Spring 2007 Issue

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

History Matters

An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research

Spring 2007 Issue

The fourth annual issue of HISTORY MATTERS: An Undegraduate Journal of Historical Research was published in April 2007 by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. This was a landmark year for HISTORY MATTERS, as a new editorial staff assumed leadership of the journal. Four research papers were selected for publication from the forty-two submissions received. Twenty-four colleges and universities participated from the United States and Canada. Also included are book reviews written by the editorial staff.

Editor: M. Allison Jobe, Associate Editor: Leah Brown, Assistant Editor: Domenic Powell, Contributing Editor: Elizabeth Moore, Faculty Editorial Board: Dr. René Harder Horst, Dr. W. Scott Jessee, Dr. Michael Krenn, Dr. Michael Moore, Dr. Sheila Phipps, Dr. Neva Specht, and Dr. John Alexander Williams

Research papers

(all files are in .pdf format)

Herald the Story and Die for the Glory: Muscular Christianity, Reconstruction, and Collegiate Football in the New South

by Kelly Jae Gannon

Ms. Gannon is a junior at Wake Forest University, majoring in History with a minor in International Studies. Kelly is a member of Kappa Delta sorority and the Wake Forest University Marching Band.

The Image of White Womanhood in the South: How it Affected Violence Towards Blacks After the Civil War

by Sarah Henckler

Ms. Henckler is a junior at Davidson College, majoring in History, with a focus in American History. She is currently studying abroad in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin.

Scurrying Alongside Humanity: A Co-Evolutionary History of Rats and Humans

by Shea O'Neill

Mr. O'Neill is a senior at Ithaca College, majoring in History with a minor in Environmental Studies.

The Yahudim and the Americans: The Leo Frank Affair as a Turning Point in Jewish-American History

by Jason Schulman

Mr. Schulman is a senior at Columbia University, double-majoring in History and American Studies. This summer he will be working in the History Department of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi.