American Studies Seminar - 2004

Communication in the Early Nation: Literacy and Print in America, 1750-1840

The following American Studies Seminar research papers were written by students in the 2004 seminar, "Communication in the Early Nation: Literacy and Print in America, 1750-1840," under the supervision Catherine A. Corman.

• "The national identity of independent parts: a study of newspapers in 1826," by Cristine Delaney
• "Commonplace to diary: a young girl's literary appreciation," by Sarah Gower
• "Freemasonry membership certificates and the evolution of early American literacy," by Katrina Hildebrand
• "Beyond the calendar pages: almanacs and the construction of gender in the early 19th century," by Jessica Myers
• "Newspaper coverage of the women.s strike at the Lowell factories in 1836: different viewpoints for different audiences,"
  by Megan Osborne
• "Vicissitudes: women preachers in print, 1820-1840," by Guinevere Robin Petrousky
• "Defining insanity in the early nation," by Daniel Ricciardi
• "Theatric elements of Indian treaty documents," by Laurie Rodrigues
• "Moral disorder: the betrayal of the American Revolution in history textbooks of the 1820s and '30s," by Deirdre Sweeney