What History Means To Me

2003 Honorable Mentions

Middle School

E. Barry
Sponsoring Teacher: L. Sikorski
Illinois
"Our history is like a road. It winds, twists, and turns, hiding the future from us, making us guess at what lies ahead."

B. Conlin
Sponsoring Teacher: Ms. Needle
Connecticut
"I see history as a deep, pitch-black cave.... As my knowledge of history grows, light spreads brighter and brighter in the dark cave."

A. Hsiang-En Liu
Sponsoring Teacher: J. Pester
California
"History is a trace of achievements that have changed our whole environment... imagination, creativity, and mistakes have distinguished the record of human activities."

L. Li
Sponsoring Teacher: C. Huneycutt
Arkansas
"History can not be held in cupped hands or even the hands of the world.... I have learned that history can take any form."

K. Stephens
Sponsoring Teacher: C. Rexer
Michigan
"To me, history is anything in the past, the famous, and the unknown."

A. Thornton
Sponsoring Teacher: Mrs. Ponder
Georgia
"History is the past which is the basic building block of today and the future."

High School

C. Chen
Sponsoring Teacher: M. Martin
California
"History reflects humanities' evolution, offering explanations of modern existence in a society that's been aided by perennial study of mankind's regression and progression."

M. Helder
Sponsoring Teacher: Ms. Osterman
California
"History is what makes today's world what it is, and what it will be tomorrow. It is the past events that enable my family and me to be here today."

R. Kessler
Sponsoring Teacher: E. Petersen
New York
"...our ancestors were faced with a series of choices. It was the choices they made, not the invisible hand of fate, that wrote the chapters of our human story."

K. Reinhart
Sponsoring Teacher: J. Gernacy
Michigan
"History sometimes leaves pieces of itself behind.... for mirrored in every artifact is a piece of history, a small fraction of a greater story that, otherwise, may be forgotten."

P. Sen
Sponsoring Teacher: P. Rosas
Texas
"History is a guiding light that will illuminate the mysterious halls of the future, and keep politicians and civilians alike on the path of success."

R. Wall
Sponsoring Teacher: J. Scanlon
New Jersey
"The study of history is the search for the people, the lives underneath the layers of fact, the details that transform science into art."