Reenactment is an interesting topic of discussion in history as it tries to relieve the past whether as mentality act or physical act. This research aims to design a short story anthology to reenact about Indonesian national movement. In this article, we outline the conceptualization of the short story anthology, the process of designing the short story anthology, and its implementation on the history learning at 11th grade. The design of short story anthology for history learning involves several steps, namely problem analysis, designing and validating the short story anthology, and implementing and evaluating the short story anthology. The short story anthology designed for 11th grade students in Indonesia. It was validated by two experts and proved to be valid as instructional sources for history learning. The implementation of this short story anthology was able to help students to understand the Indonesian national movement and the zeitgeist surrounding the events so that they are able to empathize with historical agents.