History

Dec 3, 2015 - Union University’s Delta-Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society presented a $250 check to Union’s library on December 3, 2015, to pay for 13 history books that the chapter selected for the library’s history collection. The $250 prize was a part of the 2015 Best Chapter Award that the Delta-Psi received from the society’s national headquarters for the high quality of the chapter’s program of activities. Chapter President Nicholas Hancock presented the check to Library Director Anna Beth Morgan; Delta-Psi Vice President Allen Bradley and Faculty Advisor Dr. Stephen Carls also attended the event.

The books that the chapter purchased included:

• The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth;
• The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor;
• Art and the Second World War by Monica Bohm-Duchen;
• The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett;
• Eisenhower: A Life by Paul Johnson;
• The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy;
• The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 by Gordon Martel;
• The Origins of the Irish by J. P. Mallory;
• Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel;
• Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century by Christopher Wickham;
• Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk;
• “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny; and
• When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation by Ronald C. Rosbottom.