Ethnic America Before the Flood: The Irish and Others

American Studies Seminar

1983

Charles Fanning

The following American Studies Seminar research papers were written by students in the 1983 seminar, "Ethnic America Before the Flood: The Irish and Others," under the supervision of Professor Charles Fanning.

"The American Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish-American Press, 1855-1866," by Kevin Rosseel
"Anti-Catholicism and the Protestant Press: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, August 22, 1834," by Michael J. Wall
"Les Canadiens-Français Affluent à Southbridge," by Kerry Varin
"The Fenian Invasion of 1866 and the Reaction of Five Prominent Newspapers in the United States," by Mark D. Flaherty
"The Rise and Fall of Worcester Nativism to the Irish Catholics, 1847-1856," by Cynthia A. Walden
"The Truly Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: The Marketing of Bigotry in the 1830s," by Michael Downing
"The Yellow Peril," by Tina Landroche.

The theme and leader of each year's American Studies Seminar change, but all provide a rare opportunity for undergraduates enrolled at one of the five participating institutions to do primary, in-person research in a major research library.

Admission to the seminar is coordinated by the following faculty representatives on each of the five participating campuses:

Assumption University: John F. Bell, jf.bell@assumption.edu

Clark University: Meredith Neuman, meneuman@clark.edu

College of the Holy Cross: Gwenn Miller, gmiller@holycross.edu

Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Prof. Steven C. Bullock, HUA, sbullock@wpi.edu

Worcester State University: Charlotte Haller‭, challer1@worcester.edu