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Sample Projects
When viewing sample projects, please remember, they are just samples and they have been through many layers of revision to get to this stage. There is no magic formula for a perfect History Day project.
Documentary | Exhibit | Paper | Performance | Website
Documentary
- Junior Individual Documentary: The Hormel Strike, 1985-1986. Allison Knoebel (Sunrise Park Middle School, White Bear Lake), 2022 National History Day competition.
- Junior Group Documentary: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War. Sam Dale-Gau, Bjorn Holm, and Eli Sage-Martinson (Open World Learning Community, St. Paul), 2014 National History Day competition.
- Senior Individual Documentary: Out of the Close and Into the Streets: Frank Kammeny and the Mattachine Society of Washington D.C. Maddie Love (Century High School, Rochester), 2013 National History Day competition.
- Senior Individual Documentary: Don’t Believe Your Eyes: How Falsified Visual Media Built the Cult of Stalin. Sasha Allen (Eden Prairie High School, Eden Prairie), 2021 National History Day competition.
- Senior Individual Documentary: Fight for Our Wilderness: The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act. Abigail Peters (Roseville Area High School, Roseville), 2022 National History Day competition.
- Senior Group Documentary: Ella Baker: A Legacy of Grassroots Leadership. Siena Leone-Getten and Paying Lor (Open World Learning Community, St. Paul), 2015 National History Day competition.
Exhibit
- Junior Individual Exhibit: The Boundary Waters Treaty: Sustained Diplomacy. Camille Balhorn (Robbinsdale Middle School, Robbinsdale), 2011 National History Day competition.
- Junior Individual Exhibit: C. Walton Lillehei. View this as a Virtual Exhibit sample here. Annika Hellmark (Sunrise Park Middle School, White Bear Lake), 2020 National History Day competition.
- Junior Group Exhibit: "Breaking Barriers of Space:" Apollo 11. Isaac Sheard, Blaze Geiger (Fairmont Junior Senior High School, Fairmont), 2020 National History Day competition:
- Senior Individual Exhibit: Rolling Stone: Exploring the Boundaries of Music Journalism. Kate Mahonen (Forest Lake Senior High School, Forest Lake), 2016 National History Day competition.
- Senior Individual Exhibit: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Where Compromised Health Created an Ethical Conflict. Kathleen Grube (Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis), 2018 National History Day competition.
Paper
- Junior Paper: Native People in a Pacific World: The Native Alaskan Encounter and Exchange with Native People of the Pacific Coast (PDF). Gabriel Chang-Deutsch (Barton Open School, Minneapolis), 2016 National History Day competition.
- Junior Paper: Có Chí Thì Nên: Vietnamese Immigrants Explore a New Home in Minnesota After the Fall of Saigon (PDF). Noah Rice (Friends School of MN, St. Paul), 2016 National History Day competition.
- Junior Paper: Weeks v. Southern Bell: Breaking Discriminatory Employment Barriers for Women in the Workforce (PDF). Julianna Velgersdyk (Avail Academy, Edina), 2020 National History Day competition.
- Senior Paper: Incubator Baby Shows: A Medical and Social Frontier (PDF). Hannah Lieberman (South High School, Minneapolis), 2001 National History Day competition.
- Senior Paper: The Black Death, an Unforeseen Exchange: Europe's Encounter with Pandemic Sparked an Age of Exploration (PDF). Camryn Franke (Washington Technology Magnet School, St. Paul), 2016 National History Day competition.
- Senior Paper: Too Strong for a Woman: How Bernice Sandler Created Title IX to Break Barriers for Female Faculty in Higher Education (PDF). Natalie Miller (East High School, Duluth), 2020 National History Day competition.
Performance
- Junior Individual Performance: The Falkland Islands War: Failure of Diplomacy, Success of Debate. Iona Heddle (Avail Academy, Edina), 2022 National History Day competition.
- Junior Individual Performance: Strength in Numbers: Exploring the Role of Industrial Unions. Strom Norcross (Lakes International Language Academy, Forest Lake), 2016 National History Day competition.
- Junior Group Performance: Kate Warne: No Time for Diplomacy. Allison Parker, Amelia Larsen, and Lucy Peltier (Murray Middle School, St. Paul), 2022 National History Day competition.
- Senior Individual Performance: Leadership and Legacy of the Morrill Hall Takeover. Faith Barron (North Community High School, Minneapolis), 2015 National History Day competition.
- Senior Group Performance: John Paul II's Apostolic Journey to Poland. Kateri Schmidt, Maggie Schmidt, and Carly Zimmerman (St. Clare Academy, Mendota Heights), 2013 National History Day competition.
Website
- Junior Individual Website: “The Greatest Adventure in Advertising”: How the Committee on Public Information Sold War to the American People and the World. Nico Allen (Central Middle School, Eden Prairie), 2021 National History Day competition.
- Junior Individual Website: Oyama v. California: Confronting Alien Land Laws. Thanhtruc Mai (Columbia Academy, Columbia Heights), 2020 National History Day competition.
- Junior Group Website: The "Unbought and Unbossed" Shirley Chisholm: Breaking Barriers for Minorities and Women. Sarah Ragoonanan and Lilly Smith (Folwell Community School, Minneapolis), 2020 National History Day competition.
- Senior Group Website: Horace Mann and the Common School Movement. Mani Chadaga, Simon Mulrooney, Akshay Nambudiripad, and Kalid Ali (Central High School, St. Paul), 2020 National History Day competition.
- Senior Group Website: Gloria Richardson: Breaking Racial Barriers in Cambridge, Maryland. Emma McCarthy and Aiko Mattie (Open World Learning Community, St. Paul), 2020 National History Day competition.
