Revolutionary Ideals Archives - National History Day

NEW! Revolutionary Ideals Webinar Series for 120 Teachers Nationwide—Apply Now!

Attention Teachers! To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, National History Day is introducing a new webinar series, Revolutionary Ideals: Understanding 250 Years of American …

NEW! Revolutionary Ideals Webinar Series for 120 Teachers Nationwide—Apply Now!

December 31, 2025

Revolutionary Ideals: The Age of Constitutionalism

In this fourth webinar from NHD’s new Revolutionary Ideals Webinar Series, Dr. Mary Sarah Bilder explores the idea of constitutionalism in the early American Republic. This webinar was live on …

Liberty for Who? Democracy and Race-Based Slavery in the Early American Republic

In this third webinar from NHD’s new Revolutionary Ideals Webinar Series, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara explores concepts of liberty and freedom as they related race-based slavery in the early American Republic. …

National History Day Celebrates Teachers Selected for New Professional Development Program

February 22, 2024

Revolutionary Ideals and North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion

In this second webinar from NHD’s new Revolutionary Ideals Webinar Series, Dr. Abby Chandler explores North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion as a new way to consider the idea of loyalists and …

“In the Eye of Foreign Nations” Empire, Trade, and the World that Inspired the Declaration

In this first webinar from NHD’s new Revolutionary Ideals Webinar Series, Dr. Brendan Gillis places the Declaration of Independence into historical and global context. This webinar was live on Tuesday, …

Educators and Scholars Contribute to New Classroom Resource Exploring Revolutionary Ideals

April 18, 2023

Revolutionary Ideals Full Lesson Plan Book

Using Maps to Compare European Colonization in North America

The Puritans and “Liberty of Conscience”: Conflicting Views on Religious Freedom in Colonial New England

New Ideas in a New Land: Roger Williams’s and William Penn’s Quest for Autonomy and Freedom in Colonial America

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