Awards

History Department Essay Prizes

The Barnette Miller Prize $300

for the best essay in the field of international relations, broadly construed. The essay must have been done originally for a History Department course. All students are eligible to compete.

The Bollard Prize $300

for the best essay in the field of United States history (with preference given to constitutional history). All students are eligible to compete.

The Erasmus Prize $300

for the best essay for an historical subject, with no restriction as to subject, but first year students may not compete, nor may papers offered for another prize be submitted.

For all three prizes, the papers written for honors or for two terms of 350 are not eligible. Other course or siminar papers may be entered, but no student may submit more than one paper for a given prize. The prizes are awarded in May. If the winners are seniors, announcement is made at commencement rehearsal. Papers should be typed, documented with footnotes and bibliography and based on primary source material as much as possible.

One clean (undesignated course and no professor's comments) copy of the paper should be submitted to the History Department Office, FND 202, no later than Wednesday, April 8, 2009.

Papers are to be submitted with a pseudonym. Please attach to the paper a sealed envelope containing your real name, paper title, your Social Security number, student ID number, your summer address, and the course for which the paper was written.

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