The Montana Historical Society created this wiki featuring various Montana history topics that could inspire National History Day projects. Each topic features a bit of background information and lists related secondary and primary sources. Check out the document to the left for additional topic inspiration. 

Montana Historical Society created this blog to increase appreciation and understanding of women who shaped Montana's past and present. Blog posts feature a wide range of stories from women bootleggers and the Women's Christian Temperance Union to early Virginia City businesswoman Sarah Bickford and twentieth-century Blackfeet banker Eloise Cobell. It also includes lists of primary & secondary sources, oral histories, links to download over 130 articles on Montana women's history and sources related to the suffrage campaign. 

Check out primary sources related to Montana Women's History!

For five years, Montana Historical Society Historian Dr. Ellen Baumler wrote entries on the funny, bizzare, and interesting episodes from Montana History that she encountered in her work. Browse through Montana Moments and see what catches your eye.

Another Montana Historical Society featuring many fascinating topics including spotted fever, Helena's "high school on wheels," and  Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Russian Boy.

African American Heritage Resources The resources on this website include information about many aspects of Black history in Montana. We invite you to explore the story maps, property inventories, lesson plans, census information, essays, first-person narratives, photographs, manuscript collections, and artifacts that help tell the story of Montana’s African American heritage.

Here are links to online biographies of 48 Montanans including Assiniboine/Gros Ventre educator, poet Minerva Allen, businesswoman Sarah Bickford, copper king Marcus Daly, wilderness advocate Bob Marshall, physician Caroline McGill, decorated World War II veteran George Oiye and bronc rider Alice Orr to nun and advocate Sister Providencia Tolan, politician Burton K. Wheeler, and lawyer and Crow tribal chairman Robert Yellowtail.

Voices of Labor: Through the Voices of Labor: Preserving the Montanans at Work and New Deal in Montana Oral History Interviews project, the Montana Historical Society digitized three major oral history projects in its collections: Montanans at Work, Metals Manufacturing in Four Montana Communities, and New Deal in Montana/Fort Peck Dam. These 600+ interviews conducted in the 1980s capture the stories of Montanans in the mining, agriculture, and forest products industries, as well as Montanans working in Depression-era New Deal programs, especially the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Also, check out this list of Montana labor resources compiled by an MTHS archivist. 

The Intermountain Seismic Belt Historical Earthquake Project, U.S. Geological Survey compiled primary source kits with newspaper articles, photographs, personal accounts, and scientific details for 48 historic earthquakes along Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah. (If the link to the 1935 Helena series doesn't work, try this one.)

This Montana Legislative History Guide is for people who want to learn more about the history of the Montana State Legislature. In addition to listing basic information such as the names of Montana territorial and state governors, you will learn: how to conduct research on the Legislature, how to locate records created by the Montana State Legislature, how to research and write and legislative history about the chronological process of a specific bill.

The Canyon Creek Schoolhouse Laboratory (Hamilton) was the site of important innovations in fighting Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and other tick-borne illnesses worldwide. 

Montana Women's History features blog posts on women's stories, bibliographies of manuscript collections, oral histories, government documents, pamphlets, magazine articles, videos, and published material, over 130 articles, information on oral histories and historic places associated with Montana women’s history and resources specifically related to the suffrage campaign, including links to newspaper articles published in the Montana press debating the issue in 1914.

Resilience: Stories of Montana Indian Women features profiles of Montana Indian Women.

Researchers can find information relating to American Indians and Alaska Natives from as early as 1774 through the mid-1990s at National Archives locations throughout the country.

The Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's. In 1998, the images were digitized and drawn from the library collections of three of the Montana State University campuses (Billings, Bozeman and Havre), the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, and Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana.

These resources recognize and remember the tragedy of the 1870 Marias Massacre in Montana.