Welcome to National History Day 2025

Learn about National History Day resources available from the National Archives! Explore DocsTeach in support of your NHD project for this year's theme - Rights and Responsibilities in History. Visit online resources here: https://www.docsteach.org/topics/nhd
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Featured Items:
Suffrage Parade, 1913
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/suffrage-parade
First 29 Navajo U.S. Marine Corps code-talker recruits being sworn in at Fort Wingate, NM., 5/4/1942
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/first-29-navajo-us-marine-corps-codetalker-recruits-being-sworn-in-at-fort-wingate-nm

Peace Petition to Congress, 1847
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/peace-petition

“Learning to Use a Voting Machine,” Chicago, ca. 1919
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/learning-voting-machine

Demonstration of Protest and Mourning for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 4/5/1911
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/triangle-shirtwaist-demonstration

"Your Community Can Sponsor a School Lunch Program for its Children", 1941 - 1945
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/your-community-can-sponsor-a-school-lunch-program-for-its-children

“Every Child Needs a Good School Lunch,” 1941-1945
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/514223

The 369th Infantry Arriving Home on the France, 1917 - ca. 1919
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/369th-infantry-home-france

Photo of Stacks at Archives II, 10/6/2004
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/hoto-of-stacks-at-archives-ii

Public School Students Work on Ecology Project, 5/1972
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/public-school-students-ecology-project

Quota Areas Set by the Immigration Act of 1924, 4/1940
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/quota-areas-1924

Map of Osage Indian Reservation, 1917
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/map-of-osage-indian-reservation

Map of Voting Rights Cases and Activities, 1965
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/map-of-voting-rights-cases-and-activities

Eleanor Roosevelt Holding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 11/1949
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/eleanor-roosevelt-declaration-human-rights

The White House Lit in Rainbow Colors, 6/26/2015
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/white-house-rainbow

Groups of Miners Waiting for the Mantrip, 9/23/1946
https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/groups-of-miners-waiting-for-the-mantrip

President Reagan Giving a Speech at the Berlin Wall, 6/12/1987
https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/reagan-brandenburg-gate

Circular Entitled Colored Soldiers! Equal State Rights! And Monthly Pay with White Men!, 12/15/1863
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/circular-colored-soldiers

Treaty with Six Nations, 11/11/1794
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/treaty-six-nations

African American Women in the Women’s Army Corps, 2/15/1945
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/african-american-wacs

Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 7/13/1836
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/address-boston-antislavery-society

"The Children's Charter" Recognizing the Rights of Children, 4/7/1931

Testimony of John Tinker in Tinker v. Des Moines, 7/25/1966
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/testimony-john-tinker

House Joint Resolution Proposing a Constitutional Amendment Limiting Child Labor, 1924
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/1-amendment-child-labor

Reporting for Duty, 4/2/1917
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/reporting-for-duty

University of Mississippi Radio and Television Speech, 9/30/1962
National Archives Identifier: 193913
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/university-of-mississippi-radio-and-television-speech

Motion Picture Truck Used in Herbert Hoover's Presidential Campaign, ca. 1928
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
https://docsteach.org/documents/document/hoover-motion-picture-truck

"President Donald J. Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America during a round table with farmers and agricultural commissioners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse45/33770181373/in/album-72157679655116993/

National History Day Resources: archives.gov/education/history-day
DocsTeach National History Day Topics Page: docsteach.org/topics/nhd
National Archives Catalog: catalog.archives.gov
The Center for Legislative Archives: archives.gov/legislative
Presidential Libraries: archives.gov/presidential-libraries

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