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NHDKy State Contest Draws Students from across Kentucky

History is full of examples of conflict and compromise—on a personal level, between groups within society and among governments. As participants in the National History Day in Kentucky program, students all over the commonwealth have spent this year exploring conflict and compromise through original research on topics of their own choice.

They presented their research findings at regional contests in February and March. Nearly 350 elementary, middle and high school students from Bell, Carroll, Madison, Boone, Bourbon, Campbell, Fayette, Bullitt, Grayson, Kenton, Jefferson, Marshall, McCracken, Johnson, Scott, Whitley, Oldham, Martin, Pike, Menifee and Laurel Counties, their families and teachers gathered for the state competition on April 21. Topics varied from the American Revolution to the Holocaust, and baseball to suffrage. Panels of volunteer judges, including educators, historians, librarians and museum professionals, reviewed their projects.

They selected 59 junior and senior division students to represent Kentucky at the National History Day contest at the University of Maryland, June 10-14. The Kentucky Historical Society administers NHDKy. Special thanks to the University of Kentucky’s College of Education for providing the site for the state contest.

NHDKy State Contest Awards Elementary Group Performance 1st Place: Kyndra Nalley, Reagan Manco; “Patriot Versus Loyalist: A Conflict for Personal Freedom”; Lebanon Junction Elementary; Laureen Laumeyer

2nd Place: Alana Diehl, Andi Wells, Carter Wells, Brooklyn Ferrell, Silas Landefeld; “Black Death to a Rebirth: The Bubonic Plague”; Menifee Elementary School, Angela Baker, Megan Brewer

Junior Group Performance 1st Place: Bub Treece, Chandler Widener, Dalton Lawson, Ethan Smith; “Which Side Are You On? The Story of Bloody Harlan”; Bell Central School Center; Amanda Day

2nd Place: Cassandra Stines, Lauren Scott; “Letters, Prayers, and Statements of the Holocaust”; Newport High School, Shannon Gubser

Senior Group Performance 1st Place: Emma Hawkins, Hannah Tipton; “The Battle of the Kentucky Cousins: Madeline Breckinridge and Laura Clay”; Bourbon County High School, Kourtney Roe

2nd Place: Austin Yarborough, Grace Raber, Joseph Price, Noah Hollar, Tristyn Perkins; “The Transcendental”; Paducah Tilghman High School, Ashley Adkins

Elementary Individual Performance 1st Place: Eliza Esper; “A Brave New World”; Clark Elementary School, Debbie Stewart

2nd Place: Caroline Adkins; Mercy Otis Warren: “Conscience of the American Revolution”; Clark Elementary School, Debbie Stewart

Junior Individual Performance 1st Place: John Baniak; “Wet Vs. Dry: The Lessons of Prohibition”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly

2nd Place: Garrett Peavler; “Caravan Compact: The conflict and compromise of the historic 1953 ascent of Everest”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly

Senior Individual Performance 1st Place: Leila Abou-Jaoude; “Scoring in Silence: The Compromised Music Career of Fanny Medelssohn”; Lafayette High School, Liz Prather

Elementary Group Website 1st Place: Bailey Beyer, Kara Brien; “Working Women of WWII”; Clark Elementary School, Debbie Stewart

2nd Place: Alyssa Schuler, Hunter Etherton; “Doris Miller: Virtue That Reduced Racism and Segregation in the Military”; Lebanon Junction Elementary, Laureen Laumeyer

Junior Group Website 1st Place: Azlyn Goodyke, Elena Adkins, Liam Black; “Tennessee Valley Authority: Individual Sacrifice for Regional Gain”; Paducah Middle School, Todd Rushing

2nd Place: Ana Maria Cornea, Lynn Ye; “The Teapot Dome Scandal of 1922; How Bribery and Fraud Created a Nationwide Conflict”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly

Senior Group Website 1st Place: Amos York, Claire Harmon, Karly Jones; “Stonewall”; Marshall County High School, Kelly Weaver

2nd Place: Eric Curtsinger, Victor Torres; “Labor Unions: Labor Strikes and Workers Rights”; Bourbon County High School, Kourtney Roe

Elementary Individual Website 1st Place: Russell Hancock; “Alternative Fuels: An Earth-Friendly Compromise to a Global Conflict”; Clark Elementary School, Julie Mohs

2nd Place: Ryan Bidwell; “Boston Massacre”; Clark Elementary School, Julie Mohs

Junior Individual Website 1st Place: Emily Day; “The Endless Battle: Alice Paul and Her Fight For Women’s Suffrage”; Royal Spring Middle School, Annabeth Edens

2nd Place: Aidan West; “The Black Patch Tobacco War”; Leestown Middle School, Charla Ridgeway

Senior Individual Website 1st Place: Theresa Stromberg; “Hitler & the Pope”; Kentuckiana Kolbe Academy; Joan Stromberg

2nd Place: Chloe Paddack; “Conflict & Compromise: The French Revolution”; Grayson County High School, Brent Weedman

Junior Paper 1st Place: McKenna Sun; “The HeLa Bomb: A Conflict and Compromise over Bioethics”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly

2nd Place: Roxanne Lockard; “Deeds Not Words: The Conflict and Compromise of Emmeline Pankhurst”; Royal Spring Middle School, Annabeth Edens

Senior Paper 1st Place: Abigail Stanger; “A Social Wound from Louisville to Stockton: How Decades of School Violence Have Shaped our Society”; Marshall County High School, Kelly Weaver

2nd Place: Austin Li; “The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Conflict and Compromise”; Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Doug Wilkinson

Elementary Group Documentary 1st Place: Max Tolar, Nathan Franklin; “WWII Conflict and Compromise Garlin Murl Conner”; Clark Elementary School, Debbie Stewart

Junior Group Documentary 1st Place: Austin Washburn, Dusten Erwin; “The Salem Witch Trials”; Martin County Middle School, Cletus Turner

2nd Place: Kelsey Harper, Miranda Warren; “The Birmingham Church Bombing”; St. Nicholas Academy, David Trueblood

Senior Group Documentary 1st Place: Jacob Brooks, Jared Wilson, River Braden, Thor Blankenship; “Truman’s Decision: The Death of the Rising Sun and the Birth of the Nuclear Age”; Whitley County High School, Johnny White

2nd Place: Ella David, Kate Hail; “The Cuban Missile Crisis: Almost Armageddon”; Notre Dame Academy, Ron Greife

Elementary Individual Documentary 1st Place: Veracity Moore; “The Unsinkable Ship: How the End Affected the Beginning of the Change”; Clark Elementary School, Julie Mohs

Junior Individual Documentary 1st Place: Callie Thompson; “James Madison and Paul Jennings: Conflict and Compromise-Master and Slave”; Royal Spring Middle School, Crystal Showalter

2nd Place: Cecilia Stromberg; “The California Missions: Father Junipero Serra and the Native Californians”; Kentuckiana Kolbe Academy, Joan Stromberg

Senior Individual Documentary 1st Place: Montana Leigers; “Sixteen Tons: The Unionization of Coal Country”; Windsor Academy, Kelly Leigers

Elementary Individual Exhibit 1st Place: Sam Leigers; “Scrip: A Coal Miner’s Wages”; Windsor Academy, Kelly Leigers

2nd Place: Brylee Barrett; “The Pony Express”; Waco Elementary

Junior Individual Exhibit 1st Place: Emma Sherman; “The Art of Protest: Pablo Picasso Fragmented by the Political Conflicts of the 1900s”; Royal Spring Middle School, Crystal Showalter

2nd Place: Ellen Bohannon; “The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly

Senior Individual Exhibit 1st Place: Anastasia Shaverina; “The USSR Falls Into History”; Marshall County High School; Kelly Weaver

2nd Place: Nicholas Katsikas; “Crusade in Europe”; Larry A. Ryle High School, Doug Logan

Elementary Group Exhibit 1st Place: Anna Winebarger, Cami Asher; “The Hatfields and the McCoys”; Waco Elementary

2nd Place: Jackson Marsh, Jody Switzer, Kennedy Dries, Laura Adkins; “The Harlan Coal Wars”; Cartmell Elementary, Mary Louden

Junior Group Exhibit 1st Place: Ben Buckman, Noah Riordan; “Tuskegee Airmen: Fighting Racism Abroad and At Home”; St. Nicholas Academy, David Trueblood

2nd Place: Ashley Armstrong, Jessica Rowell; “Guerilla Girls: The Group of Women That Changed the Art World”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly

Senior Group Exhibit 1st Place: Cole Wyatt, Luke Wyatt; “The Kansas-Nebraska Act: A very influential COMPROMISE that led to an even bigger CONFLICT: The Civil War”; Marshall County High School, Kelly Weaver

2nd Place: Casey Weber, Kaycelin Shaver; “Loving v. Virginia”; Academy for Individual Excellence; Ayla Murrell

NHDKy Special Awards Office of the Secretary of State Award Political History, Senior Individual Project

  • Isaac Depoyster; “Is It Peace In Our Time?”; Grayson County High School, Brent Weedman

Kentucky Museum and Heritage Alliance Award Exhibit Design, Elementary Project

  • Seth Bishop, Elizabeth Swift; “Pearl Harbor: The Bombing That Saved Europe”; Crossroads Elementary, Laureen Laumeyer

Frazier History Museum Award Kentucky History, Junior Individual Project

  • Chase O’Hair; “Bloody Harlan: A Letter to A Younger Generation”; Menifee Elementary, Jennifer Wells

Sons of the American Revolution Award American History 1763-1801

  • Jackson Binkley; “George Washington: Democracy over Monarchy”; Old Mill Elementary, Laureen Laumeyer

Kentucky Foundation for Women Award Women’s History, Senior Group Project

  • Emma Hawkins, Hannah Tipton; “Battle of the Kentucky Cousins: Madeline Breckinridge and Laura Clay”; Bourbon County High School, Kourtney Roe

Louisville Slugger Museum Bat Certificates for Sports History Projects

  • Peyton Compton; “Jackie Robinson: Taking Strikes for His Rights”; Johns Creek Elementary, Claire West
  • Layne Ogle; “Freed From the Bench of Inequality and the Sidelines of Stereotyped Gender Roles: Title IX Provides Fair Territory for Women Athletes”; Royal Spring Middle School, Traci Mahone
  • Annika Church; “The Belles of Baseball: A Solution to the Lack of Baseball”; Winburn Middle School, Megan Lilly
  • Calvin Dillon, Collin Ramey; “Breaking the Color Line”; Johns Creek Elementary, Claire West
  • Akeala Galloway; “Title IX: The Conflict that Will Not Compromise”; Crossroads Elementary, Laureen Laumeyer

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