Author: Liz Loss
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The Horowitz Map Collection
At first glance, the map looks like a typical map of the US, but upon closer inspection, it is much more complex. Mitchell’s map includes the current US states as well as state territories such as the Wisconsin and Iowa territories, which later split into multiple states. It also shows “Indian Territory”, some areas are…
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Professor Barba receives TWO Book Awards
Professor Paul Barba’s first book, Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), has received two awards from the Western History Association. 2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best…
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Eleanor Geno ’23 – HIST 301
Activities on Campus:* President, Bucknell Panhellenic Council * Student Worker, Bucknell Special Collections and University Archives* BSG Finance Committee Honors Thesis Topic:Examining the impact of the Overseas Highway on societal understanding of nature and the valuation of land in the Florida Keys. My favorite history class was HIST 301- The Seminar in Environmental History. I took this…
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Shana Clapp ‘ 23
Campus Activities:* Humanities Fellow (see below)* Admissions Ambassador * Chapter Leader of Her Campus Honors Thesis Topic:Examining the use of women’s reproductive capacity as a tool of U.S. government policy in the nineteenth and twentieth century.Shana was award the Miller Prize for her Honors Thesis and excellence in honors work. I chose Bucknell because it…