Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture in Early America, 1674-1860

The following research papers were written by students in the 2001 seminar, "Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture in Early America, 1674-1860," under the supervision of Daniel A. Cohen.

• "Verses for the Gallows: The Evolution of the American Dying Verses: Theft and Murder!," by Eric Aldrich
• "A Piracy Trail [i.e., trial] Reconsidered," by Megan Bocian
• "Evolving Parent-Child Relationships: Their Connection to Acts of Parricide in the Nineteenth Century," by Julia Crowley
• "An Analysis of Publications Involving Juvenile Offenders from the Years 1780 to 1830," by Dan Esposito
• "Love, Death and Honor: Who Bears Moral Guilt in 'The Kentucky Tragedy?'," by Chanel Prunier
• "Emergence of Social Progress in Early Nineteenth Century America: Evidence of Modern Thinking in the Case of Stephen Merrill Clarke," by Christine Ruffini
• "Arsenic and Old Lydia: A Discussion of Sociopathy and Ascribed Identity in the Serial Poisoner Lydia Sherman," by Rachel Scanlon
• "An Untimely End or a Just Condemnation: Women's and Men's Narrative Voices in Criminal Publications," by Stephanie Skenyon
• "Murder, Monomania, and the Passionless Female Ideal in the Nineteenth Century," by Lauren Wojtkun