Sample Topics

The following list of sample topics is meant simply to give students an idea of the sorts of topics which are possible with this year's theme.

Sample Topics for Ohio can be found at www.ohiohistory.org/historyday >>click on annual theme>>click on Ohio topics

• The Allied Invasion of Russia: Reaction to Revolution
• FDR’S First 100 Days: The Defining Response to the Great Depression
• William Wilberforce: My Mission is to Abolish Slavery
• Revolutionary Response to Communism: The Truman Doctrine
• WPA: The Antidote to the Depression
• John Brown's Revolt against Slavery
• The U.S. Constitution: Reform or Counter-Revolution?
• Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln’s Revolutionary Attempt at Reform
• Lewis Hine: Reforming Child Labor Laws
• Emily Howland: Abolitionist
• Vietnam Memorial: Healing Response to the Vietnam War
• Dorothea Dix and the Asylum Movement
• Simon Bolivar and Latin American independence
• The Coercive or Intolerable Acts: Britain's Reaction to the Boston Tea Party
• The WCTU and Alcohol in America
• From FDR to Nixon: the Revolution of Presidential Press Coverage
• Birth of Public Housing; Reforming the Injustice in Housing
• The Copernican Revolution: Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler
• Television: A Cultural Revolution
• The Boxer Rebellion: China's Fight Against Foreign Powers
• The Glorious Revolution and Britain's Bill of Rights
• The Edict of Nantes: A New Approach to Religious Dissent
• Jose Marti and Cuba's War of Independence
• Margaret Sanger: Champion of Birth Control
• The Black Panthers against the Establishment
• Canals and Railroads: The 19th-Century Revolution in Transportation
• Bismarck's Reforms in Germany
• Classical Music: Reaction to the Baroque Era
• Confucius and Civil Service Reform in China
• Aguinaldo and the Philippine Uprising
• The Wesley Brothers and Methodist Reforms of the Church of England
• Hawks and Doves: American Reaction to the Vietnam War
• The Airplane: Revolution in Warfare
• Sit-ins and Freedom Rides: Reformers in Action
• Haymarket Riots: Revolution, Reform, Reaction in Labor
• Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
• The Reforms of Sosthenes
• William Wallace: Rebel Against English Oppression
• The Model T. Henry Ford Revolutionizes the Auto Industry
• Fourierism and the Reaction to Industrialization
• The New Deal: Saving Capitalism Through Reform (Look at individual programs
• Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War
• The Columbian Exchange: An Unexpected Revolution
• Charlotte Perkins Oilman: Revolution of the Domestic Woman
• Jazz: Revolution in Music
• Reaction to Labor Unrest: The Suppression of the Homestead Strike
• The Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
• The Reign of Terror: Radicalization of the French Revolution
• St. Francis of Assisi: Reform in Monasticism
• Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan: Leaders of the Women's Movement
• Reconstruction: The Failed Revolution?
• Title IX: Gender Equality in Sports
• The Atomic Bomb: Revolution in Warfare
• The Whiskey Rebellion: Challenge to a Young Government
• The Warren Court as an Agent of Reform
• Reaction to Pearl Harbor: Japanese Internment Camps
• Congress of Vienna: Europe’s Reaction to Revolution
• Steven Jobs and the Personal Computer Revolution
• The Egyptian Pyramids: Revolution in Architecture
• Tecumseh and the Indian Reaction to Western Expansion
• Corrie Ten-Boom: Heroic Reaction to the Holocaust
• Response to Immigration: The Know-Nothings
• The Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy: Revolution and Reform
• Who Lost China?": American Reaction to the Chinese Revolution
• Warsaw Uprising: Desperate or Dignified Reaction
• LBJ and the Great Society
• Toussaint L'ouverture and the Haitian Revolution
• The Meiji Restoration and the Reform of Japan
• Pancho Villa, Mexican Revolutionary
• The Munich Agreement of 1938: A Reaction to Hitler’s demands
• Brown v. Board of Education: Reforming Segregated America
• The Pure Food and Drug Act: Making a Healthier America
• Little Rock Nine; The South’s Reaction to Brown v. Board of Education
• General Topics that can be narrowed down
• Abolitionists reform movement
• Underground Railroad