Quick Summary
The National History Day annual theme for 2025-2026 is “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.” Explore project topics with a new guide from the Minnesota Digital Library.
National History Day is a program that builds opportunities for students to research historical topics around a particular theme. Each year a new theme is chosen that applies to world, national, or state and local history. The 2025-26 theme is “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.”
MDL has developed a History Day resource guide on our website, and we recently added a new page explaining this year’s theme. This guide includes several examples of political, economic, cultural, religious, scientific, and social revolutions that had an impact on Minnesota and its people. We encourage students to select topics from Minnesota’s history because showing how larger historical events and movements affected local communities can help projects stand out.
Explore the new theme page and start brainstorming topics today!
