History Honors 2024 Showcase
History Honors 2024 Showcase
The 2024 History Honors Showcase will be held Friday, May 3, 1:00 - 3:30 pm EST.
The event will be in person in the Berlin Room and on Zoom (details below).
Join Zoom Meeting
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93712866612?pwd=RStNQ1VMOGtyK0tXdU5oWnlEWUt0dz09
Meeting ID: 937 1286 6612
Passcode: Honors
Department of History
Showcase Schedule
Welcome and Introductions
Polarized Politics in the Press ~ 1:00-1:50
Angel Gingras ••• "The Power of the Press: How the
newspaper wars influenced liberal and conservative
reporting on the British Union of Fascists 1932-1936"
Sylvia Cotten ••• “ ‘The White Man’s Way’: Navigating
Race and Memory in ‘Federal Indian Boarding Schools’ ”
Lindsay Moynihan ••• “ ‘La posteridad nos hará justicia’:
Maria Vilanova de Árbenz and New Understandings of
Gender and Race in the 1954 Guatemalan Coup"
Art & American Culture in the Twentieth Century ~ 1:50 - 2:30
Megan Severns ••• "An Absence of Pixie Dust: The
Missteps of Disney’s California Adventure"
Marisa Silverman ••• "Whose Gallery?: The National
Gallery of Art, Artistic Tastes, and the Guise of Neutrality"
The Politics of Inclusion in Maryland ~2:40 – 3:30
Thomas Wolfson ••• “ ‘The Journey to Ratification:
Maryland and the Fifteenth Amendment”
Mary Walsh ••• “ ‘The People's Side of the Road:
Grassroots Organizing and Baltimore's Highway Battle.”