Announcements

Each year, the Journal of Women's History celebrates the National History Day competition by sponsoring a special award in women's history. Our award winners are selected from a competitive nationwide pool of high school students and each receives a one year subscription to the Journal. We are delighted to announce that the special award in women's history for the 2010 National History Day contest went to Paige Gosney of Canton High School, in Canton, Oklahoma. Her exhibit, "The Back of the Fighting Front: The Women's Army Corps," relies on primary research, including an oral history of a U.S. Women's Army Corps member who served as a switchboard operator under General Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Second World War.

Currently a student in her first year at Canton High School, Paige became interested in the mobilization of women in the U.S. Army while researching the famous "Rosie the Riveter" campaign for a previous National History Day competition. She extends her gratitude to the archivists and staff at the Women's History Museum in Fort Lee, Virginia, the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City, and the Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center in Des Moines, Iowa, for their helpful assistance with her research. Though gifted with the historian's knack for finding evidence, after graduation from high school Paige plans to pursue a degree in nursing.

Congratulations, again, to Paige Gosney for her impressive contribution to the field of women's history!