Spring 2006

A page of history is worth a volume of logic. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

History Matters

An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research

Spring 2006 Issue

The third annual issue of HISTORY MATTERS: An Undegraduate Journal of Historical Research was published in April 2006 by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. This is the first issue for which HISTORY MATTERS solicited submissions from undergraduates nationwide. Five research papers were selected for publication from a much larger pool of sixty-six sumbissions, representing twenty-five colleges and universities. Also included are book reviews written by the editorial staff.

Editor: Eric B. Burnette, Associate Editor: Matthew M. Manes, Assistant Editors: David B. Fuqua III and M. Allison Jobe, Contributing Editor: Faron Levesque, Faculty Editorial Board: Dr. David Dorondo, Dr. W. Scott Jessee, Dr. Michael Krenn, Dr. Michael Moore, Dr. William Olejniczak, Dr. Sheila Phipps, Dr. Neva Specht, Dr. Sarah Shields, and Dr. John Alexander Williams

Research papers

(all files are in .pdf format)

Homefront Heroines: The Wartime Contributions of Civic Women in Whiteville, North Carolina

by Jennifer Marie Biser

Ms. Biser is a junior majoring in History at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill. This summer, she will intern with the Department of Cultural and Historical Resources. Her future plans include graduate school for Education or Public History.

Christmas Lights and Community Building in America

by Brian Murray

Mr. Murray is a senior majoring in History at Yale College. During his time at Yale, he has served as a staff reporter for the Yale Daily News. Mr. Murray is proficient in Spanish and French, and plans to work in France for a year before attending law school.

Immigrant Health and the Public Schools: A Discussion of Public School Reform in New York City, 1900-1920

by Carolyn Rothman

Ms. Rothman is a senior majoring in History at Yale College. At Yale, Ms. Rothman created and served in the position of Residential College Historian. After graduation, she plans to work as a reporter for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey.

Little Dragons: Chinese American Childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by K. Ian Shin

Mr. Shin is a senior double-majoring in American Studies and History at Amherst College. Mr. Shin was offered one of the fifteen history scholarships from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in 2005. In September, he will join the Monitor Group as a strategy consultant, and his future plans include graduate school in History or Art History.

Ethnicity, Politics, and Society in the New South: Examining German Immigrant Communities in Early Twentieth-Century Charleston

by Rebecca Wieters

Ms. Wieters is a senior double-majoring in History and Political Science at the College of Charleston. In the fall, she plans to attend the University of Maryland for graduate school in History.