This site was created by Dr. Robin O'Sullivan to showcase the work of students in her U.S. History classes at Troy University in Alabama.
O'Sullivan is the author of American Organic: A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating (2015, University Press of Kansas).
O'Sullivan is the author of American Organic: A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating (2015, University Press of Kansas).
One batch of work comes from students in Spring 2014. All students read One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson and Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein.
They found other sources on their own and chose the themes of their contributions. Another batch of work comes from Fall 2014 students in the eTroy Cultural History of the U.S. to 1877 course.
All students read: The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition, by W.J. Rorabaugh (1981)
and The Battle for Christmas, by Stephen Nissenbaum, (1997)
They located other sources on their own and chose the themes of their contributions.
They found other sources on their own and chose the themes of their contributions. Another batch of work comes from Fall 2014 students in the eTroy Cultural History of the U.S. to 1877 course.
All students read: The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition, by W.J. Rorabaugh (1981)
and The Battle for Christmas, by Stephen Nissenbaum, (1997)
They located other sources on their own and chose the themes of their contributions.
The cultural history courses Dr. O'Sullivan teaches are:
Cultural History of the U.S. to 1877
A study of American society through its literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. Emphasis will be on immigration patterns, European cultural transfer, and environmental adaptations that created the American character.
Cultural History of the U.S. from 1877
This course provides a concentrated study of changing thought patterns resulting from the rise of Big Business, theories of the public interest, and the emergence of the United States as a world power. Wide opportunities for reading offered in religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts.
Another batch of work comes from students in Dr. O'Sullivan's Environmental History of the U.S. class in Spring 2015. For this course, all students read Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire.
They conducted research on their own.
Other papers come from the fall 2015 eTroy Cultural History course, in which students also read Jeffrey Meikle's American Plastic.
Cultural History of the U.S. to 1877
A study of American society through its literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. Emphasis will be on immigration patterns, European cultural transfer, and environmental adaptations that created the American character.
Cultural History of the U.S. from 1877
This course provides a concentrated study of changing thought patterns resulting from the rise of Big Business, theories of the public interest, and the emergence of the United States as a world power. Wide opportunities for reading offered in religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts.
Another batch of work comes from students in Dr. O'Sullivan's Environmental History of the U.S. class in Spring 2015. For this course, all students read Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire.
They conducted research on their own.
Other papers come from the fall 2015 eTroy Cultural History course, in which students also read Jeffrey Meikle's American Plastic.