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Phi Alpha Theta at ENC
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ENC HISTORY MAJORS STORM
WEST POINT
by
Professor Carla Lovett
On April 21st, 2007 seven ENC history majors
traveled to the United States Military
Academy at West Point to
participate in the annual Southern New England Regional Phi Alpha Theta
Conference.  Students from 10
different colleges and universities
in the southern New England, New York,
and New Jersey area presented
papers on a plethora of topics and their rigorous scholarship,
thoughtful analysis, and energetic deliveries made for a wide-ranging
and extremely interesting conference. All in all, the day proved
quite successful for ENC as the school won a prestigious book award and
garnered numerous accolades for bringing the largest contingent of
students... Read More
Blake Marshall, in “Mogadishu – ‘A Not So Splendid Little War’” argued
that the United States failed to fully understand their enemy during
“Operation Restore Hope” which led to a civil war and created an
“international quagmire”. He went on to suggest that the theories
of a variety of military analysts as well as the “Western war of war”
thesis might be of relevance in the “context of current military
operations in Iraq” as well as with other forms of “unconventional
warfare” in the future. Persuasively delivered, Blake’s paper
received a unanimous vote among the members of the award jury and went
on to win a coveted book award for best paper.
Luis Rodriguez’s paper entitled “Ancestors of the Swift Running Water:
A Short Treatise on the Life & Contributions of the Ponca Chief
Standing Bear” explored the often complex and violent relationship
between Native Americans and the United States government in the late
1800s. The 1877 court case involving the little known Native
American chief Standing Bear proved to be the first time in American
history that a court of law recognized Native Americans as human beings
who could legally challenge their detentions on US reservations.
Rodriquez went on to show that this event also served as a catalyst for
both increased awareness concerning injustices towards Native Americans
on the part of the American public and increased assimilation of Native
Americans as they moved further under the umbrella of American
jurisprudence.
 Cameron Young
delivered a paper entitled “The
Dixiecrat Experiment: The
South’s Bolt from the Democratic Party in 1948” which noted that while
the White South voted for the Democratic Party for nearly a century
following the Civil War, many Southerners had become disenchanted as
the national party began to support a civil rights agenda in the late
1940s. When thirty-five southern democrats walked out of the Democratic National Convention and organized a
separate party under J.
Strom Thurmond in 1948 the schism proved complete. Over the next
two decades the Republican Party gained ascendancy in the South and
permanently transformed the political landscape of the region.
Passionately presented, Cameron’s paper in the end narrowly missed out
on winning a book award of its own.
Besides these
three presenters, fellow ENC students Emily Dunham, Josh
Burley, Brian Campbell, and Jeremy Stanford attended the conference and
ENC’s PAT faculty advisor, Prof. Carla Lovett, coordinated a panel of
three papers entitled “Modern Europe” which received numerous
compliments for the manner in which it was moderated.
It should also be noted that Prof. Lovett’s successful involvement with
ENC’s Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society over the past few years
(in which ENC students have won book awards at every conference)
resulted in her being selected for the 2006-2007 edition of Who’s Who
Among America’s Teachers.
Phi Alpha Theta is the national history honors society and provides
various opportunities for young minds to become both more deeply
engaged in the study of history and more fully involved in the history
profession itself. It is open to students who have taken at least 4
history courses with a GPA of 3.1 or above in history, a GPA of 3.0 or
better overall, and are in the top 35% of their class.
ENC INTRODUCES 2007
PHI ALPHA
THETA INDUCTEES
The Department of
History is pleased to introduce Blake Marshall, Jeremy Stanford, and
Cameron Young as the newest inductees into ENC’s chapter of Phi Alpha
Theta, the National History Honor Society. Congratulations!
PAST PHI ALPHA THETA EVENTS
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