The following essay by Charlotte Harrigan of Hunter College has been awarded third place in the 2007 Eighteenth-Century Reading Room Essay Contest. Congratulations to Charlotte!
The Young Revolutionary, in Drag
Imagine the life of a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. DoGood who had just left their home in England to start over in New England. As we [...]
The following essay by Casey Levinson of Hunter College has been awarded second place in the 2007 Eighteenth-Century Reading Room Essay Contest. Congratulations to Casey!
John Smith and Pocahontas:
A Review of the “Sometimes Governor” of Jamestown’s Works and Reputation
Most Americans who are familiar with John Smith know him from a paragraph in a high school [...]
The following essay by Michael Brenes of Hunter College has been awarded first place in the 2007 Eighteenth-Century Reading Room Essay Contest. Congratulations to Michael!
Spectators of Oppression:
Depictions of American Slavery in Travel Journals, 1792-1840
In Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic tome on American life in the nineteenth century, Democracy in America, he famously denounced Southern slavery while [...]
Full Title: The American Kalendar; or, United States Register, for New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. For the Year 1796. London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1796.
A VIEW of the Population of the United States of AMERICA.
In [...]
