National History Day Winners and Honorees

Each year Maryland students advance to the National History Day® competition in College Park, MD.

2026 National History Day Winners and Honorees

• 2nd Place, Senior Group Documentary
  • Students: Aria Fulton, Evelyn Rubens and Lena Yumoto
    Title: Sunlight and Dynamite: The Secrets of the Stasi Files
    School: River Hill High School
    Teacher: Callie Casper
    County: Howard

• 3rd Place, Junior Individual Website
  • Student: Bernadette Cate
    Title: The Free Speech Movement: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform at UC Berkeley
    School: Homeschool
    Teacher: Leandra Cate
    County: Baltimore

• 3rd Place, Senior Group Website
  • Students: Hanna Ariannejad, Kayla McCloskey, and Natalie Martin
    Title: Silent Spring: DDT, Dissent, and the Dawn of a New Era
    School: Poolesville High School
    Teacher: Stephanie Gomer
    County: Montgomery

• Finalist and Junior Outstanding Entry
  • Students: Reagan Smith and Serena Lee
    Title: Sanjayeo Ddareura – “Those Who Are Alive, Follow Us”: How the Korean People’s Courage Denied an Authoritarian Dictatorship
    Category: Junior Group Website
    School: Westland Middle School
    Teacher: Luke Maclay
    County: Montgomery

• Finalist and Senior Outstanding Entry
  • Student: Maizy Burkom
    Title: Behind Closed Doors: How the Willowbrook State School Scandal Revolutionized Institutional Care
    Category: Senior Individual Performance
    School: Howard High School
    Teacher: Leah Foran
    County: Howard

• Finalist
  • Student: Marguerite Mauldin
    Title: “Divine Liberty”: Women and the Revolutionary French Divorce Reform of 1792
    Category: Senior Paper
    School: Montgomery Blair High School
    Teacher: Marc Grossman
    County: Montgomery

• Finalist and Selected for Exhibit Showcase at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  • Students: Alexander Dacanay and James Woo
    Title: The Oyster Wars of the Chesapeake Bay
    Category: Senior Group Exhibit
    School: Poolesville High School
    Teacher: Stephanie Gomer
    County: Montgomery

• Selected for Documentary Showcase at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Students: Eve Samuel and Leonie Brown
    Title: The Greensboro Four: A Story of Courage and Change
    Category: Junior Group Documentary
    School: Wilde Lake Middle School
    Teacher: Joanna Tanner
    County: Howard
    
  • Student: McLuhan Conway
    Title: A Debt Unpaid – The Story of America’s Black Wall Street
    Category: Senior Individual Documentary
    School: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
    Teacher: James Baker
    County: Baltimore City

• Finalist, NHD Teacher of the Year
  • Teacher: Amie Dryer
    School: The Calverton School
    County: Calvert

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