On Saturday, October 18, 2014, at the 39th 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 are named after some of Kentucky’s great historians and history educators.
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 No winners in 2014 |
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| Thomas D. Clark Undergraduate Student Writing Award (U.S. Topic) Cody S. Barnett “The Thought of the Smell of Black Powder Smoke: Violence in Kentucky Politics and the Clayhole Election Shootout” Transylvania University, Lexington Dr. Melissa McEuen, faculty sponsor Honorable Mention |
 Cody Barnett  Todd Blevins |
| Raymond F. Betts Undergraduate Writing Award (non-Western topic) Sona B. Apbasova “Pan-Turkism of Republic of Turkey in post-Soviet Central Asian Republics in 1990s” Berea College, Berea Dr. Rebecca Bates, faculty sponsor |
 Sona Apbasova |
| George C. Herring Graduate Student Writing Award Amanda Boczar “Uneasy Allies: The Americanization of Sexual Politics in South Vietnam” University of Kentucky, Lexington Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen, faculty sponsor |
 Amanda Boczar |
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Related Pages
2014 Annual Meeting
2013 Student Writing Award Winners
KATH Writing Awards
Kentucky Association of Teachers of History 
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