Sample History Day Projects

Exhibits
Stacey Olson, from Sonoma County, placed first at the 2015 NHD contest with her Senior Individual Exhibit:
Daved E. Pesonen: The Battle for Bodega Head
Process Paper and Annotated Bibliography
Celeste Goodwin, from Los Angeles County, placed second at the 2015 NHDcontest with her Senior Individual Exhibit:
There It Is – Take It: William Mulholland Deals Water to Los Angeles
Process Paper and Annotated Bibliography
Julienne Sauer, from Contra Costa County, placed first at the 2013 NHD contest with her Junior Individual Exhibit:
What a Book Can Do: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Launches the Environmental Movement
Process Paper and Annotated Bibliography
Documentaries
Michelle Kroll and Frances Kroll, from Orange County, placed first at the 2015 NHD contest with their Junior Group Documentary:
Henry Ford: Driving America into the Future
Process Paper and Annotated Bibliography
Rachel Priebe, from Riverside County, placed first at the 2015 NHD contest with her Junior Indivdual Documentary:
“Kill the Indian, and Save the Man”: A Turn for the Better or Worse?
Historical Papers
Jessica Stump, from Kern County, placed third at the 2015 National History Day contest with her Junior Historical Paper:
William Wilberforce and His Legacy of Freedom
Stacey Olson, from Sonoma County, placed second at the 2012 National History Day contest with her Junior Historical Paper:
Performances
Michela Rodriguez, Jasmine Anklesaria, Sabrina Devereaux, and Gwendolyn Gardiner placed first at the 2012 National History Day contest with their Senior Group Performance:
Podcast
Ben Borchers, James Hutzler, and Quincy Miller placed first at the 2022 National History Day California contest with their Senior Group Podcast:
DeepWater Horizon: Debating the Inconvenience of the Nation's Big Oil Offshore Drilling Diplomacy
Websites
Grace McDonald and Hannah McKenzie, from Place County, placed first at the 2015 NHD contest with their Junior Group Website:
Jacqueline Cochran: Flying Towards the Future
Isaac Gray, Daniel Leibowitz, Ben Sachrison, and M. Connor Smith, from San Diego County, placed fourth at the 2015 NHD contest with their Senior Group Website:
A Unique Position: Reagan, Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
Anoushka Bose, from San Diego County, placed fifth at the 2011 NHD Contest with her Junior Individual Website: