Titles illustrating the diversity of final project topics:

 

"Myth, Medicine, and Merriment: Maximo and Bartola, Mid-19th Century Othering, and the Curious Construction of Citizen-Subjects" by Celine Nader, 2009

"Re-Imagining the Dead: The Cultural Politics of El Dia de los Muertos Celebrations in California" by Valeria Jimenez, 2009

"Economic Priority During the Revolutionary Period in Boston: the World of Female Tavern Proprietorship" by Rebecca Lewis, 2009

"The Politics of Respectability and Intra-Racial Intimacy in Jesse Fauset's There is Confusion and Nella Larsen's Quicksand" by Katie Kuba, 2008

"Introducing Eighth Grade Students to the Social Construction of Race: An American Studies Enrichment Curriculum" by Jessica O'Malley, 2007
"Media as Tools of Empowerment: Mel King and His Colleagues' Attempt for Self-Representation through Cable Television and the Internet
" by Yuya Kiuchi, 2006

" Boston Common: Public Space and Land Use" by Tad Suiter, 2006

"Transformation of Vietnamese Communities in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina" by Jennifer Nguyen, 2006

"How Else Can I Say It I Don't Speak No Other Languages?: Hip-hop in Dialogue with Rural America" by Molly Geidel, 2005

"Patriot Games: Patriotism, National Identity, and the American Rodeo" by Kara McCormack, 2004

"Public Housing: Project Kids" by Michele Hansen, 2004

"Science Fiction Film, Technology, and the Hybrid Future" by Lorenzo Nencioli, 2004

"Entering the U.S. During Exclusion: Chinese Women's Experiences in the Northeast, 1911-1925" by Shauna Lo, 2003

"Imperialist Images: Hollywood Depictions of Native Hawaiians, 1927-1959" by Nicole Currier, 2002

"Live Free or Die: Lao American Refugees Negotiate Identity, Race and Citizenship in Southeastern New Hampshire: An Oral History" by Sing Vivathana, 2002

"Savage Invention: The Idea of the Indian in Colonial New England" by Peter Hannan, 2001

"The Ideology of the `American Dream' in All American Girl" by Motoko Kainose, 2000

"Infamy Revisited: A Critical Examination of Events Leading to War on Dec. 7, 1941" by James Rakauskas, 2000

"A Curriculum Unit: Free People of Color and the Struggle for Freedom, 1790-1860" by James Buck, 1998

"Men of Letters: The Correspondence Between John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison" by Carol Cullen, 1996