Posted on November 27, 2001 at 11:00 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) journal, The Vulcan Historical Review, has tied for first place in the 2001 Gerald D. Nash History Journal Prize sponsored by the Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society. The spring 2001 issue of the UAB journal tied with the Brigham Young University at Provo journal The Thetan.

The winning issue of The Vulcan Historical Review features an analysis of civil rights journalism in the spring of 1963 and a review of Ira Berlin’s book “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.” UAB historian Jack E. Davis, Ph.D., is the faculty advisor for the journal.

UAB and Brigham Young competed in Category II for universities with more than 150 students majoring in history. Each school received a $250 cash award.

The Vulcan Historical Review is a publication of the Chi Omicron Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at UAB. This is the second year the journal has competed in Category II.

The journal won first place in 1999 and runners up prizes in 1997, 1998 and 2000, all in Category I for schools with fewer than 150 history majors.

Phi Alpha Theta is a professional organization that promotes the study of history by encouraging research, teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. The organization has 850 chapters in 50 states.