Potential History Day Topics
Potential History Day Topics
Below are some possible topics for your History Day project. Each photo is linked to a website with more information on the topic. Click on each photo to learn more!
Image Citations
“Adena Culture.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Adena_Culture.
“Hopewell Culture.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Hopewell_Culture.
“Fort Ancient Culture.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Fort_Ancient_Culture.
Nicholson, Francis. Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina. [S.l.: s.n, 1724] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2005625337/.
George Catlin, Ball-play of the Choctaw--Ball Up, 1846-1850, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.428A. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ball-play-choctaw-ball-3886
“Beaver Wars.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Beaver_Wars.
Engraving of Spaniards enslaving Native Americans by Theodor de Bry, published in America. part 6. Frankfurt, 1596. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/histarch/research/haiti/puerto-real/change-through-time/.
Warren, Jason W. “King Philip's War.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., July 15, 2015. https://www.britannica.com/event/King-Philips-War.
“French and Indian War.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/French_and_Indian_War.
“Proclamation of 1763.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Proclamation_of_1763.
“Northwest Ordinance.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Northwest_Ordinance.
“Treaty of Greeneville (1795).” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Treaty_of_Greeneville_(1795).
Wilse, Anders B. Whaling canoe at Neah Bay. 1900. Photograph. Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/loc/id/5.
Barbara Krauthamer, “Slavery,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL003.
Caryl-Sue. “Indian Removal Act.” This Day in Geographic History. National Geographic Society, April 6, 2020. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/may28/indian-removal-act/.
Kuiper, Kathleen. “Black Seminoles.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., December 29, 2014. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Seminoles.
Choate, John N. Eskimo? Children in Native Dress on Board Ship to Carlisle Indian School. Black and white gelatin glass negative. 1879. Photo Lot 81-12 06834400, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.si.edu/object/eskimo-children-native-dress-board-ship-carlisle-indian-school-1879:siris_arc_73570.
Eastman, Seth. Mendota from Fort Snelling. Painting. 1848. Minnesota Historical Society, https://www.mnopedia.org/multimedia/mendota-fort-snelling.
Fassett, Samuel Montague. Henry Laurens Dawes. 1876. Albumen silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.77.173.
Ray, Michael. “Wounded Knee Massacre.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., January 17, 2020. https://www.britannica.com/event/Wounded-Knee-Massacre.
“Jim Thorpe.” Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Jim_Thorpe.
“Code Talker.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-talker.
Kasebier, Gertrude. Zitkala Sa, Sioux Indian and activist. 1898. Platinum print. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1006130.
“Mission & History.” National Congress of American Indians. National Congress of American Indians. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.ncai.org/about-ncai/mission-history.
“1953: Congress Seeks to Abolish Tribes, Relocate American Indians.” U.S. National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/488.html.
“Vandalized Government Sign on Alcatraz,” exhibits, accessed September 3, 2021, https://digilab.libs.uga.edu/exhibits/items/show/477
Whittaker, Charles Evans, and Supreme Court Of The United States. U.S. Reports: F. P. C. v. Tuscarora Indian Nation, 362 U.S. 99. 1959. Periodical. https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep362099/.
Rowe, Abbie. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Wilderness Act, 1964. Photograph. NPS Photograph. https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/management/wildernessact.htm
Leffler, Warren K. Lyndon Baines Johnson signing Civil Rights Bill. April 11, 1968. Photographic print. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91796664/.
Johnson, Troy. “We Hold the Rock.” National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, November 26, 2019. https://www.nps.gov/alca/learn/historyculture/we-hold-the-rock.htm.
Trail of Broken Treaties protest march poster. 1973. Poster. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, https://www.si.edu/object/archives/components/sova-nmai-ac-998-ref506.
“Siege at Wounded Knee, 1973.” Siege at Wounded Knee, 1973, Libcom.org, 19 Sept. 2006.
Poster for The Longest Walk. 1978. Poster. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, https://www.si.edu/object/poster-longest-walk:nmaahc_2014.183.3.
Heyn Photo, photographer. Stella Yellow Shirt and baby. , ca. 1899. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/92508778/.
Niuam (Comanche) peyote fan, ca. 1890. Oklahoma. 22/9197 (Ernest Amoroso, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian). Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/11/30/native-perspectives-american-indian-religious-freedom-act/.
https://www.nps.gov/archeology/tools/laws/nagpra.htm
Miller, Shawn. Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo. June 6, 2019. Photograph. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/.
“Linda Hogan.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/linda-hogan.