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Contributors
November 2004
Ronald Delph is associate professor of history at Eastern
Michigan University. He has taught classes in medieval history and
Renaissance history, and participated in a study abroad teaching
trip to Florence, Italy. He earned his Ph.D. in history at the University
of Michigan.
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Stephen J. Frese is a sophomore at Marshalltown High School
in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he is involved in band, golf, basketball,
soccer, Science Olympiad, and National History Day. He enjoys research
that involves meeting people who helped shape history, including
members of the families of former Soviet Premier Nikita Sergeyevich
Khrushchev and Iowa farmer Roswell Garst, who are featured in his
essay in this issue. His winning essay this year was his third entry
in National History Day, and all of his papers have explored topics
with Iowa connections. In 2002 Stephen won the junior division silver
medal with his paper about child labor in Iowa coal mining communities.
In 2003 he won the junior division gold with his paper about Aldo
Leopold, which was featured in the November 2003 issue of The
History Teacher.
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Julie Gantz is a middle school student from Pacific Beach,
California, who enjoys a variety of sports including volleyball,
swimming, soccer, and surfing. She has an avid interest in history
and was awarded the 2004 junior division medal from National History
Day for her first entry in the competition, featured in this issue.
She chose her topic, the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision, after reading
Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little
Rock by Melba Patillo Beals. Her research included time at the
Library of Congress and interviews with individuals involved in
the original case as well as its continuing legacy. The entire NHD
experienceresearching, interviewing, analyzing, and writinghas strenthened
her interest in becoming a civil rights attorney.
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R. Mason Goss is head of school at Canterbury School in Fort
Myers, Florida, and previously was social studies department chair.
A former federal law enforcement officer, he has been teaching AP
social studies courses for the past six years and currently teaches
AP American Government. He holds a B.A. from Rollins College, an
M.S. from Georgia State University, and an Ed.D. from Nova Southeastern
University.
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Peter B. Levy is professor in the department of history and
political science at York College, York, Pennsylvania. He teaches
courses on the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement. He is the author
of numerous books and articles, including America in the SixtiesRight,
Left, and Center: A Documentary History, Let Freedom Ring:
A Documentary History of the Civil Rights Movement, The New
Left and Labor in the 1960s, and, most recently, Civil War
on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland.
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Russell Olwell is assistant professor of history at Eastern
Michigan University. He has also taught at the middle school and
high school levels. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of science
and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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