USD Conference

I was just notified that one of my research papers I completed last year was chosen to be presented at a history conference at USD. The paper I completed was called Women's War-Torn Profession: Female Journalism in the Vietnam War. I interviewed four prominent women journalists who were in Vietnam during the conflict. I interviewed them over the phone last year, and it really helped my paper having four great primary sources like that.

The conference is on April 24th, and I am already getting nervous to present the paper. I completed this last year for a class I was taking with Dr. Lofthus. I did not have it done...and done well enough in time for the conference last year, so we both decided it would be better to wait until this year to present it.

Each history major that attends Mount Marty College is supposed to present a paper at this conference. Each paper that is presented has someone else who is commenting on it. I commented on a paper my freshman year here at MMC. This conference is a good experience for both a presenter and a commenter. I feel like since I haven't really touched my paper a whole lot since this summer...since I have not done research with it in so long...that I will not be "on my game" that day as much as if I had presented last year.

Hopefully the audience in attendance enjoys what I have to say, and more importantly, what women reporters who covered the Vietnam War have to say.