Introduction
The editorial staff would like to thank all those who supported this issue of Legacy, especially the SIU Undergradute Student Government, Phi Alpha Theta, SIU Department of History faculty and staff, our history alumni, our department chair Dr. Jonathan Wiesen, the students who submitted papers, and their faculty mentors Professors Jo Ann Argersinger, Jonathan Bean, José Najar and Joseph Sramek.Articles
From the Sidelines to Center Field: The Improvement of Opportunities for Female Athletes at Southern Illinois University
Jacquelin Biggs
Power in Traditional Gender Roles: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and White Southern Women’s Search for Authority
Kaitlin Borrmann
Alice Paul and the Fight for the Nineteenth Amendment
Jenny Bottrell
The American Engine
Kyle Garrity
Barbecue as a Historical Looking Glass
Zach Myers