State History Day Topical Prize Results University of Minnesota - Saturday May 2, 2015

Afro-American History Olivia Harris Wilma Rudolph: Running for more than Gold Schaeffer Academy Riaz Kelly “Hallelujah I’m Travelin’!” The Legacy of the Freedom Capitol Hill Magnet School Riders American Indian History Evie Samuelson His Red Nation: Little Crow and the US-Dakota War DeLaSalle High School Raistlin Adams, Sebastian Kromschroeder, Zachary Lincoln’s Leadership During the Hangings of 1862 Fisher Public School Helgeson History of Austria & East Central Europe Henry Jacobs The Complex Political Legacies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Friends School of Minnesota his Leadership in the Soviet Union Elaea Purmalietis The Baltic Legacy: Surviving Stalin’s Oppression Highland Park Senior High School Civil War History – Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Inc. Alexiis DeMorest, Logan Johnson The Missionary Ridge Hero Chatfield Public Schools Townes Nelson, Cyrus Nardhougen, Fatimzahra John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry South High School Ajaraa Civil War History – Twin Cities Civil War Round Table Ave Hansen, Lydia White The Dread Scott Case of 1847 Twin Cities German Immersion School Liberty Nichols, Elizabeth Koetz, Sophie Peterson The Life of Mary E. Walker South High School Tallmadge and Geo. H. Elwell Memorial Environmental History Prize Sophia Manolis Lois Gibbs: Leader of Love Canal Seward Montessouri School Emily Harris See America First: The Leadership and Legacy of Stephen Schaeffer Academy Mather Susie Elwell Kurtzman Educational History Prize Justine Martin Emma Willard: Pioneer in Women’s Education Holy Rosary School Abby Hopp Oren Gregg Chatfield Public Schools History of Europe Before 1914 Chloe LaFavor-Schmitt, Serena Olsen-Munoz, Maya Joan of Arc Twin Cities Academy Wosepka, Fran Zigmund Stephanie Krause Florence Nightengale South High School History of Exploration, 500 CE to 1825 CE Patrick Stonecipher Letters of a Spanish Leader: How Hernan Cortez Made a Buffalo Middle School Legacy and Conquered the New World Mateo Peralta, Bryan Arroyo Hernan Cortes: Legacy of Conquest Anwatin Middle School Global Studies Elaine Li Giving Vaccination a Shot: Edward Jenner, the Cowpox Chaska Middle School East Inoculation Ellie Puzak Margaret Thatcher: Leading Britain to Greatness Carondelet Catholic School Eli Sage-Martinson, Sam Dale-Gau, Bjorn Holm, Oscar Romero: Marytr for the people, the Archbishop’s Open World Learning Community Simon Dungan-Seaver Leadership and Legacy in the Salvadoran Church Emily Hanson National Geographic Bagley Jr./Sr. High School Holocaust History (1933-1949) Claire Creighton, Mara Caples Bertha Leverton; the 50th Kindertransport Reunion St. Francis of Assisi Summer Peoples Adolf Hitler: A Monster in History Zimmerman High School Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Humanitarian History Olivia Jahnke, Elle Kaiser The Anti-Land Mine Legacy, Through the Leadership of Buffalo Middle School Princess Diana Ingrid Engelhardt, Houadraa Lee, Amanda Hoffman Morel: Leadership in the Congo Reform Association Open World Learning Community History of Immigration Elyse Cooke, Adaire Criner Immigration, Assimilation, and the Inception of Social Olson Middle School Work: Jane Addams and the Hull House Emma Sosa Jacob Riis North Lakes Academy Gaohlee Yang Lau v. Nichols: Leading Educational Rights Washington Technology Magnet School Labor History Kaitlyn Maher Rosie the Riveter: Women in the Workforce Central Middle School Flannery Gilsczinski, Elle Christian, and John Kroska Legacy of Reform after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Duluth East High School Fire Leadership and Legacy in America Before the Revolutionary War Matthew Moorse Let Freedom Ring St. Mary’s School Bird Island Skye Hampton Deborah Sampson: America’s Mulan North Lakes Academy LGBTQ History Walker Embser-Herbert Coming Out, Speaking Out: Harvey Milk’s Inspiring Cyber Village Academy Legacy Grace Palmer, Frances Matejcek, Becky Norling- What Good are Gay Rights if We’re All Dead: The Impact South High School Ruggles of AIDS on the LGBT Equality Movement Minneapolis History Caleb Kroeze Charles Pillsbury: Revolutionizing the Milling Process Calvin Christian School – Blaine while Leading the Milling Industry Ryan Skow Charles Loring and Horace Cleveland South High School Minneapolis Labor History, The Jennifer Alcorn Prize Levi Roline Floyd B. Olson Chatfield Public Schools Zachary Anderson Woody Guthrie: Leading through Music, leaving a legacy South High School Minnesota History Paper Award Sarah Hirsch The Mayo Brothers: Operating on Ideals White Bear Lake High School - North Minnesota History Kathleen Grube, Emma Crosby, Megan Sumera Leading in Medical Education: The Legacy of the Mayo Keewaydin Community School Model Emily Nichols Soaring to Success: Innovations from the Mayo Clinic Mayo High School Aero Unit Minnesota Labor History Marina Ischida Crystal Lee Sutton – The Real Norma Rae Cretin- Derham Hall High School Julie Cordes, Kendra Nelson Francis Perkins: Paving the Way to Better Labor St. Francis of Assisi Minnesota’s Laws and Courts Carly St. Martin-Norburg Declaring War on the Tobacco Industry Capitol Hill Magnet Katie Meeker, Liz Hisey, Demery Little Wahl for Justice; Justice for All Chatfield Public Schools MNHS Collections Jack Zaic, Mitchell Zaic James J Hill: All Aboard! As the Empire Builder Opens the Calvin Christian School – Blaine Northwest! Patience Griswold, Gideon Griswold A Cure for Pity: Dr. Gillette and the Founding of the Creekside Christian Homeschool Gillette Children’s Hospital Quantitative History Alex Wagenfeld Great Stalin: The Leadership and Legacy of Joseph Stalin, Salk Middle School the Great Terror, and the Cult of Personality History of Rural America Theo Sage-Martinson The Leadership of Sigurd F. Olson Open World Learning Community Anna Vold The Smith-Lever Act: A Legacy of Extending Knowledge Minnewaska Area High School United States Business History, 1852-1930 Luke McGorry The Legacy of the Five-Dollar Day: Ford’s Leadership in Buffalo Middle School the Rise of the Middle Class Veronica Hayes Martha Harper: The Creation of the Franchise South High School University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Makayla Shepard The Leadership of Jacob Riis and the Legacy of How the North Lakes Academy Other Half Lives History of Women Sonia Carroll Ida B. Wells: The Voice of the Hanging Tree Lake Harriet Community School Molly Decore, Alex Zetah, Maeve Bartell Margaret Sanger South High School