from the editors
This journal began with the belief that undergraduates need a new venue for sharing their academic work. The overwhelming response from our peers indicates that we were not alone in this belief; in the course of one month, we received over 80 submissions for publication.
This project is the product of a collaboration in which our undergraduate editors were paired with graduate readers to select outstanding papers from this competitive pool of submissions. As a group, the pieces exemplify the exceptional, original historical scholarship produced by Brown undergraduates; as individual papers they demonstrate a range of approaches to historical analysis.
In soliciting submissions we sought to extend our reach beyond that of Peter Green and Sharpe House to tap into the historical scholarship generated within departments across Brown’s campus. Our interdisciplinary orientation is one to which we hope this journal holds strong. We will remain conscious of improving upon the diversity of selections in each of our issues.
Thirty-three years ago, the members of the History Departmental Undergraduate Group (DUG) embarked upon a similar project with similar goals in mind. Between 1974 and 1991, the DUG produced an undergraduate journal entitled Clio, after the Greek muse of history. Their publication is still preserved in an acid-free box in the University Archives, a testament to the endurance of undergraduate scholarship.
With hope for its own long run, we present The Brown Journal of History.
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