2022 David McCullough Prize Winners

2022 David McCullough Essay Prizes Winners

2022 Winners

More than seventy rising 11th and 12th grade students in our National Academy of American History and Civics submitted essays. These entries were reviewed by a panel of our master teachers, with twenty finalists then reviewed by a jury of historians.

Place Name Essay Title School  State
1st Kelsey Carlos-Keli’ikipi “Senator Daniel K. Inouye: How Senator Inouye’s Advocacy Helped Native Hawaiians Reclaim Kahoʻolawe” Kamehameha Schools Kapālama Campus HI
2nd Liliana Feyk “The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion: African American Women in World War II” Sage Creek High School CA
3rd Brian Chan “American Attitudes toward the Annexation of Hawaii: Military, Morality, and Misrepresentation” Hunter College High School  NY
3rd Jackson Fels “To Peking for Peace: How Daring Diplomacy Transformed Sino-American Relations” Brunswick School CT
3rd Isaiah Glick “‘To Shape the National Debate’: The Coalition against Détente Diplomacy, 1973–1981” Berkeley Carroll School NY
3rd Liliana Hug “Diplomacy for the People: How Frances Perkins Shaped Landmark Social Legislation of the New Deal” Salamander Meadows Homeschool PA
3rd Maya Narang “How American Was ‘America First’?” The Brearley School  NY
3rd Kevin Park “The Defense of Iceland Agreement: How a Small, Pacifist Nation Defeated the US” Ridgewood High School NJ
3rd Victor Robila “Passenger Pigeons: Technology, a False Sense of Security, and Their Disappearance” Hunter College High School NY
3rd Aaron Siegle “Thunder in the Tundra: The Enduring Legacy of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act” Our Lady of Good Counsel High School MD
3rd Myranda Webster “Deutsch Verboten: Iowa’s Babel Proclamation Leads to Discrimination” Nashua-Plainfield High School IA