National History Day Online Research Tools
Learn about National History Day resources from the National Archives! Explore DocsTeach in support of your NHD project for this year's theme- Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas.
Search these Resources for History Topics Across Historical Eras
- Primary Sources for this Year's Theme on the DocsTeach National History Day Page
- The National Archives Online Catalog of Primary Sources
Check these Resources for Topics and Time Periods
American Revolution
- Founders Online, Searchable Archive of the Correspondence and Writings of Six of the Founding Fathers
- The American Revolution on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to the Louisiana Purchase on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to the Abolition of Slavery on DocsTeach
Civil War & Reconstruction
- The Civil War on DocsTeach
Industrialization and Immigration
- Primary Sources Related to Immigration on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to the Progressive Era on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to Women's Rights on DocsTeach
The Spanish-American War and World War I
- Primary Sources Related to the Spanish-American War on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to World War I on DocsTeach
- Commission for the Relief of Belguim (CRB) and the Bonus March from the Hoover Library
- Harry Truman's World War I from the Truman Library
- From Soldier to Senator: Harry S. Truman, 1918-1941 from the Truman Library
The Great Depression
- First 100 Days (PDF) from the Roosevelt Library
- Primary Sources Related to the New Deal on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to Fireside Chats on DocsTeach
- Tuskegee Airmen (PDF) from the Roosevelt Library
- Search the Roosevelt Library's Online Historical Documents Page
World War II
- World War II Documents (PDF) from the Roosevelt Library
- Primary Sources Related to World War II on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to Pearl Harbor on DocsTeach
- Japanese-American Internment (PDF) from the Roosevelt Library
- Japanese-Americans During World War II from the Truman Library
- Primary Sources Related to Japanese-American Internment on DocsTeach
- The Holocaust (PDF) from the FDR Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Holocaust on DocsTeach
- Search Online Documents from the Truman Library
- Search Online Photographs from the Truman Library
- Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb from the Truman Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Atomic Bomb on DocsTeach
- War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg from the Truman Library
Post WWII
- Marshall Plan from the Truman Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Marshall Plan on DocsTeach
- The Point Four Program from the Truman Library
- The United Nations, 1945-53: The Development of a World Organization from the Truman Library
- Migratory Farm Labor from the Truman Library
- The Truman Administration's Policy Toward Native Americans from the Truman Library
- President Truman's Fight for National Health Insurance from the Truman Library
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization from the Truman Library
- Truman's 1948 Presidential Campaign from the Truman Library
- U.S. Recognition of Israel from the Truman Library
- Oil Crisis in Iran, 1950-52 from the Truman Library
- Alaska Statehood from the Eisenhower Library
- Eisenhower's Farewell Address from the Eisenhower Library
- Hawaii Statehood from the Eisenhower Library
- International Geophysical Year from the Eisenhower Library
- Interstate Highway System from the Eisenhower Library
- People To People from the Eisenhower Library
- Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine from the Eisenhower Library
- Women in the 1950s from the Eisenhower Library
Civil Rights
- Rights in America on DocsTeach
- Truman and Civil Rights from the Truman Library
- The President’s Committee on Civil Rights from the Truman Library
- Desegregation of the Armed Forces from the Truman Library
- Civil Rights Act of 1957 from the Eisenhower Library
- Brown vs. Board of Education from the Eisenhower Library
- Citizens' Letters on the Little Rock Crisis from the Eisenhower Library
- Government Reports and President Eisenhower's Personal Views from the Eisenhower Library
- The Emmett Till Case from the Eisenhower Library
- Little Rock School Integration from the Eisenhower Library
- Primary Sources Related to Martin Luther King, Jr. on DocsTeach
- Integrating Ole Miss from the Kennedy Library
- Leaders in the Struggle for Civil Rights from the Kennedy Library
The 1960s–1970s
- Search the Kennedy Library's Digital Collections
- The Vietnam Conflict Online Exhibit from the Johnson Library
- Search the Johnson Library’s Online Photo Archive
- The Johnson Library’s Telephone Conversations from the Miller Center
- A Record of President Johnson’s Appointments, Phone Calls, and Activitiesin the Daily Diary from the Johnson Library
- The Johnson Library’s Oral History Collection
- The Johnson Library’s Video Collections on YouTube
- The 1970s, including environmentalism, on DocsTeach
- The Nixon and Ford Years on DocsTeach
- Explore the Nixon Library Virtual Library
- Memoirs v. Tapes: Nixon & the December Bombings from the Nixon Library
- Watergate Trial Conversations from the Nixon Library
- Primary Sources Related to Watergate on DocsTeach
- Intelligence Community Investigations and Reforms, 1975-1976 from the Ford Library
- The Swine Flu Immunization Program of 1976 from the Ford Library
- The Camp David Accords After Twenty-Five Years from the Carter Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Middle East on DocsTeach
The Cold War
- Primary Sources Related to the Cold War on DocsTeach
- Berlin Airlift from the Truman Library
- Ideological Foundations of the Cold War from the Truman Library
- Truman Doctrine and the Beginning of the Cold War from the Truman Library
- Immigration Policy: President Truman's Veto of the McCarran-Walter Act from the Truman Library
- Korean War and Its Origins from the Truman Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Korean War on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to General Douglas MacArthur on DocsTeach
- Search Online Documents from the Truman Library
- Aerial Intelligence during the Cold War from the Eisenhower Library
- Atoms For Peace from the Eisenhower Library
- President Truman's Confrontation with McCarthyism from the Truman Library
- McCarthyism from the Eisenhower Library
- The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) from the Eisenhower Library
- Primary Sources Related to NASA on DocsTeach
- Sputnik and the Space Race from the Eisenhower Library
- U-2 Spy Plane Incident from the Eisenhower Library
- Americans in Space from the Kennedy Library
- The World on the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Kennedy Library
- Preparing for Press Conferences from the Kennedy Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Space Race on DocsTeach
- Vietnam, the "Pentagon Papers" Report
- Vietnam War Final Months and Aftermath from the Ford Library
- The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, November 23-24, 1974 from the Ford Library
- Primary Sources Related to the Berlin Wall on DocsTeach
The 1980s–Present
- Search the Clinton Library's Digital Library Page
- 9/11 Resource Guide from the George W. Bush Library
- Primary Sources Related to 9/11 on DocsTeach
- Primary Sources Related to Hurricane Katrina on DocsTeach