Northwest Passages, the Department of History’s student journal, has again been awarded First Prize in the 2011 Gerald D. Nash History Journal competition, sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. This year’s award is the third time for the journal to take top prize, and it marks the fifth year in a row that the journal has won either first or second prize. Published in the spring each year since 2000, each edition of the journal includes several senior theses as well as a diverse sample of smaller papers completed in history courses offered throughout the academic year. The writings are selected by the editorial team which is staffed entirely by students.