A Failed Gate: The Water of Scandal Flows Over Richard Nixon
byWinner of the Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Article with the Best Use of Scholarship The Nixon Watergate Scandal was one of the worst scandal that a president has…
Award Winning Articles
Diego Rivera the Muralist: A Different Working Mexican
byWinner of the Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Best Article in the Category of “Culture” When entering a Mexican restaurant today, one takes notice of the different aromas, both sweet…
Game Six of the 2003 National League Championship Series: Who Is to Blame for The Cubs Loss?
byWinner of the Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Best Explanatory Article In Game Six of the National League Championship Series in 2003, the Chicago Cubs were about to win over the Florida Marlins,…
Fastest Man Prevails Over Evil: James “Jesse” Owens vs. Adolf Hitler
byWinner of the Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Best Article in the Category of “People” On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Hitler quickly turned Germany’s fragile…
“The Most Dangerous Woman in America,” Emma Goldman
byWinner of the Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Best Article in the Category of “Gender History” Emma Goldman, who would later in life be a known anarchist and women’s rights…
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Awards for Article with the Best Title o one can say who history will choose to remember, or for what they will…
The Lynching Era: The Tragic Hanging of Laura and L. D. Nelson
byWinner of ten Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Best Descriptive Article Most Captivating & Engaging Article Best Use of Multiple Images Best Featured Image Best Article in the Category of “United States…
The Weapon that Changed War: U.S. Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
byWinner of the Spring 2017 StMU History Media Awards for Best Article in the Category of “World History” “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a…
Pain and Beauty Standards: Chinese Foot Binding
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Use of Scholarship Best Article in the Category of “World History” Best Use of Primary Sources When I knew…
History 101: The Founding Fathers Vs. Slavery
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Multimedia Presentation This video with Robert Tijerina is the first in our series of videos on American History. In this first…
Civil Rights Activist: Rosa Parks
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Article in the Category of “People” When one hears the name Rosa Parks, one is taken back in time to 1955,…
Our Lady of Paris
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Featured Image Whenever we hear the name Notre Dame, one of two things might come to mind: the movie that…
America Loves Lucy
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Awards for Best Explanatory Article Most Captivating/Engaging Article Best Use of Multiple Images Best Introductory Paragraph Best Overall Research “Lucy, you got…
Into the Comic World: Superman and American Anxieties in the Great Depression
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Featured Image Best Article in the Category of “United States History” During the Great Depression and World War II, most…
The War of the Worlds: An Attack on the Fragility of American Life
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Introductory Paragraph “At least forty people, including six state troopers, lie dead in a field east of Grover’s Mill, New…
The Roaring Twenties: Flappers
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Article in the Category of “Culture” When one thinks of the 1920’s era one immediately thinks about Flappers. A…
Sic Semper Tyrannis: The Conspirators of America’s First Assassination (Part I: From Kidnapping to Assassination)
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Article in the Category of “United States History” Post Civil War America showed the country as it never was…
Sic Semper Tyrannis: The Conspirators of America’s First Assassination (Part II: On the Run and Trials)
byAfter the deadly acts were committed, John Wilkes Booth spurred his horse, and rode furiously into the night. His intentions were to meet up with with David Herold and head…
“She’s the Man”: The Reign of Queen Hatshepsut
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Introductory Paragraph Article with the Best Title Queen B said it best when she sang the infamous line, “Who run…
To The One I Loathe: Chicago’s 1929 St.Valentine’s Day Massacre, Part I
byWinner of the Fall 2016 StMU History Media Award for Best Descriptive Article Orders were given and on a cold morning on February 14, 1929, five men sped down the streets…