
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Anya Jabour, Jody Pavilack
Placement: Ph.D. Student, Department of History, 猎奇重口

Jolie Scribner

Professional Paper Title: "'A Splendid Investment': Black Colonization and America's Pacific Empire, 1898-1904"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair), Anya Jabour, Tobin Shearer (African American Studies)
Placement: Professional Academic Advisor, 猎奇重口, College of Humanities & Sciences

John Stefanek

Professional Paper Title: "Creating and Destroying History: Butte, 猎奇重口's Model City Program, 1968-1975"
Committee: Michael Mayer (Chair), Jody Pavilack, Kyle G. Volk
Placement: Cataloging Technician, Mansfield Library, 猎奇重口

Ph.D. Graduates -- Class of 2020

Shawn Bailey

Dissertation Title: "Worth a Dam: Glacier View and the Preservation of Wild America"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair), Mike Mayer, Leif Fredrickson, David Beck (NAS), Bill Borrie
Placement: Instructor, DePaul University

Clinton Lawson

Dissertation Title: "Flowers from the Devil: America’s First Opioid Epidemic, The Criminalization of Marijuana, and the Triumph of the Prohibition State, 1840-1940"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair), Kyle G. Volk, Richard Drake, Jim Mills (University of Strathclyde), Kari Jo Harris (Public Health Sciences)
Placement: Research and Education Specialist, The State Historical Society of Missouri

M.A. Graduates -- Class of 2020

Elizabeth Barrs

Thesis Title: "Marketing The Golden Rule: Near East Relief and Philanthropy’s Role in the Political Economy, 1915-1930"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair)
Placement: 猎奇重口, Doctoral Program in History

Ryan McCarty

Thesis Title: "Beyond Nationalism: James and Grace Lee Boggs and the Black Radical Tradition in 1980s Detroit"
Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair), Anya Jabour, Daisy Rooks (Sociology)
Placement: Communications Coordinator, Humanities 猎奇重口

Hannah McDonald

Thesis Title: "Black Colorism and White Racism: Discourse on the Politics of White Supremacy, Black Equality, and Racial Identity, 1915-1930"
Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair), Jeff Wiltse, Greg Campbell (Anthropology)

Hayden Nelson

Thesis Title: "‘A Pressure Not to be Resisted or Evaded’: Military Occupation, Reform, and the Incorporation of Northern 猎奇重口, 1879-1916"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair), Kyle G. Volk, Wade Davies (NAS)
Placement: University of Kansas, Doctoral Program in History

Jennifer Simpson

Professional Paper Title: "How the West Was Fun: Constructing the Western Tourism Experience in the Yellowstone Wylie Camps, 1880-1916"
Committee: Anya Jabour (Chair), Jeff Wiltse, Nancy Cook (English)

Past Graduates

  • Tim Ballard

    Dissertation Title: "The Missionary Enterprise, Racial Conflict, and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, 1945-1980"
    Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair); Jeff Wiltse; Robert H. Greene; Quan Manh Ha (English); Molly Worthen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - History)

    Patrick Mulford O'Connor

    Dissertation Title: "Tobacco Politics and the Reconstruction of Governance in America, 1862-1933"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour, Jeff Wiltse, Rob Saldin (Political Science); Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University - History)
    Placement: History Instructor, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont

  • Joshua Pretzer

    Thesis Title: "A Capitalist's Social Gospel: Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus and the Promise of Upward Mobility, 1875-1921"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Jody Pavilack; Tobin Shearer (African American Studies)

    Patrick Swart

    Thesis Title: "Blasting the Farm: Chemical High Explosives and the Rise of Industrial Agriculture, 1867-1930"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Jeff Wiltse; Leif Fredrickson (Independent Scholar)

    Paul Thompson

    Professional Paper Title: "'How about the Tariff and Homestead?': Homestead, Tariff Rhetoric, and Federal Powerlessness in 1892"
    Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair); Richard Drake; Chris Muste (Political Science)

  • Scott A. Barnett

    Thesis Title: "A New and Familiar Power: The Rise of Pentecostalism Among the Blackfeet in 猎奇重口, 1940-1975"
    Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair); Kyle G. Volk; Dave Beck (NAS)

    Caleb Wright

    Thesis Title: "The Beautiful Game as a Soviet Game: Sportsmanship, Style, and Statecraft during the Golden Age of Soviet Soccer"
    Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Jody Pavilack; Clint Walker (MCLL)

  • Jonathan Del Buono

    Thesis Title: "'The Business of Empire: American Capitalists, the Nicaraguan Canal, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1849-1858"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Jody Pavilack; Eric Schluessel (Political Science)

    Garett Tree

    Thesis Title: "The Russian Mission: Seventh-Day Adventism, Bolshevism, and the Imminent Apocalypse, 1881-1946"
    Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Tobin Shearer; Clint Walker (MCLL)

  • Jonathan Hall

    Dissertation Title: "Hounded: Dogs, Humans, and the Rise of the American City”
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Mike Mayer; Jeff Wiltse; Kelly Dixon (Anthropology); Chris Pastore (History, SUNY-Albany)
    Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, 猎奇重口

  • April Gemeinhardt

    Thesis Title: "'The Most Poisonous of All Diseases of Mind or Body': Colorphobia and the Politics of Reform before the Civil War"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour; George Price (African American Studies)

    Dan Kamienski

    Professional Paper Title:"Prescribing the American Dream: Psychoanalysts, Mass Media, and the Construction of Social and Political Norms in the 1950s"
    Committee: Mike Mayer (Chair); Robert H. Greene; Lynne Koester (Psychology)

    James Vaughn

    Thesis Title: "Federal Cultural Exchanges and Jazz Diplomacy, 1956-1964"
    Committee: Mike Mayer (Chair); Robert H. Greene; Patrick Peel (Political Science)
    Placement: University of California-Riverside, Doctoral Program in History

  • Rosalyn LaPier

    Dissertation Title: "The Piegan View of the Natural World, 1880-1920"
    Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair); William Farr; Wade Davies (NAS); Trent Atkins (C&I); Frederick Hoxie (University of Illinois)
    Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, 猎奇重口

    Randall Williams

    Dissertation Title: "Green Voters, Gun Voters: Hunting and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States"
    Committee: Dan Flores (Chair); Kyle G. Volk; Robert H. Greene; Chris Pastore (History, SUNY-Albany); Sara Dant (History, Weber State University)
    Placement: Editorial Assistant, 猎奇重口 Historical Society

  • Chelsea Chamberlain

    Thesis Title: "Why Wait Until They Commit A Crime?: Moral Imbecility and the Problem of Knowledge in Progressive America, 1880-1920"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour; Jeff Wiltse; Susan Pearson (History, Northwestern University)
    Placement: University of Pennsylvania, Doctoral Program in History

    John Dunkum

    Thesis Title: "Anatolii Vasil'evich Lunacharskii and the Soviet Theater"
    Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Richard Drake; Clint Walker (MCLL)

    Jordan Graham

    Thesis Title: "We Are Against Socialized Medicine, But What Are We For?: National Health Policy and the Eisenhower Presidency"
    Committee: Michael Mayer (Chair); Jeff Wiltse; Robert Saldin (Political Science)
    Placement: History Instructor, The Holderness School (Plymouth, New Hampshire)

    Sorn Jessen

    Thesis Title: "July 4, 1865: A Nation in Search of Itself"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour; Dave Beck (NAS)
    Placement: Little Big Horn Battlefield, Department of the Interior

    Jeff Meyer

    Thesis Title: "Alpine Experiments: The National Parks and the Development of Skiing in the American West"
    Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair); Richard Drake; Bill Borrie (Forestry & Conservation)
    Placement: Aspen Historical Society, Aspen, CO

    Patrick O'Connor

    Professional Paper: "A Public Revolt Against Spitting: Education and Politics in the Progressive Era"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair)
    Placement: 猎奇重口, Doctoral Program in History, George M. Dennison Fellow

    Robert Rutherford

    Professional Paper: "More Dangerous than Murderers or Traitors: Conscientious Objection to Military Service in the Post World War II Era"
    Committee: Mike Mayer (Chair); Kyle G. Volk; Patrick Peel (Political Science)

    Kyeann Sayer

    Thesis Title: "Religion, Russo-British Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy in Anna Ivanovna's Russia (1730-1740)"
    Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Mehrdad Kia; Ardeshir Kia (Anthropology)
    Placement: University of Hawaii, Doctoral Program in History

  • Kayla Blackman

    Thesis Title: "Public Power, Private Matters: The American Social Hygiene Association and the Policing of Sexual Health in the Progressive Era"
    Committee: Anya Jabour (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Sara Hayden (Communication Studies)
    Placement: Research Historian, Historical Research Associates (Missoula, 猎奇重口)

  • Ian Stacy

    Dissertation Title: "The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Tobin Shearer; Sara Dant (History, Weber State University); Nancy Cook (English)
    Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of History, Whatcom Community College (Bellingham, WA)

  • Michael Dax

    Thesis Title: "Grizzly West: The Story of the Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Jeff Wiltse; Michael Patterson (Forestry)

    Sydney R. Gwinn

    Thesis Title: "Conspicuous Consumption: Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, CO, 1882-1915"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Kelly Dixon (Anthropology)

    Dylan Huisken

    Thesis Title: "'We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable': Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893"
    Committee: Jeff Wiltse (chair); Dan Flores; David Beck (NAS)
    Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

  • David J. Brooks

    Dissertation Title:"Restoring the 'Shining Waters:' Milltown, 猎奇重口 and the History of Superfund Implementation"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Jeff Wiltse; Jody Pavilack; Tobin Shearer; Nancy Cook (English)
    Placement: Executive Vice President, Heritage Research Center (Missoula, MT)

  • Cody D. Ewert

    Thesis Title:"Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era"
    Committee: Kyle G. Volk (chair); Anya Jabour; Jeff Wiltse; Tracy Steffes (Education & History, Brown University)
    Placement: New York University, Doctoral Program in History

    Heather A. Mulliner

    Thesis Title:"Between The Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert Line and Louise Chapman"
    Committee: Anya Jabour (chair); Jeff Wiltse; Jill Bergman (English)
    Placement: New York University, Masters Program in Archives & Public History

    Bennett G. Sherry2012 ma graduates

    Thesis Title:"King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah’s Iran, 1968-1978"
    Committee: Tobin Shearer (chair); Robert H. Greene; Richard Drake; Mehrdad Kia (Anthropology)
    Placement: University of Pittsburg, Doctoral Program in History

    Virginia L. Summey

    Thesis Title:"Gender, Justice, and Jim Crow: North Carolina Judge Elreta Alexander in the Long Civil Rights Era"
    Committee: Anya Jabour (chair); Tobin Shearer; Eduardo Capulong (Law School)
    Placement: University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Doctoral Program in History

    Nicholas R. Van Hole

    Thesis Title:"Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatment"
    Committee: Jeff Wiltse (chair); Richard Drake; Sarah Certel (DBS)

    Randall Williams

    Professional Paper Titles:" ‘Prime Mover’: The Boone and Crockett Club and the Bear-Cattle Wars of Kodiak Island"; "The Sportsmen’s Press and the Politics of Anti-Sovereignty"
    Placement: 猎奇重口, Doctoral Program in History

  • Molly Varley

    Dissertation Title: "Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory of Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Anya Jabour; Jeff Wiltse; Angelica Lawson (NAS); Nancy Cook (English)
    Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History & Political Science, Meredith College (Raleigh, NC)

  • Aaron Hyams

    Thesis Title: "Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Traditions, 1921-1971"
    Committee: Michael Mayer (chair); Dan Flores; Ramona Grey (Political Science)
    Placement: Marquette University, Doctoral Program in History

    Ahnie Litecky

    Thesis Title: "Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Michael Mayer; Anna Prentiss (Anthropology)

    Elizabeth Ryan

    Thesis Title: "We Thought We Should Do Something Ourselves': Citizen Participation and the Denver Model Cities Program"
    Committee: Michael Mayer (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Jon Tompkins (Political Science)

    Zoe Ann Stoltz

    Thesis Title: "Camping to Permanence: 猎奇重口's History of Mobile and Manufactured Home Use"
    Committee: Jeff Wiltse (chair); Dan Flores; Jon Axline
    Placement: 猎奇重口 Historical Society, Reference Historian

  • Greg Gordon

    Dissertation Title: "Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), David Emmons, Jeff Wiltse, Richard Drake, Jill Belsky (Society & Conservation)
    Placement: Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)

    Rodolfo Villarreal-Riosgreg rudolfo

    Dissertation Title: "Independent Internationalism in Practice: Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Mexico from 1919 to 1929"
    Committee: Michael S. Mayer (chair), Jody Pavilack, Maria Jose Bustos Fernandez (MCLL), David Aronofsky
    Placement: Columnist and Adjunct College Teaching

    Nicholas C. P. Vrooman

    Dissertation Title: "Infinity Nation: The Métis in North American History"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Bill Farr, Jody Pavilack, Harry Fritz, Jeff Gritzner (Geography)
    Placement: Independent Writer

  • Leif Frederickson

    Thesis Title: "Still Blue: An Environmental History of Flathead Lake"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Martin Nie (Society & Conservation)
    Placement: University of Virginia, Doctoral Program in History

    David Keightley

    Thesis Title: "A New Life in 猎奇重口: The Laotian Hmong–their History, Culture, and American Journey"
    Committee: Michael Mayer (chair), Harry Fritz, Steve Levine (Mansfield Center)

    Erica Stukel Probst

    Thesis Title: "Joseph Dixon and the Bull Moose Campaign of 1912"
    Committee: Michael Mayer (chair), Harry Fritz, Jon Tompkins (Political Science)
    Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

    Ian Smith

    Thesis Title: "From Subsistence to Dependence: The Legacy of Reclamation and Allotment on Quechan Indian Lands, 1700-1940"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, David Beck (Native American Studies)
    Placement: Research Historian, Historical Research Associates (HRA), Missoula, MT

    Rueben Swindall

    Thesis Title: "Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection"
    Committee: Richard Drake (chair), Robert H. Greene, Marton Marko (MCLL)
    Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

    Melissa Thomasma

    Thesis Title: "The Lawmen Faced the Outlaws, No Badge Upon a Breast: Historical Memory and the Legacy of Henry Plummer and the 猎奇重口 Vigilantes"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Ken Lockridge, Louis Hayes (Political Science)

  • Anna Amundson

    Thesis Title: "Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II – Era War Brides in 猎奇重口"
    Committee: Mike Mayer (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Janet Finn (Social Work)
    Placement: Florida State University, Doctoral Program in History

    Shawn Bailey

    Thesis Title: "Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885–1915"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Jeffrey Gritzner (Geography)
    Placement: 猎奇重口, Doctoral Program in History

    Milena Oganesyan

    Thesis Title: "James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991"
    Committee: Michael Mayer (chair), Paul G. Lauren, Mark Johnson (Mansfield Center)

    Leslie Weidow

    Thesis Title: "猎奇重口 Zion: American Communalism in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Kyle G. Volk, David L. Moore (English)

  • Peter Aagaard

    Thesis Title: "The Rewilding of New York´s North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines, and the Adirondacks"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Paul Krausman (Wildlife Biology)
    Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

    Doris Swann Avery

    Thesis Title: "Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jody Pavilack, David Beck (Native American Studies)

    Margaret Caldwell

    Thesis Title: "Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy"
    Committee: Richard Drake (chair), Robert H. Greene, Paul Dietrich (Liberal Studies)

    Andrew Endorf

    Thesis Title: "British Foreign Policy Under Canning"
    Committee: John Eglin (chair), Linda Frey, Louis Hayes (Political Science)

    Katie Green

    Thesis Title: "The Mirror of Nature: Chesapeake Perceptions of Wilderness, 1650–1787"
    Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Kyle G. Volk, Phil Condon (Environmental Studies)

    Peter Olsen

    Thesis Title: "Mistaken in the Man: The Life, Death, and Estate Trial of John McClellan"
    Committee: Harry Fritz (chair), Dan Flores, Jeff Greene (Political Science)

    Rodolfo Villarreal-Rios

    Thesis Title: "Independent Internationalism and Nationalistic Pragmatism: The United States and Mexico Relations During the 1920s"
    Committee: Michael S. Mayer (chair), Jody Pavilack, Maria Jose Bustos Fernandez (MCLL)
    Placement: 猎奇重口, Doctoral Program in History