Bronxville High School Students Advance to Regional National History Day Competition

Bronxville High School freshmen and sophomores earned top honors across multiple categories at the Bronxville History Day Competition. Students conducted extensive historical research on topics of their choice, all aligned with this year’s National History Day theme, “Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History.” 

“I am so proud of all of our ninth and tenth grade students,” said Social Studies teacher Dana Landesman, who oversees the program alongside Chris Doyle, Eva Gambino, Patrick Henderson, and Martin Patmos. “I would like to thank the K-12 teachers and our administration for participating in our Bronxville History Day and providing students with feedback on their projects. I would also like to thank the Bronxville School Foundation for all their support of the National History Day program.” 

The following students will represent Bronxville at the Regional National History Day Competition on March 7 at Saint Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, New York. 

Research Papers:  

Simona Danzer - Romanticism: A Reaction to the Rise of Rationality and the Industrial Revolution  

Nathalie Steg - The Benelux Blueprint: A Small Union's Revolutionary Reaction to War 

Athina Lekovic - Queer Rebellion, Cultural Revolution, and the AIDS Crisis in late 1900s Britain 

 

Performances: Martin Patmos 

Individual:  

1st Place-Henry Gerding-Tom Petty: The Fight Against Corporate Greed in the Music Industry 

 

Group:  

2nd Place-Annie Jaquette, Kate Devereux, Helena N. Leite, Zara Seamark, Dahlen Peters -Wurzburg Witch Trials 

1st Place- Jesse O'Gorman, Emily Busker, Corinne Augustyn - Behind The Curtain: The 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention & The Womans Suffragist Movement 

 

Documentaries:  

Individual:  

3rd Place- Memsey McCarthy-The Iconoclastic Fury and the Dutch Revolt 

2nd Place- James Newell-Ruling Without A Crown: Oliver Cromwell 

1st Place-Benjo Gleason -Siege of Sarajevo  

 

Group:  

3rd Place-Claire O'Mara and Merritt Abrahamson - Architect of the Western Mind: Plato's Philosophical Revolution in Thinking 

2nd Place- Hudson Lau and Ryan Curran- The Hundred Flowers: A Trap Or a Truth? 

1st Place- Teddy White and Christian White-Hellenic Heroism: Louis Tikas’ Union Leadership in the Immigrant Revolt Against the Rockefeller Coal Mining Empire  

 

Exhibits: 

Individual:  

3rd Place-Cullen Krause-The Kindertransport: Reform to freedom 

2nd Place - Madeleine Borducci-Self Portrait of a Survivor - Seeing Artemisia in Judith 

1st Place- Cathy Kuang- Julius Caesar—The Life and Death of a Revolutionary 

 

Group:  

3rd Place - Carter Blumenreich, Augusto Gallipoli, Jack O'Gorman, William Busker - The Government of Revolutionaries: How the Paris Commune's Radical Revolution Triggered A Global Reaction 

2nd Place - Maxine Lovett, Kylie Lo, Annabel Frigon, Audrey Lovett - Power of the Powerless: The Velvet Revolution 

1st Place - Caitlin Paisley, Lucia Meyercord, Willa Halley - The French Republican Calendar 

 

Websites:  

Individual:  

3rd Place - Anabelle Whipple - Orchestrated Unity: Control, Fear, and the Legacy of Franco’s Spain 

2nd Place - Teodor Mihov - The Data Revolution in Football 

1st Place - Agnes Olwell - The yellow fever and its role in the defeat of Napoleon's army in Saint Domingue 

 

Group:  

3rd Place - Leo C, Wilhelm K, Gabe H - Life Behind the Berlin Wall 

2nd Place - Charlotte Gonda, Eliza Rabun - The 1956 Hungarian Revolution  

1st Place - Lluc Farre-Brennan, Alexander Cebenoyan, Daniel Farber, Matthew Jensen - Germ Theory: A Revolution in Safety and Public Health