Registration is closed for the 2025 contest. Check back in the Fall for NYCHD 2026.
New York City History Day Rules and Guidelines
New York City History Day Student Workbook 2025 National History Day Contest Rules and Evaluation
Category Guides
Detailed instructions on what you will need to compete in each category as well as rubrics and checklists, submissions instructions, and tips on how to create a successful project.
Documentary Exhibit Paper Performance Website
New York City History Day Submission Guide
Find Primary Sources For Your Project
Watch More Videos to Help You Create a History Day Project
- Creating a History Day Project - Part I: Getting Started
- Creating a History Day Project - Part II: Research
- Creating a History Day Project - Part III: Create
- Creating a History Day Project - Part IV: Submitting Your Project
Project Category Tips
Check Out Examples of Past Projects in Each Category
- Shirley Chisholm: Championing Domestic Workers through Debate and Diplomacy by Joanna Fabian, Lorenzo Guaman, Maria Manouselakis, Cecilia McConnaughy, and Ariana Mendez, New York City, Junior Division
- Little Rock: A Frontier of the Global Cold War by Lawson Wright, New York City, Senior Division
- The Camera as a Sword: Asian American Representation in Corky Lee's Photography by William Ling-Regan, New York City, Senior Division
- Women Strike for Peace: How 1960s American Mothers Used Diplomacy to End Atmospheric Nuclear Testing
- Building a Home from Diaspora: Making and Remaking the First American Chinatown by Yan Zhen Zhu, New York City, Senior Division
- The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: The First Desegregated American Fighting Force by Iago Macknik-Conde, New York City
- Route 66: The Road of Possibilities by Jack Anderson, Jader Briggs, Daytona Foley, Logan Smith & Megan Swancutt
- Black, White and Blue: Vivien Thomas and the Cure for Blue Baby Syndrome by Jasmine Hughley
New York City History Day is generously supported by the Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust and the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund.
Registration is closed!
Registration is closed for History Day! Check back in the Fall for the 2026 contest.
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