Northern Virginia High School Students Take Top Prizes in National Essay Contest on “Being an American”. Arlington , VA Andy Rys, a senior at Oakton High School, has won this year’s “Being an American” Essay Contest sponsored by the non-profit Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, VA.  Rys and his sponsoring teacher, Erica Jacobs , each received a $5,000 cash award. The $2,500 second place prizes went to Jim Irby, a senior at Richmond-based Douglas S. Freeman High School and his sponsoring teacher, Tracy Bonday-deleon.  The $1,250 third place prizes were awarded to Loudoun High School Senior Olivia Colville and teacher Susan Stevens.

The NEH Landmarks of American History Landmarks Workshop, “James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship,” takes place on the grounds of Montpelier, a 2,700 acre estate located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. For more information please visit montpelier.org.

The Patrick Henry Legacy program recently helped sponsor the production of a documentary, Liberty or Death, about Patrick Henry and the American Revolution. Through the generosity of our donors, we are now able to provide a DVD copy to teachers who can make use of them in their classrooms - absolutely free of cost or obligation. For more information, please visit our Liberty or Death web page at
http://www.patrickhenrycenter.com/pages.aspx?pageid=22
or contact Samantha Hagan, Program Director at samanthaphc@aol.com or 703-691-2301.

See the link to Professional Development and find great opportunities for the Civil War Presevation Trust, Virtual Virginia and the Summer Teach Institute.