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The first step to entering the National History Day Contest is by creating an entry and submitting it at your local level. The top entries from each level move on to the next level. Each state/affiliate has a contest between January and May. The top two projects in every category are invited from these state/affiliate contests to attend the National Contest.

The National Postal Museum created this page as a resource for students as they complete research on their chosen topics. National History Day encourages students to be historians and we’re here to help! On this webpage you’ll find resources, tips and tricks to support your work and research.

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. Many can be incorporated into NHD research and projects. Use the resources on this page to get started. Contact us if you need help.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide.

NMAAHC is eager to support students who are engaging in historical research for projects, especially those related to National History Day. As the national museum devoted to telling the American story through the African American lens, NMAAHC can assist students in exploring multiple perspectives in history by providing access to primary sources, supporting materials, and expert mentorship.

Here you will find online access to magazines, newspapers and reference materials on a wide variety of subjects. Use the Apply Filter button to narrow down your resources even faster by entering KEYWORDS and/or selecting SUBJECTS. Use the Visit button to access the database resource. These resources are available to all DC Public Library cardholders and are accessible from home, work or in the library. Please enter your card number (without spaces) when prompted.

Boolean operators form the basis of mathematical sets and database logic.

They connect your search words together to either narrow or broaden your set of results.
The three basic boolean operators are: AND, OR, and NOT.
Why use Boolean operators?

To focus a search, particularly when your topic contains multiple search terms.
To connect various pieces of information to find exactly what you're looking for.
Example:
second creation (title) AND wilmut and campbell (author) AND 2000 (year)

Get the most out of Google Scholar with some helpful tips on searches, email alerts, citation export, and more.

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National History Day has a full range of online graduate courses for middle and high school educators who want to implement our project-based curriculum into their classrooms using the framework of the National History Day Contest.

Archives and other institutions that have digitized some of their collections and made them available online constitute trustworthy websites. Any online sources your project uses should come from reliable websites. If you can’t make a visit to an archives, then its website is a reliable place to start. The following lists contain resources that are statewide in scope or focus on national events. There are many more digital projects online where you may find additional primary sources for your project; ask an archivist if they know of other resources not listed here.

The online tool for teaching with documents, from The National Archives.