A three-year cooperative agreement that would extend and expand NEH’s partnership with National History Day, in response to NEH’s A More Perfect Union initiative.

With the National Endowment for the Humanities, NHD proposes a three-year cooperative agreement for educational programming that will inspire student learning by engaging students and their teachers with historical scholarship in the pursuit of civic engagement and responsibility. Programs and activities will focus on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the founding of a new nation based on a constitutional democracy. As well, NHD programs and content will examine the ways in which our founding ideals have been applied, struggled over, and met from our founding to yesterday’s headlines. The agreement center on NEH’s new agency-wide initiative, “A More Perfect Union: NEH Special Initiative Advancing Civic Education and Commemorating the Nation’s 250th Anniversary.”

A two-year cooperative agreement that would produce a new volume of classroom resources as part of NEH’s longstanding relationship with NHD, in response to the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

National History Day’s Inclusive History Initiative combines teacher training and curriculum development to enhance classroom teaching and student learning, moving beyond the textbook and into the depth and breadth of history. That initiative includes a series of volumes of essays and lessons that address the histories of marginalized communities. The second volume will focus on Jewish and Jewish American History. NHD will begin in May 2024 to solicit historians and master teachers to research and write the essays and lessons for “L’dor V’dor”: Teaching Jewish History from Generation to Generation. As with others in this series, the volume on Jewish and Jewish American history will comprise articles of approximately 1,500–2,500 words, each one by noted scholars, and lesson plans crafted by NHD identified teachers. NHD will collaborate with the NEH to identify the scholars to craft and edit the specific article topics.

This request will support the gold medals awarded at the National History Day Contest for exceptional research by middle and high school students in papers, exhibits, performances, documentatries and websites.

To establish a cash reserve to provide financial stability; and to strengthen fund-raising and development capabilities.

To support a teacher's guide, Abraham Lincoln: Unfinished Legacy

This project will develop, produce, and distribute a teaching guide focused on the historical role of Abraham Lincoln. It will connect American history teachers to the latest Lincoln scholarship and will include contributions from distinguished historians.

To support a two-year project for 190 secondary school teachers and librarians that will include one national and four regional institutes on the encounter between the Old and New Worlds.

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To involve thousands of youths each year in preparing projects, papers, and performances on a historical theme, which are then judged in competition on a local, state, and national level.

To complete nationwide expansion over a two-year period of the National HistoryDay program, which encourages secondary school students to research and preparehistorical papers, projects, and performances around an annual theme and culminates in a national competition. Over 45,000 youths participated in 1981.