Grad's Work Selected for Publication in the Concord Review

Congratulations to Julie Reiter '10.  Her Junior History Thesis "The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment: Breaching the Wall of Separation Between Church and State" has been selected for publication in the fall issue of The Concord Review. Founded in l987, this prestigious publication recognizes exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world, and is distributed to 42 states in the U.S. and in 35 countries around the world.

Reiter, who will be attending Yale University in the fall, is the second member of the Class of 2010 to be recognized by The Concord Review.  Classmate Rose Koven had her paper on the ARPANET published in the spring issue.

Stemming from the MKA Upper School History Department’s concern that students were skimming through a modern American history syllabus with little opportunity to sufficiently reflect on or understand what they were being taught, the Junior History Research Project was introduced in 2004.  This project requires every member of the junior class to spend six months conducting independent, in-depth research, using both primary and secondary sources, into an aspect of American history, prior to writing 4300-word (minimum) thesis.