The Harvey M. Applebaum '59 Award is conferred on a Yale College senior for an outstanding essay based on research done in the Yale University Library's government documents collections. The prize is an award of $500.
This prize was established in 2008 by the daughters of Harvey M. Applebaum, class of 1959, in honor of his 70th birthday. Mr. Applebaum is a senior counsel, specializing in international trade and antitrust law, with the Washington firm of Covington & Burling LLP and a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a past Chairman of the Association of Yale Alumni and the Yale Alumni Magazine board.
Congratulations to our 2019 winners!
Second Place: Seamus C. Joyce-Johnson for ' "Its Cargo Is People": Repositioning Commuter Rail as Public Transit to Save the New York–New Haven Line, 1960–1990'
Contact Kenya Flash, Government Information Librarian at the CSSSI, with any questions about the Applebaum Award.
Essays from 2019
Renewable Energy Access and Resilience in Urban Developing Areas: Distributed Solar Networks and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading in Puerto Rico, Pascale Bronder
"Its Cargo Is People": Repositioning Commuter Rail as Public Transit to Save the New York–New Haven Line, 1960–1990, Seamus C. Joyce-Johnson
Essays from 2018
Convergence Towards an Optimal Currency Area in the European Union, Santiago Botto Tornielli
From Enemy to Family: German War Brides and U.S.-German Rapprochement, 1945-1950, Monica Wang
Essays from 2017
Influence and Effectiveness in the Years of Upheaval: Winston Lord and the Policy Planning Staff from 1973 to 1977, Max L.B. Cook
Kissinger’s Strategy in the Iraqi Kurdish Rebellion of 1972-75: False Start or Foundation of American-Kurdish Partnership?, Jonathan C. Esty
Of a Healthy Constitution: Socialized Medicine Between the Triumphs of Social Security and Medicare, Sarah D. Kim
Essays from 2016
Treading the Path of Least Resistance: FDA's Regulation of the Subtherapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture, 1970-2015, Colleen Flynn
The Re-Recruit, Devon Brody Geyelin
US Foreign Policy and the Soviet-Afghan War: A Revisionist History, Julie Lowenstein
Essays from 2015
Moving the Needle: How Transparency Could Lower Costs and Improve Quality in United States Hospitals, Anna "Nina" Russell
The President's Wartime Detention Authority : What History Teaches Us, Anirudh Sivaram
Essays from 2013
Strange Bedfellows: Business, Labor, Guest Workers, and Immigration Reform in the United States, 1986-2013, Tom Stanley-Becker
Essays from 2012
"Missionaries of Ordered Liberty": U.S. Colonial Sponsorship of Self-Government in the Wake of the Spanish-American War, 1899-1904, Conor Crawford
Cease or Persist? Gene Patents and the Clinical Diagnostics Dilemma, Christopher Lee
Essays from 2010
“The Dictates of Sound Policy”: Contending with the Western Indians under the New American Constitution, Avi Kupfer
Estimating the Returns to Expenditures in Canadian Elections: Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design, Habib Moody