This page includes resources helpful to students and educators participating in National History Day. 

• NHD at NMAAHC Collection Connection Grid 2024
• NHD at NMAAHC Project Packs

NHD at NMAAHC Collection Connection Grid

Explore items from the NMAAHC collection that represent the 2023 - 2024 theme: Turning Points in History. Use the collection objects to develop a project topic or to help expand the analysis within a project.

Connect to the 2024 Collection Connection Grid

Essential Historian Skills Project Packs

Essential Historian Skills Project Packs are designed to help students begin their National History Day projects by providing information and sources on topics related to the annual National History Day theme. Each pack includes background information and primary sources from the NMAAHC collection.

• Mary McLeod Bethune and the Federal Government

• Executive Order 9981 and the U.S. Military

• Sun Ra, Music, and Afrofuturism

• Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

• Afrofuturism: New Black Futures

• Afrofuturism: Infinite Possibilities