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2022
Trevon Barton, “New Black Representations in American Popular Culture, 1960-1975”
Daniel Brewer, “The Great Divide: The South’s Conflation of Abolitionism and the Republican Party, and Lincoln’s Response”
J. Caleb Colclasure, “The Ethos of the ‘True Sportsman’ and the Origins of the American Conservation Movement”
Dawson Connell, “Death by a Thousand Papercuts: The Economic Struggles of the Weimar Republic, 1919-1932”
Justin Lundy, “Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration and Sports and Recreation”
Ciara Mitchell, “Cecelia Goetz: A Forgotten Legacy in International Law”
2021
Jonas Babb, “The French Resistance: When Civilians Waged a War”
Olivia Heim, “Pagans and Fiction Writers: Feminist subcultures of the 1960s and 70s”
2020
Bailey Clayton, “From Tradition to Modern: A History of the Bailey Mountain Cloggers”
Francis Villeneuve, “The New York City Draft Riots of 1863”
Malik Tucker, “Christian Paternalism and Slavery: The Diary of James Harvey Greenlee”
Taylor Noble, “Class over Race: The 1934 Loray Mill Strike, Gastonia, NC”
2019
Elizabeth Daniel – “The Power of Percussion: The Impact of Industrialization on Percussion Orchestra”
Austin Herlocker – “The Farmer Has Got to Save Himself: James McClure and the Farmers Federation, 1920-1960”
Nick Hoffman – “The Superpower of Politics: Comic Books in the 1980s”
Jacob Oates – “Clean Water: A Century of Concern”
Tavion Trimble – “What’s Gangsta Rap Got to Do With it?”
2018
Troy Hall – “The State of Franklin: America’s Only Failed State”
Adeline LeMaster – “Southern Women at Odds: The Grimke Sisters and Mary Boykin Chestnut, 1830-1865”
Austin Marler: “Secession in North Carolina: The Untold Debates that Led to the Civil War”
Trevor Reising: “Killing Patriarchs and Buddhas: Gender Role Inversion via Masculine Suicide in Tokugawa Japan”
Shaylyn Sargent – “Let’s Narrow it Down to Everything: Placing History in a Larger Context through Big History”
2017
Quinlan Blackmon – “The Changing Times: Integration in Hillsborough, North Carolina, 1954-1972”
Jennifer Cardonia – “Credit to Black Womanhood: African American Women and Hairdressing in NC, 1930-50”
Brandon Cheek, “Apprehensive Assimilation: Political and Cultural Negotiation between the Cherokee Nation and Protestant Missionaries, 1800 to 1830”
Adrienne Enoch – “Weathering the Continuous Storm: African Americans and Jim Crow, Madison Co, NC”
Gil Gilreath – “Divine Supremacy: Southern Baptist Convention and White Supremacy, 1845-1861”
Mason Lipman – “Bringing Up the Blues: The Delta Blues, the Chicago Sound and American Popular Culture”
Justin Schronce – “A Nation Removed: Squatters Role in Cherokee Removal 1785-1837”
Jamie Whitesides – “Democracy in Action: John Dewey’s Influence on Black Mountain College, 1933-1936”
2016
Daniel Nelson – “The Struggle for Conscientious Objection: The Amish Experience in the Civil War”
Clay Peregoy – “Liston B. Ramsey: Mountain Populist and Western North Carolina Icon”
2015
Roman Blevins – “Pruning the Oak: Roman Motivation for the Repression of the Druids”
Ken Dixon – “Struggling to Reach the American Dream: An Italian Immigrant Story in the Mississippi Delta”
Landon French – “Creating Self-Identity: Eastern Cherokee as a Nation, 1840-1867”
Taylor Frizzell – “History of Hunting and Conservation on the Biltmore Estate”
Matthew Frye – “The Different Faces of Slavery: Slavery in Madison and Iredell Counties”
Sarah Johnson – “Women’s Stories from the Rural Home Front: NC’s Piedmont during WWII”
Jon Leonard – “Make Me Wanna Holler: Pop Music’s Plea for Cultural Understanding”
Tess McGill – “Every Child for Hitler: The Training of Future Leaders and Mothers in Nazi Germany”
Madison Moss – “Protecting Cultural Treasures: The Ballad Tradition of Beach Mountain, NC”
Ragan Ramsey, “The Origins of Segregated Public Housing in Asheville”
Mercedes Rich – “The Tragic Life of the C.S.S. Neuse”
Cadence Wilmoth – “The Melungeons, 1930s-1940s: A Struggle against Racism”
2014
Ben Abbott – “The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki: A Reconsideration”
Brooke Johnson – “Survival and the Atomic Bomb: Contested Views in 1950s America”
Andrew Little – “Spiritual Brothers: Religious Pluralism and Chaplains of World War II”
Benjamin Phillips – “Classical Iconoclasts: Comparing Ukiyo-e and Pop Art”
Allison Pipes – “Dear Abby and Gender Expectations in the 1950s”
Clarissa Roberts – “Rosenwald Schools: A Beacon of Hope for Black Students in the South, 1913-1965”
Heath Silver – “The Rise and Fall of Asheville’s Racing Heritage”
2013
Jacob Ashley – “A Canine Conundrum: The Treatment of Military Working Dogs in WWII and the Vietnam War”
Cody Clifton – “Spider-Man: Average Superhero, or Catalyst for the Ideas of the 1960s Counter-Culture?”
Andrew Greer – “Sweden, a Light in the Darkness of Jewish Refugees?”
David Moore – “Raising the Flag on the Moon: A Statement for the World”
Josh Patterson – “Is All History a Product of its Time?” How Context Affects Historical Interpretation
Michelle Payne – “Be Officers, Be Gentlemen: How Women’s Involvement in Vietnam Shaped the US Military”
Laken Pilgrim – “Slavery and Public History: Interpreting Slavery at the Zebulon B. Vance Site”
Seth Saylor – “Good Roads for Good People: The Good Roads Movement in East TN, 1890-1930
Ashley Spears – “Child Labor in the US in the late 19
th
Century: Competing Public Perspectives”
2012
Josh Dean, “The Social and Economic Impact of Spindletop Oil on Beaumont, Texas”
Dana Holcombe, “Work Yes, Handout No: Madison County and the New Deal”
Stephanie McGrath, “The United Nations and the Battle for Women’s Equality”
Chelsea Parker, “Richmond’s Jim Crow and Two Paths to Equality, 1954 -1968”
Michael Robinson, “War on Drugs, War on Student Rights, 1980 – 2000”
Rachel Rogers, “Peddlers of the Apocalypse: Chernobyl and its Imprint on the Ukrainian People”
Zach Searcy, “Beauty and Modernity in 1920s Appalachian Tourism”
Tyler Shuler, “Race and Gender Discrimination at Augusta National Golf Club”
Tiffani Taffer, “Caretakers of the Home front: Women of Appalachia during World War II
Stephanie Weikle, “Moonshine and Corruption in Catawba, NC, 1920 -1922”
Sarah Wilson, “The American Perception of China in
National Geographic Magazine
, 1900 -1949”
2011
Logan Buchanan, “Erasing History: Removing Homesteaders from the Great Smoky Mountains NP”
Katie James, “Confederate Spies: Rose O’Neal Greenhow and Belle Boyd”
Benjamin Miller, “Prologue to Conflict: English Theatre and its Critics in the Elizabethan Era”
Traci Morgan, “Exhibiting Filipinos: Imperialism and Racism in the 1904 World’s Fair”
Derek Prevette, “Grabbing British Coattails: Caleb Cushing’s 1843 Mission to China”
Kelsey Steele, “Ava Gardner: Hollywood Goddess, Hometown Beauty”
Dustin Stone, “America’s Forgotten Patriots: The Japanese American 442
nd
Regiment in WWII”
Jonee Taylor, “Preserving Cultural Legacies: A History of Cherokee Basketry and Tourism”
2010
Yonatan Arnold, “The Progressive Movement in Atlanta, Georgia”
Patrick Cash, “Jim Crow’s Lawyer: Sen. Sam Ervin’s Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement”
Natalie Haithcox, “The Impact of Title IX on Women’s College Sports”
Derek Hernandez, “The Shelton-Laurel Massacre in Madison County, North Carolina”
Mason Huffman, “Alaric and the Fall of the Roman Empire”
Yi Lu, “Struggle and Massacre: China’s Leadership in the 1989 Beijing Student Movement”
Trey Mayberry, “Sam Phillips, Elvis, & Rock N’ Roll: A Cultural Revolution”
Greg Smith, “Shoeless Joe Jackson: Overcoming Banishment”
Tyler Stephenson, “The History of the Rough Creek Cloggers of Waynesville, North Carolina”
2009
Todd Allen, “How British Women Shaped the Discourse over Concentration Camps in the Boer War”
Amanda McMahan, “A Mixed Legacy: Heriot Clarkson and the Creation of Little Switzerland”
Chris Phillips, “How Asheville’s Gay Culture Influenced Economic and Social Change”
Wes Skidmore, “The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 and the Christiana Riot of 1851: A Juxtaposition of Race Relations in Free Northern States”
2008
Steve Bailey, “Prohibition in Yancey County, North Carolina”
Jessica Blanford, “The Doolittle Raid: The American and Japanese Response”
Natasha Cannon, “Working Women: Domestic Servants at the Biltmore House”
Libby Fitzpatrick, “The Impact of German U-Boat Warfare in Carteret County, North Carolina”
Tyler Greene, “The 1925 Coal Glen Mining Disaster: NC’s Deadliest Workplace Accident”
Ashley Griffin, “The Downfall of Henry VIII”
Courtney King, “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”
Josiah Larson, “Nazism and Christian Dissidence, 1930-1935”
Ryan McCoy, “The Impact of the Nixon-Kennedy Debates on the 1960 Presidential Election”
Rick Miller, “The Gradual Loss of Freedom: Indentured Servitude to Chattel Slavery”
Megan Percy, “British Immigrants to Wisconsin in the mid-Nineteenth Century”
Doug Yarborough, “The Mission of the CSS
Hunley
during the Civil War”
2007
Camila Bahr, “The 1929 Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina”
Colbe Klein, “The Cherokee Ballgame: A Resurrection of the Past”
Andrea McCrary, “The Women’s War Effort on the Home Front in Mt. Airy, North Carolina”
Cherish McHone, “School Desegregation in Yancey County, North Carolina”
Lance Renes, “Ancient Sparta: An Athletic Society”
Pam Sherwood, “The Forgotten POWs of the Korean War”
2006
Sara Craig, “’Equality’ vs. ‘Satisfaction’: The Loss of the Cherokee’s Political Presence”
Brandon Freeman, “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Time in Western North Carolina”
Anne G’Fellers, “The Armenian Question and the American Answer (1915-1923)”
Randall Laws, “How did Yancey County Citizens view the Confederate Flag during the Civil War?”
Bekah Ludlow, “Keeping their Children Alive: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”
Ben Pierson, “Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Great Unifier of Japan”
David Rhoney
, “
Sheriff Jesse James Bailey: The Lion of Madison County”
Matthew Vogel, “The Templar Knights”
Matthew Waisner, “Driven to Piracy: The Piracy of the 17
th
and 18
th
centuries”