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Welcome to Tennessee History Day!
Tennessee History Day is the state affiliate of the National History Day competition. Six preliminary district competitions take place in West Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, North Middle Tennessee, East Tennessee, Northeast Tennessee, and Southeast Tennessee in February and March culminating with the state level competition in April. State-level winners move on to the National History Day competition in June. History Day is a year-long curriculum enhancement program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. Have questions? Email Jennifer C. Core, your state coordinator, at History Day. To receive periodic updates about news related to Tennessee History Day, click here to join our email list. |
2012 District Contest Information Click on the map to see a larger PDF version. For more information about your district contest, please click on the link below:
Tennessee History Day State Contest- April 21, 2012- Legislative Plaza, Nashville |
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2012 Tennessee History Day Results
The top two in each category will advance to National History Day SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY: Third Place Title: Rosa Parks: Staying Seated to Take a Stand Student: Vikka Schweer School: Franklin High School, Franklin, TN Teacher(s): Casie Gaebler Second Place Title: Coco Chanel and the 1920's Fashion Revolution Student: Emma Koeppen School: West High School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Candace Greer First Place Title: Persecuted, but Not Forsaken: The Lavrinenko Family's Reaction to the Communist Revolution Student: Emma Thompson School: Berean Christian School Isp, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Sharron Thompson JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY: Third Place Title: The Desegregation of the University of Tennessee: A Process that Revolutionized History Student: Colby Kuhn School: Concord Christian School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Tammy Lightholder Second Place Title: Subsistence Homesteads: Reforming a Nation by Revolutionizing Communities Student: William Seth Eckelson School: Pine View Elementary, Rockwood, TN Teacher(s): Rachel Eckelson First Place Title: The Polio Revolution: A Tale of Two Heroes Student: Emily Burkhead School: Snowden School, Memphis, TN Teacher(s): April Inman SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY: Third Place Title: Chinese in the Mississippi Delta Students: Lisa Ong, Katelyn Frierott School: St. Benedict at Auburndale, Cordova, TN Teacher(s): Kristen Browning Second Place Title: The Battle of Athens: A Revolution, Reaction & Reform in 1940's Politics Students: Tucker Beard, Brandon Cummings, Trace Kerns School: Polk County High School, Benton, TN Teacher(s): Dewey Esquinance First Place Title: Coal Creek Wars: Revolution in the Mines Students: Maranda Vandergriff, Elisa Vandergriff School: Berean Christian School Isp, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Katie Vandergriff JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY: Third Place Title: The Watergate Trial: A Trial to Remember Students: Julianna Foster, Olivia Phillips, Rida Khan School: Meigs Magnet Middle School, Nashville, TN Teacher(s): Jamie Schimenti, Lisa Bucchino Second Place Title: Beating the Bloodhound Law: American Reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Students: Nic Savage, Jordan Blades School: Siegel Middle School, Murfreesboro, TN Teacher(s): Heather Warmuth, Sonya Cox First Place Title: America's Reaction to the Rock n' Roll Revolution's Reform of the Music Industry Students: Alyssa Cutshaw, Victoria Kinsey School: Pine View Elementary, Rockwood, TN Teacher(s): Rachel Eckelson SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT: Third Place Title: A Revolution in Warfare: The Airplane in World War I Student: Mary Hill School: Independence High School, Franklin, TN Teacher(s): Jenifer Wheeler Second Place Title: Antibiotics: A Revolution in Modern Medicine Student: Emily Grayson School: Independence High School, Franklin, TN Teacher(s): Jenifer Wheeler First Place Title: Misled and Misunderstood: Revolution of the Appalachian Life Student: Jonathan Thomas School: van der Merwe Homeschool, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Meryl van der Merwe JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT: Third Place Title: Exploration of Space: A Dream Becomes History Student: Alyssa Neuhoff School: Walden Home School, Signal Mountain, TN Teacher(s): Linda Neuhoff Second Place Title: The Polio Vaccine: A Revolution from the Polio Epidemic Student: Mallory Uphoff School: Greenway School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Lynne Mullins, Liz Shugart First Place Title: Prohibition Student: Sterling Fisher School: Pi Beta Phi Elementary, Gatlinburg, TN Teacher(s): Cindy Flynn SENIOR GROUP EXHIBIT: Third Place Title: A Revolution in Medicine: The Polio Vaccine Students: Haven Poore, Naomi Derksen, Quinn Curtis, Olivia Seay School: Independence High School, Franklin, TN Teacher(s): Jenifer Wheeler Second Place Title: Ignition of a Revolution Students: Rebecca Derby, Rachel Emond School: Sevier County High School, Sevierville, TN Teacher(s): Jeffrey Williams First Place Title: "The Beautiful and the Damned": The Flapper Cultural Revolution Students: Marisa Rozzi, Rishika Singh, Rebecca Zielinski School: Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, TN Teacher(s): Dr. Scott Johnson JUNIOR GROUP EXHIBIT: Third Place Title: Wright to Modern Flight: The Revolution of Commercial Aviation Students: Curtis Clark, Nicholas Keesler, Adam Crutcher, Sean Goggin School: Northeast Middle School, Clarksville, TN Teacher(s): Whitney Joyner Second Place Title: The Pedro Pan Flights: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution Students: Lauren Ramos, Sophia Rosenzweig School: St. John Neumann School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Vicki Sporsen First Place Title: Self Service Revolution: Piggly Wiggly Reforms American Shopping Students: Luke Daniel, Levi Daniel, Caleb Hawn School: Sunbright School, Sunbright, TN Teacher(s): Debbie Slack SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE: Third Place Title: Mikhail Baryshnikov Continues the Evolution of Dance Student: Bernadette Turnage School: Valley Academy, Goodlettsville, TN Teacher(s): Laurale Curtsinger Second Place Title: Heart of an Appalachian Woman Student: Ashleanne Zachary School: First Baptist Academy, Powell, TN Teacher(s): Darrell Vandergriff First Place Title: I Refuse to be Treated like a White Woman Student: Brandie McConkey School: Sequoyah High School, Madisonville, TN Teacher(s): Lance McConkey JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE: Third Place Title: Martin Luther and His Wife Student: Lydia Barbour School: First Baptist Academy, Powell, TN Teacher(s): Darrell Vandergriff Second Place Title: Jane Addams, Patron Saint of Chicago: A Revolutionary Reformer Student: Emma McLeod School: Greenway School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Lynne Mullins First Place Title: Diane Nash: Reforming Discrimination in Nashville, TN Student: La'Charsha Ward School: John Early Museum Magnet Middle School, Nashville, TN Teacher(s): Katherine Hardwick, Kristina Deal, Tara Mielnik SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE: Second Place Title: Vietnam: Reactions to the War Students: Kathryn King, Kenneth Shoffner, Joshua Tharpe, Mark Kitts School: Union County High School, Maynardville, TN Teacher(s): Joel Collins First Place Title: Huey Long: The Reformist with Revolutionary Ideas Students: Chris Livingston, Johnathan Jones School: Meigs County High School, Decatur, TN Teacher(s): Lee Ann Cross JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE: Third Place Title: A Fight For Equality Students: Maddux Southerland, Ashely Moore, Brittany Everhart, Hana Auchterlonie School: Mosheim Middle School, Mosheim, TN Teacher(s): Doug Lafollette Second Place Title: A State in Chaos; A Family in Two Students: Emily Ritchart, John Courson, Jake Kolaski, Sidney McCarty, Cherie Saffold School: Richview Middle School, Clarksville, TN Teacher(s): Tabitha Wilson First Place Title: Andrew Johnson's Reaction to the Reform of Reconstruction Students: Allyson Neal, Tyler Beichler School: First Baptist Academy, Powell, TN Teacher(s): Darrell Vandergriff SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE: Third Place Title: Women on the Homefront: World War II Students: Anna Burkhart School: West High School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Candace Greer Second Place Title: Jim Crow: Face of Hate Student: Wesley Harris School: South Greene High School, Greeneville, TN Teacher(s): Noelle Smith First Place Title: The Revolutionary Decision Which Sparked a Skeptical Reaction and the Landmark Surgery Which Made Ephraim McDowell The Father of Ovariotomy Student: Brittany Wilharm School: Homeschool - Wilharm, Springfield, TN Teacher(s): Sharon Wilharm JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE: Third Place Title: Putting the Cold War on Ice Student: Mitchell Mielnik School: John Early Museum Magnet Middle School, Nashville, TN Teacher(s): Katherine Hardwick, Kristina Deal, Tara Mielnik Second Place Title: The Reform of the Tennessee Walking Horse Student: Hadley Peters School: Concord Christian School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Tammy Lightholder First Place Title: Manga After the Atomic Bomb Student: Lane Crouse-Helford School: Siegel Middle School, Murfreesboro, TN Teacher(s): Heather Warmuth, Sonya Cox SENIOR GROUP WEBSITE: Third Place Title: The Space Race Students: Henry Evetts, Kyle Van Hoek School: St. Benedict at Auburndale, Cordova, TN Teacher(s): Mark McDonald Second Place Title: The Women's Movement: The Suffrage Revolution Students: Allie McNamara, Katherine Wein, Dakota Bailey, Ashley Koehler, Katie Akin School: St. Benedict at Auburndale, Cordova, TN Teacher(s): Kristen Browning First Place Title: A Revolution of Quantum Proportions Students: Joshua Burton, Daniel van der Merwe School: van der Merwe Homeschool, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Meryl van der Merwe JUNIOR GROUP WEBSITE: Third Place Title: Elizabeth Blackwell: A True Doctor Students: Kaleabe Truneh, Maryam Yousef, Nadiya Navas School: Meigs Magnet Middle School, Nashville, TN Teacher(s): Jamie Schimenti, Lisa Bucchino Second Place Title: Invention of the Microwave Oven: A Revolution for Cooking Students: Amy van der Merwe, Joy Marshall School: van der Merwe Homeschool, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Meryl van der Merwe First Place Title: Agents of Destruction: The Revolution of Chemical Warfare Students: Jackson Arnold, Ethan Huskey School: New Center Elementary, Sevierville, TN Teacher(s): Christy Valentine SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PAPER: Third Place Title: From Rags to Jazz: How James Reese Europe Helped Kick-Start the Jazz Revolution Student: Angela Henderson, School: University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN Teacher(s): Patricia Miletich Second Place Title: "The Country Needed Men": The Story of Female Soldiers during the Civil War Student: Olivia Brown School: University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN Teacher(s): Patricia Miletich First Place Title: The Overmountain Men Student: Jacob Taylor School: Taylor Homeschool, Greeneville, Greeneville, TN Teacher(s): Ramona Taylor JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PAPER: Third Place Title: Revolution, Reaction, Reform: The Transformation of a Town Called Wheat Student: Sarah Littleton School: Concord Christian School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Tammy Lightholder Second Place Title: The Clinton Twelve: Reaction to Reform and Revolution Student: Taya Smith School: Petros Joyner Elementary, Oliver Springs, TN Teacher(s): Debbie Slack First Place Title: For Our Will Wimbles and Tom Browns: Rugby, Tennessee, a Failed Revolution Student: Abbey Huber School: Greenway School, Knoxville, TN Teacher(s): Lynne Mullins, Liz Shugart ----------------------------------- SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS ----------------------------------- Sequoyah Award Brandie McConkey (School: Sequoyah High School, Madisonville, TN) The Company of Military Historians Award for the Best Project in Military History, Junior Division: Jackson Arnold & Ethan Huskey (School: New Center Elementary, Sevierville, TN) The Company of Military Historians Award for the Best Project in Military History, Senior Division: Jacob Taylor (School: Taylor Homeschool, Greeneville, Greeneville, TN) Margaret Lindsley Warden Prize for Best Project in Women's History, Junior Division: Maddux Southerland & Ashely Moore & Brittany Everhart & Hana Auchterlonie (School: Mosheim Middle School, Mosheim, TN) Margaret Lindsley Warden Prize for Best Project in Women's History, Senior Division: Marisa Rozzi & Rishika Singh & Rebecca Zielinski (School: Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, TN) Tennessee Historical Society Prize for Best Project in Tennessee History, Junior Division: William Seth Eckelson (School: Pine View Elementary, Rockwood, TN) Tennessee Historical Society Prize for Best Project in Tennessee History, Senior Division: Maranda Vandergriff & Elisa Vandergriff (School: Berean Christian School Isp, Knoxville, TN) Tennessee Historical Society Prize for The Best Project in African-American History, Junior Division: Lauren Curtsinger & Mary Turnage (School: Valley Academy, Goodlettsville, TN) Tennessee Historical Society Prize for The Best Project in African-American History, Senior Division: Wesley Harris (School: South Greene High School, Greeneville, TN) Society of Tennessee Archivists Award for Archival Research, Junior Division: William Seth Eckelson (School: Pine View Elementary, Rockwood, TN) Society of Tennessee Archivists Award for Archival Research, Senior Division: Maranda Vandergriff & Elisa Vandergriff (School: Berean Christian School Isp, Knoxville, TN) Dr. Ruben Brooks Award, Best Research Paper, Junior Division Abbey Huber (School: Greenway School, Knoxville, TN) Dr. Sam B. Smith Award, Best Research Paper, Senior Division Jacob Taylor (Taylor Homeschool, Greeneville, Greeneville, TN) |
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