NATIONAL HISTORY DAY FAIR 2016 SAMPLE TOPICS LIST

1. New Spain and the Comanche: Encounters, Missions, and

Conquests
2. The Spark that Ignited a Flame: Chinas Explosion into
Gunpowder
3. Roger Williams: The Exploration to Establish Rhode Island
and Provide Religious Tolerance
4. Mansa Musa: Exploring Africa
5. Encounter and Exchange of Religious Ideas between
Puritans and Native Americans in New England
6. Jesuit Missionary Matteo Ricci: Italy and China Exchange
Philosophy and Astronomy
7. Catherine the Greats Encounters with Voltaire and the
Enlightenment
8. Commodore Matthew Perry and Exchange with Japan
9. The Exchange of Disease: Encounters between Europeans
and Native Americans in the Colonial Era
10.
Catherine of Siena and Gregory XI: The Exchange
that Returned the Church to Rome
11.
James Cook and the European Encounter with
Oceania
12.
How the Encounter of the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Led to the War of 1812
13.
Venice 1348: A Global Encounter, a Deadly Exchange
14.
Exploration and Ice: Encountering the North Pole
15.
The Silk Road and Cultural Exchange
16.
Encountering New Spain: Manifest Destiny and the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
17.
Exploring the Galapagos: Charles Darwin and the
Theory of Evolution
18.
American
Missionaries,
China,
and
Religious
Encounters
19.
Brigham
Young,
Mormonism,
and
Westward
Expansion
20.
Ada Lovelace: Exploring Computer Programming in
1840s England
21.
Galileo: Exploring the Universe, Encountering
Resistance
22.
Athens and Sparta: Military Encounter and Exchange
23.
Rudolf Roessler: The Allies Exchange with an
Undercove German Decoder
24.
An Encounter with Fanaticism: John Doyle Lee and
the Arkansas Mountain Meadows Massacre

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Exploring Disease: Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
26.
The New York Stock Exchange: Money as Power
27.
Margaret Mead: Exploring Human Development
28.
Diplomatic Encounter: The SALT Talks
29.
Exchange between France and the United States:
The Louisiana Purchase
30.
Exploring African-American Culture: The Harlem
Renaissance
31.
Intimate Exchange: Abigail and John Adams
32.
Expanding the Boundaries of Dance: Martha Graham
33.
Rosalind Franklin: Exploring the Human Genome,
Encountering Prejudice
34.
Exploring New Technologies: Andrew Carnagies
Steel Empire
35.
Exploring America: Immigration
36.
Nelson Mandelas Encounters with Apartheid
37.
Exploring an Empire: Hammurabis Expansion of
Mesopotamia
38.
Patterns of Exploration and Encounter: French
Jesuits in Canada
39.
Turkey and the Armenian Genocide: a Violent
Encounter of Religious Difference on Close Borders
40.
The Artistic Exploration: Bierstadt and Morans
Journey and the Creation of Yellowstone National Park
41.
The Zimmerman Telegram: The Exchange that Broke
Down American Isolationism
42.
Reynolds v. United States: The Encounter between
Polygamy and Law
43.
Encounter in Little Rock: Desegregating Central High
School
44.
Encountering Communism: The Creation of NATO
45.
Minersville School District v. Gobitis: When Idolatry
Encounters Patriotism
46.
Exchanging Musical Performance for Morale: Captain
Glenn Millers Contribution to World War II
47.
The Exchange between Congress and the Executive:
Who Decides to Fight a War?
48.
The Iran-Contra Affair and the Controversial
Exchange of Hostages for Arms
49.
Waco: The Deadly Encounter between the BranchDravidians and the FBI
50.
Apollo 13: Exploration in Space
51.
Pop Art: The Exchange of Consumerism and Culture

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Impressment: The Unwanted Exchange between
Great Britain and the United States
53.
Encountering a New Religion: Spanish Catholic
Missionaries in the Americas
54.
World War II War Brides: The Exchange of Cultures
55.
Peace of Westphalia: The Exchange that Ended the
Thirty Years War
56.
Roanoke:
When
Exploration,
Encounter,
and
Exchange Went Terribly Wrong
57.
Encountering a New Society: The Idea of Republican
Motherhood
58.
The Sinn Fein Party and their Exploration of Irish
Independence
59.
The Monroe Doctrine: How Isolationism Impacted
the Exploration, Encounters, and Exchanges of a New
Nation
60.
Gibbons v. Ogden: Steamboat Encounters and
Exploration of the Commerce Clause
61.
Dorothea Dix: Exploring the Injustices for Herself to
Promote Institutional Reform
62.
The Marshall Plan: Rebuilding Europes Economy
through Exchange
63.
Exploring their Rights and Encountering Change:
Women of the 1920s
64.
Disproportionate Exchange: Slave and the Triangle
Trade
65.
Political Exchange: Jimmy Carter and the Camp
David Accords
66.
The Berlin Conference: Colonization and Exploration
of Africa
67.
Encountering Two Worlds at the Berlin Wall
68.
Zheng He: How Chinas Brief Period of Exploration
Led to Centuries of Isolationism
69.
19th Amendment of Suffragettes: Exploring New
Methods of Protest