This honor is being awarded to Ms. Huffman by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Ms. Huffman is a 5th grade teacher at Pinckney Elementary in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Ms. Huffman will receive $10,000.00 and attend a ceremony in her honor at the Yale Club in New York City on October 19th.
Her students created care packages, wrote letters to US troops and participated in veterans' week by inviting soldiers into their classroom.