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NHD In Idaho 2027 Calendar coming this fall!

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NHD In Idaho 2027 Calendar coming this fall!

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National History Day in Idaho - Idaho State Historical Society

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National History Day in Idaho engages students in the world of a professional historian. Students research information about historic people and events by exploring archives, libraries, and other resources.

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The annual National History Day ® contest theme is designed to help you think of a topic from any aspect of local, regional, national, or world history. With this focus, you can begin to ask questions that your research will help you answer, including how your topic is significant in history.
2024 Contest Theme
Theme Book Graphic Organizer

This graphic organizer will help you to select a topic for your NHD project.

Ready to Start Your Project?

Step-by-step guide and resources for creating your National History Day project

National History Day is proud to have the following sponsors

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Frontiers: The 2023 NHD contest theme invites consideration of time & place, cause & effect, change over time, and impact & significance

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2027 NHD Theme Video: Innovation in History - 8:10 minutes

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2027 NHD Theme Video: Innovation in History

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NHDI 2025-2026 Judge Recruitment Full Sheet

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NORTH: February 14, 2026, The 1912 Center, Moscow

VIRTUAL REGION (STATEWIDE)*: Week of February 16, 2026, Online

TREASURE VALLEY & SOUTH-CENTRAL: February 21, 2026, South Junior High School, Boise

SOUTHWEST: February 25, 2026 (weekday evening), Caldwell Senior High School, Caldwell

EAST: March 2, 2026, Rocky Mountain Middle School, Idaho Falls

WEST ADA: March 7, 2026, Renaissance High School, Meridian

STATE CONTEST*: April 4, 2026, The College of Idaho, Caldwell

*The virtual regional contest is for those students in the paper, documentary, and website categories who cannot attend their regional contest in-person. Competing at more than one regional contest is against NHD rules. The State Contest will have a virtual option reserved for those students who cannot attend in-person, again only for the paper, documentary, and website categories. Virtual options for Regional and State Contests DO NOT INCLUDE INTERVIEWS.

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Professional development from the Center for Civic Education

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Professional Development | Teachers | Programs | Library of Congress

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Free primary-source based professional development from the Library of Congress.

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We support the year-long National History Day competition as an exciting way for students to study and learn about historical issues, ideas, people, and events at our locations around the country and online! The National Archives is the nation’s record keeper. We hold billions of primary sources. Ma…

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NHD Idaho Teacher and Classroom Resources

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NHD Idaho Worksheets, Activities, and Curriculum!

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NHD Idaho Worksheets, Activities, and Curriculum!

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History Day curriculum materials include a variety of tools for teachers to use to support classroom instruction. These materials are sorted chronologically, in order of how History Day is usually implemented in the classroom.

Timeline

History Day is designed for teachers to adapt in their classrooms.

Below we have suggested a broad timeline for completing the History Day program, but there is no "right" way to implementing the project in your classroom. You can also look at sample timelines from our Master Teacher Network.

September/October​: Introduce History Day to your students. Begin discussing the theme, and topics students may be interested in. Introduce primary and secondary sources. You may ask students to complete a topic proposal, or to sign an agreement between group members and parents.

November/December: Have students choose a topic, and begin their secondary source research. Once they've narrowed their topic, encourage them to begin researching primary sources.

December/January: Encourage students to attend a Hullabaloo for research and project help. Prepare for the participation survey by getting a sense of how many projects your school has in each category/division. Discuss and combine project totals with other History Day teachers in your school. The participation survey will be emailed in early December and due in early January.

January: Complete the participation and receive your school's allotments for how many projects may advance to Regional competitions. Encourage students to complete their research.

February: Help your students transition from research to project construction. Place emphasis on the quality of research, analysis, and content in a project. Hold a school contest/fair at minimum three weeks prior to your Regional event.

March/April/May/June: History Day contest season. Regionals and off-site Paper judging take place in March, State feedback sessions are in April, and State History Day is held at the end of April or beginning of May. The National Contest takes place at the University of Maryland, College Park in mid-June.

Master Teacher Sample Timelines

Project framework and introduction

These tools can help you introduce students to History Day.

Parent communication

Communicating with parents is an important step in keeping students involved with History Day. These resources can help you determine the best way to keep parents in the loop.

Contracts and working in a group

Help students determine the best way for them to work on History Day - individually or as a group.

Topic selection

These are resources that may help students determine the best topic for their project.

Theme

Resources for this year's theme.

Research tools

Helpful resources as students begin researching their topic.

Research org and notetaking

Materials that students may use to keep track of their research and notes.

Thesis statements

Resources available about learning what thesis statements are and how to write one.

Historical context

Materials to helps students determine the scope of their project.

Project organization

Mapping out a History Day project, the best ways to organize information.

Writing project text

Teaching students how to turn their notes into text.

Annotated bibliographies

History Day students may use MLA or Chicago citation styles. All categories are required to include an annotated bibliography.

Process papers

Process Papers are required for all categories and must contain the same elements.

Category overview and samples

Learn about each category and view sample projects.

Documentary

Materials for students creating History Day Documentaries.

Exhibit

Materials for students creating History Day Exhibit Boards.

Paper

Materials for students writing History Day Papers.

Performance

Materials for students creating History Day Performances.

Website

Materials for students creating History Day Websites.

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History Day curriculum materials include a variety of tools for teachers to use to support classroom instruction. These materials are sorted chronologically, in order of how History Day is usually implemented in the classroom.

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NHD offers five creative categories in each division (Junior: grades 6-8, or Senior: grades 9-12). The documentary, exhibit, performance, and website categories offer both individual and group participation options. The paper category allows individual participation only. Groups may include two to five students.

A documentary is a ten-minute film that uses media (images, video, and sound) to communicate your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic's significance in history.

A documentary should reflect your ability to use audiovisual equipment to communicate your topic's significance. The documentary category will help you develop skills in using photographs, film, video, audio, computers, and graphic presentations. Your presentation should include primary source materials and also must be an original production. To produce a documentary, you must have access to equipment and be able to operate it.

An exhibit is a three-dimensional physical and visual representation of your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic's significance in history.

Exhibits use color, images, documents, objects, graphics, and design, as well as words, to tell your story. Exhibits can be interactive experiences by asking viewers to play music, look at a video, or open a door or window to see more documents or photos.

A paper is a written format for presenting your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic's significance in history.

A paper is a highly personal and individual effort, and if you prefer to work alone this may be the category for you. Papers depend almost entirely on words to tell the story, and you can usually include more information in a paper than in some of the other categories. Various types of creative writing (for example, fictional diaries, poems, etc.) are permitted but must conform to all general and category rules.

A performance is a dramatic portrayal of your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic's significance in history.

The performance category is the only one that is presented live. Developing a strong narrative that allows your subject to unfold in a dramatic and visually interesting way is important. Memorizing, rehearsing, and refining your script is essential, so you should schedule time for this in addition to research, writing, costuming, and prop gathering.

A website is a collection of interconnected web pages that uses multimedia to communicate your historical argument, research evidence, and interpretation of your topic's significance in history.

A website should reflect your ability to use website design software and computer technology to communicate your topic's significance in history. To create an NHD website project, you must use NHDWebCentral®.

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Get Started on Your Project - National History Day

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Guidance and resources as you create a successful National History Day contest historical research project

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Website projects for NHD contests must be built on NHD's website builder, NHDWebCentral ®. 2023-2024 website creation will open in mid-September. To archive your 2022-2023 website, please follow these instructions.

Before getting started on your website project, browse our NHDWebCentral ® instructions and videos.

Websites must be created in NHDWebCentral ® (NHD Contest Rule Book, 6.5, E2). Any websites built on other platforms will need to be rebuilt at NHDWebCentral ®.

If someone was added to your website by accident or a group member is no longer part of the project, please use the Contact Us form to request removal. We will need to discuss this with your teacher and the coordinator to confirm that this person needs to be removed.

This is where you can use columns to help align elements differently. Several different column options are available in NHDWebCentral ® under the "Easy Layout" section of the Toolbox pane.

No, embedded YouTube videos violate the NHD rules. Because the videos are being hosted on YouTube, they are not being counted towards the NHDWebCentral ® size limit. However, you can download videos using several free apps, websites, and software and upload them to your website with the Embed Multimedia block.

Only HTML/CSS is supported on NHDWebCentral ®. JavaScript is not supported and will be stripped if applied in the editor.

In NHDWebCentral ®, saving is the same as publishing. When you save work on your website, it is pushed to the published site.

You will need to share the URL with them. The URL/site key is what you will submit for registration, but if you want a teacher, parent, etc., to view your website, you will need to give them the URL directly. The URL looks something like this: https://site.nhd.org/15262633. The site key looks something like this: 15262633

If you have additional questions, contact your local affiliate or connect with NHD IT support.

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NHDWebCentral® Instructions - National History Day

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Step-by-step written instructions and videos guiding you through the process of using the NHD website builder, NHDWebCentral®

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Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1956), The Rebel, 1987. Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. Collection of the artist.

Chancellor's Day Teacher Professional Development with Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro

June 8, 2023

8:30 AM-3 PM ET

Free. Registration required.

Join the Education Department of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York for a full-day professional development program with multidisciplinary artist Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan). This program is offered in conjunction with the opening of her first major retrospective exhibition, Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Niro's paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films. Accessible, often humorous, and peppered with references to popular culture, her art digs deep into the timeless cultural knowledge and generational histories of her Six Nations Kanyen'kehá:ka (Mohawk) community to provide purpose and healing.

All attendees will receive certificates of participation. New York State public school teachers are eligible to receive CTLE credit. A light breakfast will be provided.

Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Hamilton with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and with curatorial support from the National Gallery of Canada. Major support for the project is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council..

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Native Knowledge 360° | Professional Development | Upcoming

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Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1956), The Rebel, 1987. Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. Collection of the artist. Join the Education Department of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York for a full-day professional development program with multidisciplinary artist Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan).