Published on April 4, 2013 by Mary Wimberley  
Colonial Dames 2013

Four Â鶹¹û¶³ students received cash awards from the Birmingham Center of Colonial Dames of America for outstanding papers written in Â鶹¹û¶³ history classes. All honorees are history majors.

Nicholas Paul Martini, a senior from Alpharetta, Ga., won first place and a $1,000 cash prize for his paper, "Blood Will Out: the Trial of Thomas Lutherland and the Quaker Idea of Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1692."

Rebecca Nicole Wilcox, a senior from Chesterfield, Mo., won second place and an  $800 prize for her paper, "Puritan Captivity Narratives."

Evan Musgraves, a senior from Yucaipa, Calif., placed third and won $600 for his paper, "Brethren We Have Met to Worship: The Sacred Harp and Evangelical Theology."

Franklin Lowe, a sophomore from Fayetteville, Ga., won fourth place and $400 for his paper, "Propaganda: Patriotic and Socially Progressive, a Comparative Analysis of Common Sense and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass."

The award winners gave brief presentations on their paper topics at a luncheon at Mountain Brook Country Club on Wednesday, April 3. A bound volume of the papers was dedicated to Â鶹¹û¶³ history department chair Dr. S. Jonathan Bass.

Mrs. C. Lawrence Whatley is president of the Colonial Dames' Birmingham Center.

 

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Â鶹¹û¶³ is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Â鶹¹û¶³ enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses, Â鶹¹û¶³ fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.