History Students Present at Regional Honors Conference

By Jonathan Ablard, May 8, 2024

History students Chris Bendig, Charlie Benoit, Audrey Holcomb, and Reilly Shingler presented original research at the annual Phi Alpha Theta Student Conference. Hosted by the University of Buffalo, the conference included presentations from students from twelve colleges in the Central/Western New York region. Reilly Shingler's paper won a "Best Paper of the Conference" award.

The students wrote their papers in upper level history courses. 

Christopher Bendig ““Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?” The German Question in the Revolutions of 1848-1849”

Charlie J. Benoit “The Greatest Seducer of the People that Ever Lived.” The Creation of the Image of Adolf Hitler through Propaganda”

Audrey Holcomb “A Political Weapon: The Murder of William Morgan”

Reilly Shingler “Guatemala’s Brutal Syphilis Experiments: What Happened Then and What Should Happen Now”