National History Day in New Hampshire (NHDNH) is an educational program which encourages middle and high school students to celebrate their skills as historians and exposes them to the processes, sources, and complexities of historical research.
See photos from today’s event here.
2012 Contest Theme:
Revolution, Reaction, Reform
For interpretations of this year’s theme, read the theme summary (PDF).
2012 NH State Competition
Where: Plymouth State University
When: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Event Schedule: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
1) Registration and Setup Time: 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Place: The Hartman Union Building (HUB)
ALL EXHIBITS MUST BE SET UP BEFORE 9 a.m. AND CAN BE UNLOADED ON HIGH STREET
2) Judging Begins: 9:00 a.m.
Place: Various Locations—Map distributed at registration
EXHIBIT ROOMS, PAPERS, AND WEBSITES ARE CLOSED TO PUBLIC DURING JUDGING (9a.m. – 1p.m.)
DOCUMENTARIES/PERFORMANCES ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC
3) Lunch (on your own) 11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Place: Prospect Mountain Dining Hall or downtown (map provided at registration)
ALL EXHIBITS OPEN TO PUBLIC VIEWING (1:30 p.m. – 3:00p.m.)
4) Recognition Ceremony: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Place: Heritage Hall
EXHIBITS CAN BE DISMANTLED AND UNLOADED AFTER CEREMONY
Please contact John Krueckeberg, Patrick May or Kelsie Brook for more information, registration materials, teacher resources, and research guidelines.
Projects and presentations include:
| School | Division | Category | Title |
| Gilford Middle School | Junior | Group Documentary | Revolutionizing Jordanian’s Quality of Life: Queen Noor Al Hussein |
| Gilford Middle School | Junior | Group Documentary | Steve Jobs: How the Apple iPod Revolutionized the Music Industry and Society |
| Haverhill Cooperative | Junior | Group Documentary | The Beatles |
| Hollis Brookline Middle School | Junior | Group Documentary | Life in Eastern Germany |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Group Documentary | Dorothea Dix and the Asylum Movement |
| Laconia Middle School | Junior | Group Documentary | Introducing Earth to the Elements of Baroque Music |
| Gilford Middle School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Title IX: The Revolution of Women’s Sports |
| Haverhill Cooperative | Junior | Group Exhibit | Nat Turner’s Rebellion: The Rebellion that Changed the Country |
| Haverhill Cooperative | Junior | Group Exhibit | Women in the 50s and 60s: Right Up There With Men! |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Bread and Roses Strike |
| Laconia Middle School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Zipperless Zipper |
| Laconia Middle School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Illuminating the Shadows |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Death of Dynasty, Birth of a Republic |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Holocaust Concentration Camps |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Group Exhibit | The 9/11 Attacks |
| Newfound Memorial Middle School | Junior | Group Exhibit | The Revolution of the Television |
| Keene Middle School | Junior | Group Exhibit | Louis Pasteur |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Group Exhibit | The Greek Revolution |
| Haverhill Cooperative | Junior | Group Performance | Hip Hop and its Life |
| Hollis Brookline Middle School | Junior | Group Performance | Local Loyalists |
| Gilford Middle School | Junior | Group Website | Henry Ford’s Moving Assembly Line |
| Haverhill Cooperative | Junior | Group Website | The Development of Nuclear Weapons |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Group Website | The Battle of the Sexes |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Group Website | The C-130 Plane |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Group Website | The Rise of Adolf Hitler |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Group Website | McCarthyism and the Red Scare: A Cold War Tragedy |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Group Website | Leonardo daVinci: The Insightful Inspiration |
| Home School | Junior | Individual Documentary | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Haverhill Cooperative | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Jonas Salk: The Man that Cured America |
| Hollis Brookline Middle School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | The Double Life of the People Who Hid the Jews |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Organized Crime: A Reaction to Prohibition |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Airplanes: A Revolution in Warfare |
| Laconia Middle School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Women’s Rights to Vote |
| Laconia Middle School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Child Labor Laws:The Revolution of a childhood |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Robert Goddard |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Diabetes Management Improves Over Time |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | Pele: The Soccer Revolutionary |
| White Mountains Regional High School | Junior | Individual Exhibit | John Adams: A Revolutionary Man |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Individual Paper | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Individual Paper | Forensic Science |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Individual Performance | The Salem Witch Trials |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Individual Website | Child Labor Reformation |
| Holy Trinity School | Junior | Individual Website | The Meiji Reformation |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Individual Website | Working Conditions of the Lowell Mills |
| Marlborough School | Junior | Individual Website | Dogfighting Then and Now |
| Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Junior | Individual Website | Prohibition in the U.S.: Revolution and Reform |
| Berlin High School | Senior | Group Documentary | The Automobile: Evolution of an American Icon |
| Exeter High School | Senior | Group Documentary | By Pen and Sword: Revolutionary Reactions to Lincoln’s War Reform of the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Group Documentary | Nuclear Threat |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Group Documentary | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Labor Reform |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Group Documentary | The Phonograph: A Revolution in Music |
| Pinkerton Academy | Senior | Group Documentary | World War II Propaganda |
| Bedford High School | Senior | Group Exhibit | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Group Exhibit | Pioneering Space and the Moon |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Group Exhibit | Insulin: the Medical Revolution of the Century |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Group Exhibit | Cubism |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Group Exhibit | Integration of Schools |
| Milford High School | Senior | Group Exhibit | Navajo Code Talkers: Secret Weapon of the Pacific |
| Gilford High School | Senior | Group Performance | Teen Reactions to the 1950′s and 1960′s Rock and Roll Revolution |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Group Performance | The Times They Are A-Changin’: Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and the Vietnam Protest Music that Reformed and Reshaped America |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Group Performance | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Group Website | Rock and Roll |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Group Website | Penicillin: The Accidental Discovery That Saved Millions of Lives |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Group Website | First in Flight: How the Wright Brothers Revolutionized Aviation |
| Holderness School | Senior | Individual Documentary | Native technology Americans |
| Holderness School | Senior | Individual Documentary | The cons of the French Resistance during WWII |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Individual Documentary | Pearl Harbor and the Outcome of World War II |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Individual Documentary | The Civil Air Patrol: A Revolution in Military Strategy During World War II |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Documentary | Counterculture Drug Use in the 1960s and its Effect on Drug Use Today |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Documentary | The Rebellious Teenager |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Individual Exhibit | The Jungle: The Book that Reformed the Meat Industry |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Individual Exhibit | Martha Graham: The Woman Who Revolutionized Dance |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Exhibit | Cinema’s Effect on the American People |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Exhibit | Prohibition and Its Effect on Organized Crime |
| Holderness School | Senior | Individual Exhibit | Going Solar |
| Milford High School | Senior | Individual Exhibit | Vatican II Reforming the Catholic Church |
| Gilford High School | Senior | Individual Paper | Little Women No Longer: How the Second Wave of Feminism Changed Society’s View of Gender |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Paper | Child Labor in the Industrial Age |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Paper | Women’s Rights |
| Milford High School | Senior | Individual Paper | Common Sense Inspires a Revolution |
| Milford High School | Senior | Individual Paper | Mind Over Matter: Mary Baker Eddy’s Religious Revolution |
| Milford High School | Senior | Individual Paper | Crossing the Rubicon, Reaction that Ends the Roman Republic |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | Senior | Individual Paper | The Enlightenment’s Revolutionary Book: The Impact of Diderot’s Encyclopedie on 18th Century Europe |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Individual Performance | T.E. Lawrence: A Brave Warrior |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Performance | Korean War |
| Holderness School | Senior | Individual Website | Bullying Laws in America |
| Holderness School | Senior | Individual Website | Advances in music technology |
| Holderness School | Senior | Individual Website | The Dylan Revolution |
| Lin-Wood High School | Senior | Individual Website | Alice Paul |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Website | DDT: Pesticides and the Rise of the Modern Environmental Movement |
| Merrimack High School | Senior | Individual Website | Fight for Rights: Gay Rights in America |
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