NHD Topic Starters

• NHD Theme Book 2012 @Alaska NHD

  • NHD Topics: 2011 http://www.nhd.org/images/uploads/2011sampletopics.pdf

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• Specific Topics:

• Japanese Internment

  • Japanese Internment: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/internment/

  • Wisconsin Historical Society Lessons: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/lessons/secondary/internment.asp

  • National Archives: http://archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html

  • SFSU Internment Documents: http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/documents.html

  • American Women's History: http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-internment.html:

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  • Our Documents http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=47

  • Pacific Region Archives: http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/curriculum/4th-grade/chinese-exclusion.html

  • Teaching American History MD: http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/

    •  http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000136/html/t136.html

• Vietnam War:

  • PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/psources/index.html

  • eNotes: http://www.enotes.com/vietnam-war-primary-sources

  • Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm

• Civil Rights:

  • PBS Eyes on the Prize http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/index.html

  • Alabama Department of Archives: http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights.html

  • Black Past: http://www.blackpast.org/?q=african-american-history-primary-documents

  • Best of History Websites - Civil Rights: http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_CivilRights.shtml

  • Library of Congress Teacher Themes:

    •  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-rights/set.html

  • Finding Dulcinea:

    • http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History/Civil-Rights-Movement.pg_01.html

• UC Berkeley Primary Sources: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/primarysources.html

  • On the Web: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/primarysourcesontheweb.html

• Topics from Chicago Metro Education Center:

  • http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/history-fair/history-fair-a-nhd-theme/nhd-suggested-topics.html

  • Chicago History Fair Graphic Organizers: http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/images/stories/pdfs/2010%20theme%20graphic%20organizers-final.pdf

  • Research Page at Chicago History Fair: http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/research.html

  • Chicago History Fair Curricular Research Topics: http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/curriculum.html

• Wisconsin NHD Topic Ideas: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/historyday/themes.asp

• British Primary Sources: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/primary.htm

• Euro Documents: http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

• UK Documents: http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/

• Education Archive for Newspapers: http://youreducationarchive.com/

• History Net: http://www.historynet.com/

• BBC History Pod Casts: http://www.historyextra.com/podcast-page

• Primary Sources on Early Modern History: http://mccandlessa.people.cofc.edu/tudorlinks.htm

• Repositories of Primary Sources: http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

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