This Year's Theme

Junior Qualifiers: National History Day Philadelphia 2021

Junior Papers:

  • 1st Place: “Power and Communication: Elites, Harvard, and the Influence of Academia in the Eugenics Movement” (by Eleni Murphy)
  • 2nd Place: “Hidden Histories in Children's Literature: How Nursery Rhymes Preserve the Voice of Common People” (by Evan Cohen)
  • 3rd Place: “The Crisis: Communication as Representation in the African-American Community” (by Alexandria Stephens)

Junior Websites:

  • **Honorable Mention:“Closing the Distance: The Invention of Morse Code”
    (by Gavin Ewing)

Junior Group Documentaries:

  • 1st Place: The Sting of the Wasp: Communication Through Political Cartoons During the Chinese Exclusion Era (by Jiaray Shi and Emma Giordano)
  • **Honorable mention: Miscommunication of Black History Month (by Oumar Mangara, Elisha Julmice, Jaiseem Moody, and Autum Tyler)

Junior Individual Documentaries

  • 1st Place: Psychedelia: The Visual Language of the Psychedelic '60s (by Sophia Le)
  • 2nd Place: Communication Through the ARPANET: The Key to Email (by William Kessler)

NHD Philly would like to recognize all the schools and teachers whose students participated in the competition:

  • General Louis Wagner Middle School - teacher, Hayden O'Rourke
  • Constitution High School - teacher, Jennifer Luneau
  • Penn Treaty School - teacher, Salvatore Garcia
  • Philadelphia Military Academy - teacher, Rose Bruce
  • Masterman School - teacher, Elizabeth Taylor
  • Springside/Chestnut Hill Academy - teacher, Jamie Panone
  • St. Joseph's Preparatory School - teacher, Leo Vaccaro
  • St. Peter's School - teacher, Marian Cronin-Connolly