Abstract: With the help of modern information technology, short video has been developing in a blowout in recent years, which plays an important role in getting information in people's daily life. Embedding short videos in the process of learning and education of Party history helps to enrich the forms of learning and education, improve learning links and innovate communication methods. Using short video to carry out the learning and education of Party history should follow the principles of orientation, scientificity and closeness. Propaganda departments of Party and government should straighten out the logic of the application of short videos in the learning and education of Party history. Among them, clarifying the role of short videos in the learning and education of Party history is the premise, improving the ability of theoretical propagandists to use short videos is the key, strengthening the construction and maintenance of short video resource database of Party history is the foundation, identifying the true and false video information content in the visual era is the core, and exerting the adjustment function of evaluation in the application of short videos is the guarantee.