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Greetings from the State Coordinator
Greetings!
Happy autumn! As the weather starts to cool, thing are starting to really cook with History Day. We hope you've had some time to review and think about this year's annual theme, Innovation in History: Impact and Change, and to start developing those topic ideas.
In the meantime, I want to remind you that we still have funding available for our Teaching with Primary Sources Mini Grants. The application deadline is October 31, so send in your application today:
Also, this week is the New York State Historical Association's annual October Conference for Teachers. It isn't too late to register, so visit our website,
As always, please contact me with any questions you have about History Day. I am eager to help!
Best wishes,
Tobi Voigt |
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NHD Web Site Category Online Chat
National History Day announces an online chat for questions regarding the changes to the Web Site Category.
When: Tuesday, November 10 - 3:00 - 5:00 pm EST
Where: Log on to the NHD website, www.nhd.org. The exact location and instructions will be announced soon.
How: Email your web site category questions to info@nhd.org starting on Friday, November 6 with "online discussion question" in the subject line.
NHD will post answers to these on Tuesday at the start of the online discussion. From 3 - 5, you can participate in a live online discussion by sending questions to the same email, info@nhd.org, and watch the answers post on the web site.
Remember - this online discussion is all about the web site category and the new changes for this year. | |
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NYSHD Exhibit Boards Now Available
 New York State History Day is pleased to provide schools, teachers, and students the opportunity to purchase high-quality exhibit boards for a low cost.
Created by a cardboard box manufacturer in Minnesota, the boards meet National History Day size requirements and are made out of durable corrugated cardboard.
White exhibit boards sell in packs for ten for $8.00 each. An optional title board can be purchased in packs of ten for $2.00 each.
NEW for 2009-2010: We are now offering black exhibit boards, which are sold in packs of ten for $9.00 each. An optional black title board can be purchased for $3.00 each.
Unlike the typical science fair boards that can be purchased at office supply stores, these exhibit boards have proportional panels and more height. This creates a more balanced display of images, sources and text.
The double-thick, corrugated boards are 48 inches tall and 72 inches wide (when laid flat), and folded so that there are 23.5 inch wide side panels and a 25 inch wide center panel. Optional title panels extend to the maximum 40 inch width allowed by History Day rules and are 10 inches tall.
These boards are shipped to you directly from the manufacturer in Minnesota. In order to bring them to you at such a low cost, boards and title panels must be ordered in packs of 10.
The good news is the price for the 10 packs of boards and/or title panels includes all shipping and handling fees.
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NY History Review Press Announces "Learning from History" Series
 New York History Review Press announces a new series of printed primary source materials, which is ideal for students in New York State Social Studies classes:
"Step back in time and let our first person narratives give you an accurate view of rural Upstate New York teenage life in the 1860s through the 1890s. Our accounts of young peoples' lives on the farm, or in the home, help us to understand their thoughts and experiences. Each narrative offers a unique perspective and serves as an important primary resource in the study of American history.
"Our first publication is A Darned Good Time by 13-year old Lucy Potter of Taylor, New York (in Cortland County) in 1868. She writes of classes, teachers, friends, boys, a new stepmother, an invalid aunt, and complains about upstate New York weather.
"Second in the series is My Centennial Diary - A Year in the Life of a Country Boy by 18-year old Earll Gurnee of Sennett, New York (near Skaneateles) in 1876. He writes of school, family life, social life, farm life, girlfriends, and hard work. His teacher gets arrested for being too brutal to children, he juggles two girlfriends, he plows, cuts hay, cleans out the horse barn....then wonders why his back hurts!
"Third will be My Story - A Year in the Life of a Country Girl by 15-year old Ida Burnett of Logan, New York (in Schuyler County) in 1880. Ida churned butter, milked cows, sewed her own underwear, canned fruit, but also had time for boys and parties. She lived in the country in Upstate New York and in the whole year did not venture any farther than twenty miles from home. Not yet released - November 2009.
"Fourth will be Home in the Hills by 24-year old Viola Coolbaugh of Altay, New York (in Schuyler County) in 1891. Not yet released - early 2010.
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Free Women's History Resource Guide
DePaul University undergraduates,as part of their work in a course on local and community history, have developed a free History Day Resource Guide that is now available for download from the Frances Willard Memorial Archives in Evanston, IL: http://www.franceswillardhouse.org/HistoryDay
Students interested in 19th Century Social Reform, Women's History, Suffrage, or Temperance would all find something of use in the Guide. It features materials found only in the Frances Willard Library and Memorial Archives, and it provides readers with an assortment of primary source materials on the life of Frances Willard, her involvement within the local community, and the evolution of women's roles within the context of a changing America in the late nineteenth century.
Through this "virtual" archive, students can engage in independent exploration, and form their own interpretation of Willard and the issues she championed. The Guide itself is 99 pages, but is divided into 5 separate sections, each of which can be downloaded as a separate pdf document. | |
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