Lesson plans and web resources, available free of charge for fourth through eleventh grade students, are at www.jamestownjourney.org. The archived November 9th webcast will be available for 60 days at

I am writing bout Colonial, Powhatan and Angolan experiences and have included one of my journal entries and new pictures. I was proud to represent AZ and liked meeting all the other Ambassadors; I ha

I'm beat, but will blog tomorrow in Tucson about the webcast. I had a great time and there are new pictures in Gallery.

We met the Lord Mayor of Williamsburg and a Virginia Senator at the dinner last night; they came to every Ambassador’s table and visited.

I learned something today – don’t judge VA. at night, don’t even fly into VA. at night. It’s totally great.

I don’t believe we left paradise for this! Time zones and humidity are hard to love.

Governor Janet Napolitano presented home schooler Colin Elsberry with a citation of special recognition and an official Arizona flag

I could link, easily, the issues together of school uniforms and past tragedies in history where schools dictated student beliefs.

What an adventure it was traveling to the National History Day state competition for a week with 20 teenagers! Some of it could be the script for a television comedy....

Arizona's final NHD results

Arizona's final NHD results

Thanks Andrew Satter, On-Line Producer Starnet for the blog. Thanks Laurie, Chris and Holly for all you did for the AZ team.

For information about NHD 2006 winners go to:
http://nationalhistoryday.org/2006Winners.htm#1011

Susan Elsberry. I am packing for our 2 hour’ish train ride to NYC at 11 AM today. My gentlemen are asleep and the MD weather is still showing off for visitors;

Susan Elsberry. There were too many AZ winners for me to list them all w/o going online; what a great problem to have!

Susan Elsberry. My father, Leo H. Bischof, always had a smile and a piece of wrapped candy in his pocket for kids.

Colin Elsberry. Hi again, I’m BACK. Tomorrow is the Award Ceremony and we hope the 2 AZ teams we know of will win.

Early NHD results

Colin Elsberry. Well I didn’t make it into the Finals and I was disappointed. I still don’t feel any better about that, but we spent the rest of the day touring the Smithsonian Air and Space Museu

Colin Elsberry. Hi all, it’s me again! On Day 2 of NHD, I had my Junior Level Individual competition today at 3PM and I hope to move on the final round.

I'm back in the hotel room and my feet are stumps. Here's why: I took the Metro from the Greenbelt station to Washington DC and went on a Holocaust Memorial VIP tour.

Susan Elsberry. We're here! The flight was smooth, the landing into a land of green trees and water, water everywhere in Baltimore was amazing.

Dr. Paolo Soleri will receive the 2006 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement. First launched at the White House in 2000, the annual Awards program celebrates design as a vital

Buena High School had 20 (!) state winners, and more than half of those originally competed at the Tucson regional.

Some samples of National History Day Buttons

Susan Elsberry signing on. The Elsberry household is involved with NHD Bibliography changes (minor, thank goodness), reviewing materials and sources to prep for the judges interview, packing and tour

National History Day makes history relevant.