Marisa Rafal and Eliza Forrest
Junior Division
                                                                                                                                                                   

     One day in the library our newspaper supervisor talked to us about National History Day. A book about important women in America caught our eyes (we're both feminists so this was perfect). We flipped through all the pages. We saw that Julia Lathrop was an activist whose main focus was children. That's what decided it.
      After that, we started looking for books about Lathrop (and books on the things she fought for or against) everywhere: at city and school libraries, at stores and so on. Everything we could get our hands on we'd read and take notes on. Then our supervisor told us he had access to the Tufts library. From there we were able to get newspaper articles that were copies of real articles that were actually printed in Julia Lathrop's time. We also know a Harvard employee who borrowed from that library a book written by Lathrop's contemporary and friend, Jane Addams. We knew that we wanted to make a historical fairy tale and after reviewing the project options, we decided to make a website so more people could learn about Lathrop.
     Then we had the minor problem of having no idea how to do it. So we researched how to make websites and came up with this free way to do it on Google... Perfect!
      In the end we were satisfied because we knew that Julia Lathrop fit the criteria completely: she was an individual who made a difference in the world; though she lived long ago the things she accomplished still have an effect on the people of today. She's one person who changed the lives of millions.