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Model History Proposals (Annotated)

Contributed by B. Zakarin, Office of Fellowships, b-zakarin@northwestern.edu
Posted: 2010

Learn from your predecessors by reading their thesis proposals, along with faculty annotations explaining the proposal's strengths. This is a great way to prime the pump for developing your own proposal for a research at home or abroad, preparing for a senior honors thesis.

Anti-semitic rhetoric in a German newspaper in the 30s and 40s (H. Morris) (pdf)

Archival/newspaper research on 1960s political culture (C. Kuklick) (pdf)

Prostitution and womanhood in 18th c. Paris (A. Urus) (pdf)

The first 12 years after the "no-war" clause in post-war Japan (T. Sakai) (pdf)

Radical protest to the Stamp Act in pre-revolutionary Windham, CT (A. Jarrell) (pdf)

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