Student Historians Published in The Concord Review

Two Milton students, Adam Amin ’27 and Benjamin Wang ’27, had research papers published in The Concord Review, a prestigious academic journal for secondary students.

Amin completed his paper, “Dismantling the Empire of Egyptology: The Nationalization of the Egyptian Antiquities Service (1922–1952),” as part of an independent study during the 2024–2025 school year. In 2024, he enrolled in an Egyptology course at Harvard Extension School taught by Professor Peter Der Manuelian, which sparked a fascination with the study of ancient Egypt and Egypt’s reclamation of its Antiquities Service after decades of colonial British rule. Amin made two separate trips to Egypt, where he pored over archival documents and records in Arabic, English, and French in the American University in Cairo Rare Books and Special Collections Library. In late 2025, he presented his work at the American Society of Overseas Research annual conference, and The Concord Review published his work in December.

Wang’s research into deindustrialization in Youngstown, Ohio, began as a paper in Matthew Petherick’s U.S. History class at Milton. Initially interested in studying how automation has historically replaced jobs, Wang learned about the rise and fall of the steel industry in Youngstown. After the class ended, he still had questions, so he traveled to Youngstown, where he visited the steel museum and a university library. There, he had the opportunity to research primary sources that included oral histories and handwritten records. His paper, “Moral Witness in the Neoliberal Dawn: A Mill Shutdown, Religious Resistance, and the Paradox of Deindustrialization in Youngstown, 1977–1979,” was published in The Concord Review in March. The quarterly journal, which features history essays by high school students across the English-speaking world, only publishes about 5 percent of the submissions it receives.