Historiographic Essay (HIST 801-America inerpreted)

This essay showcases a general overview of the historiographical changes in United States history, focusing on early schools of thought into post-modernism. This was the first essay I wrote for my program of study at UNK and it is interesting to see how my opinions and writing styles have changed over the course of my academic career.

Historiographic essay Major field (HIST 848: Readings in Frontier Law and order)

This is an assessment of the major changes in the historiography of my major field of study, Early U.S. History and looking at how the idea of Frontier Law and Order changed overtime. It also delves into the different fields of thought on how “wild” the western experience was during times of development.

Historiographic Essay Minor field

This essay is an assessment of major changes in the field of Native American historiography with emphasis on women in the United States.

research paper (HISt 848: Indigenous borderlands)

Over the course of my time at UNK pursuing my Masters, I returned to the idea of principles of the founding of the country, how laws were interpreted, and how indigenous peoples were affected. Two classes that I highly enjoyed were Dr. Volpe’s Constitutional Rights and Dr. Steinke’s Indigenous Borderlands. Citizenship in the eyes of the United States has been an ethereal thing. Several of the readings in Dr. Volpe’s course over the ideas of both rights and citizenship inspired me to write this research paper for my final in Indigenous Borderlands.

Book Review (HIST 848 readings: ConstituTIONAL Rights)

This book review was part of my course requirements for HIST 848: Constitutional Rights. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen impacting my view of history, especially constitutional history, of the United States.

Book Review (HIST 848 Readings: Native American history)

This review explores a critique of Karl Jacoby’s Shadows at Dawn. It was during this course and while reading this work that I decided on my minor topic, Native American Studies, at UNK in 2019.