During the annual Bisbee Tea, Nadya Yeh explains her research paper, “The Underground Railroad and the Abolitionist Movement.” Nadya is one of nine recipients of this year’s Ethan Wyatt Bisbee Prize, an honor bestowed on students for their outstanding research in United States History. Milton faculty members teaching the U.S. History and U.S. History in the Modern World courses select honorees from among their students. The history department invites prize-winners to the annual Bisbee Tea to celebrate their achievements and share their projects with faculty and fellow honorees.
The Bisbee Prize was established to honor Ethan Wyatt Bisbee, faculty member in the history department who retired in 1993, after 40 years of teaching. John Warren, formerly of the history department, and his wife, Laura Warren ’78, former head of Robbins House, endowed the prize through a gift in 2005.
Winners recognized at this year’s event included:
| Neil Chandra “Investigating Realpolitik: Kissinger’s Shortcomings in the Vietnam War” |
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| Mary Ellis “Boston: The City upon a Hill” |
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| Yvonne Fu “Pragmatism over Ideology: Nixon’s 1972 Visit to China” |
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| Kat Kulke “AIDS, Reagan, and the Religious Right in the 1980s” |
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| Kevin Lee “Americans Betrayed, Americans Betraying: The Truth Behind Executive Order 9066” |
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| Cameron Park “History Speaking Back” |
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| Helena Thatcher “The Undemocratic Nature of Electing a President” |
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| Nadya Yeh “The Underground Railroad and the Abolitionist Movement” |
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| Jason Yoo “The Scopes Trial: A Decade of American History Uncovered in Eleven Days” |
The Bisbee Prize was established to honor Ethan Wyatt Bisbee, faculty member in the history department who retired in 1993, after 40 years of teaching. John Warren, formerly of the history department, and his wife, Laura Warren ’78, former head of Robbins House, endowed the prize through a gift in 2005.
