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Researching Silent Heroes: Life Before the War

This webinar is the first in our Researching Silent Heroes series. This webinar focuses on life before World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and strategies to research …

Historical Context of the Korean War

This webinar is the second in our Silent Heroes: Untold Stories from the Korean War series. This webinar focuses on the historical context of the Korean War with a special …

Counting Words on a Website

According to the NHD Contest Rule Book (page 34), “Website entries may contain no more than 1,200 visible words that you write.” Use the guide below to help you figure …

History of Service Members in the Korean War

This is the first in a series of four webinars that explores the context, history, and experiences of service members who served in the Korean War and returned as Veterans. …

National History Day Announces Educator Learning Opportunities for 2024/2025

National History Day is excited to announce three opportunities for teachers to engage with National History Day’s virtual professional development in the 2024/2025 academic year. The first is Researching Silent …

“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, …

Organizing an Argument

Using resources from the Library of Congress, learn how to apply historical thinking skills and help make these skills visible to students. This webinar focuses on how to organize and …

Documentary Project Example 4: Wade in the Water: How African Americans Got Back Into the Pool

Documentary Project Example 3: “¡Sί Se Puede!” How the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott Broke Barriers for Social Movements

Performance Project Example 4: The Northern Dream

Performance Project Example 3: “Deeds, Not Words”: How Emmeline Pankhurst Expanded the Frontier of Women’s Rights

Exhibit Project Example 4: Window to the Universe: How the Hubble Space Telescope Revolutionized the Study of Astronomy

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