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We are pleased to introduce a series of articles featuring essays written by local high school and college students on topics of local historic interest.  We invite local high school teachers and college professors to contact us in regards to including their student's work in the web.

William Jewell College Creative Nonfiction Program

 

This series of articles features essays written by William Jewell College students in Dr. Cecelia A. Robinson’s Creative Nonfiction course. Students select topics focusing on a range of pre and post Civil War pioneers, historic places, issues and interesting artifacts from the Clay County area.   Additional Information
Photo: Dr. Cecelia A. Robinson

Student Essays

  2009 Essays  
One Life Lost,
One Life Launched
by Caitlin Tejeda
The Dead House
by Emily Mauldin
Compton Party of Eleven – Families Through Time
by Brie Clemens
Naval Flight Training Base Stationed at William Jewell College
by Marcie White
Firing Sparks Wondrous Career for Non-Christian Religious Professor
Aimee Smolczyk
 
 

2007 - 2008 Essays

 

Liberty Ladies College: A Modern Educational Experience
by
Alyssa Emery

Liberty Rising: the 1934 Fire
by Rachel Ibok

Zerelda Mimms James:
Lover of a Bandit
by Lindsey Melvin

 

2006 - 2007 Essays

 

Convention City
by Lilia Toson

David Rice Atchison:
A Champion of the People
by Jesus Lopez

Dr. Seymore Pearley -
Clay County's First African American Dentist

by Hayley VanderStel

Humphrey “Yankee” Smith
by Jonathan Entzminger

Missouri City in Black and White
or
Rebuilding a Culture

by Devin DeMoure

 

The Drake Constitution: When Missouri White Men Could Not Vote
by Kali Shipley

The Other James Brother
by Madison McGraw

White Oak: A Tender Side
of the Racial Divide

by Evelaca Dobbins


Other Student Essays

KC's Father of Barbecue gets smokin'
by Riley Powell

 

 

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