History Matters
An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research
Spring 2008 Issue
The fifth annual issue of HISTORY MATTERS: An Undegraduate Journal of Historical Research was published in April 2008 by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. Also included are book reviews written by the editorial staff.
Editor: M. Allison Jobe, Associate Editor: Erica Adelman, Assistant Editors: Robert Mason and Alison Shea, Contributing Editor: Joshua Fahler, Faculty Editorial Board: Dr. Rennie Brantz, Dr. René Harder Horst, Dr. W. Scott Jessee, Dr. Michael Krenn, Dr. Sheila Phipps, Dr. Neva Specht, and Dr. John Alexander Williams
The staff would like to thank Dr. Karen Reid and Dr. David Reid for their participation in the editorial process.
Research papers
(all files are in .pdf format)
The Revolution That Began the Evolution
by Michael Belinsky
Falkland Islands War: Diplomatic Failure in April 1982
by Joseph Mauro
"Who Has the youth, Has the Future": Youth and the State in the German Democratic Republic
by Jeff Robson
Book Reviews
Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier
Joshua D. Fahler
Kent State University
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Joshua D. Fahler
Kent State University
MoonPie: Biography of an Out-of-This-World Snack
Robert Mason
Appalachian State University
Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South
Alison Shea
Appalachian State University
