The Online Writings of Jeffrey L. Pasley — UPDATED
This page presents some of the same links that appear on my original home page, along with some new ones, in a more compact format. These are all scholarly or quasi-scholarly pieces, either never published in print or published in much shorter versions or just plain are not very easily accessible. The order is reverse chronological, or newest first.
- “The Role of the Press and Media in Presidential Elections” – expanded & updated encyclopedia article, 2003/2010
- “Thomas Paine and the U.S. Election of 1796: In which it is discovered that George Washington was more popular than Jesus” — conference paper, Oct. 2008
- “Popular Constitutionalism in Philadelphia: How Freedom of the Press Was Won” (2008)
- Articles on Conspiracy Theory in Early American History, written for Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (2003): “Indians, North American,” “Illuminati,” “Lewis, Meriwether,” “Abolitionists,” “Jackson, Andrew,” “Monk, Maria,” “Morse, Jedidiah,” “Alien and Sedition Acts”
- “You Can’t Pin A Good Slayer Down: The Politics, If Any, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel” (2003)
- “Showing the Scars: Presidential Illness and the Press over the Centuries” (2001)
- “Conspiracy Theory and American Exceptionalism from the Revolution to Roswell” (2000)
- “Matthew Livingston Davis’s Notes From The Political Underground: The Conflict of Political Values in the Early American Republic” (1996/2000)
… more to come

Where is the cheese?
Comment by Jeff Pasley — September 7, 2008 @ 12:16 am