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[email protected] or write to us at Yale Historical Review Advisory Board Yale University PO 207137 David Blight Norma Thompson New Haven, CT 06520 Class of 1954 Professor of Director of American History Undergraduate Studies, or visit our website at www.yalehistoricalreview.org Humanities John Gaddis Robert A. Lovett Professor Charles Edel The Yale Historical Review: An of History Graduate Student in Undergraduate Publication exists to give History undergraduates an opportunity to have their Beverly Gage exceptional work highlighted. It also aims to Associate Professor of Stephen Prince encourage the diffusion of original historical History Graduate Student in History ideas on campus by providing a forum for Glenda Gilmore outstanding undergraduate history papers Peter V. and C. Vann Ranin Kazemi covering any historical topic. Woodward Professor of Graduate Student in History History Donald Kagan, Katherine Mooney Sterling Professor of Classics Graduate Student in and History History Contents Junior Seminar “Why the Yale Chaplain Rode: William Sloane Coffin Jr.