Louisiana Scholars’ College Senior Theses
A Selection from the Past and a Contemplation of the Future
The following titles are examples of research conducted in the Cammie G. Henry Research Center.
Carmelita “Cammie, Jr.” Henry, ca. 1927
Tammy Lynn Clary
1992
Ladyhood In the Contemporary South: A Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in James Wilcox’s Fiction
LD 3091. L3686. C537
Kate O’Flaherty Chopin, ca. 1870s.
Lori K. Dunn
1998
The Belle Who Left The Ball: The Ideal of Southern Womanhood In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
LD 3091. L3686. D86
Ada Jack Carver and Cammie G. Henry, ca. 1930s.
Laura Thorn
1991
A Place of Stillness: Melrose and the Southern Literary Community of the 1920’s and 1930’s
LD 3091. L3686. T467
Melrose Store in Natchitoches Parish, ca. 1930s. Melrose Collection
Ricky Darbonne
1995
The Rise of the Southern Plantation Store: 1865-1880
LD 3091. L3686. D373
Fishing on the Cane River, ca. 1930’s.
Thomas Zimmerman
1992
Family Storytelling: The Invaluable Vehicle of Collective History
LD3091. L3686. Z566
Map of the Presidio Nuestra Senora Del Pilar de Los Adaes.
Justin Shatwell
2004
A Tale of Two Forts: The Family, Economic, and Cultural Ties between Presidio Nuestra Senora Del Pilar de Los Adaes and Fort St. Jean Baptiste
LD 3091. L3686. S5389
Marie Therese Carmelite Anty Metoyer, ca. 1830s.
John Murphy Castille
1991
A Study of the Lives of Pierre Badin and His Slaves and an Examination of the Free People of Color in the Antebellum South.
LD 3091. L3686. C379
According to Elizabeth Mills in her work Isle of Canes, Marie was the wife of Auguste Metoyer, the daughter-in-law of Nicholas Augustin and Marie Agnes Poissot Metoyer, the daughter of Marie Susanne Metoyer, and the grand daughter of Marie Therese Coincoin and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer. Joseph Marion Henry, Jr. Collection, Cammie G. Henry Research Center
Jenny Smith
1992
Cammie Garrett Henry: An Examination of the Relationship between a Literary Patron and her Son and Daughter
LD 3091. L3686. S65
Farra D. Lawson
1989
Fifteen Years of Criticism on Kate Chopin (1975-1989)
LD 3091. L3686. L397
Lt. Colonel Emily Ulrich Miller, 1905-1977
Martha Katherine Epperson
1997
That Crazy WAC!! Emily Miller: Perspectives of a Louisiana Servicewoman
LD 3091. L3686. E674
Lyle Saxon and Carmelite (Cammie) Garrett Henry, ca. 1930s.
Phaedra Athena O’Hara Kelly
1991
Storytelling the Truth: The Federal Writers’ Project’s Interview of Elizabeth Ross Hite, Ex-Slave
LD 3091. L3686. K455
Baptism on the Cane River, ca. 1926.
Michelle D. Craig
1999
African American Spirituals as a Form of Oral Communication and Oral History
LD 3091. L3686. C537
St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church on the Cane River, ca. 1950s.
John Rigler
1992
Religion and Ethnic Identity: The Cane River Creoles
LD 3091. L3686. R545
A 1930’s photograph of a Creole on the Cane River.
Jimmy Wayne Neil
1991
Forced Heirship In Louisiana: Abolished or Polished?
LD 3091. L3686. N45
Caddo Wattle and Daub House and Caddo Grass House (WPA Reconstructions).
Rhonda Fair
1997
An Anthropological Dictionary: A New Approach
LD 3091. L3686. F357
Photograph by Douglas Raymond, From The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana, by Fred Kniffen, Hiram Gregory and George A. Stokes, LSU Press, 1987.
Fort Jesup Area Map
Heather Jarrell
2001
The Fort Jesup Hospital Complex: Integrating Historical Research and Geophysical Exploration to Facilitate Archaeological Investigation
LD 3091. L3686. J3774
The map is from the 1984 second revised edition of the Atlas of American History published by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
