Outstanding Entries
The Major Compromises of the Constitutional Convention: How the Founding Fathers Saved a New Nation
Parallel Lives: Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller Encounter Hardships, Explore Solutions, and Exchange Knowledge
Japanese Picture Brides: Encountering Racism and Exploring an Unfamiliar Culture
Claire Fejes: The Gauguin of the Arctic
The Travels and Tales of Marco Polo
Exchange of Health Conceptions: Encounter Between Samoa and Explorers.
The Wire that Connected the World
The Unanticipated Impact of Father Kino’s Missions on the O’odham People
Reporting the Grimke Chronicle: Encountering Slavery, Exploring the Abolitionist Cause, and Exchanging Bondage for Freedom.
Nikola Tesla: The Shocking Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange of the Electrical Wizard
The Antarctic Treaty: A Sacrifice for Otherworldly Exporation
Tea and Opium: the Addiction of Two Nations
Revolutionary Rum
Nixon’s 1972 Visit to China: Exploring Cold War Compromise, Encountering Normalized Relations, and Creating a Lasting Legacy of Economic and Political Exchange
Branch Rickey: Branching Off to New Ideas
Women Airforce Service Pilots and the Flight for Equality
The Antikythera Mechanism: Exploring & Encountering the Heavens, 100 B.C.
Nellie Bly: Not Just a Journalist
Battler of the Sexes: Billie Jean King and the Fight for Equal Rights in Sports
The Pearl Affair
The Lumiere Brothers: Illuminating Motion Pictures
E is for Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange, Sesame Street: Exploring Educational Television and Its Benefits, Encountering Social Changes, and Exchanging Ideas for Foreign Co-productions
George Washington Carver
Dickey Chapelle
Journey to the Bottom of the Trench
Camp Roxas: Building a Home Away from Home
Zheng He-70591547
The 1954 Coup D’etat: Death of the Guatemalan Spring
History Captured in Images: The Encounter Between Vietnam War Photographs and America
The Vietnamese Boat People: The Journey to Freedom
War of Currents
Champion of the Helpless
The Newsreel that Started It All: The Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
The Pill: A Controversial Contraceptive and Its Chicago Connection
Creating Shenandoah National Park: The Dark Side of the Mountains
Hoosier and the Phillippines
Peace Through Corn: Encounters Between Roswell Garst and Nikita Khrushchev
NAFTA: Three Nations’ Exploration of Economic Exchange and the Triumphs and Trials Encountered
The Journey of Tomatoes
Rachel Carson and Her Fight for Environmental Change
Qian Xuesen: Exchange of a Scientist of Two Worlds
Carnegie Libraries: The Architecture of American Literacy
Alfred Nobel: Merchant of Death to Man of Peace
Brown v. Board of Education: Steps Towards Equality
The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott: Exchange of Ideas
Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Neurobiologist Rita Montalcini : Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in the Life of a Nobel Laureate
Acadian Deportation and Resettlement
Henrietta Lacks’s Immortal Cells: The Encounter, Exploration, and Exchange That Revolutionized Medicine
Unveiling Decades of Deception: The Tobacco Industry’s Encounter with Congress
Apollo 11: One Giant Leap For Peace
Sidney Farber’s War on Cancer
World War II War Brides
Bypass Odorizer: Stinky Sulfur Smell Saves Lives
Sir Francis Drake: Opening New Routes of Exploration and Exchange
Rolling Stone Magazine: Exploring the Boundaries of Music Journalism
Atari
The Mystery Flu: How the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Influenced Healthcare As We Know it
The Little Rock Nine: The Integration of Education
Mount Everest: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange on the Roof of the World
Michelangelo And The Painting of The Sistine Chapel
Boom and Bust: Virginia City, MT
Bodmer & Maximilian: A Journey into the American West
DeWitty: An Audacious Pursuit of the American Dream
The Iron Curtain: Exchange and Encounter Between East and West Berlin
Alexander Gardner: Photojournalistic Encounters in America
Impact of Evolution: Charles Darwin
Helen Priestman Bright Clark: A Quaker Woman’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage in Great Britain
Jacques Cousteau: Surfacing the Secrets of the Ocean
The Griddle Goes Global: Ray Kroc and McDonald’s’ Impact on the World
Ibn Batutta: lessons learned from a great medieval traveler
1966 Court Encounters: Texas Western Explores Integration in Exchange for Excellence
Evolution : The Key to Unlocking The Origin of Species
Agnes Nixon:Social Discourse in Daytime Drama
Virginia Hall: Exploring, Encountering and Exchanging as she Became the Greatest Female Spy of World War II
Exploring Plants and Society: The Life-Altering Encounters of Dr. Percy L. Julian
Reinvention: When Dylan Plugged In
The Eagle Feather” Exploration-Encounters & Exchanges in Native American History
Nellie Bly: Exploration and Encounter in the Field of Investigative Journalism
Exchanges on the Stage: The Ballet Battle for Cultural Supremacy
Oil and the Osage
Livestock Identification: Branding Throughout History
Exploring the Western Seas: The Cultural Exchange and Foreign Encounters of the Ming Treasure Fleet
The Historic Columbia River Highway: An Engineering Marvel Opens Exploration Through the Columbia River Gorge
Milton Hershey’s Sweet Discovery
Lincoln’s “Lost” Legacy: Encountering Human Suffering, Exploring Innovative Solutions, and Exchanging Historical Treasures at the NMHM
Hey, What’s the Rush?
Margaret Mead: An Anthropological Icon
Jewish European Immigrants to America: A Critical Exchange in US History
Justinian’s Glorious Reign
Shannon Faulkner: The Woman Who Dared to Change Tradition
Charles Darwin: A Life of Exploration,Encounter and Exchange
Apollo 11: The Mission That Shaped the World
Encounter at the University of South Dakota: Diversifying the Law School
Marconi: Changing the World Through the Exploration of the First Wireless
Directing a War: Hollywood’s Encounter with World War II
Atomic Prospectors
Irma Lerma Rangel: Leveling the Playing Field for All
Helen Foster Snow: American Journalist in the Chinese Revolution
George Catlin’s Native American Encounters: A Gift of Artistic Preservation
Cartooning for Change: Nina E. Allender
Exploration, Encounter, Exchange: The Evolution of the Medical Profession as a Result of the Holocaust
The (Camera) Shot Heard Round the World: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia: Exchanging Vows, Encountering Racism, Exploring the 14th Amendment
Penicillin: The Unsung Hero of World War II
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Pioneering Cooperation in Space.
Theodore Roosevelt
Cubist Pioneers and Their Varnish Left on Today’s Art World
Alice Paul: Vying for the Vote
A Writer, Industrialist, Inventor & Charity Worker: Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, AKA Nellie Bly