Studying the past to inform the present and shape the future

Celebrating 50 Years of NHD

2025 Contest Theme

Rights & Responsibilities in History

This year’s theme invites you to consider questions of time and place, cause and effect, change over time, and impact and significance. 

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Documenting personal stories, written by students, of those who gave everything for our liberty.

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