The 2024 National History Day theme is
Registration is open for the 2023 regional contests!
Feb. 24, Southern Regional Contest at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. Register at https://nm-snmrc.nhd.org/ by Feb. 10.
March 3, Central Regional Contest, National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Register at https://nm-crc.nhd.org/ by Feb. 17.
The Northwest Regional Contest in Farmington has been cancelled. Please contact historyday@nmhumanities.com if you need assistance in participating in one of the other contests.
If you have questions regarding your National History Day project, please email us at Ask A Librarian. We are happy to help.
Our collection of ebooks, New Mexico Reads, primarily includes Southwest history and culture titles. It also includes some books on racism in America, and national topics such as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
El Portal provides both primary and secondary resources on a wide variety of subjects.
The New Mexico State Library has a large collection of historic New Mexico newspapers, books on the history and culture of New Mexico and the Southwest, and many state and federal documents, including those published by Congress and the New Mexico State Government.
We have in-building wifi, public computers, microfilm readers, in-house databases, and plenty of tables. Bring your I.D. to get a library card!
The New Mexico State Library is located at 1209 Camino Carlos Rey in Santa Fe. We are open M-F from 1 pm - 4:45 pm. If you have a question, please email or call us (505-476-9702); we are happy to help you with your National History Day Research.
We are located in the same building as the New Mexico State Archives and the Office of the New Mexico State Historian.
A lot of research is done in this building, come join us!
