NATIONAL HISTORY DAY
Online Resources

Lessons/Examples/FAQs

Analyzing Primary Documents:
Muhammad Ali and the Viet Nam War
http://openvault.wgbh.org/saybrother/MLA000938/index.html
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/text/resistance31big.html
CD sales affected by Online Music File Sharing
A&M Records v. Napster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk_politics/07/blair_graphs/html/default.stm

Research Roadmap from NHD - http://www.nhd.org/ResearchRoadmap.htm
What is a thesis?  http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/thesis.html
How do I evaluate resources?  http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
What is an outline?  Sample outline draft
What is the Process Paper?  Process Paper Links
Resources

National History Day Home Page - http://www.nhd.org/
    NHD Research Sources - http://www.nhd.org/ResearchSources.htm
Wisconsin NHD Home Page -  http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/historyday/
BadgerLink - http://www.badgerlink.net/

Good Primary Sources links:

National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/
Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/index.html
OAIster - http://www.oaister.org/
Collaborative Digitization Programs- http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/stateportals.html
Special Collections Libraries - http://www.pacscl.org/phillyresea
US History Primary Sources - http://www.nhd.org/USHistoryPrimarySources.htm
World History Primary Sources - http://www.nhd.org/WorldHistoryPrimarySources.htm
Maps - http://www.nhd.org/Maps.htm
Photos and Maps - http://www.nhd.org/PhotosandotherImages.htm
American Memory Project - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Annotated Bibliography
Citation Guides and Helpful links

NHD Project Resources:
Project Categories
Project Rules - http://www.nhd.org/Rules.htm
How are projects judged?
Judging Evaluation Forms
Project Examples
Contest FAQs
Historical Context: These links might be helpful as you establish historical context
for your individual in history:
Timeline at Hyperhistory - http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Timelines at Infoplease.com - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001196.html
Timelines.ws - http://timelines.ws/
US History Timeline - http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html
HistoryExplorer.net - http://www.historyexplorer.net/
Alternatime Links - http://www3.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
Timelines at DMOZ - http://www.dmoz.org/Society/History/Timelines/
Timelines.info - http://www.timelines.info/

Commercial Media:
HistoryChannel.com - http://www.history.com/
Biography.com - http://www.biography.com
HistoryNet.com - http://www.historynet.com/
History at PBS - http://www.pbs.org/history/