Deadline For History Challenge Contest Is Dec. 31
The deadline for this year’s History Challenge is quickly approaching! We encourage students to get their entries in by December 31, 2025 for the chance to win one of three cash prizes.
Students can submit an original essay, poem, painting, drawing or other artwork, music, lyrics, dance routine, skit, sculpture, science, or sewing project on America’s past. The competition is open to all Hunterdon County students up through high school. At first, this competition was for essays only, but the success of the Broadway show “Hamilton” led to including musical and dramatic performances, videos, and other creative ideas. It is sponsored by the Hunterdon County Historical Society and the local chapter of the Sons of the Revolution.
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Prizes will be awarded to Hunterdon students or homeschoolers in three categories:
- $250 for an original essay of 800 to 1,200 words on any aspect of American history by a Hunterdon County student or homeschooler of high school age.
- $250 for an original essay of 800 to 1,200 words on any aspect of American history by a Hunterdon student or homeschooler of pre-high-school age.
- $250 for an original expression of any sort about American history by a Hunterdon student or homeschooler of any age up through high school. We encourage musical performances and compositions; orations, dances, dramas, or comedies; paintings, drawings; skits, video presentations or performances; poems, calligraphy, sculpture, sewing, and more. In short, almost anything. (Except AI-generated projects, which do not qualify. This entry must be YOUR work alone!)
Visit our website here for judging criteria and application form to enter.
For other questions, contact Jay Langley of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, at langleys401@earthlink.net or call 908-782-1676 (no texts please). Or contact Dave Harding, executive director of the Hunterdon County Historical Society, at 908-782-1091 or hunterdonhistoryadm@gmail.com.