Students Make History

Victory-Blackwell


Image by Daniel Solis
J.R. Blackwell, famous photographer and accomplished duelist, puts forth some new doctrines for this fine, ancient tradition:
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"I went to a party this weekend and challenged six people to a duel. I am a sagefighting dueling whirlwind. It combines my talent for reading faces with my talent for not falling down. I can’t wait to challenge other sagefighters to honorable duels to the fun. That’s right, you read that right – DUELS TO THE FUN – THIS DOESN’T END UNTIL YOU HAVE FUN!"
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We agreed "Fight to the Fun" is a great tagline. So, everyone going to PAX or Dragon*Con this weekend, start a SageFight Melee or Duel with your friends. (Be safe.) Inevitably, it’ll draw a crowd of spectators.

Post your pics and videos! I’ll make a graphic like these for you, too.

» J.R. Blackwell’s Livejournal
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College Park, MD (PRWEB) June 6, 2006

National History Day (NHD) a nonprofit education organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of history in schools will host its national contest June 11-15 at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Through NHD, students develop critical thinking and research skills by creating exhibits, performances, documentaries and papers they enter in competitions at the district, state and national levels. Each year the students focus their projects around an annual theme. This year, 40,000 teachers have encouraged over half a million students nationwide to investigate NHD projects on the theme “Taking a Stand: People, Ideas, Events.”

National History Day can be a life-changing experience for students who meet their heroes from the past, heroes who inspire students to be exceptional citizens, NHD Executive Director, Cathy Gorn said.

NHD student projects have literally made history. Students Mona Ghadiri, Callie McCune and Agnes Mazur from Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., created an NHD documentary on Mississippi civil rights activist Clyde Kennard.

The students used their NHD research to advocate for clearing the arrest record of Clyde Kennard, who was imprisoned after repeatedly trying to enroll in all-white University of Southern Mississippi in the 1950s. In May, a judge posthumously exonerated Kennard, who died of cancer in 1963.

He was declared innocent in the same Hattiesburg courtroom where he was convicted in 1960 and sentenced to 7 years’ hard labor for stealing $ 25 worth of chicken feed, a charge disproved this year when the lone witness against him recanted. The students research and advocacy efforts helped to bring to light this wrongful conviction and change history.

Other recent NHD projects that made history include: