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'A History degree isn't worth the paper it is printed on.' To what extent is this statement valid? This is the very question that provided the response for one of the joint winners of the inaugural Versus History Essay Prize (#VHEssayPrize) . In this episode of the Versus History Podcast, we enjoy an audio-long read from joint prize winner Neave Rees of King Edward VI High School For Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. This is followed by analysis from the VH Editorial Team, who were blown away by the research, reflection and epistemological insight shown by Neave in her essay. The Versus History Editors - Conal, Elliott and Patrick - would like to acknowledge the quite sublime support given to Neave and other students by the History Department at King Edward VI High School For Girls, led by the Head of History, N. Haines. We also celebrate the support that families, parents, carers and friends give to students of history, such as Neave. Bravo to Neave and all the other entrants to the Versus History Essay Prize 2023! Look out for the 2024 iteration! For terms of use, please visit www.versushistory.com
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Julia Wood History Essay Competition
Home → Study Here → Outreach → Essay Competitions → Julia Wood History Essay Competition
The Julia Wood prize is an annual History essay competition named in memory of a St Hugh’s College historian.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, Oxford offer a prize, worth up to £500, for the best historical essay submitted by a pupil who, at the closing date, has been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years.
The choice of historical subject is left to candidates. As the below examples suggest, essays which fare well in the competition tend to be specially researched and written for it.
Entries should be 2000 – 4000 words in length, including any material in the footnotes which is additional commentary or content related to your essay. References or citations in footnotes, and your bibliography, are not included in this word count. You are welcome to use whichever style of referencing you prefer. Essays must be submitted in PDF format.
Instructions for submitting your entry can be found on the right-hand side of this page. The closing date for entries is 5pm on Friday 26th July 2024. Prize winners will be announced online by the end of September.
Please direct any enquiries to [email protected]
2023 Julia Wood Prize Winners
This year the number of entries to the Julia Wood Prize was 321. The prizes were awarded as follows:
First Place
Clara Ahnert, Year 12, St George’s School, Edinburgh for an essay entitled: Redeeming the State: Political Crisis and the Emergence of German Ordoliberalism, 1919-1949
Fergus Walsh, Year 12, St Paul’s School, for an essay entitled: From Kazinczy to Kossuth: How Developments in Magyar Language and Literature Influenced the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Daisy Rehin-Hollingworth, Year 12, Bilborough College, for an essay entitled: To What extent did Medieval Spain, from the Umayyad Caliphate to the Expulsion of the Jews in 1492, Provide a Golden Age for Jews?
Tilak Patel, Year 12, Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, for an essay entitled: The Tragic Era: The Supreme Court and the Undisturbed Memory of Reconstruction
The winners and a number of those who had done particularly well were invited to tea in College in September.
How to enter the essay competition:
The deadline for entries to the 2024 competition has now passed.
Entrants will be contacted in due course with the outcome of their entry.
St Hugh’s College
Founded in 1886, St Hugh’s is now one of the largest colleges in Oxford. The College was established to offer an Oxford education to women, and it retains a strong sense of its radical tradition and of the importance of opening Oxford up to all who would do well here. St Hugh’s now accepts men and women, and welcomes students from every country and any kind of background.
St Hugh’s has a beautiful setting just to the north of the city centre, with Edwardian buildings and some of the largest college grounds. The College is known as the ‘island site’ because of its tranquil gardens, and it is a restful place to live and work.
St Hugh’s College admits about 11 undergraduates a year to read single Honours History; and a further two or three (in varying combinations) for the Joint Honours Schools of Ancient and Modern History, History and English, History and Modern Languages, and History and Politics.
What we are looking for is the ability to think imaginatively, a willingness to argue, a real interest in ideas, and a commitment to the subject. We have no preference for particular subjects at A-level, International Baccalaureate or other post-16 qualifications. Most candidates will usually have been studying History, but even this is not essential. However, languages (both modern and classical), English Literature, and Economics have, in their different ways, proved useful preparations for the course. We welcome both pre- and post- qualification applications; and we generally admit a few people each year from Scotland, Ireland, and further afield.
St Hugh’s provides excellent facilities for studying History: the library has unusually large and up-to-date holdings in all periods, and there is an active, sometimes rumbustious History Society. We encourage our undergraduates to travel in vacations. In recent years many of our historians have gone on to undertake research in History and related fields; others have got jobs in journalism, television, law, teaching, the Foreign Office, the UN, the City, Brussels, management and management consultancy, publishing, etc. The world has proved to be their oyster, with historical training at St Hugh’s providing them with the essential bit of grit.
More information about studying History at St Hugh’s College is available on our course and admissions pages .
St Hugh’s provides excellent facilities for studying History: the library has unusually large and up-to-date Since the establishment of the essay competition in 1994, 50 school students have been given prizes; many of these people went on to study History at Oxford and St Hugh’s. The names of the winners and their essay titles can be seen below.
The winners in 2022 were:
Alexander Gong , in Year 12 at St Paul’s School, for an essay entitled: The paradox of the Model Operas: to what extent was there a ‘cultural’ revolution in China between 1966-1976? ; Anneli Matthews , in Year 12 at the College of Richard Collyer, for an essay entitled: ”Never Quite Roman” – The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Russian Imperial Thought and Roman Inheritance ; and runner-up was Ben Heyes , in Year 12 at Westminster School, for an essay entitled: To what extent did the United States precipitate the dissolution of British Empire after 1939?
| 2022 | Winner | Alexander Gong | The paradox of the Model Operas: to what extent was there a ‘cultural’ revolution in China between 1966-1976? |
| 2022 | Winner | Anneli Matthews | ”Never Quite Roman” – The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Russian Imperial Thought and Roman Inheritance |
| 2022 | Runner-up | Ben Heyes | To what extent did the United States precipitate the dissolution of British Empire after 1939? |
| 2021 | Winner | Kitty Dallas | ‘Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World?’ How should the politics of Innocent III's pontificate be understood? |
| 2021 | Winner | Julia Bispham | Beyond the diagnosis: Was King Ludwig II of Bavaria more than just a ‘Mad King’? |
| 2021 | Winner | Lydia Allenby | A united odium: was the rise and fall of mercantilism the rise and fall of slavery? An assessment of the relationship between the evolution of Capitalism and the abolition of the British slave trade. |
| 2020 | Winner | Joseph Clarke | Coffee: grounds for debate? An assessment of the relationship between coffeehouses and the ‘public sphere’ in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England |
| 2020 | Winner | Bethan Mapes | ‘Sparing the weak and feeble': was the Black Death the cause of population ageing in medieval England? |
| 2020 | Winner | Maryam Mazhar | La Convivencia: Did the Catholic reconquest of Granada in 1492 bring an end to peaceful religious coexistence in Southern Spain? |
| 2020 | Winner | Rohan Thandi | ‘The rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories’: How High was Gladstone’s High Toryism 1832-41? |
| 2019 | Winner | Isabelle Greig | The Lingering Stay: How a Changing Economy and Shifting Ideas Affected British Corsetry in the Regency Era |
| 2019 | Winner | Rupert Gardiner | The Man Who Put the Jewel in the Crown: How far was Robert Clive Responsible for the East India Company’s Success on the Subcontinent? |
| 2018 | Winner | Anna Bailey | The Line to Heaven: An Assessment of the Relationship Between Religion and the Railways in 19th Century Britain |
| 2018 | Winner | Mark Connolly | Kilmacolm - Socialism or death? An Assessment of the Socio-economic Successes and Failures of the Cuban Revolution, 1958-1975 |
| 2018 | Winner | Freddie Crawford | Is More’s Utopia an Idyll or an Ideal? |
| 2018 | Winner | Jack Vaughan | Re-Peel?: An Assessment of Sir Robert Peel’s Influence on the Receptivity of the Conservative Party to Reform |
| 2017 | Winner | Ned Ashcroft | What was the Significance of the British Radical Movement of the 1790s? |
| 2017 | Winner | Jessica Curry | The Playboy that brought down a Republic? An assessment of the importance of Clodius Pulcher in the fall of the Roman Republic. |
| 2017 | Winner | Felix Stocker | To what extent did the Carolingian Renaissance innovate beyond existing Classical culture? |
| 2016 | Runner Up | Samuel Killcross | Cults, cuts and controversies: An essay on the relationship between State and Cinema in Russia from 1896-2014, with particular reference to the analogous connection between Eisenstein and Tarkovsky- how far did the State exert power over film? |
| 2016 | Winner | Oscar Baker | To what extent do the longer-term origins of the American Revolution actually lie in constitutional incompatibility and uncertainty, as opposed to ideological and intellectual principles? |
| 2015 | Winner | Joshua Kimblin | "A king in all but name": To what extent is this an accurate reflection of the nature of Cosimo de'Medici's power over Florence between 1434 and 1464? |
| 2015 | Runner Up | Mia Bellouere | To what extent have historians settled the debate about the significance of the Englightenment in the origins of the French Revolution? |
| 2014 | Winner | Cecilia Murray-Brown | How has the British Monarchy survived "one of the most spectacular political landslides in history"? |
| 2014 | Runner Up | Lily Spicer | How significant was Prince Albert's contribution to the success of the Great Exhibition in 1851? |
| 2014 | Winner | Joshua Stickland | Was the fall of the Romanov Dynasty inevitable? |
| 2013 | Year 13 Winner | Tony Han | Was Papal Reform a revolutionary movement? |
| 2013 | Year 12 Winner | Matthew Rees | Has the significance of the 1945-51 Labour governments been exaggerated? |
| 2012 | Year 13 Winner | Alicia Mavor | Was Magna Carta a bitter indictment of the (mis-) rule of King John? |
| 2012 | Year 12 Winner | Rosie Stonor | The crusading legacy: “a splendid paradox of belligerence in the cause of peace”. |
| 2011 | Winner | Jean-Andre Prager | The Religious, Political, and Social Accommodation and Appropriation of Darwinism. |
| 2011 | Runner Up | Emily Brewer | To what extent did Heinrich Kraemer's Malleus have an impact on the European Witch-Hunts 1485-1650? |
| 2011 | Runner Up | William Perry | Did the concept of English Liberty Depend on Perceptions of the French? 1688-1763 |
| 2011 | Runner Up | Nicholas Wright | Account for the demise of the Western Roman Empire. |
| 2010 | Winner | Nicholas Dixon | From Georgian to Victorian: A Radical Transition? |
| 2010 | Runner Up | Olivia Elder | "The events between September 1658 and May 1660, when Charles II returned to London as King, have often been treated as a confused epilogue in which all hurried towards the Stuarts' inevitable restoration" (Toby Barnard). To what extent should the period be regarded in this way? |
| 2010 | Runner Up | Robert Wilson | Alaric was defeated in his campaign of AD 401. Why, therefore, did he come to sack Rome in 410? |
| 2009 | Winner | Emily Parton | How far was the Risorgimento movement led by a desire to create cultural unity? |
| 2009 | Runner Up | Jessica Anand | How far did the Laudian religious changes of 1629-1640 amount to a radical reform of the Church of England? |
| 2008 | Year 13 Winner | Hannah Boston | How does the document DE 2638/3/2 contribute to the understanding of the Earls of Chester and land tenure in post-Conquest England? |
| 2008 | Year 12 Winner | Tom Seaward | |
| 2007 | Year 13 Winner | Thomas Meakin | To what extent did Italian Facism represent a triumph of style over substance? |
| 2007 | Year 12 Winner | Hannah Boston | What does this thirteenth century gift of land reveal about its contemporary society? |
| 2006 | Year 12 Winner | Marius Ostrowski | Is medieval history the history of the church? |
| 2006 | Year 13 Winner | Beatrice Ramsay | Catholic Christianity before England’s break with Rome was flourishing (Haigh). How far does evidence from Norfolk support this claim and how does this help explain their response to the Reformation? |
| 2005 | Winner | Douglas James | Why did so many in the Christian West answer Pope Urban II’s appeal for crusade following the Council of Clermont in 1095? |
| 2005 | Runner Up | Nicholas Evans | Lenin’s Populism |
| 2005 | Runner Up | Noor Nanji | To what extent has Richard III been unfairly maligned by historians? |
| 2004 | Year 13 Winner | Howard Amos | To what extent were the proposals laid out in Spenser’s colonial blueprint. ‘A view of the present state of Ireland’, reflected in English policy in that country from the suppression of Tyrone to the establishment of the Ulster plantations |
| 2004 | Year 12 Winner | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite | What evidence is there that England was still a catholic nation in 1547 |
| 2003 | Winner | Joshua Shotton | Does the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-81, show the Earl of Shaftesbury to have been a man of principle. |
| 2003 | Runner Up | Aaron Graham | For Commonwealth or Conscience: Why did Cromwell readmit the Jews to England |
| 2002 | Winner | Olivia Grant | How important were the press to the desacralisation of the French Monarchy |
| 2002 | Runner Up | Richard Eschwege | What did Iustitia mean to Gregory VII? |
| 2001 | Winner | Francis Murphy | Was ‘Science the main enemy of Religion’ in the Nineteenth Century? |
| 2001 | Runner Up | Ben Selby | Why did Charlemagne accept the imperial title? |
| 2000 | Winner | Jenny Bryce | Why did America enact the 18th Amendment in the face of historical evidence that suggested it was doomed to failure |
| 2000 | Year 12 Winner | Emil Bielski | 3rd May Constitution of Poland 1791. A reaction to the enlightenment of an exercise in self-preservation |
| 1999 | Winner | Cressida Trew | How far does the historiography of the Holocaust in Poland reflect the nature of the Holocaust in History as a problem of national and historical identity |
| 1999 | Josephine Tucker | How far did Luther’s theology mark a clear and radical break from mediaeval tradition. | |
| 1999 | Andrew Shapland | How European was the Renaissance? | |
| 1998 | Winner (First) | Jayne Rosefield | Wagner was both cause and effeto of the repulsive process which ended in the apogee and apotheosis of human bestiality and degradation, Hitler and the Nazis – Leonard Woolf. To what extent is this true |
| 1998 | Winner (Second) | Edwina Rushworth | Was it because he was "a tyrant" that James II lost the support of his people so quickly after 1685, and then his throne in 1688? |
| 1998 | Year 12 Winner | Reza Dadbakhsh | It was inevitable that the papal reform programme of the late eleventh century would lead to a conflict between Henry IV and Gregory VII. Discuss this statement |
| 1997 | Criseyda Cox | Why was Leviathan considered ‘a most poisonous piece of atheism’? | |
| 1997 | Rebecca Welsford | “How important was the concept of blood guilt in the trial and execution of Charles I?” | |
| 1996 | Raphael Mokades/Mohades | How far did the Boer War change the direction of British Domestic Politics, 1899-1911? | |
| 1996 | Antony McConnell | To what extent is the portrayal of Pontius Pilate in John’s Gospel historically accurate? | |
| 1995 | James Bickford-Smith | Restoration or Revolution? The Ottoman conquest and reorganisation of the Balkans (1352-1402) | |
| 1995 | Andrew Gibson | A consideration of the view that: “The reason for the remarkable spread of Calvinism throughout sixteenth century Europe lay in its system of church government rather than its beliefs.”’ | |
| 1994 | Alexander MacLeod | “It isn’t Cricket, Sir!”: The Bodyline Controversy and the Politics of Cricket, 1932-33 | |
| 1994 | Alexandra Gooden | To what extent was the creation of the German Empire the result of Nationalist Forces? |
Who was Julia Wood?
Julia Wood was an alumna of St Hugh’s College. She was born on 19th December 1938 and studied History and was an Exhibitioner at the College between 1957 and 1960. Tragically, she died in an accident whilst in Australia in 1970. The fund for the Julia Wood Prize was established by the parents and friends of Julia Wood in May 1971.
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Essay competition: Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution
The subject of the 2024-25 sixth form essay prize is “Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution”.
We are delighted to announced that Jung Chang herself will present the prizes at the awards ceremony next year.
Jung Chang’s book, Wild Swans , was an international sensation when it was published and has sold over 13 million copies around the world. The book tells much of the story of modern China through the lives of her grandmother, her mother and herself. She herself became a Red Guard but became sickened by what she was expected to do. Her mother was paraded in the streets and made to walk on her knees on broken grass.
The competition is to write an essay in which the experiences of her family and the overall story of the Cultural Revolution are both told.
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Daniel Finkelstein
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Repression in pre-war Nazi Germany
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Duration: 00:21:33
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Duration: 00:27:10
Episode 182: Free Ports (Teeside), Singapore-on-Thames and Entrepots ...
Duration: 00:19:05
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Duration: 00:22:42
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Duration: 00:27:11
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Duration: 00:24:49
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Duration: 00:25:47
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Duration: 00:22:00
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Duration: 00:25:27
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Duration: 00:22:51
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Duration: 00:21:35
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David McCullough at Trinity School in Manhattan, October 15, 2019
The 2024 David McCullough Essay Prize Contest is now closed for submissions.
This contest is named in memory of David McCullough (1933–2022)—a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Gilder Lehrman Life Trustee—and honors his career telling America’s stories and examining its histories. Learn more about his life and legacy here .
High school students attending schools in our Affiliate School Program are eligible and encouraged to participate. They are invited to submit an original essay, written independently or for a 2023–2024 class, that has been revised, expanded, and adapted to conform with the new McCullough Prize specifications. The two essay categories are as follows:
Research Essay: Students are invited to submit a research essay incorporating primary and secondary sources on a topic in American history from 1491 to 2001.
Interpretive Essay: Students are invited to submit an interpretive essay focusing on close reading and analysis of one primary source from American history, 1491 to 2001, in the Gilder Lehrman Collection of more than 86,000 historical documents.
More requirements for both essay categories can be found in these updated 2024 rubrics .
All participants will receive a certificate of participation suitable for framing. Prize winners in each of our two categories—research essays and a new interpretive essay category—will receive cash awards as follows:
- 1st Prize: $5,000 (plus a $500 prize awarded to the school)
- 2nd Prize: $1,500 (plus a $500 prize awarded to the school)
- Five 3rd Prizes: $500 each
A panel of Gilder Lehrman master teachers will choose the pool of finalists, from which a jury of eminent historians will choose the winners. Essays will be evaluated for their historical rigor, the clarity and correctness of their style, their use of evidence, and their qualities of empathy and imagination.
Winners will be notified and announced no later than Friday, September 13, 2024.
General Requirements
Font and Page Style: Papers should be submitted in 12-point, Times New Roman font with one-inch margins at the top, bottom, and sides. Essays should be free of teacher commentary or other notes.
Organization: Top essays have an introduction, body, and conclusion and a clearly stated, well-developed thesis statement with supportive historical evidence.
Essay Topics: Essays can be on any topic related to American history from 1491 to 2001. Essays in the interpretative category must feature a primary source (letter, broadside, art, political cartoon, speech, etc.) from the Gilder Lehrman Collection .
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THE VERSUS HISTORY ESSAY PRIZE The Versus History Essay Prize ( #VHEssayPrize) is an annual essay competition for Year 11-13 (or equivalent) students across the world. The #VHEssayPrize aims to promote history as an academic discipline and a popular pursuit amongst the future generation of historians, who will ultimately play a key role in preserving and interpreting our global past and ...
The Versus History Essay Prize ( #VHEssayPrize) is an annual essay competition for Year 11-13 (or equivalent) students across the world. The #VHEssayPrize aims to promote history as an academic discipline and a popular pursuit amongst the future generation of historians, who will ultimately play a key role in preserving and interpreting our ...
Home of Historical Argumentation and the Architecture of Argument. History Teachers Elliott L. Watson (@thelibrarian6) and Patrick O'Shaughnessy (@historychappy) have created Versus History to help you get better at History.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy (@historychappy). VERSUS HISTORY ESSAY PRIZE 2024 We are delighted that the #VHEssayPrize for 2024 is open, with 50 questions to choose from. We are looking forward to reading all of your wonderful essays & scholarship! Closing date 01/10/2024. ️ ️ ️ Link: bit.ly/VHEssayPrize.
VERSUS HISTORY ESSAY PRIZE 2023 Please share with your networks & students! We are delighted to launch our inaugural History essay prize for students in Years 11-13. Some amazing questions to choose from! #VHEssayPrize Link: https://bit.ly/43mkEiT .
This is the very question that provided the response for one of the joint winners of the inaugural Versus History Essay Prize (#VHEssayPrize). In this episode of the Versus History Podcast, we enjoy an audio-long read from joint prize winner Neave Rees of King Edward VI High School For Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. This is followed by ...
Versus History Essay Prize 2023 #VHEssayPrize We are delighted to announce the launch of the Versus History Essay Prize 2023 (#VHEssayPrize). Full details can found via the links below. Please spread the word to anyone and everyone who may (or may not!) be interested!
To what extent is this statement valid?This is the very question that provided the response for one of the joint winners of the inaugural Versus History Essay Prize (#VHEssayPrize). In this episode of the Versus History Podcast, we enjoy an audio-long read from joint prize winner Neave Rees of King Edward VI High School For Girls in Edgbaston ...
Julia Wood History Essay Competition Home → Study Here → Outreach → Essay Competitions → Julia Wood History Essay Competition The Julia Wood prize is an annual History essay competition named in memory of a St Hugh's College historian.
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History Essay Prizes — Libra Education. Established in 1971, in memory of a St Hugh's College alumna, the Julia Wood Prize is an annual History essay competition open to Sixth Form pupils who have not been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of more than two years. The Prize, worth up to £500, is offered by the ...
VERSUS HISTORY ESSAY PRIZE 2023 Please share with your networks & students! We are delighted to launch our inaugural History essay prize for students in Years 11-13. Some amazing questions to choose from!
With #VHEssayPrize Winner Anoushka Sood "Empathy in history is a noble but ultimately unobtainable endeavour." How far do you agree with this statement?This is the very question answered by one of the joint winners of the inaugural Versus History Essay Prize (#VHEssayPrize).
The John Locke Institute offers an annual essay competition with various categories and prizes for outstanding submissions.
The subject of the 2024-25 sixth form essay prize is "Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution". We are delighted to announced that Jung Chang herself will present the prizes at the awards ceremony next year.
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Special congratulations to those who achieved a Distinction or High Distinction in this year's competition. Those who did so but did not attend the prize-giving ceremony will be contacted by email, providing access to their eCertificates by the end of the month. Photographs from our prize-winning ceremony and related events in Oxford will be emailed to those who attended.
Versus History Podcast podcast on demand - The future of History is right here! Historians Patrick O'Shaughnessy (@historychappy), Conal Smith (@prohistoricman) and Elliott L. Watson (@DrElliottWatson) are dedicated to making history happen, while showcasing the architecture of historical...
David McCullough at Trinity School in Manhattan, October 15, 2019. The 2024 David McCullough Essay Prize Contest is now closed for submissions. This contest is named in memory of David McCullough (1933-2022)—a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Gilder Lehrman Life Trustee—and honors his career telling America's stories and examining ...
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PAST ESSAYS. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages? Should we judge those from the past by the standards of today? How will historians in the future judge us?
The Editors are very proud and excited to announce the launch of the first 'Versus History' publication - '33 Easy Ways to Improve your History Essays'. This publication will be available via the Kindle eBook store for all students and teachers in advance of the Summer 2018 examination season.