D A NIEL
B R O O KS
daniel
.
brooks
@
meridian
.
edu
·
Meridian
State
University
May
14, 2025
Professor Eleanor Vance
Department of History
Meridian State University
Dear Professor Vance,
I wanted to write and thank you for an extraordinary semester in your Seminar
on 20th-Century European History. Your lectures brought the interwar period to
life in a way no textbook ever has, and our close readings of primary sources have
fundamentally changed how I approach research.
I am especially grateful for the time you spent with my midterm paper on the
Treaty of Versailles. Your marginal notes pushed me to question my own
assumptions rather than defend them, and I have carried that lesson into every
assignment since. Your encouragement to apply for the Undergraduate Research
Fellowship also means more to me than I can say — I would not have had the
confidence to submit my proposal without it.
Above all, thank you for treating your students as scholars. Your dedication has
made a lasting impact on my academic journey, and I feel fortunate to have
learned from you.
With gratitude,
Daniel Brooks
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Brooks
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History
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