United States History
Fieldston History Department
General
Topics for History day (Mr. Meyers’ Sections)
(Choose one topic area and
come up with a specific question about one aspect of your topic that addresses
the yearly theme, or you may create you own topic in consultation with the teacher)
Remeber that the topic must
fit the yearly History Day Theme.
The 2007-2008 theme is "Conflict and Compromise in History"
Fieldston
History Day Program
National
History Day
Refer to History day guidelines
to help make your selection. Some topic will lend themselves more easily to
certain formats. You may choose to do an essay, table top presentation, documentary
or performance.
- Bartolomeo de las Casas:
Conflict and Compromise over Empire
- City on a Hill: Conflicts over Religious Tolerance
- From Freedom to Slavery:
Becoming a Nation with Slaves
- Bacon’s Rebellion: The Conflict over Class and Race
- Conflict
and Compromise in the American Revolution
- American Revolution: Radical
or Conservative?
- The American Paradox: Slavery
and Freedom
- Whose Revolution?: The Conflict over Race in the American Revolution
- Remember the Ladies: Gender
Conflict and the American Revolution
- Freedom and Liberty: Positive
and Negative Liberty
- The Constitution: The Federalist
Controversy
- The Constitution: Tyranny
of the Masses or Tyranny of the State
- The Constitution: A Living
Document?
- From Confederation to Constitution:
The Conflict over Federalism
- The Bill of Rights: Conflict and Compromise over Individual Liberties
- Party Conflict: The Revolution of 1800
- The Role of Parties in
American Democracy
- Republicanism and Democracy
in the Early Republic
- The Monroe Doctrine and
the Emergence of American Foreign Policy
- From a Nation of Farms
to a Nation of Cities
- The Monroe Doctrine and
the Turn toward Empire
- The Turn toward Democracy
and Capitalism in the Jacksonian Era
- Jacksonian Democracy and
the Transformation of the Agrarian Ideal
- Democracy and Capitalism
in the Jacksonian Era
- Jacksonian Democracy and
the Transformation of the Agrarian Ideal
- Manifest Destiny and Amercian
Empire
- Gender and the Invention
of the Suburbs
- Fashion and the Cult of
Domesticity
- Reform of the Slums: The
Motives of Moralism
- The Invention of Domesticity
and the Birth of the Suburbs
- Seneca Falls: Standing
up for Women's Rights
- Abolition and Free Soil:
Turning Point in Party Politics
- The Compromise of 1850:
Sectionalism and the Origin of the Civil War
- Abolition and Women’s Rights
- Slavery and States Rights:
the Constitutional Argument
- Abolition and Free Soil:
The Republican Debate
- Abolitionism: Taking
a Stand for Freedom
- Sectionalism and the Origin
of the Civil War: Ideology or Economics
- John Brown: Standing
Up for Freedom
- Taking a Stand Against
Oppression: Slave Agency in the Antebellum South
- The Supreme Court: Conflict and Compromise over Civil
Rights
- Lincoln:
Idealistic Warrior or Pragmatic Compromiser?
- The Emancipation Proclamation:
Conflict and Compromise over Abolition
- The Civil War and the End
of Slavery
