Students nationwide can compete for the
Constitutional Rights in History prize
 

Arlington, VA - The Bill of Rights Institute announced their collaboration with National History Day (NHD) today. The Institute is sponsoring the Constitutional Rights in History prize, awarded to an outstanding entry in any category from both the senior and junior divisions which documents and analyzes how individuals have exercised their constitutional rights throughout American history.
 
The 2009 theme for National History Day is "The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies." Students must demonstrate through their project how their chosen individual's actions had an impact on history.
 
Bill of Rights Institute President Victoria Hughes comments, "We have long been interested in the outstanding work submitted by students as part of National History Day. This prize enables us to recognize in a special way those entries which do an excellent job of analyzing the enduring importance of Constitutional rights in American history."
 
Each year more than half a million students, encouraged by thousands of teachers nationwide, participate in the NHD contest. Students choose historical topics related to a theme and conduct extensive primary and secondary research through libraries, archives, museums, oral history interviews and historic sites. The Bill of Rights Institute's prize will be awarded at the National Finals held June 14-18 in College Park, Maryland.
 
Selection of prizewinners is based on the National History Day Contest Guide judging criteria and the NHD-approved criteria supplied by the Bill of Rights Institute. For more information about History Day, go to http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/.

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The Bill of Rights Institute, founded in 1999, is a nonprofit educational organization. The mission of the Bill of Rights Institute is to educate young people about the words and ideas of America's Founders, the liberties guaranteed in our Founding documents, and how our Founding principles continue to affect and shape a free society.