The 4th Annual Gayarre History Conference was held March 22, 2016 at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA. It was sponsored by the Gayarre History Club of C.E. Byrd High School. Students from C.E. Byrd, Caddo Magnet, and Captain Shreve presented papers on the theme: Heroes & Villains.WITH THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS:
HEROES & VILLAINS OF ECONOMICS
Joshua Bae: The Legacy of John D. Rockefeller: Villainous Exploitationist or Honorable Businessman?
Jacob Leslie & Spencer Hurst: Henry Ford: The Man Behind the Myth
Christian Roberts: 2008 Wall Street Moguls: Heroes or Villains
Abbi Thurmon: Andrew Carnegie As An Objectivist Hero
Carter Toms: Capitalist Crusader
HEROES & VILLAINS OF WAR
Ives Del Olmo: Josef Mengele: The Maleficent of WWII
Ankur Khanna: Elizabeth Van Lew: Southern Lady, Wealthy Philanthropist, and Abolitionist Spy?
Nathan Lim: The Indomitable Doris Miller: His One Day Crusade
Kyra Montes: Chiune Sugihara: Father of Visas
Jocelyn Walker: The Evilness of Man
HEROES & VILLAINS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Nolan Cockerham: Evil Robots
Sarah Desautels: Luke Skywalker: America's New Hope
Nicholaus Olah: Batman: A Mirror of America's Perceptual Hero
Kirklin Powell: Darth Mosaddegh: Iran's Connection to Star Wars
HEROES & VILLAINS OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Carson Handley: Vladimir Putin: Hitler 2.0
Elise McLaren: Brutus and Cassius: Heroes of the Roman Republic
Brooke Redman: Idi Amin Dada: A Ugandan Tyrant
Antares Villaneda: George C. Marshall: Architect of Peace
CONQUERORS AS HEROES & VILLAINS
Rafaela Demerath: Puting a Hero in Context: Understanding the Ethnocentrism of Christopher Columbus
Christian Koester: Napoleon Bonaparte: France's Most Notorious Villain
Traci Pardue: Does Every Crisis Produce the Same Type of Villain?
HEROES & VILLAINS OF ARTS AND LETTERS
Taha Hayat: Jacque-Louis David, Dictator of the Arts
Darby Maloch: Poggio Bracciolini: Resurrector of Classical Artists
Madeline Paul: Coco Chanel: A Businesswoman
Bailey Williams: William Randolph Hearst: Father of Yellow Journalism
HEROES & VILLAINS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Sarah Livingston: Edison the Energy Eater
Kaylee Toups: The Paradox of Dynamite
Alexander Williams: Albert Einstein: Protector of the Human Race
HEROES & VILLAINS AND PSYCHOLOGY
Taylor Cooksey: Finding the Nerve: Egas Moniz
Ann Pozniak: Serial Killers: Why They Are Society's Ultimate Villains
Alicia Smith: Dorothea Dix: A Hero To The Insane
HEROES & VILLAINS AND RELIGION
Megan Davis: Pope Francis: A Hero for the Catholic Church
Nicole Frink: Jim Jones: Leader of The Kool-Aid Cult
James Marcotte: On The Catholic Church as a Villain during the Protestant Reformation Due to the Propagation of Witchcraft
Andrew Tibbit: Catholic Church vs Progress
Reagan Woodard: ISIS: The New Wave of Villain
HEROES & VILLAINS AND ETHICS
Ethan Barton: The Chernobyl Three: An Account of Europe's Salvation
Troy Boles: Pablo Escobar: The Colombian Terror
Ramelo Ford: An Analysis of the Moral Standings of Margaret Sanger
Zoie Swint: The Evils of American Eugenics
Kennedy Williams: El Chapo: Mexico's No. 1 Hero
HEROES & VILLAINS OF REVOLUTIONS AND MOVEMENTS
De'Sean Britton: Mahatma Gandhi: Villain
Rayvin Gaudet: Maximilien Robespierre: Once a Villain, Always a Villain?
Nikolas Juneau: Che Guevara: Heroic Leader
Malik Leary: Police Brutality: The Epidemic
Nick Mominee: Inner City Blues: Marvin Gaye as a Civil Rights Hero
HEROES & VILLAINS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP
John Lawson: John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Hero of the Civil Rights Era
Megan McKinnon: Vietnam's Villain: John F. Kennedy
Gage Prymek: Abraham Lincoln: Villain
Zoey Storey: George W. Bush: Protector of America
