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2005 Winners
• Lauren Acker from Cornell University and Los Alamitos, California
• Juandrea Bates from the State University of New York at Oneonta and Albany, New York
• William Cannon from Willamette University and Tacoma, Washington
• Sara Egge from North Dakota State University and Yankton,
South Dakota
• Christopher Elias from Brown University and Andover, Massachusetts
• Max Felker-Kantor from Tufts University and Salt Lake City, Utah
• Lola Garcia from Grinnell College and Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Allison Gorsuch from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Plymouth, Minnesota
• Whitney Hampson from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Zachary Matusheski from Rutgers University and Voorhees, New Jersey
• Jacob McKean from Columbia University and Los Angeles, California
• Emily Mimnaugh from Yale University and Elk Grove, California
• Robin Wolfe Scheffler from the University of Chicago and Berkeley, California
• Molly Senger from Princeton University and Bethesda, Maryland
• Caitlin Verboon from the College of William and Mary and
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005 Research Projects
Each student researched the correspondence of a Civil War soldier held in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. In addition to preparing an inventory of the previously unexamined letters, they each developed educational materials focusing on a particular theme that ran through their soldier’s correspondence, incorporating a scholarly introduction and transcriptions of letters that illuminated that theme. The soldiers included:
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• Miles W. Paul from Pennsylvania (Lauren
Acker)
• Chester M. Slayton from Michigan (Juandrea Bates)
• G.B. Cook from North Carolina (William Cannon)
• Nelson E. Dodge from Vermont (Sara Egge)
• G.W. Buntly from Tennessee (Christopher Elias)
• Laurens Wolcott from Illinois (Max Felker-Kantor)
• Franklin Cranor from Indiana (Lola Garcia)
• Asa Smith from Massachusetts (Allison Gorsuch)
• Edwin Jackson from Minnesota (Whitney Hampson)
• G.O. Bartlett from Rhode Island (Zachary Matusheski)
• Andrew Knox from Connecticut (Jacob McKean)
• Jesse Brown from Maine (Emily Mimnaugh)
• Nugent family from Louisiana (Robin Scheffler)
• David Stemple, Jr. from West Virginia (Molly Senger)
• Jabez B. Oles from New York State (Caitlin Verboon)
2005 Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Finalists
In addition to fifteen History Scholars, a group
of 44 History Scholar Finalists have been selected for a one-week version
of the program including seminars with professors and non-academic professionals
in American history and exclusive tours of unique archives and museums
in New York:
• Robin Marie Averbeck from the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego, California
• Nicholas Bausch from Doane College and Pawnee City, Nebraska
• Ethan Bennett from Colgate University and Manlius, New York
• Sarah Burns from University of Evansville and Evansville, Indiana
• Jennifer Coulon from Aquinas College and Rochester Hills, Michigan
• Carrie Crawford from Mercer University and Evans, Georgia
• John Dwiggins from Miami University and Findlay, Ohio
• Tulani Ndileka Elisa from Spelman College and Boston, Massachusetts
• Samuel Flaks from Cornell University and Brooklyn, New York
• Kyle Frisina from Harvard University and New York, New York
• M. Alexandra Hales from Lake Forest College and New Iberia, Louisiana
• Ryan Heins from Young Harris College and Blairsville, Georgia
• Brenda Hornsby from Berea College and Berea, Kentucky
• Ariela Housman from the University of Pennsylvania and Brookline, Massachusetts
• Jennifer Ireland from Reed College and Sunnyvale, California
• Yuneece Jackson from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, Michigan
• Rebecca Jelsema from Calvin College and Grandville, Michigan
• Sarah Jones from Yale University and Selma, California
• Laura Kopp from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and Windsor Mill, Maryland
• Jonathan Leiss from Bennington College and Cedar Grove, North Carolina
• Dan Ly from Yale University and Nashville, Tennessee
• Peter Mabli from Fairleigh Dickinson University and Ridgewood, New Jersey
• Teresa Martinez from Williams College and Spearfish, South Dakota
• Elizabeth Mikos from Valparaiso University and Dundee, Illinois
• Miranda Miller from Catholic University of America and Hamilton, New Jersey
• Megan Mondi from Illinois Wesleyan University and Mt. Prospect, Illinois
• Augustine Moreno, Jr. from California State University Bakersfield and Bakersfield, California
• Ashley Myers from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Urbana, Illinois
• Aleesha Nissen from the State University of New York at Binghamton and Brooklyn, New York
• Christopher Osborne from Furman University and Lexington, Kentucky
• Haley Plourde-Cole from New York University and Mystic, Connecticut
• Matthew Richman from the College of New Jersey and Voorhees, New Jersey
• Shawn Rieg from Pennsylvania State University and Long Valley, New Jersey
• Brandon Righi from Washington College and Earleville, Maryland
• Karliana Sakas from Sweet Briar College and Springfield, Virginia
• Lauren Santangelo from Marist College and Hopewell Junction, New York
• Graham Scofield from Wake Forest University and Indianapolis, Indiana
• Samantha Seeley from Brown University and Lincoln, Massachusetts
• Ian Shin from Amherst College and Moraga, California
• Melissa Snow from Northwest Nazarene University and Twin Falls, Idaho
• Jessica Stiles from Whitworth College and Seattle, Washington
• Mark Swails from Emory University and Alpharetta, Georgia
• Michael Vitris from the University of Texas, Austin, and Plano, Texas
• Jason Wickersty from Brookdale Community College and Jackson, New Jersey
