2025-2026 Theme Resources
This year, the theme for History Day is “Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History.” For more details on the theme for this year, see the 2025–2026 theme description.

• ​​Click here to access the 2025-2026 NHDⓇ History Day Theme Book
• 2026 Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History Graphic Organizer
• 2026 Theme Narrative ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi 
• 2026 Theme Graphic Organizer ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi 
• ​NHDⓇ Contest Rulebook

Hawaiʻi-Specific Project Topics

Looking for topic ideas for your project that are in your backyard? This list of Hawaiʻi-based project topics was created with much care by teachers Amy Boehning and Dorian Langi.

See Sample Hawaiʻi-Specific Topics

​​Accommodations and Adaptations​

​National History Day (NHD) is a program that can be used to meet students’ learning needs. At its core, it is differentiated instruction. Students can select topics that provide a higher or lower level of challenge. Students can choose to work individually or in a group, and students can choose a contest category that best fits their individual needs.

Working in consultation with multiple coordinators and teachers, National History Day has published a guide offering guidelines and suggestions to teachers to meet the learning needs of students in their classrooms. This document will provide resources and suggestions that can be adapted for use in a classroom.

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English-Language Project Evaluation Forms​

Performance

Exhibit

Website

Documentary

Paper

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ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Project Evaluation Forms​

Hana Keaka

Hōʻikeʻike

Kaha Pūnaewele

Kiʻiʻoniʻoni

Pepa

​Teacher Resource Padlets
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2022–2023 Kickoff Padlet
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See our 2022-2023 Kickoff Padlet–Drawing from our Padlet pages from 2020 to the present, we have gathered the fundamentals onto one place.

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2022 Dorie’s
Teacher Resource Padlet

2022 Dorie’s Teacher Resource Padlet–Developed and compiled by our Master teacher, Dorian Langi, this Padlet provides resources for teachers at all stages of the History Day project process.

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Amy Boehning’s
History Day Website

Amy Boehning’s History Day Website–This website, created by Mililani High School teacher and NHD Ambassador Amy Boehning, is a great resource-hub, offering templates and example resources for all 5 History Day project categories.

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Teacher Workshop Materials​

2020 October Hawaiʻi History Day Categories Workshops Padlet

This Padlet provides all videos and resources from our October 2020 teacher and student workshops on Hawaiʻi History Day categories–Papers, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Websites, Documentaries, Exhibit Boards, and Performances.

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Hawaiʻi History Day:
September 2023 Writing Workshops

This Padlet archives all videos and resources provided during our September 2020 Writing Workshops for students and teachers.
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​Teacher Workshop Protest, Racism, and Social Change Resources

This collaborative Padlet provides resources and materials from the 2020 teacher workshop on Protest, Racism, and Social Change Resources.

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​Research Presentations, Organizations, and Resources
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2020 Mālama Our History
​Community Speaker Padlet

​This Padlet provides all resources provided by organizations who shared in our Community Speaker series. Featuring presentations by: Bishop Museum, Filipino-American Historical Center of Hawaiʻi, Hawaiian Mission Houses, Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation, Hula Preservation Society, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and East West Center, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Archive of Hawaiʻi, Kona Historical Society, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and University of Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers.

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