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The 2026 National History Day theme is Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History. To help students prepare contest entries, the Office of the Historian has prepared several collections using material from across this website.
https://history.house.gov/NHD/
Like #BlackFriday in the US Capitol Rotunda back in 1875. #HouseCollection
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Best of luck with those #Thanksgiving leftovers! Might we suggest a carb-laden contest? #HistoryBlog https://history.house.gov/Blog/2015/November/11-16-photo-potato/
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tense #TurkeyDay 1937 in the House. (Luckily it ended in football.) #HistoryBlog 📷: @LibraryCongress https://history.house.gov/Blog/2014/November/11-26-Thanksgiving/
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Four former House staffers with more than 150 collective years of experience bring the #Thanksgiving spirit to the Hill in these #oralhistory videos. #HistoryBlog https://history.house.gov/Blog/2024/November/11-26-Thanks-OralHistory/
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#OTD 1917, the Old-Time Printers' Assn. of Chicago wrote in support of Prohibition, asking Congress to, "remove the blighting curse of the liquor traffic, root and branch, from American Life." #RecordsSearch #HouseRecords https://history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032448822
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Need a lesson on carving your turkey? Speaker Bankhead has some tips. And fashion suggestions as well. Speaker William Bankhead carefully carved a 25-pound turkey for a staff luncheon in the Capitol in 1938. #Thanksgiving https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/PA2011/PA2011-08-0064f/
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
You know what sounds good right about now? Perfect sledding @USCapitol #OTD in 1938. #HouseCollection https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/PA2015/PA2015-01-0052/
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"The only thing you could hear was people crying." #JFK's funeral remembered in #oralhistory. #HistoryBlog https://history.house.gov/Blog/2014/November/11-21-Kennedy/
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Prepping sides for #Thanksgiving? Try a recipe from a 1920s Congressional Cookbook in the #HouseCollection. https://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/15032440084
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Welcome to the Capitol Christmas Tree!

On December 24, 1913, thousands of people flocked to the U.S. Capitol to celebrate Washington’s first “community Christmas.” https://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/37010

📷: Library of Congress
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Ten unpopular trumpets in the House #OTD in 1922. What did it take to be heard in the House of Representatives? Getting from “wait, what?” to “loud and clear” required three tries, ten trumpets, and a flying coffin. #HistoryBlog https://history.house.gov/Blog/2016/April/04_18_Art_Post/
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
You can now download images from Collections Search! Currently, more than 750 historical objects from the #HouseCollection have hi-res downloadable images. Find them all here & check back as we continue to add more. https://bit.ly/DownloadHouseCollection
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Rep. J. J. Pickle had a unique campaign button for his elections. #PickleDay https://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/15032392002
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Integrate historic images, documents, or oral histories into your lessons using our tools (like this one for photographs). Visit our Tools for Teaching with Primary Sources page for more. #TeachingWithPrimarySourceshttps://history.house.gov/Education/Primary-Sources/Primary-Source-Analysis/
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
September 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM