The 35th annual Young Historians Conference will be held at Portland State University on Monday, April 28th, 2025. The conference brings together PSU’s history department and area high schools that participate in college level history classes, such as the PSU Challenge Program, other dual credit programs, or AP history. Courses include, but are not limited to, American History, Western Civilization, and World History. Courses must include a major assignment that is a history research paper. History instructors select the best of these for the student authors to submit for consideration. A history department lead faculty member works with a jury of history graduate students to assess the submissions and choose up to 30 papers for the presentation.
Schedule
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| Monday, April 28th |
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9:10 AM
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Cuadros de Casta: A Pseudo-Scientific Means of Control and Racial Taxonomy in Colonial Mexico
Lucita Ocaña Dessen, St. Mary’s Academy
9:10 AM - 10:25 AM
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| 9:10 AM |
Form Follows Function: An Analysis of De Architectura and its Influence
Weston Klein, Grant High School
9:10 AM - 10:25 AM
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| 9:10 AM |
Shanghai's Stateless Immigrants: Anti-Bolshevik Russians in Shanghai from 1917-1949
Anna E. Roberts, Grant High School
9:10 AM - 10:25 AM
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| 9:10 AM |
The Color of Society: A History of Textile Dyes
Tess L. Nestel, Grant high school
9:10 AM - 10:25 AM
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| 9:10 AM |
The Confluence of Millenarianism and Sabbateanism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
Madison J. Alexander, St. Mary’s Academy
9:10 AM - 10:25 AM
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10:35 AM
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Face Value: Cosmetics as a Unit of Historical Analysis
Sophie Durocher, Grant High School
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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| 10:35 AM |
Guidelines for a Good Life: How Morality Tales Have Shaped Communities and Cultural Landscapes
Kate E. McFarland, Grant High School
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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| 10:35 AM |
Oregon’s Compulsory Education Act: Americanism, Nativism, and Assimilation
Andrea M. Bell, St. Mary’s Academy
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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| 10:35 AM |
Reflecting Life Back: The Influence of Mirrors on Human World History
Helen F. Cruz-Uribe Bandstra, Portland State University
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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Riding Through the Great Depression: The Impact of Pack Horse Librarians
Madison G. Reed, Riverdale High School
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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Teaching From Past Example: Various Interpretations of Livy's Rape of Lucretia
June Baeck, Grant High School
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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The Role of Feline Goddesses in Advancing Women’s Rights in Ancient Egypt
Caitlin Moran, Riverdale High School
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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The Roots of Ethno-Political Strife in Ceylon: The Dividing Power of British Colonialism
Audrey Francioch, St. Mary's Academy
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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“Through Science to Justice” Magnus Hirschfeld’s Role in Queer Liberation
Katarina L. Stoll, St. Mary's Academy
10:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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12:35 PM
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A Crucial Western Foothold: Uyghur-Americans in the Fairfax-D.C. Metro Area
Jake C. McCauley
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
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A Revolutionary Curtain Call: Yiddish Theatre, the Jewish Enlightenment, and the Russian Revolution
Sidonie James, St. Mary's Academy
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
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Cuju: The Ancient Chinese Game That Held an Empire Together
Enzo H. Smith, Portland State University
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
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| 12:35 PM |
Entheogens: The Hallucinogenic Plants That Shaped Religion
Nicolas A. Michaud, Grant High School
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
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Exposing the Truth Behind the Stanford Prison Experiment
Leo Novack, Riverdale High School
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
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| 12:35 PM |
You Are What You Eat: Religion, Meat, and the Moral Dilemma
Hazel M. Sims Ms., Portland State University
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
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