The 2nd Annual Gayarre Conference was held March 14, 2014 at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. It was sponsored by the Gayarre History Club of C.E. Byrd High Schools. Secondary students in Caddo Parish Schools were asked to submit proposals on the 2014 theme: Revolutons. Proposals were judged by a group of students and teachers. Twenty-six proposals were selected to be presented at the conference, including students from C.E. Byrd High School and Caddo Parish Magnet High School. The papers written by those students are collected here as the Conference Proceedings.

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The 3rd Annual Gayarre Conference was held March 13, 2015 at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. It was sponsored by the Gayarre History Club of C.E. Byrd High Schools. Secondary students in Caddo Parish Schools were asked to submit proposals on the 2015 theme: Interwar Years, 1919-1939. Proposals were judged by a group of students and teachers. Twenty-five proposals were selected to be presented at the conference, including students from C.E. Byrd High School and Caddo Parish Magnet High School. The papers written by those students are collected here as the Conference Proceedings.

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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...