Merrifield Competition Papers Collection, 1994-2018

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Series 1: 1994

Box 1

Folder 1: "Changing the Landscape - Fannie Mahood Heath" by Kathleen Brokke (Winning Paper, 1994)

Folder 2: "The Importance of Foreign Languages and the Liberal Arts Curriculum" by Gail Chubb

Folder 3: Untitled paper related to the "rise and fall of the North Dakota Wheat Growers Association" by Jennifer Diedrich

Folder 4: "An Analysis of John C. Hudson's Model of Urban Historic Geography: Metropolitan Grand Forks, North Dakota" by David Hampsten

Folder 5: "The Implementation of Nuremberg Principles in Establishing an International Court" by Krista Lyn Hummel

Folder 6: "The Ku Klux Klan in North Dakota: One Hundred Percent Simon Pure American Organization" by Stephen King

Series 2: 1995

Box 1

Folder 7: "A Comparison of Two Women on the Northern Plains" by Jodi Nelson

Folder 8: "Military Perspectives on the Plains: The Experiences and Attitudes of Members of the Sibley and Sully Expeditions" by Frank Rzeczkowski

Folder 9: "'To Prevent a Calamity Which is Imminent': North Dakota in the Fuel Crisis of 1919" by Thomas Shilts (Winning Paper, 1995)

Folder 10: "'The honor of having the greatest military strategist of all time...' Marshal Ferdinand Foch Visits North Dakota, 27 November 1921" by Grant Weller

Series 3: 1996

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Folder 11: "North Dakota's Rural Schools and Americanization" by Leah Byzewski

Folder 12: "Pioneer Roots of Nursing in Grand Forks, North Dakota" by JoAnn Gleeson-Kreig

Folder 13: "The Chippewa/Metis and White Settlement" by David Hird

Folder 14: "William Blackburn: American Educator" by Ken Smith (Winning Paper, 1996)

Series 4: 1997

Box 1

Folder 15: “Tom McGrath: His History as a Friend, His Future as a Poet” by John Early

Folder 16: “A View of the Arts” by Rita Haag

Folder 17: “The Chippewa/Metis and Sioux: Philanthropy and the Value of Being Close Up” by David Hird

Folder 18: “The Yanktonai Sioux: Their Culture to the Later 19th Century” by David Hird

Folder 19: “The Kane Years at the University of North Dakota: A Broken Transition” by Alexis Varvel (Winning Paper, 1997)

Series 5: 1998

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Folder 20: “McCarthyism and the Cooperative Ideology of The North Dakota Farmers Union” by Christopher Carlson

Folder 21: “Three Women of Courage, Foresight, and Dedication: Their Contributions to UND and to North Dakota” by SuEllen Shaw

Folder 22: “Women Workers: Feminism and the Labor Movement” by Patricia Jackson

Folder 23: “Establishing a Jewish Community: A Study of Jewish Immigrant Homesteaders in North Dakota, 1880-1920” by Jason Zevenbergen (Winning Paper, 1998)

Series 6: 1999

Box 1

Folder 24: “The First 25 Years of the University of North Dakota: Riding Macnie's Bicycle Through Merrifield's Arbor” by William Archibald

Folder 25: “The Walsh County Czechs: Why They Came...Why They Stayed” by Mary Kovarik

Folder 26: “Governor William Langer and the North Dakota Grain Embargo of 1933" by Russell Lindvall

Folder 27: “The Ostarbeiter Experience: Soviet Civilian Slave Laborers in the Third Reich” by Tanis Lovercheck-Saunders (1999 Winning Paper)

Folder 28: “The North Dakota School for the Deaf: A History” by Carolyn Van Mackelberg

Series 7: 2000

Box 1

Folder 29: “Webster Merrifield and the Faculty Minutes: A Story of Low-Tech Rhetoric” by William Archibald

Folder 30: “The Mobilization of the American Automobile Industry in WWII” by David Betz

Folder 31: “Germany's Ostopolitik in the Second World War" by Anthony Dutton

Folder 32: “Teacups and Telegrams: Firearms for Grand Forks Woman Suffragists” by Janice Hoffarth

Folder 33: “Vote for Mother! A History of the Suffragists (Yes, there were some) in North Dakota” by Tanis Lovercheck-Saunders

Folder 34: “Science, Psychology and Seance: UND's Joseph Kennedy and the Allure of Psychical Research” by Ken Smith (2000 Winning Paper)

Series 8: 2001

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Folder 35: "Dakota: A House Divided" by David Dyrud

Folder 36: "’Mommy, Where is Pearl Harbor?’: The Affects of World War II on the American Family, With Emphasis on the Families of the Upper Midwest” by Chris Hunter (2001 Winning Paper)

Folder 37: “Karl Brandt: 'An Idealist, Not a Criminal'" by Edward Martin

Series 9: 2002

Box 1

Folder 38: "A Home in the West" by Jessica Brugard

Folder 39: "Temperance: Fad or Forever?" by Holly Dannewitz

Folder 40: "Chasing the Bucks: Fee Hunting in North Dakota" by Andrea Domaskin

Folder 41: "'He is the One That Sprung Me Loose': The Forgotten Story of Senator William Langer and the German American Internees of Ellis Island" by Mac Schneider (2002 Winning Paper)

Series 10: 2003

Box 1

Folder 42: “No One Demanded It and No One Wanted It: Representations of a Lynching in Grand Forks, North Dakota” by Christina Beam (2003 Winning Paper)

Folder 43: “Indian School Movement” by Paul Cline

Folder 44: “Free From the Reservation: Arikara Army Scouts in the Missouri Valley Region” by Kevin Kuntz

Folder 45: “The Women’s Suffrage Movement in North Dakota” by Jennifer Westman

Series 11: 2004

Box 1

Folder 46: "Bishop Whipple's Thoughts on the Causes of the Dakota Conflict" by Nathan Heskin

Folder 47: "Party of Discontent?: North Dakota, the Nonpartisan League and the World War I Political Experience" by Matthew Leiphon (2004 Winning Paper)

Folder 48: "The United Nations: Hearing the Public Discourse of North Dakota Women, 1937 to 1945" by Erik Towne

Series 12: 2005

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Folder 49: "Wings Over the Prairie: History of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Science, 1968-1972" by Paul Cline (2005 Winning Paper)

Folder 50: "The Farmers' Cry for Peace: The National Nonpartisan League's Influence on the Fourteen Points" by Dack Flagel

Folder 51: "First Wave Immigration from Ukraine to North Dakota at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" by Kristina Gray

Folder 52: "'Passages of the dark;' Additions to Letter to an Imaginary Friend" by Jennifer Hanson

Folder 53: "The Nazi 'Doctors Trial' and the Creation of the Nuremberg Code: A Universal Absence of Medical Research Ethics" by Jill Hubble

Folder 54: "History and Memory: The Art of Emily Lunde" by Rebecca Leber-Gottberg

Folder 55: "Transcription of Volume I of the Votes for Women Club Records, Grand Forks, North Dakota" by Karen Miller

Folder 56: "A Higher and Purer Literary Air: Revision and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine" by Kathleen Vacek

Folder 57: "The Americanization of the Norwegian-American Community as Seen in the Congregational Minutes of Northwood Lutheran Church, 1900-1940" by Robert VandenBerg

Folder 58: "Precedent in the Nuremberg Trial" by Geoffrey Vandrovec

Folder 59: "Connecting the Prairie to Dixieland: Civil Rights Student Activism and the University of North Dakota" by Phil Zubrod

Series 13: 2006

Box 1

Folder 60: "Life on the Prairie" by Janice Cox

Folder 61: "Revolt on the Prairie: The Non Partisan League in North Dakota (1915-1920)" by Josh DeMorrett

Folder 62: "Butterfly or Emperor: The Aesthetic Vision of Thomas McGrath" by Michael Brandon Lopez

Folder 63: "Women in Westerns" by Alicia Miller

Folder 64: "'Hell on Wheels,' The Significance of the Railroads During the Holocaust" by Andrew Morken

Folder 65: "The 1918 Influenza Epidemic at the University of North Dakota" by Katherine Tyler

Folder 66: "Language, Religion, and Cultural Assimilation: Three Norwegian Lutheran Congregations in Grand Forks County" by Robert VandenBerg (2006 Winning Paper)

Series 14: 2007

Box 1

Folder 67: "The Votes for Women Club of Grand Forks: Its Role in the Woman Suffrage Movement from 1912-1920" by Mary Fredricks

Folder 68: "Censorship of the Early Catholic Church" by Kylie Holmgren

Folder 69: "Inland Towns: James J. Hill and the Influence of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad" by Adam Leiphon

Folder 70: "Vito Perrone: Educational Entrepreneur on the Prairie" by Barry Streigel (2007 Winning Paper)

Folder 71: "With Oblige I am Truly John Jung: The John Jung Letters, 1928-1936" by Michelle Thomas

Series 15: 2008

Box 1

Folder 72: “Mary Elizabeth Ewing’s Scrapbook” by Nicole Hager

Folder 73: "Grand Forks College: 1891 to 1911” by Yvette LaPierre (2008 Winning Paper)

Series 16: 2009

Box 1

Folder 74: “Waking Up to Truth: The Civil Rights Movement at the University  of North Dakota” by Tim Haas

Folder 75: “Women at Work: Competition for Employment in the North Dakota Red River Valley During the Great Depression” by Thomas Harlow

Folder 76: “The Politics of Anger: The Emotional Roots of the Nonpartisan League” by Mark Herrmann

Folder 77: “The Nonpartisan Leader and Political Struggle: ‘How about it, sister farm women?’” by Elizabeth Mjelde (2009 Winning Paper)

Folder 78: “Remembering the Civil War” by Paul Robinette Jr.

Folder 79: “Sister Ellen Murphy: In the Habit of Poetry” by Kristen Votava

Series 17: 2010

(No papers were submitted this year)

Series 18: 2011

Box 1

Folder 80: "A Brief History of Aviation in North Dakota" byGlenn Dodd

Folder 81: "The First Baptist Church of Grand Forks and American Exceptionalism, 1881-1928" by Christopher Price (2011 Winning Paper)

Series 19: 2012

Box 1

Folder 82: "Automobiles, Ranching, and North Dakota's Favorite Son: How Environmental Conditions of the 1920s Fostered a North Dakota National Park Movement" by Joseph Camisa (2012 Winning Paper)

Folder 83: "The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals" by Christopher Price

Series 20: 2013

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Folder 84: "The YWCA of Grand Forks: Constructing Morality in the Urban Landscape" by Thomas Harlow

Folder 85: "Aaron McGaffey Beede's Fight Against the Beef Trust's Use of Standing Rock Reservation Land" by Sonja Hathaway (2013 Winning Paper)

Folder 86: "The Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra: Exposition and Development" by Andrew Knight

Folder 87: "The University of North Dakota Museum and Shifting Epistemological Beliefs" by Sarah Ann Matter

Series 21: 2014

Box 1

Folder 88: Untitled paper regarding the history of Fort Union byAlexander Burch

Folder 89: "Unbalanced Scales: Women in STEM Fields at the University of North Dakota, 1940-1960" by Joe Kalka (2014 Winning Paper)

Folder 90: "Faculty Wives, Women, and Associates" by Stacey Borboa Peterson

Series 22: 2015

(No papers were submitted this year)

Series 23: 2016

Box 1

Folder 91: "Late Nineteenth Century Attitudes Towards Women and Their Roles as Presented by the North Dakota Women's Christian Temperance Union" by Laurie Fried

Folder 92: "The Blonde Vote: Considering Woman's Suffrage as it Relates to Scandinavian Cultural Values" by Paul Jensen

Folder 93: "Female Progressive Organizations in North Dakota, 1960-1980" by Sandra Kruse

Folder 94: "Missionary, Judge, and Intellectual: Why Aaron McGaffey Beede Does Not Belong in the Current Historiography" by Luke Mathewson (2016 Winning Paper)

Series 24: 2017

Box 1

Folder 95: "Respectable Information, Responsible Lobbying, and a 'Lady-Like Image: How Activists Successfully Lobbied for the Equal Rights Amendment in North Dakota" by Sandra Kruse (2017 Winning Paper)

Folder 96: "University Under Siege: The University of North Dakota and the Spanish Influenza" by Andrew Larson

Series 25: 2018

Box 1

Folder 97: "The Eris of the West: the Origin and Genealogy of a Fabricated Narrative and How it Contaminated a Century of Theodore Roosevelt Historiography" by Austin Artz (2018 Winning Paper)