National History Day Nebraska

National History Day is not just a day, but every day! The National History Day program is a year-long education program that culminates in a national contest every June.  National History Day: Nebraska is sponsored by Humanities Nebraska and Nebraska Wesleyan University.

For fifty years the National History Day program has promoted systemic educational reform related to the teaching and learning of history in America’s schools. The combination of creativity and scholarship built into the NHD program anticipated current educational reforms, making National History Day a leading model of performance-based learning.

NHD is a year-long education program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. Students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries, interactive web sites, and research papers based on research related to an annual theme. These projects are then evaluated at local, state, and national competitions.

2023 Winners include Brooklyn Guenther for her Junior Individual Performance, “The Pony Express: Delivering a New Frontier to the American Frontier.” Brooklyn attends St. Rose of Lima School, Crofton. Her teacher is Ginger Schieffer.

In the Senior Group Exhibit category, Kya Branch, Mirabelle Hesse, and Emma von Scheliha won with their exhibit, “Hip-Hop: How the Movement Defined Black America.” The group attended Lincoln Southeast High School. Their teachers were Noa Craft and Kyle Beacom.