Choose and Focus Your Topic

Choose Your Topic

Try the automagical Picking a Topic tool

Look through these sites to see some topic ideas:

See suggestions from the Minnesota History Center.
Explore history websites.

Use this History Center Guide to help choose a topic.

Britannica Online

Contains basic information about a broad number of topics for review of your topic. Save the articles to google drive or send them to your email to keep track of the sources.

Reminders

As you look at topics, ask yourself:

Am I interested in learning more about this topic?
Are there connections to this year's theme, Turning Points in History?
Are there resources available for further research?

Explore and Focus Your Topic

This is where you are going to take your general topic of interest and start reading about it. You'll know when you have a good topic if:

After reading about it, you are still interested.
You can find enough information on it.
It focuses on a specific event or person, not a big topic.
It fits the theme of History Day: Innovation in History: Impact, Influence, Change.

Learn About Your Topic

History.com

Contains accurate and informatative content about a range of topics. This site has videos, articles, and links to explore your topic to find broad information.

Gale In Context

Provides sources with to support middle and high school research and critical thinking skills. Use with your LibraryGo Barcode:

22091600 + student ID.

Learn More.

Wikipedia

A free online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteers. Explore this to find out information and use the links and footnotes to access other sources on your topic.

Using AI to Explore and Narrow Your Topic

Google Gemini can help you discover a topic that you are interested and matches the theme. Remember AI is like a conversation so if none of the topics interest you, ask it to adjust the results. You can ask it for more topics, or ones from a specific country or time period.

Paste this sentence into Gemini and edit it for your interests

I'm looking for a list of history topics about ________________ that relates to revolution and had a reaction that happened at least 20 years in the past.

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