1997 MA Final Projects in American Studies

Film Biography of Dizzerene Patton by Hannah Protzman. Advisor: Jean Humez

To Conquer a Peace: the Massachusetts Democracy Responds to the Mexican War by Daniel Higgins. Advisor: Martin Quitt. Winner of the 1998 Book Prize.

Medicine During the Early History of the U.S. with Emphasis on Philadelphia and Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Barbara Loewy. Advisors: Julie Winch and Tim Buckley

Nuclear War and Popular Culture during President Reagan's First Term by Joanne Grupper Hildreth. Advisor: Paul Atwood

The Prestigious Kaahumanu Queen, Kuhina Nui, Puuhonua, Regent by Maryann Kalikolehua Aguiar. Advisors: Tim Buckley and Judith Smith

Representations of American Workers in Documentary Films of the 1930s and 1970s/80s by Lisa Bertola. Advisors: James Green, Judith Smith

Womanly Visions of Heaven and Home in the Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Phelps by Susan Reynolds Swan. Advisor: Judith Smith