Essays

Thesis

The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space

Thesis Research Essays

Darwin Evolved: The Changing Response to Evolutionary Thinking in 19th Century America

The American "Atmosphere" at the Turn of the Century

Didactic Landscapes: Parks and Social Reform

Historic New Orleans

Coursework Essays

To Lead or Not to Lead: The Role of the United States in the 21st Century

A Long Time Coming: Developments in Understanding of the Long March

I Thought we Were Friends: America’s Role in European Anti-Americanism

The Emergence of the Enslaved Protagonist: A Historiography of Slavery Resistance

Cold War “Victory” for the West: The Demise of the Communist Ideal

Boys Will Be Boys: The Influence of Gender in the Spanish-American War

A Work In Progress: Elitism, Exploitation, and Beauty in American City Planning

Et Tu Brutus?: Africa's Role in American Slavery

American Idealism During WWI

The Democratization of American Culture: How "The Real World," and "American Idol" have Changed the Country

Progressivism: The Waltz with Modernity

Dropping the Bomb: Truman’s Simple Answer to a Complex Situation

Reviews

Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union, by Scott Shane

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, by George Chauncey1890-1940

Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861, by Frederick Wakeman Jr.

“The Sale of Motherhood: Wet-Nursing and Slave Women in Colonial Cuba” and ”Free People of Color in Spanish Mobile, 1780-1813”

The Archives of New Orleans Public Library

Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China, by Judith Shapiro

Voices of Protest

Annotations

The Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussel

The Response to Industrialism 1885-1914, by Samuel P. Hays.