The Seattle Prep Panther asked juniors to describe their National History Day paper topic in 140 characters or less.

Meghan Aust: John F. Kennedy was a president. Then he got shot. There were some conspiracies about what happened. It caused distrust among the Americans

Sam Eco: Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female doctor in the United States. She fought for women’s rights and gave power to da womennn.

Wolf Hofmann: The Soviets put missiles in Cuba but JFK knew what he was doing, so everyone lived happily ever after except for the Soviet Union

Avery Brown: Abigail Adams was super cool and she stood up for her rights and yeah feminism. Also her husband was president. #firstlady

James Rheaume: Alexander Hamilton did stuff with state debt and now the US is industrialized, but it kinda caused the Civil War, and he’s on the $10 bill.

Karina Diekema: #EugeneVDebs #Socialism #jailtime #wearethe99percent #leaderwithalegacy #railroads

Blake Owens: Ulysses S. Grant is a real one, he took that city of Vicksburg real nice. #inthere #itsOV

Hope Harmon: Nellie Bly. She Sly. And invented investigative journalism. #Boss

Max Rothrock: Patrick Henry and the Antifeds #slaverysbad

Conor Garand: TJ and the boys fought pirates in Africa in the 1800s and won which was a pretty big deal at the time. And now.