{"id":740,"date":"2024-03-25T14:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=740"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:34:44","slug":"students-present-and-one-wins-a-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2024\/03\/25\/students-present-and-one-wins-a-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Students present and one wins a prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>History major Elizabeth Nahach won the annual Lynn and Kristen Morrow Prize for best student paper at the recent Missouri Conference on History held in Columbia on 15 March 2024.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2024\/03\/25\/students-present-and-one-wins-a-prize\/image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-741\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2024\/03\/image-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2024\/03\/image-287x150.jpeg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Besides Nahach History majors Nathan Dowell, V\u00e9la Lightle, Logan Kammerer and history\/anthropology major, Micaela Reiss, also represented Truman at the conference. The five students by participated in two panels moderated by Jason McDonald, assistant professor of history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the panel, \u201cChallenging Traditional Perceptions and Projections on Identity and Hierarchy,\u201d Nahach and Dowell delivered presentations on research they conducted during the TruScholars program in summer 2023. On the same panel, Reiss presented on research during her time as a Schwengel Scholarship intern at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. Dowell\u2019s paper discussed the German immigrant experience in 19th-century St. Charles County and Reiss\u2019s paper discussed the role of religion in Harry S. Truman\u2019s political life.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History major Elizabeth Nahach won the annual Lynn and Kristen Morrow Prize for best student paper at the recent Missouri Conference on History held in Columbia on 15 March 2024. Besides Nahach History majors Nathan Dowell, V\u00e9la Lightle, Logan Kammerer and history\/anthropology major, Micaela Reiss, also represented Truman at the conference. The five students by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}