StMU Research Scholars

Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary's University

American Studies

The Columbus Controversy and His Findings in the New World

Esteban Serrano

The Tragic Fate of the Continental Army: The Sufferings Endured at Valley Forge

Vanessa Preciado
Oil portrait of Hernan Cortes by an Unknown painter, XVII century | Courtesy of Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid.

The Problem of Hernan Cortes’ Ambiguous Authority

Kelly Guadalupe Arevalo Neyra

The sewing machine and how it impacted the world

Alexandra Camarena

The First Affair: A Scandal Between Alexander Hamilton and the Early American Republic

Courtney Mcclellan

Listen To Your Doctor, Not Your Governor: The San Francisco Plague of 1900

Franchesca Tinacba

Charles Hull and the Rise of 3d Printing

Alex Trevino

Heaven’s Gate Cult: The Mass Suicide of Religious Following

Guadalupe Altamira

A Certified Circus: The Scopes Monkey Trial

Vianne Beltran

F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Creation of The Great Gatsby

Maria Jose Haile

Khan Academy: the First Online School

Margaret Maguire

The Mexican Expedition: When Legend Clash

Seth Roen

Katharine Drexel: America’s Modern Day Saint and Zeal For Missionary Work

Eliza Merrion
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Please Sir, I Want Some More…

Sophia Phelan

Surviving Internment in Crystal City: the Experiences of Internee Ilse Fischer, a Peruvian-German Child

Brissa Campos

“That’s too much power for one man to have”: Malcolm X, The Man Who Stared Down the Police

Amelie Rivas-Berlanga

Upton Sinclair: “I Aimed at the Public’s Heart and by Accident I Hit It in the Stomach”

Lily Schow

Dry Bourbon Street: Prohibition, Mafias, and Its Roots in the Southern Baptist Church

Madeline Chandler

Caroline Earle White: Changing the World for Animals

Kayla Cooper

Action Park, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

Dylan Miller