History Matters
An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research
Spring 2009 Issue
The sixth annual issue of HISTORY MATTERS: An Undegraduate Journal of Historical Research was published in May 2009 by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. Four research papers were selected for publication from the sixty-nine submissions received. Twenty-seven colleges and universities participated from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Austrailia. Also included are book reviews written by the editorial staff.
Editor: M. Allison Jobe, Associate 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. Timothy Silver, Dr. Neva Specht, and Dr. John Alexander Williams
The staff would like to thank Dr. Karl Campbell and Dr. Michael Wade for their participation in the editorial process.
Research papers
(all files are in .pdf format)
by Brandon Byrd
Brandon is a senior honors History major at Davidson College. He will graduate in 2009.
From Legacy to Lethargy: The Course and Cause of American Military Neutrality in 1940
by Drew Carpenter
Drew is a senior at Appalachian State University. He is majoring in History.
'An Account of a Cucumber': The Nelsons and the Botanical Kitchen Garden
by Emma Earnst
Emma is a History major at the University of Virginia. She will be graduating in May 2009.
by Sarah Kenney
Sarah is junior at Gettysburg College. She is double majoring in History and Environmental Studies.
Book Reviews
Officers of the USS Shenandoah
Will Coleson
Oklahoma Christian University
The Making of St. Louis: Kingship, Sanctitym and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages
Edward Holt
Duke University
Thomas Lambert
Louisiana State University
Who Chooses?: American Reproductive History Since 1830
Jacob Richardson
Eastern Michigan University
