Ibid. Volume 19 Spring 2026

The fountain in front of Blagg-Huey Library lit up at night

Welcome to the current volume of Ibid.: A Student History Journal, published by the Eta Nu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society at TWU. Celebrating Nineteen years of publishing the best in graduate and undergraduate scholarship, Ibid.’s current volume continues the journal’s strong tradition of faculty and student collaboration.

In 2025, the national office of Phi Alpha Theta awarded this journal a prestigious Gerald Nash Journal Prize, marking the tenth time Ibid. has received this honor. This national award recognized TWU students for their superlative efforts in creating a professional journal.

Thanks to a generous private endowment, Ibid. was able to award two prizes for the “Best Papers” appearing in this volume. Named after TWU Professor Emeritus Valentine J. Belfiglio, these prizes, awarded to Meghan Pearce and Cassandra Rosas, reward excellent scholarship and writing. This year, Ibid. also granted a historiography award which recognizes Abbey Parker for her discerning observations about the state of scholarship on the Women Air Service Pilots.

In addition to featuring prize-winning essays, the current volume includes featured forum departments examining Gender, Representation and Political Discourse; Southern and Regional Histories; and Imperial Frameworks and Labor Reform. Celebrating more than eighteen years of publishing the best in student research and writing, the editors of Ibid.: A Student History Journal proudly invite you to enjoy our 19th volume.

Valentine J. Belfiglio Award winners

Awarded by the Student Editorial Board, the highly-coveted Valentine J. Belfiglio Paper Prize recognizes the finest papers submitted to the journal in the calendar year. Named for Cornaro Professor of Government Valentine J. Belfiglio, PhD, the award honors the professor’s commitment to academic writing and scholarly excellence.

Echoes of War: Civil War-Era Poetry
by Meghan Pearce

White Power Groups’ Recruitment of Vietnam War Veterans
by Cassandra Rosas

Best Historiography Award Winner

Historiography of the Women Air Service Pilots of World War II
by Abbey Parker

Forum on Colonial and Early American Society

Forum on Gender, Representation, and Political Discourse

A Historiographical Examination of the Seneca Falls Convention
by Meghan Pearce

Erasure of the Great Queen:
Queen Elissa and the Romanization of Carthaginian Culture
by Caleb Kirkpatrick

Forum on Visual Culture, Media, and Storytelling

Civil War Photography
by Haylee Cardinal

Firestarters: The Women Behind America’s Greatest Pieces of Music
by Caleb Kirkpatrick

Forum on Southern and Regional Histories

The Oak Tree and the Yellow Rose in Hearne:
German Prisoners of War in a Small-Town Texas Camp, and the Residents in Their Shadow
by Christopher Wood

Sowing Seeds of Poverty that Trapped the New South
by Tanya Souther

From East to Midwest: A Family Story
by Madelon Proctor

Forum on the Imperial Frameworks and Labor Reform

The Threads of an Empire which Unknotted the Fabric of Indian Society
by Tanya Souther

Child Labor Conditions and the Improvements Provided by the Factory Act
by Connie Gomez

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