Announcing the Unz Historical Research Competition

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http://www.unzcontest.org/

Announcing the Unz Historical Research Competition

As a means of publicizing the vast quantity of high-quality content material uniquely available on its recently released website, UNZ.org is announcing a historical research competition.

A First Prize of $10,000 and several other cash prizes will be awarded for the most significant and interesting historical discovery based on UNZ.org source material. All entries must be received by August 31, 2012, and awards will be made by September 30, 2012.

Interested participants should examine the rules, read the description of the available content source material, and then register for the competition.

Good luck!

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Rules

Overview: The Unz Historical Research Competition

UNZ.org will be awarding prizes for the most significant and interesting new historical discoveries based on the source material contained within its website. Participants may be students, academics, independent scholars, or any other interested individuals. Participants must register, and then submit their entries via email on or before August 31, 2012. A panel of prominent American academics and intellectuals will select the winning entries, with the awards being announced by September 30, 2012. Submissions will be evaluated based on the importance of the discovery, the degree to which is reveals surprising or interesting aspects of history, the extent to which it changes our understanding of the past, and the likelihood that it may open new lines of additional research.

First Prize – $10,000
Second Prize – $3,000
Two Runner-Up Awards – $1,000 each

Summary of Specific Rules and Procedures

All participants must register for the Unz Historical Research Competition.
Participation is open to anyone over the age of 18 (or over the age of 15 with prior consent of parent or legal guardian) anywhere in the world (except where prohibited by American or foreign law).
All entries must be submitted by email on or before August 31, 2012.
All historical discoveries entered in this competition must be based on content source materials found in the UNZ.org archives.
Historical discovery topics may include political history, literary history, personal history, intellectual history, ideological history, publishing history, science history, or any other reasonable academic subject based upon the source materials of the UNZ.org archives.
All submitted entries must contain a brief, informal descriptive summary of the historical discovery in question, between 200 and 1000 words in length. This summary should contain citations referencing particular UNZ.org documents in reasonable form. In addition, entries may include optional supporting analysis or material, with or without references, of any desired length.
All submitted entries must be deemed sufficiently accurate and important that they are accepted for publication on the Wikipedia website, including reference-links to the primary source documents upon which these are based. Entries removed by the Wikipedia editors within fourteen days of their submission are ineligible for this competition. All submitted entries must include the location and text of the material added to the Wikipedia website as part of this competition. Historical discoveries which are deemed sufficiently important to warrant creation of entirely new Wikipedia pages will be given extra consideration in this competition.
Research materials developed for this competition may also be used for any other academic or non-academic purpose, and may freely be published elsewhere. However, under participation rules, UNZ.org will have the right to publish all submitted entries or excerpts thereof on this competition website.
In order to participate, you must first read and agree to the Official Rules of the Competition provided on the Registration page.

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Competition Judges

The winners of the Unz Historical Research Competition will be selected by:

Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University, and a former colonel in the U.S. Army. A West Point graduate, he is the author of five books and hundreds of articles and opinion pieces, and is a former director of the BU Center for International Relations.
Razib Khan is a graduate student in the biological sciences and a prominent science blogger at Discover Magazine.
Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., Editor of New American Contract, and a columnist for Salon Magazine. He is the author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles and opinion pieces, and has served as an editor or staff writer at The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, and The National Interest.
Paul E. Gottfried is Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and the author of ten books and numerous scholarly and general articles in the areas of intellectual and ideological history.
Ron Unz is a theoretical physicist by original training, and the founder of UNZ.org. He also serves as publisher of The American Conservative, was chairman of English for the Children, and has published numerous articles and opinion pieces on various subjects.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. is a Harvard and Columbia trained historian, economist, and political analyst, and a New York Times best-selling author. A senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he has published eleven books and hundreds of articles and opinion pieces and is among America’s most prominent libertarian-conservative scholars.