| Jackson, Tenn. - Brandon
Byrd, of Mason, Tenn., was
awarded first prize at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional
Conference for Lower Illinois for the content of his
undergraduate paper titled, "Frances Wright at
Nashoba: Social Anomaly on the Jacksonian Frontier." The
conference was held at Southern Illinois University on
March 27. Byrd is a junior history major at Union
University in Jackson, Tenn.
Phi Alpha Theta is an international history honor
society with more than 200,000 members. Union's chapter
was founded in 1953 and is the oldest in the state of
Tennessee. Union students have won first prize for their
papers at the Phi Alpha Theta regional conferences three
consecutive years.
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