TCR Readers: Emerson Prize Issue 1

This is a special issue of Emerson Prize-winning history research papers on various topics by secondary students published over several years in The Concord Review. They include essays on Anne Hutchinson, The Great Awakening, Irish Nationalism, and Socialist Realism, among many others. The authors attended Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale and other fine universities. Several graduated summa cum laude, and one was a Rhodes Scholar. They came from Colorado, Connecticut,...
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This is a special issue of Emerson Prize-winning history research papers on various topics by secondary students published over several years in The Concord Review. They include essays on Anne Hutchinson, The Great Awakening, Irish Nationalism, and Socialist Realism, among many others. The authors attended Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale and other fine universities. Several graduated summa cum laude, and one was a Rhodes Scholar. They came from Colorado, Connecticut, Hong Kong, Japan, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Ontario, and Singapore. These are among the best history papers we have ever published. Of course, your purchase from Amazon will help us to keep offering this unique opportunity to diligent high school students of history, but I also really hope you like the papers, and I would love to hear from you if you do.Will FitzhughFounderfitzhugh@tcr.orgEssays:The Great Delusion: Chaim Rumkowski's Attempt to Save the Jews of Lodz by Rachel E. Hines Anne Hutchinson: A Life in Private by Jessica Leight Religion and Nationalism in Ireland in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Jane Abbottsmith Convivencia in Medieval Spain: Cultural and Intellectual Adaptation and Interactions Among Muslims, Jews, and Christians by Wei LiMatteo Ricci and the Jesuit Mission in China 1583-1610 by Caitlin Lu Trade Between the Ainu of Ezo and the Wajin from Mainland Japan (1650-1720) by Kaya Nagayo Reassessing the Needham Question: What Forces Impeded the Development of Modern Science in China after the 15th Century? by Jonathan Lu A Dramatic Revival: The First Great Awakening in Connecticut by Sarah Bahn Valkenburgh An Analysis of Alexander Kerensky's Handling of General Lavr Kornilov by Michael KorzinstoneGypsy Legislation in Spain, 1499-1783 by Amy Rachel Motomura Transformation of the Human Consciousness: the Origins of Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union by Maya Iyer Krishnan