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Emerson Prize Essays
Special issue of AP Essays published in 1995
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Emerson Prize Winners (54 Essays)
Austria-Hungary and the Compromise of 1867
James Kwok, of Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario
From Ambivalence to Acceptance: American Attitudes Towards Linguistic and National Identity
Sally Pei, of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
Progressivism's Last Crusade: Raymond Fosdick, George Creel, and the Moral Mobilization of America in World War I
Alexandra Petri, of National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
The Paradox of Power: An Analysis of the Rise of Parliamentary Power with the Consolidation of the Monarchy in the English Reformation
Stephen Popper, of Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey
British Foreign Policy During the American Civil War: January 1860 to September 1862
Steven Siegel, of Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, Maryland
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A Failure to Modernize: The Origins of 20th Century Islamic Fundamentalism
Tyler Waywell, of Riverdale Country School, Riverdale, New York,
The Town of Pullman: Local Grievances Cause a Nationwide Strike
S. Wylie Galvin, St. Albans School, Washington, DC
The Nazi Influence in the Formation of Apartheid in South Africa
Elizabeth Lee Jemison, St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, Tennessee
A Brief History of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and its Reocurrence throughout the Twentieth Century
Oliver Mains, Branson School, Ross, California
The Ogaden: A Microcosm of Global Conflict
Ezekiel Rediker, Taylor Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A Victim of Circumstance?: World War One and the Collapse of the British Liberal Party
Shaina Wright, Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, New York
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Gypsy Legislation in Spain, 1499-1783
Amy Motomura, Boulder High School, Boulder, Colorado
Writs of Assistance Trial
Brandon Hopkins, Waterford School, Sandy, Utah
German Reformation
Matthew Popper, Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey
Demise of the Knights Templar
Michelle Mann, Pioneer Valley Charter High School, Hadley, Massachusetts
The Establishment Clause's Effect on Religious Freedom
Wilson Hunter, Montgomery Academy, Montgomery, Alabama
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The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918
Jennifer Hsiao, Hall High School, West Hartford, Connecticut
Francisco Franco and the Decline and Fall of Spanish Fascism
Jan Michal Zapendowski, St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, Texas
Humanitarianism in the Post-Colonial Era: The History of Médecins Sans Frontières
Kimberly S. Greenberg, Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, New York
An Analysis of Alexander Kerensky's Handling of General Lavr Kornilov
Michael Korzinstone, Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario
A Blow To Labor: The Homestead Strike of 1892
Jacob C. Goldberg, Horace Mann School, Riverdale, New York
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Making Sense Of Monkey Business: Contemporary Press Coverage Of The Scopes Trial And Its Enduring American Legacy
Rebecca Fleming, Horace Mann School, Riverdale, New York
The Great Delusion: Chaim Rumkowski's Attempt To Save The Jews Of Lodz
Rachel E. Hines, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, Maryland
The Armenian Genocide and WWI
Chrystan Maria Skefos, St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, Tennessee
The Demise of Prohibition
Robert Patrick Vance, Jr., Isidore Newman School, New Orleans, Louisiana
Anne Hutchinson: A Life in Private
Jessica Leight, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Spiritualist Movement and Its Advancement of the Nineteenth Century Women's Movement
Emily Alter, Branson School, Ross, California
The Treason Debate: Ezra Pound and His Rome Radio Broadcasts
Jonas Doberman, Boulder High School, Boulder, Colorado
Impeachment
David Gopstein, Hunter College High School, New York, New York
Witch Trials in Germany: Politics or Hysterics
Tanya Sibai, St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, Tennessee
"A Bintel Brief:" A Journey to America
Sarah Weiss, Lincoln Park High School, Chicago, Illinois
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"The Outcome of that Discontent:" Oscar Micheaux, Motion Pictures and the Race for Dignity
Sarah Weiss, Lincoln Park High School, Chicago, Illinois
Victorian Lessons: Education and Utilitarianism in Bentham, Mill, and Dickens
Patrick Bradley, Burlington High School, Burlington, Vermont
Equal Rights Amendment
Sara A. Newland, Hunter College High School, New York, New York
Scanty Goatees And Palmar Tattoos: Cesare Lombroso's Influence On Science And Popular Opinion
Rebecca Fleming, Horace Mann School, Riverdale, New York
The Quad Must Be Made Safe: Williston Academy Students In World War One
James Egelhofer, Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre: A Crime and a Mystery
Sarah B. Willeman, Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts
"Martyr To The Cause:" The Goldwater Campaign of 1964
Gilman Barndollar, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn as Spiritual Leaders of the Post-War Russian Dissident Movement
Natalya Kozyreva, Dwight School, New York, New York
Abigail Adams: The Feminist Myth
Jennifer Shingleton, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Six Lanes, Five Miles, A Decade Of Controversy: The Construction Of The Massachusetts Turnpike Extension Through The City Of Newton
Toby Berkman, Newton North High School, Newton, Massachusetts
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The Evolution Of The Idealized Chinese Poetic Aesthetic From The Late T'ang Through The Northern Sung Dynasty
Alison Mara Friedman, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C.
Silent Sisters: Women's Suffrage And Women's Higher Education
Kerry Carwile Masteller, Walla Walla High School, Walla Walla, Washington
Chinese Democracy, 1954-1966
Andrew Paquin, Li Po Chun United World College, Hong Kong
M. Carey Thomas: Daring Visionary and Flawed Reformer
Joelle Gail Novey, Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, Maryland
Czechoslovak Radio in the Soviet Occupation
Lea Sevcik, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales
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Apostle of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson
Lisa Hopkins, Waterford School, Sandy, Utah
King Arthur
Camilla Ann Richmond, Hillsborough High School, Tampa, Florida
Kamikaze Pilots
Mako Sasaki, St. Maur International School, Yokohama, Japan
Kingsley & Newman
John Spencer Neumann, Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, Illinois
John Maynard Keynes
Aaron Einbond, Hunter College High School, New York, New York
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Julia Morgan
Pia Lindstrom Luedtke, Polytechnic School, Pasadena, California
Section I. "Work Itself Overcoming Its Natural Disadvantages"
Section II. The Women's Connection
Section III. "Long Distance Dreamers"
Section IV. An Unwilling and Obdurate Heroine
Baseball's Negro Leagues
Matthew Eisenberg, Hall High School, West Hartford, Connecticut
A Dramatic Revival: The First Great Awakening in Connecticut
Sarah Valkenburgh, Greens Farms Academy, Greens Farms, Connecticut
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AP Special Issue 1995 Essays in The Concord Review (11 essays)
Alexander Hamilton: The Duel with Aaron Burr
Jerome Reiter, Mountain Lakes High School, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
The Hapless Anaconda: Union Blockade 1861-1865
Jochem H. Tans, Boulder High School, Boulder, Colorado
Women in the French Revolution: The Failure of the Parisian Women's Movement in Relation to the Theories of Feminism of Rousseau and Condorcet
Jenifer D. Clark, Vivian Webb School, Claremont, California
Baseball's Negro Leagues
Matthew Eisenberg, Hall High School, West Hartford, Connecticut
Opposition to Female Suffrage in the United States
Nicole Herz, St. John's School, Houston, Texas
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A Dramatic Revival: The First Great Awakening in Connecticut
Sarah Valkenburgh, Greens Farms Academy, Greens Farms, Connecticut
Woodrow Wilson's "Peace Without Victory" Address, January 22, 1917: A Continuity of Thought
Uthara Srinivasan, Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School, Flossmoor, Illinois
The Beginning of a Revolution: Waltham and the Boston Manufacturing Company
Kenton Beerman, Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
George W. G. Ferris: The Man Who Re-invented the Wheel
Britta C. Waller, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Kent, Ohio
Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and the American Revolution
Greg Ruttan, Lakeridge High School, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Frederick Jackson Turner and the Gospel of Wealth
Joshua Derman, Dalton School, New York, New York
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Past Essays in The Concord Review (14 Essays)
The True Reformers of the Progressive Era: Political Machines and Urban Bosses
Eric J. Suh, Isidore Newman School, New Orleans, Louisiana
"Information of the Unlearned": the Enlightenment in Early American Almanacs, 1650-1800
Daniel Winik, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C.
After The Trail of Tears: The Cherokee in Oklahoma, 1838-1870
Susan-Anne Tuddenham, Polytechnic School, Pasadena, California
The Hartford Circus Fire of 1944
Karen Goldberg, The Frisch School, Paramus, New Jersey
George W. G. Ferris: The Man Who Re-invented the Wheel
Britta C. Waller, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Kent, Ohio
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Washington in War and Peace
Michael Berkowitz, Bronx High School of Science, New York, New York
Conquest of Mexico
Ben Hulse, Oak Park and River Forest High School, Oak Park, Illinois
Mormon Settlement
Natanya Brewer, Edmund Burke School, Washington, D.C.
Triangle Company Fire
Hadley Davis, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts
Constantine and Christianity
Katherine E. Willems, Mt. Ranier High School, Des Moines, Washington
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Soviet Dissent
Tania E. Lozansky, Washington International School, Washington, D.C.
Woman Suffrage: England's Influence
Ariane Liazos, Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts
The Split in the 19th Century Woman Suffrage Movement
Rachel Davidson, Newton North High School, Newton, Massachusetts
Ibn Sa'ud and the Ikhwan
Darik Ibrahim Elwan, Washington International School, Washington, D.C.
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