A spring tradition, students and faculty gathered over tea for the Bisbee award presentations on May 22. The Bisbee Prize honors and celebrates outstanding student research in U. S. history. Faculty teaching the U. S. History and U. S. History in the Modern World courses choose recipients each year, from among their students.
At the event, each Bisbee Prize recipient shares a brief explanation of his or her research paper and answers questions from fellow Prize winners and faculty. Victoria White鈥檚 (I) research paper was titled, 鈥淭he Dissident President: How John Adams Faced the 1798鈥1800 Federalist-Republican Crisis.鈥
鈥淚 found John Adams to be an interesting figure because he鈥檚 not a hero,鈥 says Victoria. 鈥淗e was a moderate, and not everyone liked moderates back then. I was also fascinated by the fact that less than 20 years after the U.S. was founded, it almost split up. Because John Adams turned against his party, he played a huge role in making sure the United States lasted as a country. He had the guts and willingness to become unpopular for the good of the country.鈥
The Bisbee Prize was established to honor Ethan Wyatt Bisbee, former history faculty member who retired in 1993, after 40 years of teaching. The Prize was endowed in 2005 through a gift by John Warren, formerly of the history department, and his wife, Laura Warren 鈥78, former head of Robbins House.
2014 Bisbee Prize Winners
| 听Ellen Askey | 听Smith and Carnegie: The Iron-ic Failure of Delusional Capitalism |
| 听Steven T. Char | 听Pork Roast: Why the Bay of Pigs Invasion Went up in Flame |
| 听Francesca Ely-Spence | 听The Impact of Popular Culture’s Recognition of Women’s Sexuality on the Women’s Rights Movement |
| 听Charlotte Goddu | 听Women of the Beat Movement: Repressed Liberators |
| 听Lindsey Jay | 听The Model T Ford: How Henry Ford’s Vision Changed America |
| 听Kate Kehne | 听Prohibition: How and Why It Failed |
| 听Max Kliman | 听Prohibition: A Failed Experiment |
| 听Jonathan Lawson | 听America’s 1953 Coup in Iran: 听The Event That Triggered America’s听Cold War Imperialism |
| 听Conor McManamy | 听From Saigon to Selma: How the Vietnam War Affected the Civil听Rights Movement |
| 听Eric Menna | 听The Lincolnian Conflict: A review of the true motives behind The Great Emancipator’s abolitionism and commitment to democracy |
| 听Hari G. K. Patel | 听Oil’s Ruthless Pragmatism: The 1973 Oil Crisis and the Watershed Of American Foreign Policy |
| 听Victoria White | 听The Dissident President: How John Adams Faced the 1798-1800 Federalist-Republican Crisis |
