History Majors Only.
Students in this course will write original research papers based on their analysis of the press coverage of a murder from the 1830s to the 1930s. Beginning in the 1830s, the penny press discovered that sensational cases of murder sold newspapers, which changed the way American readers approached these crimes. Sensational murder coverage reveals prevailing views about race, sex, sexuality, evil, violence, and much more. Students will choose a murder covered extensively in the press and will analyze some aspect of aspects of it in a way that contextualizes and historicizes it.
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