News from The Concord Review: 2013 Emerson Prize Winners

We heard today from Will Fitzhugh, publisher of The Concord Review. Founded in March 1987 to recognize and to publish exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world, The Concord Review is the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students. 

With the Summer 2013 Issue (#97), 1,066 research papers (average 6,000 words, with endnotes and bibliography) have been published from authors in forty-six states and thirty-eight other countries.

Here are this year's winners: 

Nathaniel Bernstein of San Francisco, California: Bernstein, a senior at San Francisco University High School, published an 11,176-word history research paper on the unintended consequences of Direct Legislation in California.

Gabriel Grand of Bronx, New York: Grand, a senior at Horace Mann School, published a 9,250-word history research paper on the difficulties The New York Times had with the anti-semitism of the day and also in covering the Holocaust.

Reid Grinspoon of Waltham, Massachusetts: Grinspoon, a senior at Gann Academy, published a 7,380-word history research paper on the defeat of legislation to allow eugenic sterilization in Massachusetts.

Emma Scoble of Oakland, California: Scoble a senior at the College Preparatory Academy, published a 9,657-word history research paper on the Broderick-Terry Duel, which defeated pro-slavery forces in California in 1859.

Gen Shiraishi of Yokohama, Japan: Shiraishi, a senior at St. Maur International School, published a 6,994-word history research paper (in his second language) on the history of Christianity in Japan.

Malcolm Steinberg of Washington, DC: Steinberg, a senior at St. Albans School, published a 5,838-word history research paper on the Astor Place Riots of 1849 between social classes over favored actors and the social politics of the day in New York City.

Emily Yankowitz of Scarsdale, New York: Yankowitz, a senior at Scarsdale High School, published an 8,720-word history research paper on Robert Mugabe’s criminal regime in Zimbabwe.

Since our original founding in December, 2006, History Education Hawaii has consistently advocated and encouraged Hawaii secondary students to submit works such as these to The Concord Review. We strongly encourage our island students, their teachers and advisors to rise to the challenge. 

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