Every year Messiah College hosts one of the regional rounds in the National History Day competition. As I note in this post and in the Virtual Office Hours episode embedded below, it is always an exciting time for the students...
History Day
History Day Recap
On Saturday, the Messiah College History Department hosted one of the regional rounds in the National History Day competition. Hundreds of Pennsylvania high school and middle school students gathered on our campus to compete for coveted spots in the state...
Do You Want to Serve as a History Day Judge?
This post is for my friends and fellow historians in the South-Central Pennsylvania region. Every year, the Messiah College History Department hosts one of the regional rounds of the National History Day competition. Students from neighboring counties converge on campus […]
Let’s Go Ralph DePalma!
I just got off the phone with Ralph DePalma, a 6th grader from Manalpan, New Jersey who has advanced to the state finals for the National History Day competition with an exhibit on the Greenwich Tea Burning. Ralph is a […]
How Participation in National History Day Makes Better Students
Every March hundreds of high school and middle school students come to the campus of Messiah College for the southeast Pennsylvania regional round of the National History Day. From the perspective of the Messiah History Department, the day provides a...