National History AcademyNational History AcademyIf you managed to catch Phyllis Randall on one of her many volunteering runs at the local community centre or jail, you might have assumed that she’s just an ordinary, […]
Read MoreCampus Life National History Academy is located on the secluded campus of Foxcroft School located in Middleburg, Virginia. Class sizes are small, with an average of 13 students per classroom, with […]
Read MoreToday was a busy day for the National History Academy as the students and teachers braved D.C. traffic in order to visit our nation’s capital. The first stop of the […]
July 5, 2018 Today we left on our first overnight trip! We started out by visiting the historic St Johns Church in Richmond, Virginia to watch a re-enactment of the […]
July 2, 2018 Mount Vernon Today, the National History Academy traveled to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. At its peak, Mount Vernon was actually five plantations with almost 8,000 […]
Friday, June 29, 2018 Today we toured the home of George Mason, Gunston Hall, and the Lorton Workhouse which is now a center for arts. Our Gunston Hall experience really […]
Thursday, June 28, 2018 National History Academy, Day 4 Today was the big day our program has been leading up to so far. We took our students to Montpelier to […]
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 National History Academy, Day 3 Wednesday marks only the third day of the National History Academy, but already campers are forming friendships on their journey through […]
Day 2 for the NHA, and the kids continue to amaze. After a long initial day in Washington DC, I expected the students to be pretty tired, but we have […]
Today I was able to take my students to Washington D.C. as part the National History Academy.
National History Day first place winners receive scholarships to the 2019 Academy
The National History Academy will employ the case method, which has been the core pedagogy of Harvard Business School since the early twentieth century. Students will read and discuss cases from the History of American Democracy curriculum developed by Harvard Business School Professor David Moss.
The National History Academy is excited to announce that every student who attends the 2018 National History Academy this summer will also be attending the Broadway smash hit Hamilton: An American Musical at The Kennedy Center – join us this summer to get the hottest ticket in town!
The National History Academy employs the case method, which has been the core pedagogy of Harvard Business School since the early twentieth century. Students read and discuss cases from the History of American Democracy curriculum developed by Harvard Business School Professor David Moss.