However flawed the system, the essay offers something no other metric can: an account of a student’s lived experience, in their own words. Sarah Stoller is a writer and historian.

The essay topic for the 2024-2025 American History Essay Contest for Grades 5-8 was “Enjoying a new kind of Tea Party.” In the 1770’s there was a movement of protest from the Colonists ...

Avery Imp, a junior at Greenwich High School, won the Black History Month essay contest for her entry on Claudette Colvin, who was 15 when she was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a ...

The deadline to submit an essay is Friday, February 7, 2025 and should be emailed to VA04_Projects@mail.house.gov. For more information is available on McClellan’s website.

The power of feminist history rests in precisely politicizing the richness of multiple ways of being. Let’s think back, for instance, to another era, to 1587, nearly seven decades before the Taj ...

Weaving one’s own history into that of the world might seem daunting for some, but it’s proved to be a winning strategy for La Jolla resident Joshua Hangartner. Joshua, who will be a senior ...

Yet as Americans fight over their history, the historical profession itself is in rapid — maybe even terminal — decline. Twelve days after Dr. Sweet published his column, the A.H.A. released a ...

HENDERSONVILLE - The Joseph McDowell Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution presented three American History awards during the Jan. 12 meeting at Champion Hills Clubhouse. Each student received ...