by Kellyn Bertsch, age 12 The “Trail of Tears” was an appalling event in American history that most everyone, Cherokees and non-Indians alike, will always remember. In the early 1830s, over 100,000 Native Americans dwelt in southeast America on millions of acres of fertile land. The...
by Andrew Heil, age 14 To do the hard things, one must do what everyone else is neglecting and overlooking. Sorrowfully, in America throughout the past decades, society has roadblocked teenagers from accomplishing objectives which teens in America’s distant past would have achieved with...
by Joshua Garrison, age 14 In 1736 a group of approximately 180 Scots traveled to Savannah, Georgia, eager to escape English oppression. The Scottish were a proud, clannish people who had fought the English monarchs for years during the violent “Covenanter” wars to gain freedom of...
by Nathan Bowen, age 13 In the remote little town of Nome, Alaska, a tremendous part of the town’s population was suffering from a deadly throat disease due to the lack of proper medicine. The town board concluded that sled dog relay teams were the only possible route to get the badly...
by Maura Stolpe, age 13 Because they didn’t have the cure for a throat disease, many were dying in Alaska. Eventually men decided to use dog teams to deliver the medication. The treacherous journey was challenging with icy snow and frigid winds howling around the travelers. Although the...
