Imagine

Warren, Robert James.
National History Day: Promoting the Study of History in the Schools
Imagine - Volume 4, Number 2, November/December 1996, pp. 4-4

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth

ImaGiNe. . .Opportunities and Resources for Academically Talented Youth November/December 1996 Spotlight On “Hey Jackie, Can You Take It?” During the 1996 National History Day competition, Horace Mann Middle School students from Denver, Colorado, recall Jackie Robinson’s entry into major league baseball. Mark Your Calendar 2 Why Study History? A Future Historian Makes the Case 3 National History Day 4 Potsherds and Emeralds: Portrait of a Young Archaeologist 6 From Jawbones to Genomes: The History of a Science 8 Pondering the Legacy of Watergate 10 Museum Internships 11 The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 12 Planning Ahead for College: Calendar 14 Going for the Gold in the Science Olympiads 15 Coach’s Corner and Mathematical Problem Solving 16 Exploring Career Options: Computer Software Research & Design 17 Fascinating Classics: Kim 20 Students Review Duke University 22 Creative Minds Imagine 24 I n kaleidoscopic richness, the past is always with us. History’s narratives span the past, while forging connections with the present and even the future. As Robert Warren writes in an account of his National History Day project, “History is by no means a dead subject. Its lessons inform us and, more importantly, teach us who we are and what we can be.” Who we are and what we can be … this theme runs through our diverse array of articles on investigating history and archaeology: A graduate student describes her search for vestiges of ancient cultures at an...