LITR 4231 Early American Literature

Index to Sample Research Posts 2014
(research post assignment)

Research Posts

Stephanie Ali
Research post 1:
Malinche’s Misfortune Being Born A Female
Research post 2:
The Identity Crisis: Historical Writings on Women by their Captives

Jon Anderson (graduate student)
Research post 1:
Listening for the Echoes of Authentic Early American Frontier Experience in the European Gothic Novel, Or, The Tease
Research post 2:
Why is Paradise to the West?

Josh Cobb
Research post 1:
Thomas Paine: the Silenced Critic
Research post 2: American Prometheus

Elisa Cortez
Research post 1:
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz a Pioneer of Women Rights
Research post 2:
Women and Education in Early America

Maryam Chambler De Los Santo
Research post 1:
Independent Thinker: Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Research post 2: Sor Suana Inez de la Cruz: Womanhood or Friendship

Thomas Dion
Research post 1:
Loyalists are People Too
Research post 2:
George Washington: The Cherry Grove and Beyond

Amanda Duarte
Research post 1:
Explaining Baroque Literature
Research post 2: Defining Deism

Carmen Halbison
Research post 1:
To Leave by Force; To Come by Force
Research post 2:
To Leave by Force; To Come by Force

Ana Harms
Research post 1:
In the mind of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
Research post 2:
Mr. & Mrs. John Adams

Dawn Iven
Research post 1:
Sacrificed for Being Different:  Bridget Bishop’s Story
Research post 2:
Abigail Adams:  A Woman Ahead of Her Time

Marion Johnson
Research post 1:
Sor Juana and Early Feminism
Research post 2:
The life and works of Anne Bradstreet

Cohen Landry
Research post 1:
Indian Christian Conversions: Majestic or Manipulation
Research post 2:
Primitive Resistance and Accommodation: An Indian Struggle

Cristen Lauck (graduate student)
Research post 1:
Who is Paine?
Research post 2: The Rhetoric of Thomas Paine

Danielle Meza
Research post 1:
Jean Lafitte: Pirate or Patriot?
Research post 2:
The Unrecognized Patriot

Liz Nolen
Research post 1:
Born Too Soon
Research post 2: Weird and Beautiful, All at the Same Time

Isabella Nunez
Research post 1:
John Smith: Captivity Victim or Hero?
Research post 2: A Texas Captivity Narrative

Brandi Polvado
Research post 1:
Beliefs of Americans Today on Creation and Free Will
Research post 2:
Benefits of Double Language

Cassandra Rea
Research post 1:
Phillis Wheatley: The Center of the American Literary Canon
Research post 2:
Abigail Adams: Not Your Ordinary Housewife

Tiffany Robinson
Research post 1:
The Accidental Poet (Anne Bradstreet)
Research post 2: How Pure were the Intentions of the Puritans?

Stephen Rodwell
Research post 1:
The Salem Witch Trials: How Mass Hysteria gave way to Common Sense
Research post 2:
The Salem Witch Trials and their Aftermath

Sarah Robin Roelse
Research post 1:
What Have We Learned From The Salem Witch Trials?
Research post 2:
History:  Does it Repeat Itself or are We Merely Foreshadowing Something Bigger?

Kelly Santos
Research post 1:
The Enlightenment Era’s Influence on Thomas Jefferson and the Formation of the United States
Research post 2:
The Pursuit of the “Pursuit of Happiness”

Elizabeth Sorensen
Research post 1:
Cynthia Ann Parker
Research post 2: Quanah Parker

Zach Thomas 
Research post 1:
Slaves have a Voice
Research post 2:
Creation Stories as Your Beginning

Laura Tompkins
Research post 1:
What Can We Learn From the Trail of Tears?
Research post 2:
Phillis Wheatley: A Brief Discussion of Double Consciousness

Brenda Trejo
Research post 1:
Not so Different after All (Karankawa Indians of Texas)
Research post 2: Susanna Haswell Rowson

Matthew Trzecinski
Research post 1:
Charles Brockden Brown: Father of the American Novel
Research post 2:
The Great Awakening: Revival of Faith

Victoria Webb
Research post 1:
The Afflicted Girls: Beginning of the Salem Witch Trials
Research post 2:
Falsely Accused: Victims of the Salem Witch Trials