The Professor James Alex Baggett History Research Award, which recognizes the best original research papers presented in regularly scheduled history courses for the current academic year, was presented to Mary Thompson.

History Students Win Best Paper Prizes

Six Union University history students presented papers at the Tennessee Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference April 5 at the University of Tennessee-Martin.

Two students, Cameron Armstrong, a senior from Howell, Mich., and Mary Thompson, a senior from Millington, Tenn., won best paper prizes.

Thompson’s paper, “The Effect of Anti-German Propaganda During World War I on German-Americans in Tennessee,” won the prize in “Cultural History.