Winners of the 2010-2011 History Department Essay Contest Announced!

The History Department is very pleased to announce the winners of the Essay Contest for 2010-2011. First place winners will receive a certificate and a check for $200. Second place winners receive a certificate and a check for $100. Checks and certificates will be sent to your homes beginning sometime next week. Congratulations to all of the winners, and best wishes to all for a happy and productive summer. Read a good history book!

Essay Contest Results: 2010-2011

HS 101 Essay--Fall 2010          

First place: Molly Dressel, "The Road to Wigan Pier as a Reflection." 

Second place:  Patrick Madden, "Trials of the Gulag in Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."

HS 101 Essay--Spring 2011

First place: Elizabeth May, "Proposal for Daniel R. Headrick's The Tools of Empire."

Second place: Tommy Antorino, "Mob Mentality and the Horrors of the Holocaust of WWII."

Upper Division Short Essay

First Place: Lauren De Baugh, "The Starving Time." 

Second place (tie): Andrew Conley, "Experiences and Motivations in Influencing the New Enola Gay Exhibit," and Joseph Soriero, "The Press vs. Reality in Bataan."

Upper Division Long Essay

First place: Katie Whelan, "Biography of a Continental Soldier: Samuel Lee of Barre, Massachusetts."

Second place: Nick Horan, "Thirteen Days: Dismantling the Perils of the Cuban Missile Crisis." 

Seminar Paper

First place: Katie Whelan, ""Like an Owl in the Desert:" Anne Clifford and Women of the Aristocracy in James I's England."

Second place: Aaron Remson, "The 1929 Stock Market Crash."