The 2019 theme is Triumph & Tragedy in History. Delve into the theme with the 2019 theme book! It has articles, resources, topic ideas, and more. You can find it at the theme page or order a printed copy from the NHD shop.
National History Day has a full range of online graduate courses for middle and high school educators who want to implement our project-based curriculum into their classrooms using the framework of the National History Day Contest.
The Making History Series is a comprehensive series of workbooks that provides teachers step-by-step guidance on how to conduct historical research and gives students direction on how to create NHD projects.
The price for this series of workbooks is going up this fall. Get yours today before it does!
It’s almost back-to-school time, and that means a new year of National History Day projects. The staff at EDSITEment have created a portal highlighting some of the NEH-funded resources that could help your students get their projects off to a great start. Be sure to check out the theme-related Learning Lab collections we created in collaboration with the Smithsonian!