2015 Sample Topics List
• Benjamin Franklin and the Library Company of • The Three Leaders: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour and the Philadelphia: A New Intellectual Nation
• Charlemagne’s Conquest and its Impact on European • TheUnification International of Italy Space Station: Leading an International Architecture Effort to Unite Space • Mikhail Gorbechev: Leading a Struggling Nation out of the • Cold War Presidency The Iran Hostage Crisis: Defining the Leadership of a • The Euro: How the European Union Led the Movement for • Thomas Paine’s Revolutionary Writings Economic Integration • Bacon’s Rebellion and the Growth of Slavery in Colonial • William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
• The World Health Organization: Leading the Fight to • TheVirginia Bloodless Revolution of 1800: John Adams, Thomas Eradicate Communicable Disease Jefferson, and the Legacy of a Peaceful Transition of Power • Yoga Bonita: How Brazil Led a Soccer Revolution • Andrew Jackson: The Legacy of the People’s President • Globalization of McDonalds: American Corporations • Invoking the Power of the Federal Government: Grover Leading the World’s Economy Cleveland and the Pullman Strike of 1894 • Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev: Leading the World • Alice Paul: Leading the Movement for Equal Rights Out of the Cold War • Leading the Charge to Legislate Equality: Lyndon B. •
• ThePierre Legacy de Coubertin of King Leopold’s and the Rebirth Vision ofin the InternationalCongo • A.Johnson Philip andRandolph: the Voting Leading Rights the Act Way to Integrate America’s Olympic Committee World War II Labor Force • Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Declaration of Human Rights • America’s Homes • Drawing Boundaries: Thomas Jefferson’s Land Ordinances Steve Jobs and the Apple II: Bringing Silicon Valley to and the Settling of the American West • Hammurabi’s Code: The Legacy of the World’s First Legal Code and the Man who Made It • • Linking Europe, Africa, and Asia: Ferdinand de Lesseps and • Toussaint L ’Overture: Leading the World’s Only Successful Pancho Villa: Leading Northern Mexico the Construction of the Suez Canal Slave Rebellion • • Nelson Mandela and the Fight for Equality in South Africa • The Napoleonic Code: The Legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte’s • Eva and Juan Peron: Leaders of the Argentinian People Otto von Bismarck and the Unification of Germany Remarkable Leadership • Woodrow Wilson and the Organic Act: Creating the • National Park Service to Protect America’s National Land • • Nora Zeale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance The Congress of Vienna: Legacy of Napoleon’s Downfall Movement • Simon Bolivar and Gran Columbia: Leading the Fight for Eugene V. Debs’ Leadership of the American Socialist • Realpolitik : A New Form of Leadership Independence from Spain • The Marshall Plan: The Economic Legacy of World War II • Lilly Ledbetter: Leading the Charge for Equal Pay • The Truman Doctrine: Setting American Foreign Policy in • Emiliano Zepata: Leadership for “Reforma, Libertad Ley y the Cold War Justicia” • • Olaudah Equiano: Exposing the Horrors of the Middle Passage The Veterans Administration: Leading the Fight for • Finland and Norway: Leading the Resistance to the Soviet • Emmeline Pankhurst: Leading a Militant Struggle for Veterans Rights Invasion in World War II Suffrage in Great Britain • • Map of Europe • Charles V and the Peace of Augsburg: Leading to a New Alexander Dubček: Leading the Prague Spring • Leading a Communist Island: Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia Vladimir Lenin: Leading the Russian Revolution NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2015 7 • Confucianism: Leading the Way to a Chinese Civil Service • Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize • Ravi Shankar: Blending Eastern and Western Music •
• • St.Tecumseh Thomas and More: the Resisting Western Confederacy:King Henry VIII Leading the Battle Against Westward Expansion • TheTheodore Mercator Roosevelt: Projection: Leading Leading the Charge How We to View Build the the World Panama Canal • Christianity to America’s Slaves • Ulysses S. Grant: Leading the Campaign to Take the George Whitefield and the Great Awakening: Preaching Mississippi River • Robert Wapole and the Legacy of Salutary Neglect • George Washington: Leading the US to Independence • The Hudson River School: Leading an American School of Art • Leading Higher Education in America: Harvard, Yale, and • Elizabeth Bisland and Nelly Bly: Leading the Way for William & Mary Female Journalists by Racing Around the World • Using Television to Promote Religious Ideals: The Legacy of • The Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Leading Billy Graham the Civil Rights Movement • Cato and the Legacy of the Stono Rebellion • General Billy Mitchell and the Development of the American Air Force • Opha Mae Johnson: Leading the Way for Women in the Marine Corps • Berry Gordy and Motown: Creating the Sound of America and a Legacy of Opportunity • China’s Terracotta Army: The Legacy of Qin Shi Huang • George Crile, Harvey Cushing, and the Ambulance • General Anna Mae Hayes: Leading the Army Nurse Corps Americaine: The Legacy of Wartime Medicine • Leading the Fight Against Communism: Matthew Ridgway and the Korean War For even more topic ideas and links to local topics, go to www.nhd.org/themebook.htm. • Following the Catholic Church’s Lead: The Crusades • Isabella, Ferdinand, and the Spanish Reconquista Scan for Additional Resources • Roger Bacon: A Renaissance Man in Medieval Times
8 NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2015