History Matters

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

History Matters

An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research

Most Recent Issue

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. This was a landmark year for HISTORY MATTERS, as a new editorial staff joined the journal. Three research papers were selected for publication from the forty submissions received. Twenty-seven 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: Erica M. 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. David Reid and Dr. Karen 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

Mr. Belinsky is an economics and political science double major in his junior year at Dartmouth College. He is an editor and staff columnist at The Dartmouth daily newspaper.

The Falkland Islands War: Diplomatic Failure in April 1982

by Joseph Mauro

Mr. Mauro is a senior at Wake Forest University majoring in History and minoring in philosophy. Next year, he will attend University of Michigan Law School.

"Who Has the Youth, Has the Future": Youth and the State in the German Democratic Republic

by Jeff Robson

Mr. Robson is a history major and geography minor at the University of Calgary.