The Week contest: Texas Chapter - Mar. 26, 2010

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Results: Last week’s contest: We asked you to come up with a chapter title from a history book approved by the Texas Board of Education. You galloped in with:

FIRST PRIZE: Abraham Lincoln: Native Kentuckian or Kenyan?

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Sean Braswell, Washington, DC

SECOND PLACE: The War on Indian Aggression

Bethany Wheeling, Finksburg, MD

THIRD PLACE: Mission Acccomplished: The Alamo

Arron Budnitz, Lexington, MA

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

The Texas Contribution to the Revolutionary War

Joseph Doyle, Foxboro, MA

1835-1850: Americans Liberate Texas Territory from Mexican Illegal Immigrants

Tom Burnside, Cincinnati

Union Joins Texas

Barbara Hoffman, Philadelphia

Harriet Tubman, Employee of the Week

Melissa Steward, Bend, OR

1865: The Confederacy Agrees to Call it a Draw

Charlie Buttrey, East Thetford, VT

Fillmore's Folly: California Admitted to Union

Bill Muse, Seattle

Pearl Harbor: God’s Punishment on a New Deal President

David M. Levin, Suitland, MD

Decade of Dictators: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and FDR

Philip Rife, Eastsound, WA

Joe McCarthy: The Humble Senator Who Saved Us from Communist Takeover

Louise Zamparutti, Milwaukee

The Not So Great Society

Jennifer Strickland, Atlanta

Democrats Gone Wild: The Women’s and Civil Rights Movements

Lore Orendorf, Hockessin, DE

Victory in Vietman

Fred Flaxman, Weaverville, NC

Ronald Reagan and All Those Other Presidents

Bryan McGrath, Wakefield, MA

Gores Tries To Steal the Presidential Election

James Smith, Mill Valley, CA

George Bush: Misunderestimated

Janet Badolato, Springfield, PA

How Gay Marriage Caused September 11th

Kristy Rimwood, Owings Mills, MD

Cheney’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Save America

Marcy Davidson, Sonora, CA

Benedict Arnold, The Rosenbergs and Obama

Ashley Ryan, Catonsville, MD

American Heroes Who Write Speech Notes on Their Hands

Phyliss [cq] Shanken, Colmar, PA