The history competition of pupils in primary schools has been running since 1997 under the auspices of the National Education Institute Slovenia. In 2002, following the initiative of its members the history competition of students in secondary school was taken over by the Slovenian History Teachers’ Association. The competition of pupil’s historical knowledge is for 8th and 9th grade pupils, while the National competition of young historians is for all students in grammar (general and other) and secondary schools. Both competitions popularize history as a subject and enable students to deepen and broaden their historical knowledge on the basis of research and the study of primary and secondary sources and literature. In the first decade, the history competitions were going “from antiquity to modern history of the 20th century”. In recent years, however, the content of the competition in primary school is associated with the marking of events from our Slovenian history or the history on Slovenian territory. To mention a few: 100 years of Illyrian provinces, 20 years of independent Slovenia, 85/55 years of radio/television, the 500th anniversary of the great peasants’ revolt, etc. The competition commission’s findings show the lack of the competitor’s age appropriate study material, which would support the working title of the competition. In recent times the opinion, that each generation creates its own perception and interpretation of historical events, is becoming stronger, therefore the historical sources are being analyzed, synthesized and interpreted over and over again. And because in modern historiography different sources are connected into the historical story, more multi-perspectiveness is expected. If we want to pursue the objectives of the competition, we have to make every endeavour to provide the competitors with literature and sources that will help them study, research and spread the historical knowledge.