Kentucky Association of Teachers of History

On Saturday, September 28, 2013, at the 38th KATH Annual Meeting we celebrated Kentucky’s young scholars with the KATH Writing Awards.  Each of the winners received a monetary prize and certificate. These four juried KATH student writing awards named after some of Kentucky’s great historians and history educators: Raymond F. Betts, George C. Herring, Thomas D. Clark, Anita Sanford Tolson.

With the students’ permission, we proudly publish their photos and winning essays below (download their essays in .pdf files by clicking on the titles). This year’s prize winners are:

Anita Sanford Tolson High School Writing Award Margaret Anne Foster “Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Antebellum Women’s Culture” North Oldham High School, Goshen Mr. David Green, supervising teacher	Margaret Anne Foster (left) with Anita Sanford Tolson (center) and Allison M. Hunt, Award Committee Chair
Thomas D. Clark Undergraduate Writing Award (U.S. topic) Joseph B. Brown “‘Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?’: Politics of the Antebellum Baptist Schism in Kentucky” University of Kentucky, Lexington Dr. Joanne Melish, supervising professor	Joe Brown (left) with Dr. Randolph Hollingsworth, Award Committee chair
Raymond F. Betts Undergraduate Writing Award (non-Western topic) Jared Flanery “From the Treaty Port to the Village: Intellectuals and Peasants in the Chinese Communist Revolution” University of Kentucky, Lexington Dr. Phil Harling, supervising professor	Jared Flanery
Raymond F. Betts Undergraduate Writing Award Honorable MentionAnna Helton “Foreign Intrusion as Sexual Seduction: Chinese Anti-Christian Writing and Popular Disturbance” Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green Dr. Chunmei Du, supervising professor	Anna Helton
George C. Herring Graduate Student Writing Award Bethany Sharpe “Humanity Begins at Home: America’s First Refugees and the Roots of U.S. Humanitarianism” University of Kentucky, Lexington Dr. Jane Calvert, supervising professor
George C. Herring Graduate Student Writing Award Mary Osborne “Keeping the Faith: The American and Canadian Legions Construct Memories of the First World War, 1919-1941” University of Kentucky, Lexington Dr. James Albisetti, supervising professor	Mary Osborne

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2013 Annual Meeting
KATH Writing Awards