Adams Center Essay Contest Winners, 2007-2008

Adams Essay Contest Top Level

Sponsored by the John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis

First prize:  $2000

“The Genesis of the Sixth Fleet:  The U.S. Navy and Early Cold War Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean, 1946 - 1948” by Michael A. Palmer, East Carolina University

Second prize:  $1000

“In a Foreign Land:  GIs, West Germans, and Refugees in Franconia, 1945 - 1960”by Adam Seipp, Texas A & M University

Third prize:  $500

“The Atomic Air Offensive and the Change in American Military Tradition, 1945 - 1950” by John M. Curatola, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• The Quiet Death of Universal Military Training: How America Lost an Opportunity to Close Civil-Military Gap by Robert K. Dean, Norwich University
• Reactions: Lessons of the Korean War and the Public Debate over Containment and American National Military Strategy, 1950-1955 by Hal M. Friedman,     Henry Ford Community College
• Detachment Number 1: African-American Prisoners at Camp 5 during the Korean Conflict by Thomas J. Ward, Jr., Spring Hill College