Masterman's NHD Team Competes at NHD Philly

Congratulations to Masterman’s 2026 National History Day team! All of our students brought well researched and thoughtful projects. The following students won awards:

Individual Performance:

• 1st Place: Halimah Fasasi: “All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave”: How the Combahee River Collective Revolutionized Black Feminism

Group Performance:

• 1st Place: Leila Golzari-Hunt, N’Yahme Joslyn, Olivia Kang, Eliana Kelberg-Gross, Sophia Plastaras: One Voice, One America: How Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial Performance Set a Precedent for Reform
• 2nd Place: Jessica Jesteen, Amaliya Kozlova, Taylor Samara-Reuter: From Madness to Moral Treatment: How the Founding of the Friends Hospital Reformed Psychiatric Care

Group Documentary:

• 3rd Place: Eoin Daly, Owen Kuster, Corinne Xu: From “Miniature Adults” to Pediatric Patients: How the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Revolutionized and Reformed American Pediatric Healthcare

Individual Website:

• 2nd Place: Agatha Topa: The Kindertransport: How Kristallnacht Inspired Britain’s Immigration Policies

Group Website:

• 1st Place: Clarity Kapur and Jana Liu: Dawn of the Iron Age: How the USS Monitor Revolutionized Naval Warfare at the Battle of Hampton Roads
• 2nd Place: Haley Lau and Tania Wasim: Virginia Alexander: American Pioneer of Racial Justice and Public Health

Historical Paper:

• 3rd Place: Harry Renfro: A “Generation on Trial”: The Chicago Seven and the Student Activism Revolution

Individual Exhibit:

• 1st Place: Grace O’Connell: “My Life Started There”: The Revolutionary Development of the Civilian Conservation Corps
• 2nd Place: Mason Seder: “We Didn’t Have Nothing to Lose”: How the Sonderkommando Revolt Defined Resistance in Reaction to the Atrocities of the Holocaust
• Honorable Mention: Charlotte O’Connell: Contradictory by Design: Robert Venturi and the Dawn of Post-Modern Architecture

Group Exhibit:

• 2nd Place: Yuhan Wang and Sophia Zheng: The Wright Way to Fly: How the Wright Brothers Revolutionized Military Aviation

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Women’s History Prize:
This prize was for only one project in the high school division. The winner of this monetary award was Halimah Fasasi for her individual performance on the Combahee River Collective.

Special thank you to Ms. Kearney for tireless help with research and Ms. Waber for invaluable assistance with the performances.

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