Prizes for senior essay writers

[Diane Kaplan <diane.kaplan@yale.edu>]

Manuscripts and Archives will award two prizes at commencement:

1: To a senior in any department for an outstanding essay based on
research done in Manuscripts and Archives

2: To a senior in any department for an outstanding use of primary
sources for an essay on Yale

We have asked the seven students who have entered their essays to speak
about their research at two forums in the Sterling Memorial Library
lecture hall.  Each forum will begin at 3:30 PM and will be followed
by light refreshments.  Please join us on

Thursday, April 27 for:

Laura E. Finkelstein, "Disclosure of Holocaust Experiences: Reasons,
Attributions, and Health Implications"

D. Stephen Mitchell, "Trouble in Boston: Assessing the Problematic
Colonial Response to the Tea Act of 1773"

Adam Hobson, "Reassessing the Enemy: American
Occupiers' Perceptions of German Culture After World War
II." 

Wallis Finger, "From the 'Bland Leading the Bland' to the
Mississippi Freedom Vote"

and on May 6 for:

Carla Federman, "Yale's Conscience: William Sloane Coffin Jr. and
the Freedom Ride of 1961" 

Justin Albstein, "The Holocaust in American
Culture" 

Katherine Capelluto, "Deconstructing the Eyewitness: The
Moral Witness in the Fortunoff Video Archives For Holocaust Testimonies
At Yale"