Kip Joseph Kay University of Utah Member ΦΑΘ–ΑΡ Read at the 2011 Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference Published in Historia: the Alpha Rho Papers, Vol I. This paper addresses issues found in the execution of the Saving the Legacy World War II veteran oral history project run in the early 2000s by the American West Center at the University of Utah.  Several mistakes made...

Andrew Pace University of Utah Member ΦΑΘ–ΑΡ Read at the 2011 Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference Winner: Best Religious History Paper Published in Historia: the Alpha Rho Papers, Vol I. Whether as slaves or as free blacks, African-Americans faced immense contradictions between the teachings of the Bible and the experience of slavery in the antebellum South.  Blacks often wondered whether Christianity was a white...

K.R. Lewellen University of Utah Published in Historia: the Alpha Rho Papers, Vol I. After Mohammed died in Medina in 632 C.E. his successors, Abu Bakr and then Umar, ordered the Muslim armies north to Syria, (the region now known as Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Syria, and Lebanon) to conquer in the name of Allah and his prophet, Mohammed. In less than a decade, they...

Kendra Whitaker Yates University of Utah Member ΦΑΘ–ΑP Winner: Department Essay Prize Published in Historia: the Alpha Rho Papers, Vol I. On November 12, 1756, during a treaty council in Easton, Pennsylvania, Governor William Denny asked Teedyuscung,self-proclaimed King of the Delawares,”Have we, the Governor or People of Pennsylvania done you any kind of injury?” Teedyuscung’s famous reply was, “This very ground I Stand on...