Top National History Day Websites Garner Awards
February 7, 2025
This week’s National History Day local competition in Huntington UFSD drew hundreds of entries in a variety of individual and group categories. The top finishers will now advance to the Long Island History Day finals at Hofstra next month.
Among the most hotly contested categories was historical websites. The individual and group website projects were exceedingly well done, making the job of judges nearly impossible. But several did stand out.
This year’s National History Day theme is “Rights and Responsibilities in History.” All projects in every category was required to incorporate this theme, including the group and individual websites.
State History Day will be held on April 27 at SUNY Oneonta. The national championships are set for the University of Maryland, College Park. The annual National History Day initiative draws participation from all 50 states as well as from students in Washington, DC, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and international schools in South Korea, South Asia and China.
The top website projects in Huntington UFSD included:
Junior Division Group Website
1. Nathan Hale: The Rights and Responsibilities of America’s First Spy
Alexander Markel & Kevin Meyer
2. Cuban Missile Crisis
Behan England & Brady Oliva
3. Women’s Suffrage Movement
Marco Garcia & Michael Spagnoletti
Senior Division Individual Website
1. The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Alison Hahn
2. The Dark History of Willowbrook: Exposing Failures in Care for the Disabled
Naomi Lyons
3. The Selective Service Cases: Does the Responsibility to Register for Military Service Violate Men’s Rights?
Jordana Boxer
Senior Division Group Website
1. The Stanford Prison Experiment: The Psychological Effects on Humanity
Valerie Alfaro & Mackenzie McKay
2. “A Crime Against Humanity:” The Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments
Jessica Bree, Emely Herrera Rivas, & Heileen Torres
3. Israel’s Rights and Germany’s Responsibilities: Leveraging Holocaust Reparations for Economic Stability and Justice
Jacob Boxer, Jeremiah Dasque-DeLeon & Nicolas Martinez
