Martha McMillan Research Papers
In-depth research on topics suggested by the contents of the journals
Submissions from 2025
“Christmas with a Covenanter”: Martha McMillan’s Yuletide Experience, Adam Caldwell
Travel and Transportation as a Reflection of Hospitality and Community in Martha McMillan’s 1889 Journal, Rachel Crane
Living in Community: Friendship and Hospitality in Martha McMillan’s 1889 Journal, Brodie S. Crowder
Life After Work: Insight into the Social Life and Leisure of Martha McMillan, Emily A. Frasier
The Structure of Daily Life in Martha McMillan’s 1889 Journal, Rachel V. Knierim
Connecting the Community: Transportation in the Life of Martha McMillan, Haley C. Kollstedt
Submissions from 2024
Hospitality Amid Grief in 19th-century Cedarville, Ohio, Emma E. Bapst
Submissions from 2022
Sewing and Dressmaking in Martha McMillan's Day (1891), Elizabeth G. Allen
The Demorest Contest: Prohibition Leader in Conversation with WCTU and Martha McMillan, Grace E. Kohler
Martha McMillan & The Prohibition Party, Sarah L. Swanson
Submissions from 2018
Introduction to the January-April 1893 Martha McMillan Journals, Brandon Best
September-November 1884: A Critical Introduction to Martha McMillan, Jessica A. Elder
Martha and the Church, Micah A. Gerber
Critical Analysis Essay, January-March 1884, Addison Lamb
Analyzing Martha McMillan’s Involvement in Her Children’s Spiritual and Catechetical Growth, Alethea Surland
Submissions from 2017
Discovering and Recovering the Nineteenth-Century Journals of Martha E. McMillan in an American Women Writer’s Course: A Collaborative Digital Recovery Project, Michelle M. Wood, Lynn A. Brock, Gregory A. Martin, and Adam John Wagner
Submissions from 2016
Martha and Her Help: A Different Kind of Relationship, Victoria E. Krus
Submissions from 2015
The MacMillan Journals: A Place to Comment and Space to Gain Intellectual Agency (1894), Austin C. Becton
Sheep Farming and Shearing (1874), Sara K. Bennett
Observance of the Sabbath (1888), Tabitha Mercy DeHart
Monmouth College and Martha McMillan (1894), Allison N. Jensen
Historical Analysis: WCTU (1899), Victoria E. Krus
Martha McMillan: Rewriting the Spanish-American War (1898), Bethany Miller
California Trip (1904), Michael J. Newman
Understanding Martha in Light of Nineteenth-Century Womanhood Ideals (1900), Courtney Raymond
The Influence of the Domestication of Death and Communal Grieving in Nineteenth-Century Cedarville (1898), Kathy S. Roberts
Cancer Treatment During Martha McMillan's Time (1913), Taylor L. Stephens
Martha McMillan and Victorian Periodicals and Poetry (1868), Adam J. Wagner
Critical Introduction to the 1908 Transcription, Adam John Wagner
Martha E. McMillan and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s House and Home Papers (1867), Michelle M. Wood
