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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

National History Day Announces New Program for Students and Teachers to Study America’s Founding Era

February 15, 2024

“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 …

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Building a More Perfect Union, Part II

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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