#National History Day

[tobbogan-13]

I made it to the national level of NHD (happened in mid june) and I'm just now looking at our evaluations

they did not like us 💀

[connieaaa]

I found out last week while judging Washington State Finals for National History Day, okay? Okay.

“Belka” and “Strelka”, Soviet space dogs after landing. USSR, 1960. [1800x1295] Check this blog!

[aerii-qroixii]

listen, if my bibliography isnt 50 pages long, then I am unworthy of love, I only have, like, 10 months until state, so if i don't DOMINATE, then im going to be so sad. There was a kid at nationals with a 52 page bibliography, I now need to beat him

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

October 29th is National Cat Day! Keeping up with highlighting some of the absurd, odd, and strange cuts from our print shop exhibit this month, Howard letterpress printed an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) made about 125-130 years ago from the Lewis Winter Collection.

Like this item printed, there are other cuts made by Lewis Winter in the collection that depict animals doing out of the ordinary activities. In this case, it’s a cat riding a bicycle. This was printed with blue rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.

[historyhermann]

This was written in May 2019 and shares my thoughts on judging for the National History Day competition. It was the last contest I did in-person, with 2021 and 2022 done virtually, and only this year has it gone back to being in-person.

[usnatarchives]

Veterans Day originally began as Armistice Day, which celebrated the end of World War I. After World War II, the day was expanded “Veterans Day” to honor all veterans, not just the service members who died during the First World War.

At the National Archives, we are proud to serve veterans through our work at the National Personnel Records Center. Veterans who need their service records for benefits can find help here.

Families of veterans who have died may also ask for copies of service records for family history, military burial, and medal replacement.

Image: Disabled veteran, ca. 1943, ARC 195917, FDR Library

[cookiewishesyou]

On this October 29, 2024, Cookie wishes you a triumphant National Cat Day! Long live Cookie.

[amnhnyc]

It’s National Dog Day, so say “hello” to the dingo (Canis familiaris dingo)! This good boy can be found throughout Australia and parts of Southeast Asia. In Australia, the dingo has adapted to various environments, from mountainous areas to deserts to tropical forests. It hunts opportunistically, in groups when taking on larger targets, like kangaroos, or alone for smaller prey like rabbits. Rather than barking, it communicates through wolf-like howls.

Photo: chris_barnesoz, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[forsapphics]

Boarding School Friends (1837)

Unknown French student

[lionofchaeronea]

Winter Evening, Quebec, Maurice Cullen, ca. 1905

[dontforgetukraine]

The history of the Ukrainian flag.

Source: visuals_ua

[tobbogan-13]

I'm in DC rn

I feel so patriotic

🔫🦅🏈🇺🇸

'MERICA

[queerasfact]

(Pauli Murray's dog name and list of achievements are too long for a poll option, but he was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, priest, and author)

You can learn more about these queer historical figures (and their dogs) on our queer history podcast, Queer as Fact!

[aerii-qroixii]

ok, so, they announced next years NHD theme lol, its rights and responsibilities in history, which is lowkey boring im ngl, but I found a way to make it great. I have spent the last couple days since i got back from nationals absolutely obbsessing over what my topic is gonna be next year, and I've found it, its gonna be about Aethelflaed, lady of the Mercians from 911-918, she was so badass and was the only recorded anglo saxon queen to rule in her own right after the passing of her husband aethelred, lord of the mercians. I'm gonna do an individual performance again because its for the lolz and its what im good at, so this is gonna be my word vomit into the void process, day 1 of the next year begins!

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

September 29th is National Coffee Day! While one might think we would have a cut of a coffee company or a woodcut of a cup of coffee, we are actually at a loss! Nevertheless, Howard turned to setting some type to share his sentiment instead.

For today, Howard letterpress printed “I ❤️ Coffee” in Cheltenham Bold Italic font. The heart piece of type is a card indicator for the suit of hearts from a case of typographic accessories. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.

[historyhermann]

National History Day, weebly, and the preservation of digital records

Homepage of nhd.weebly.com as of September 11, 2019

In my newsletter back on August 14th, I noted that National History Day had sent me an email asking for "donations since their relationship with Weebly," which had provided their website creation platform, after a ten year run, in hopes that such donations could pay a developer so they could create their own "website creation platform...by November 1, 2019," costing $150,000 in total. I then realized that I still had one website on the platform. In the past, I had already transferred my website about the space race (which I created for the 2010 National History contest) to a separate weebly account. But, I hadn't done that for my one on the war on drugs (which I created for the 2011 contest). I saved most of the pages using the wayback machine of the Internet Archive in almost desperation, but as a second attempt, I tried to log in to my old account.

To my surprise, the log-in worked and I was able to edit the site in all its functions. But, I wondered if this site could be sustained. Will it last on weebly forever? Will I always be able to edit it? So, I contacted the weebly people for assistance, to see what they would say.

This post was originally written in September 2019, but was slightly changed and fixed up in December 2022. It will be published on my History Hermann WordPress blog on Feb. 27, 2023.

What the login page looked like when I logged in on September 11, 2019

I sent them a short message on September 11 about my issue:

Right after, I received a a confirmation that they are "working on responding to you as soon as possible." As I awaited their response, I saved the website's pages on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, specifically the

the homepage

history of war on drugs overview page

setting the stage page

timeline page

diplomacy page

war on pot page

pop culture perception page

debate overview page

reform or resist page

is it a conspiracy page

viewpoints page

conclusion overview page

who benefits page

who suffers page

consequences page

alternatives page

interviewees page

bib/process overview page

annotated bibliography page

process paper page

Then, on September 16th, I received an email from Dakota of Weebly Policy Support, telling me that "unfortunately there is no way to convert NHD at this time or to connect a domain name in the current NHD account. Please go to the following link for further information about the NHD program and sites," providing a link to a page about this from their help site.

Basically, their "solution" was for you to send an email archive of your website to yourself, which I had already done, with an email of my website titled "The export of your site is ready to be downloaded" with a zip file attached. But what happened after that? They didn't answer that question. For me, that would have involved creating a whole new weebly website with the same content, something which I didn't want to do. So, I did the next best thing: I used webrecorder, which I had learned about in an appraisal class of my spring semester at UMD as part of my graduate school studies for a Master of Library and Information Science, with a concentration in Archives and Digital Curation. I created a public collection of the website, with the bottom picture showing what it looks like when you visit it online, presently:

I created a collection, which I arranged into lists, although its obviously not the same as viewing the original website itself, as some videos didn't even show up.  For instance, while internal videos work just fine, the video of Hemp for Victory, shown below, on the Timeline page, NEVER shows up! To be clear, I'm not saying I endorse these videos, but rather I am adding them as examples of content that Webrecorder is not capturing, showing one of its flaws.

Similarly, a video on "Is It a Conspiracy?" page, where a Former LAPD detective argues that the CIA has dealt drugs throughout U.S. didn't appear in the Webrecorder archive either as it never showed up on the page when I went to archive it. In another instance, the video of a Harvard Economist saying that all drugs should be legalized, on my Viewpoints page, was never part of the Webrecorder archive either:

Strangely, the video on the "who benefits" page showed up in Webrecorder, despite these others not showing up. Of course, there is also the issue of dead video links across the website, which neither webrecorder nor internet archive can solve, as it means those videos were taken down from YouTube.

That led to my last attempt to archive this content: moving it to a new home, my YouTube channel, apart from the one video I had uploaded there, which used to be on my NHD website at one time. So, I aimed to upload them, choosing the most historical videos of the lot, cropping others for length, to make them better.

And the preservation continues onward. I look forward to your comments and would love suggestions on how I can preserve this website going forward.

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