At National History Day, Students Get Competitive About the Past
The tune was the familiar One Direction hit. But the lyrics, sung by a woman onstage strumming an acoustic guitar, were different.
'Learning about history, is worth your while,' she sang. 'And National History Day teaches it with style. History's going strong, history's holding on, thanks to N.H.D.'
Word kids have the National Spelling Bee. Aspiring Steve Jobses and Marie Curies have math and science Olympiads. And then there's National History Day, which every year brings together some 3,000 students to compete for medals and generally celebrate the nerdy, exciting — and these days, controversial — practice of studying and talking about the past.
The five-day event, which ended on Thursday, blended footnotes with sometimes intense theater-kid energy. For many, it was a chance to meet people from across the country and around the world, and let their enthusiasms run wild.
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