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History Capstone Seniors Present Compelling Topics for Class Project

On Thursday, November 10, the seven High School Seniors taking Dalton’s third-ever History Capstone course presented their works in progress.
The students shared their individual projects in the Martin Theater and took questions from faculty and students in the audience about the next steps in their research and writing.

HS History Teacher Dr. Shira Kohn supervises this year’s capstone course.

Capstone Presentations

Jacqueline Farnsworth '23
 - Germany’s Children: How the Nazis Promoted their Agenda to German Youth
Ahlay Hussain '23
 - Abortion & Body Politics: Women, Slavery, and the Atlantic World
George Porteous '23
 - Contesting the Confederacy: Popular Culture and Collective Memory of the Civil War South
Arya Prasad '23
 - The Making of a Modern Maurya: Repurposing Ancient Historiography for Nation Building in Independence Era India
Luke Rostan '23
 - The Devil at the Dinner Table: Satanism, Domesticity, and the Moral Panic That Seized White America
Stella Nakada '23 
 - IDENTITY/ART: Bill T. Jones’s Political Expression Through Dance
Leo Yu '23 
 - Glimpsing Foucault in the Αγορά: Re-Examining Athenian Policies of Social Welfare to the Disabled in Antiquity
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