The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-10-15
X. c. HISTORY CONTEST
COMPETITION is NOW OPEN TO
BLIc-P ZES FOR BEST
WoRk-AWARD TO BE MADE
NEXT YEAR-PERsoNNEL OF
COMMITTEE.

The Knights of Columbus have for
mally launched their $1,000,000 Amer.
lean history movement with the offer
of $4,000 in cash prizes to contestants
in national history competition, man
uscripts for which will be received be-
ginning this week.
The first prize in the contest is 3d.
900 for professors of history in col
leges in the United States. Five 9TH
er prizes of $1,000 each are offered
to: school superintendents and school
teachers in the United States: the gen.
eral public, including specialists in
historical, sociological, economic. le-
gal, political, diplomatic and bio
graphical studies; students who have
access to material in the universities
and libraries and archives of Canada,
Mexico, Central and South America,
which deals with international rela.
tons of the Americas; students spe-
cializing in American history, who
have access to material in universities,
libraries and archives overseas relat-
ing to the United States and students
in colleges in the United States
The final awards will be made at
the 1922 meeting of the supreme as
sembly, Fourth Degree, Knights of
Columbus, under whose auspices the
contest is being conducted. Supreme
Master John H. Reddin of Denver,
Colo, is in charge of the K. of C.
history movement which, at cost of
$1,000,000, will result in the produc-
ton of cycle of pamphlets On Amer
lean history, written from original
sources, which the Knights will dis
tribute in pamphlet form, by millions
of copies, to newspapers, magazines,
Legislatures, civic assemblies, forums,
and all schools, public and private, as
we'll as universities and colleges.
Specimen periods and subjects to be
subjects of contestants papers are:
1592-1763, European rivalries and CO.
lonial institutions, from the discovery
of America to the Treaty of Paris,
1868; Colonial Union, from the Con-
federation of the Colonies of New Eng
| land for mutual defense to the Articles
of Confederation and Perpetual Union
between the Thirteen United States;
| Characteristics of the Colonial Char.
ters; Commercial Monopolies in the
Colonial Period; the American Colo
MES, Assets or Liabilities; Morning
Guns" of the American Revolution;
the Election Day Sermons of the Prot
estant Clergy; the Diplomatic History
of the Civil War; Our Diplomatic Re
lations with Russia, China and Japan
/ etc.
Manuscripts in the competition will
be received by Supreme Secretary
William J. Mckinley at Knights of Co
lumbus headquarters, New Haven
Conn. They should be typewriter in
English, fully annotated and include a
complete photography SO that sources
may be investigated. They should not
contain more than 1000 words. Each
manuscript must be signed with an as
sumed name, and sealed envelope
containing the authors name and ad
dress with Identification of the as
sumed name, must be included.
Edward F. insolvency of Boston is
chairman of the K of c. American
history commission, and Maurice Fran
els Egan, former Minister to Denmark
Rear Admiral William S. Benson
Charles S. Mccarthy, professor ol
American History in the Catholic Uni
versity of America and former profes
sor of History at Pennsylvania Uni
versity, with George Derry Professor
of Political Economy at Union College
complete the personnel.