Popular Culture in Preindustrial America, 1650-1850

The following research papers were written by students in the 1979 seminar, "Popular Culture in Preindustrial America, 1650-1850," under the supervision of David Hall.

• "The American Gift Book," by Edward Markunas
• "Changing Roles, Changing Views: American Motherhood, 1780-1840," by Patricia Volger
• "Children's Books as "Popular Culture": The Question of the Influence of Maria Edgeworth on the Children's Stories of Mary Robson Hughes," by Michael Huck
• "The impact of Samuel Goodrich on children's literature," by Bernard A. Mongilio
• "Nathaniel Coverly: Popular Printer, 1767-1816," by Barbara A. Vayo
• "The New England Tract Society and Roman Catholicism," by Laura Vaught
• "William Dunlap: Comments on American Literature and Art," by Mary Eileen Egan