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About NHD

National History Day is a nationwide competition in which middle and high school students create research projects (i.e. documentary, website, paper) on a historical topic that relates to a yearly theme. Student projects are judged at a school, regional, state, and national level. Last year, more than 700,000 students participated in History Day from all 50 states and countries such as China and South Korea. 

NHD competition themes through the years

2023

Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas

2022

Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences

2021

Communication in History: The Key to Understanding 

2020

Breaking Barriers in History

2019

Triumph and Tragedy in History

2018

Conflict and Compromise in History

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