Oregon History Day
Oregon History Day, part of National History Day®, is a renowned, evidence-based middle and high school program in which students across the state develop historical research projects on a topic of their choosing based on an annual theme.
Over half a million students from every state in the nation participate. Most students participate in the classroom only, but they may also participate in the state and national contests, where judges evaluate their projects and provide feedback. Creating an Oregon History Day project is immensely rewarding for students, many of whom participate over consecutive years. Oregon History Day meets the state standards in multiple subjects and can support the teaching of standards related to Ethnic Studies, Tribal History / Shared History, and Holocaust and Genocide education.
Congratulations, 2022 Oregon History Day and National History Day® Participants!
Thank you to the 90 students who participated in this year’s virtual Oregon History Day state contest, and congratulations to the 46 students who advanced to the virtual National History Day® (NHD) contest. Four Oregon entries made it to the Finals Round and ranked among the top 10 in the nation, with two projects placing second and third in their categories.
Notable projects include longtime NHD participant Anja Jolin, a senior at St. Mary’s Academy, placed second in the nation for her senior paper, “Delegitimizing Diplomacy: The Berlin West Africa Conference.” Sunset High School freshman Jasper Gu’s senior individual exhibit, The Orphan Drug Act: How Debate and Diplomacy Improved Healthcare for Orphan Disease Patients, placed third in the nation after having previously finished second at this year’s Oregon History Day contest. McKenzie Rose of Echo School was honored by the National Museum of American History for the second consecutive year by having her senior individual exhibit, The Debatable Trent Affair: How Strategic Diplomacy Prevented War, included in the Smithsonian Learning Lab’s virtual showcase.
About Oregon History Day
Oregon History Day — facilitated by the Oregon Historical Society — is a student-directed, project-based, interdisciplinary learning program. Open to all middle and high school students, this culturally responsive program invites students to interpret a historical event that connects to the annual theme by creating a website, paper, performance, exhibit, or documentary.
Oregon History Day is a highly adaptable program. Students can select their own topic to research, or teachers can choose a broad category to guide their students’ projects. With the assistance of educators, librarians, and online resources, students analyze primary and secondary sources to develop and support their thesis. Oregon History Day also provides a standardized evaluation with integrated rubrics.
The annual theme for 2023 is Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas. The 2023 Oregon History Day contest will take place on Saturday, April 29 from 8am to 5:30pm in Salem, Oregon, at Willamette University. The National History Day® contest is scheduled to take place in mid-June at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Please contact the Oregon History Day coordinator Katie Pearson at Katie.Pearson@ohs.org if you would like to participate in Oregon History Day. For more information on National History Day®, visit www.nhd.org.
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2022 Oregon History Day Results
Entries in bold were invited to advance to the National History Day® contest, which takes place June 12–18, 2022.
Junior Level (Grades 6 – 8)
Category |
Rank |
Title |
Students |
School |
Teacher |
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Paper |
1 |
Forced Diplomacy: The Japan-Korea Annexation |
Yuni Cotik |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Paper |
2 |
From British Colony to Modern Metropolis: How a History Rife with Debate and Diplomacy Has Shaped Hong Kong Today |
Eloise Brentano |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Paper |
A Catalyst for War: The London Naval Treaty of 1930 |
Lucas Zhang |
Stoller Middle School |
Maria Bolanos |
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Paper |
Ending Apartheid: Debate and Diplomacy for a New South Africa |
Anna Holland |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Paper |
The Shot Heard Around the World: Vaccine Diplomacy Ends Smallpox |
Haley Werner |
Seven Peaks School |
Megan Kruer |
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Individual Documentary |
1 |
Cosmic Compromise |
Peter Gerber |
Seven Peaks School |
Megan Kruer |
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Individual Documentary |
2 |
Origin of NATO and its Diplomatic Formation |
Anthony Hadden |
Seven Peaks School |
Megan Kruer |
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Group Documentary |
1 |
The Women’s Suffrage Debate: Abigail Scott Duniway |
Eleanor Haugo, Kate McFarland, Tuula Dubrawsky |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Documentary |
2 |
Winds of Change |
Nico Garcia, Roland Alexander |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Documentary |
Debate and Diplomacy in Updating the Oregon History Reader |
Clementine Smith, Ziba Gonzalez |
Creative Science School |
Laura Axon |
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Group Documentary |
Silent Spring: The Debate Against DDT |
Nao Joy, Sebastian Irvine |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Documentary |
To the Bitter End: The Anglo-Boer Wars and Their Path to Apartheid |
Ben Ramsey, Kirin Cowell-Shah |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Individual Performance |
1 |
The Smallpox Vaccine and its Repercussions: When Debate Causes Death |
Giusppe Lipari |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Performance |
1 |
The 1912 Oregon Suffrage Vote: How Tactics Make and Break Debates |
Alexa Buckley, Fiona Snyder, Franka Gronke, Hazel Miranda-Zellnik, Jolee Ray |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Individual Exhibit |
1 |
Magna Carta |
Matteo Anderson |
Seven Peaks School |
Megan Kruer |
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Individual Exhibit |
2 |
Women’s Voting Movement: Push for Change |
Verania Molodyh |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Individual Exhibit |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton "I am woman..." |
Autumn Stassens |
Seven Peaks School |
Megan Kruer |
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Group Exhibit |
1 |
Berlin Wall: The Rise and Fall of the Iron Curtain |
Jane Coffey-Read, Shriya Pai, Sky Zak-Apperson |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Exhibit |
2 |
Camps Of Warmen: European POW Camps In WW2 |
Noah Brown |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Exhibit |
Mexican Revolution |
Dante Vega, Logan Smith, Mark Bailey |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Exhibit |
Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes |
Kloey Spanfellner, Savanna Cole |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Exhibit |
The Act That ChangedLaws for the Better |
Kate Alger, Kristina Larionov, Susana Efimov |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Exhibit |
The Beatles in Russia |
Isabell Gray, Kirikiya Barsukoff, Violet Gray |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Exhibit |
The Korean War |
Cadence Cheek, Ruby Wellman |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Exhibit |
Venezuelan Fight to Freedom |
Ava Traeger, Miley Bradshaw, Olivia Aker |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Exhibit |
Women’s Suffrage In Mexico |
Grace Cox, Sam Quiroz Charpilloz |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
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Group Website |
1 |
Debate and Diplomacy in the Peloponnesian war |
Nathan Coury |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Website |
2 |
World War Two: The Japanese Surrender |
Daniel Rainwater |
ACCESS Academy |
Amy McBride |
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Group Website |
Haiti’s Revolution against Slavery |
Cooper Whitaker, David Shadrin, Dillon Allred |
Butte Creek Elementary School |
Emily Rao |
Senior Level (Grades 9 – 12)
Category |
Rank |
Title |
Students |
School |
Teacher |
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Paper |
1 |
Delegitimizing Diplomacy: The Berlin West Africa Conference |
Anja Jolin |
St. Mary’s Academy |
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Paper |
2 |
Bloody Sunday: Northern Ireland's Darkest Day |
Noah Snyder |
Saint Mary’s School |
Molly Bruins |
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Paper |
John Adams and the Treaty of Paris |
Tobey Wing |
Roots Academy |
Christy Wing |
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Paper |
The AI Winters: Big Barriers to the Development of AI Technology |
Alex Park |
St. Mary’s School |
Molly Bruins |
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Individual Documentary |
1 |
EXCOMM: The Internal Debates of Kennedy’s Secret Council |
MayaBella Texidor |
Helix School |
Lorin Kubishta |
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Individual Documentary |
2 |
The Capitol Crawl: Diplomacy for the Disabled |
Sasha Kovalak |
Helix School |
Lorin Kubishta |
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Individual Documentary |
JFK’s Legacy: How an Assassination Changed the World |
Julian Horvath |
Saint Mary’s School |
Molly Bruins |
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Individual Documentary |
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978: A Diplomatic Solution to an Adoption Crisis |
Dean Boland |
Helix School |
Lorin Kubishta |
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Individual Documentary |
The Salmon War: Fish and Dams Spark Debate |
Blake Harper |
Helix School |
Lorin Kubishta |
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Group Documentary |
1 |
Iranian Hostage Crisis Documentary |
Alistair Briggs, Jack Anderson, Riley Sharps, Sawyer Hayner |
Sheldon High School |
January Morrison |
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Individual Exhibit |
1 |
The Debatable Trent Affair: How Strategic Diplomacy Prevented War |
McKenzie Rose |
Echo School |
Brandlyn Russell |
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Individual Exhibit |
2 |
The Orphan Drug Act: How Debate and Diplomacy Improved Healthcare for Orphan Disease Patients |
Jasper Gu |
Sunset High School |
Bryan Lurie |
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Group Exhibit |
1 |
A Fallen Democracy: Successes, Failures Consequences of the Weimar Republic |
Akash Pai, Ashank Shah, Rashaad Ahsan, Sahil Pai, Taaha Khan |
Sunset High School |
Bryan Lurie |
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Group Exhibit |
2 |
Chernobyl |
Ashley Bloomer, Jonah Shoemaker |
Sheldon High School |
January Morrison |
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Individual Website |
1 |
THE BEEP HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD: How the Launch of Sputnik Spurred a Diplomatic Race of Unseen Technology and Ushered in the End of the Cold War |
Gavin Guyette |
St. Mary’s School |
Molly Bruins |
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Group Website |
1 |
Bayou: The Systemic Removal of Native Americans from the Louisiana Territory and their Omission from Debates and Negotiation over the Louisiana Purchase |
Daniel Hadi, Darsh Mandera, Namrata Venkatesan, Samyak Shrimali |
Jesuit High School |
Tracy Villareal |
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Group Website |
2 |
A History of Interactions Between Pacific Northwest Indigenous Tribes and the United States |
Hyunsoo Lee, Ishaan Agrawal, Jonathan Hu, Karthik Krishnamurthy |
Westview High School |
John Santella |
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Group Website |
Stonewall Riots |
Aiden Moreno, Allison Espinoza, Nirvana Guanranthne |
Sheldon High School |
January Morrison |
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Group Website |
The All-China Women’s Federation: Promoting the People or the Party? |
Lilliana Bingham, Naomi Thuren |
St. Mary’s School |
Molly Bruins |