2006 Tennessee History Day Winners

Congratulations to the 2006 Tennessee History Day winners!
All students that competed in this year's Tennessee History Day State Competition had previously won in their district-level History Day competitions. Entries placing first or second in the State Competition are eligible to compete in National History Day, at the University of Maryland in June. Registration is now open for the National History Day competition at their website: National History Day

Division Winners
  • Junior Paper
  • First Place "Taking a Stand for Children: Knoxville, Tennessee Orphanages in the Early Twentieth Century"
    Blair Brandt
    Teacher: Patricia Brake
    Episcopal School Of Knoxville
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    Second Place "Taking a Stand Against Sexual Harassment: Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co"
    Hannah Cunningham
    Teacher: Liz Shugart
    Greenway School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "John Walsh: Still Standing"
    Chelsea Gunn
    Teacher: Beth Liberti
    Fred J Page Middle School
    Franklin, Tennessee

  • Senior Paper
  • 1st Place
    "Taking a Stand With Life on Wheels: The Female Cycling Revolution in Late Nineteenth Century America"
    Emily Strupp
    Teacher: Patricia Miletich
    University School of Nashville
    Nashville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "The Last Stand of the Botswana Bushman"
    Ryan Elliott
    Teacher: Emily Philpott
    St. Georges High School
    Germantown, TN

    3rd Place
    "Silent Spring: The Book that Began the Revolution"
    Cait McHugh
    Teacher: Patricia Miletich
    University School of Nashville
    Nashville, TN

  • Junior Individual Performance
  • 1st Place
    "Harriet Jacobs:Standing Against Slavery By Revealing Unspeakable Truths"
    Caroline Holland
    Teacher: Judy Buscetta
    St John Neumann School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Rosa Parks: Taking A Stand by Keeping Her Seat"
    Brianna Kirby
    Teacher: Liz Shugart
    Greenway School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "A Dancing Stand!"
    Allyson Lynch
    Teacher: Joan Wilkes
    Fred J Page Middle School
    Franklin, Tennessee

  • Junior Group Performance
  • 1st Place
    "Lawrence of Arabia: Taking a stand for the Arab cause"
    Forrest Wentzel, Lili Sarayrah
    Teacher: Liz Shugart
    Greenway School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "A Thousand Deaths"
    Genna Knab, Hayley Fisher, Katharine Davies, Maggie Knab
    Teacher: Robert Gibson
    Brentwood Middle School
    Brentwood, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Coal Mining Wars"
    Adam Shepherd, Amber Anderson, Chelsey Carter, Isaac Myers, Katlyn Wilkerson
    Teacher: Doug LaFollette
    Mosheim Elementary
    Mosheim, Tennessee

  • Senior Individual Performance
  • 1st Place
    "Momentum of Fear - Who Took a Stand? Physics, War, Men and the Gadget"
    Daniel Nickels
    Teacher: Judy Buscetta
    Knoxville Catholic High School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Tent Cities"
    Coretta King
    Teacher: Scott Moore
    White Station High School
    Memphis, Tennessee

  • Senior Group Performance
  • 1st Place
    "May 4, 1970: Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming, Four Dead in Ohio"
    Caitlin Ann Mazzarino, Caroline Teresa Mitchell, Catherine Teresa Montesi, Lindsay Maureen Hanlen, Rachel Ann D'Addabbo
    Teacher: Bill Cate
    St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School
    Memphis, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Taking The Stand: Stalin's Dream"
    Avram Ramage, Isaac Safdie-Miller
    Teacher: Fred Artibee
    Martin Luther King Jr Magnet- Pearl High School
    Nashville, Tennessee

  • Junior Individual Documentary
  • 1st Place
    "Guy and Candie Carawan: Taking a Stand through Music"
    Mary Biggs
    Teacher: Liz Shugart
    Greenway School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Radioactive Rumble on the River"
    Andrew McBride
    Teacher: Desiree' Allen
    St. George's Middle School
    Collierville, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Struggle for Freedom: A Legacy of Hope - Martin Luther King, Jr."
    Jordan Dunn
    Teacher: Bess Henry
    Mt. Juliet Middle School
    Mt. Juliet, Tennessee

  • Junior Group Documentary
  • 1st Place
    "Alvin C York: An All American Hero"
    Hannah Armendarez, Shannon Gleason
    Teacher: Judy Buscetta
    St John Neumann School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "I Paid My Fare; I Don't Have To Get Up"
    Amber Bryant, Erika Braden, Marshella Taylor
    Teacher: April Inman
    Snowden School
    Memphis, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Victory Without Violence"
    Kristen Dominguez, Sarah Weinstein
    Teacher: Suzi Constantine
    Fred J Page Middle School
    Franklin, Tennessee

  • Senior Individual Documentary
  • 1st Place
    "WASP: Standing for Women Aviator Rights"
    Erin Campbell
    Teacher: Dewey Esquinance
    Polk County High School
    Benton, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Taking Their Stand: The Choctaw Indian Code Talkers of World War II"
    Sarah Alyse Sheehan
    Teacher: Bill Cate
    St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School
    Memphis, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Estes Kefauver & The Southern Manifesto: Taking a Stand Against Racial Inequality in the South"
    Daniel Jordan
    Teacher: Judy Buscetta
    Knoxville Catholic High School
    Knoxville, Tennessee

  • Senior Group Documentary
  • 1st Place
    "Standing Against Political Corruption: GGL"
    Marshall Stinnett, William Joshua Rose
    Teacher: Barry Jenkins
    Polk County High School
    Benton, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "The Eastern Band Stand to Save Their Land"
    Amanda Fugate, Terry Baxter
    Teacher: Dewey Esquinance
    Polk County High School
    Benton, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Taking A Stand Against Segregation In American Baseball"
    Joshua Bloomer, Nathan Cates
    Teacher: Barry Jenkins
    Polk County High School
    Benton, Tennessee


  • Junior Individual Exhibit
  • 1st Place
    "An Unpopular Stand: The Treatment of WWII POWs in America"
    Michael Reed
    Teacher: Janetta Reed
    Home School
    Cleveland, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Oskar Schindler: A Legacy of Life"
    Allison Roberts
    Teacher: Marva Nettles
    Fred J Page Middle School
    Franklin, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Taking a Stand without Raising a Fist: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee"
    Anjali Balakrishna
    Teacher: Becky Hobson
    Lausanne Collegiate School
    Memphis, Tennessee

  • Junior Group Exhibit
  • 1stPlace
    "Jacqueline Cochran: Making a Difference"
    Leandra Ruble, Mary Ann Murphy, Summer Robinson
    Teacher: Amanda Waits
    Glenwood Elementary
    Greeneville, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Lizzie Crozier French: Taking a Stand for Women's Suffrage in East Tennessee"
    Dorian Ewing, Katie Simpson
    Teacher: Patricia Brake
    Episcopal School Of Knoxville
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "The Alamo - Few Standing Against Many"
    Jake Elder, Will Scott
    Teacher: Joy McManis
    St. Agnes Academy-St Dominic School
    Memphis, Tennessee

  • Senior Individual Exhibit
  • 1st Place
    "Tommie Smith & John Carlos: Taking a Stand at the 1968 Olympics"
    John French
    Teacher: Pamela French
    Family Christian Academy
    Madison , Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "The Firing of MacArthur: Truman takes a Stand"
    Andrew Dawson
    Teacher: Sheila Jacobson
    Lausanne Collegiate School
    Memphis, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt"
    Sara Greenberg
    Teacher: Alan Whitehead
    White Station High School
    Memphis, Tennessee

  • Senior Group Exhibit
  • 1st Place
    "Solidarity"
    Courtney Van Stolk, Heather Van Stolk
    Teacher: Lucie Calvin
    St. Georges High School
    Germantown, Tennessee

    2nd Place
    "Standing up to Evil: Operation Valkyrie"
    Elizabeth Johnson, Sara Samples
    Teacher: Clay Blazer
    Cocke Co High School
    Newport, Tennessee

    3rd Place
    "Fight the Power"
    Devin Hunt
    Teacher: Nancy Schwartz
    Martin Luther King Jr Magnet- Pearl High School
    Nashville, Tennessee

    Special Award Winners
    • The 1st Place winners from each division received a monetary award donated by Lausanne Collegiate School .
    • Drew Phillips Women's History Award
    • Junior
      McKenzie Gill "U.S. Women's First Petition Movement: A Stand Against Indian Removal"
      Senior
      Jonalynn Cullen "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League"

    • Drew Phillips Technology Award
    • Junior
      Morgon Thomas, Kaitlin Seaton, Nadareh Naseri "Edward Huffaker - Taking a Stand in Aviation History"
      Senior
      Sarah Carl "American Physicists and the Debate over the Hydrogen Bomb"

    • University of Memphis African and African-American Studies
    • Junior
      Anjali Balakrishna "Taking a Stand Without Raising a Fist: SNCC"
      Senior
      Joshua Bloomer, Nathan Cates "Taking Against Segregation in American Baseball"

    • Stephen Harris Award
    • Junior
      Michael Reed "An Unpopular Stand: The Treatment of WWII POWs in America"
      Senior
      John French "Tommie Smith & John Carlos: Taking a Stand at the 1968 Olympics"

    • Fred Phillips Tennessee History Day Awards
    • Junior
      Hannah Armendarez, Shannon Gleason "Alvin C. York: An All American Hero"
      Senior
      Danie Jordan "Estes Kefauver & The Southern Manifesto: Taking a Stand Against Racial Inequality in the South"
    National History Day