PhD Student Wins Cold War Essay Contest

The History Department is happy to announce that graduate student James Young has placed second in the 2011 John A. Adams '71 Cold War Essay contest. Hosted by the Virginia Military Institute's Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis, this contest accepts any paper with topics focusing on the U.S. military in the Cold War Years (1946 to 1991). James's paper, "New Look over Taiwan," argues that historians have missed how the Second Formosa Strait Crisis (August to October 1958) validated Eisenhower's New Look strategic policy with far-reaching strategic effects. In addition to his prize-winning paper, James received honorable mention for a second article, on USAF defense-suppression doctrine in Vietnam.