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U.S. History Sample Topics U.S. HISTORY SAMPLE TOPICS • The Winter of Valley Forge: Triumph and • The Great Raid on Camp Cabanatuan Tragedy in the Continental Army • Rerouting the Chicago River: An • The Missouri Compromise: Unable to Hold Engineering Triumph Off the Tragedy of the Civil War • Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia • Salem Witch Trials • The Creation of the Atomic Bomb: • Smallpox and Inoculation Scientific Triumph or Human Tragedy? • Posthumous Portraiture: Creating Artistic • Abstract Expressionism: American Triumph out of Tragedy Artistic Triumph • The First Battle of Bull Run: Anticipated • Impressment of Sailors: An American Tragedy? Union Triumph Leads to Tragedy • The Tragedy of McCarthyism • Mormon Migration to Utah • The Three-Fifths Compromise • Chicago: America’s Second City • The Tet Offensive • Hudson River Valley School: Triumph of Nature • American Settlers Versus Native Americans • The Battle of Little Bighorn • Little Rock Nine: Triumph and Tragedy • The Triumphs and Tragedies of the of Integration Transcontinental Railroad • Reconstruction: Tragedy Follows Triumph • D-Day: Triumph Despite Tragedy • The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act • Ford Motor Company’s Assembly Line: A of 1906 Triumph for Capitalism • Alice Paul and the Woman Suffrage Movement • Banning of DDT: Rachel Carson’s Triumph • Executive Order 8802: Security over • Loving v. Virginia: Tragedy of Time, Civil Liberties Triumph of Love 10 | Triumph & Tragedy in History EUROPEAN HISTORY SAMPLE TOPICS • The Triumph of Gutenberg’s Printing Press • The Easter Rising: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Rebellion • Nazi Art Looting During World War II • King Charles I: A Tragic End for the Monarchy • The Crusades: A Tragedy of Religious Proportion • Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox: • The Battle of Bosworth Field: The End to the Reformation in Scotland Wars of the Roses • The Founding of the European Union • Edict of Nantes: Triumph or Tragedy? • King Henry VIII Versus the Catholic Church • Triumph and Tragedy of the French Resistance in World War II • The Division of Berlin After World War II • The Protestant Reformation and the European • Emmeline Pankhurst and her Struggle for Wars of Religion Suffrage in Great Britain • William Shakespeare: Triumph Through • Catherine de’ Medici and the Huguenots His Tragedies • Neville Chamberlain: The Tragedy of • Treaty of Versailles: Triumph or Tragedy? Appeasement • Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, and the • Battle of Waterloo: New Beginnings from Reformation: The Triumph of Propaganda the End • The Marshall Plan: Economic Reconstruction • Marco Polo: Economy of the Silk Road of Europe • Vincent Van Gogh: The Triumph and Tragedy • Isabella, Ferdinand, and the Spanish Reconquista of Genius • Galileo: The Tragic Consequences of Triumph • Thomas Cromwell: Suppression of Monasteries in the Skies • Christopher Columbus: Triumph or Tragedy? • The German U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic • The Great Fire of London: Rebuilding Act of 1667 National History Day 2019 | 11 National History Day® WORLD HISTORY SAMPLE TOPICS Graduate Courses for Educators • Athens, Sparta, and the Battle of Marathon • Philippine-American War • The Shimabara Rebellion: Catholic Tragedy, • Cultural Revolution in China Buddhist Triumph • Joseph Stalin and the Purge of Russia nhd.org/OnlineEducation • Emperor Meiji’s Modernization of Japan • Alexander the Great: Personal Triumph • Spanish Influenza: The Tragedy of a Deadly and Tragedy Virus in Wartime • Anwar Sadat: Struggle for Peace • The Castle Hill Convict Rebellion: An "I thought the course was fantastic! I learned many practical strategies to • South African Apartheid and the Division Australian Tragedy of a Nation use with my classes and I look forward to implementing them." • The Triumph and Tragedy of the Japanese • Saladin: Military Triumph During the Crusades Invasion of Manchuria • Genghis Khan: Cartography and Power • The Partition of India: Triumph of Independence, Tragedy of Division • Chiune Sugihara: The Triumph of a World War II Japanese Diplomat • The Six-Day War • Triumph and Tragedy of King Tut’s Treasure • The Iran Hostage Crisis • Akbar I: The Triumph of Unification • Colonization: The French in Vietnam • Arusha Accords of 1993: The Tragedy • The Crown Lands Acts of 1861: An of Failure Australian Tragedy Summer 2018 - Courses run July 2 to August 20 • Tragedy of Blood Diamonds, Triumph • Emily Hobhouse and the Second Boer Introduction to Project-Based Learning in the National History Day Framework of the Kimberley Process War Concentration Camps Registration Deadline: June 8 • The Tragedy of Religious Conflict in • Creation of the State of Israel 1980s Nigeria Fall 2018 - Courses run September 10 to December 10 Conducting Historical Research in the National History Day Model Registration Deadline: August 24 Developing Websites and Exhibits to Facilitate Historical Thinking Skills Registration Deadline: August 24 Introduction to Project-Based Learning in the National History Day Framework Registration Deadline: August 24 12 | Triumph & Tragedy in History Graduate credits offered through the University of San Diego.
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