History

Dec 5, 2019 - Union’s Delta-Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society presented a $250 Best Chapter Award check to Library Director Melissa Moore on December 5, 2019, for the purchase of history books for the Library in the Logos. The chapter received the $250 prize from the society’s national headquarters in Tampa, Florida, for being chosen as a 2019 Best Chapter Award winner. Delta-Psi President Luke Sower presented the check to Moore. Vice President Megan Ledbetter and Faculty Advisor Dr. Stephen Carls also attended the ceremony.

The books that the Delta-Psi chapter purchased with the prize money included:

• African Americans and Africa: A New History by Nemata Amelia Blyden;
• The Cigarette: A Political History by Sarah Milov;
• Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage;
• Cuba’s Revolutionary World by Jonathan C. Brown;
• The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher;
• The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov;
• Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race by Roger D. Launius;
• Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer;
• The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi;
• The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T. H. Breen; and
• Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War by Stephanie McCurry.