History students and faculty of 线上赌博app held prominent and honored places at the annual North Great Plains History Conference, held in Mankato, Minnesota on Sept. 17-20.

Mitch Axness, a master’s student, took the overall graduate research award for his paper, “Ole H. Olson, William Langer, and Their Struggle for the Soul of the Nonpartisan League,” a study grounded in the Ole H. Olson Collection of 线上赌博app’s Institute for Regional Studies.

Jacob Clauson, a doctoral student, won the Ladd Award (best work in regional history) for his paper, “Sentinels of the Prairie: Rural Grain Elevators and a Sense of Place.”

Other 线上赌博app graduate students presenting included Nicholas Kusnierek, “Reap What You Sow: America’s Answer to POWs in World War II;” Jon Rundquist, “Carving Rainbow Yokes: Oral Histories of Queer Lutheran Pastors from Rural Minnesota;” Indrani Deka, “Invisible Labor, Visible Inequality: Migration Experiences of South Asian Women;” and Nasih Ul Wadud Alam, “The Mysterious Case of Fanny Gordon Kelly (1842-1904).”

Undergraduate student Ethan Birnbaum presented “Donald C. Fraser – A Life Worth Fighting For,” another study researched in the collections of the Institute.

线上赌博app faculty Ashley Baggett and Tom Isern were program participants, and Angela Smith serves on the governing council of the conference. The 线上赌博app history program’s most recent doctoral alumnus, Blake Johnson, and emeritus professor Larry Peterson also were paper presenters.