Maryland History Day

Calling All Maryland Students and Teachers!

The Maryland Humanities Council invites Maryland students and teachers to participate and compete in Maryland History Day!

History Day is an exciting, history-based learning experience for students in grades 6 through 12. In History Day, students learn about issues, ideas, people, and events in history and apply what they have learned through creative and original productions.

Choose your own topic! Students select a topic that interests them and relate it to the annual theme. From local history to world history, from ancient to contemporary history, from politics to music - there are unlimited possibilities for topic choice.

Get involved in hands-on research! Beyond simply memorizing names and dates, students conduct in-depth research by using libraries, archives, museums, and oral history interviews to draw their own conclusions about the topic's significance in history.

Choose a format that highlights your talents! Students can showcase their research and creativity

through one of five formats - historical papers, imaginative exhibits, original performances, multimedia documentaries, and historical web sites.

Teachers across Maryland say that History Day is an invaluable tool in the classroom! History Day gets students actively engaged in history and helps meet requirements of state social studies standards. It is a flexible program that includes a variety of methods of participation and interdisciplinary approaches.

And History Day is fun!