NHD at NMAAHC Project Resources
This page includes resources helpful to students and educators participating in National History Day.
- NHD at NMAAHC Topic List
- NHD at NMAAHC 2022 Digital Activities: The Great NMAAHC Topic Hunts
- NHD at NMAAHC Collection Connection Grid 2022
- NHD at NMAAHC Project Packs
2021 - 2022 Topic List
Explore potential project topics about African American history from the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C.
NHD at NMAAHC Digital GalleryActivity: The Great NMAAHC Topic Hunt 2022
Explore the online collection of the NMAAHC to find potential project topics on individuals, groups, and events connected to the 2021 contest theme: Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.
NHD at NMAAHC Collection Connection Grid
Explore items from the NMAAHC collection that represent the 2020 - 2021 theme: Communication in History: The Key to Understanding. Use the collection objects to develop a project topic or to help expand the analysis within a project.
Connect to the 2022 Collection Connection Grid on Smithsonian Learning Lab
Project Packs
NHD at NMAAHC 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 context, potential research questions, secondary and primary text sources, and related historical artifacts from the NMAAHC collection.