May 7, 2021
Some eighth grade students from Lake Michigan Catholic Schools will be taking part in the National History Day competition next month. Teacher Ginger Hysell tells WSJM News Lila Baliunas, Hannah Hysell, Josephine Marsh, and Mary Riley won their category at the state level last month with a performance exploring how Diego Rivera’s “Man at the Crossroads” controversy with the Rockefellers, as well as Russia’s 1959 tour of the Bolshoi Ballet in America, show different aspects of the role of art as propaganda during the cold war. Hannah Hysell told us more about the upcoming event.
“The National History Day competition is basically a competition between students from around the country, and some international students, and you submit a historical project that is based off of research and is submitted in many different mediums,” Hysell said.