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 MythChristian Roberts: 2008 Wall Street Moguls: Heroes or VillainsAbbi Thurmon: Andrew Carnegie As An Objectivist HeroCarter Toms: Capitalist Crusader HEROES & VILLAINS OF WAR Ives Del Olmo: Josef Mengele: The Maleficent of WWIIAnkur Khanna: Elizabeth Van Lew: Southern Lady, Wealthy Philanthropist, and Abolitionist Spy?Nathan Lim: The Indomitable Doris Miller: His One Day CrusadeKyra Montes: Chiune Sugihara: Father of VisasJocelyn 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
