Below you will find Library of Congress resources curated by TPS-Barat that relate to National History Day 2015 topic ideas from the Chicago Metro History Education Center. This set specifically focuses on the economy, scientific innovation, art, architecture, and design but all topic ideas are related to the 2015 NHD theme: Leadership & Legacy in History. Links to more NHD and CMHEC content follow this resource list.
NOTE: historical newspaper coverage is from 1836-1922
Economy
The IWW—Leading the Way to Industrial Unionism
- Industrial Workers of the World primary source set
- Industrial Workers of the World: historical newspaper coverage
Legacy of the Haymarket Tragedy
- Haymarket primary source set
- Primary Source Learning: Chicago Anarchists & the Haymarket Affair
- The Dramas of Haymarket Chicago History Museum & Northwestern University
- Haymarket resources Illinois Labor History Society
- John Peter Altgeld primary source collection
- Featured Source: Poor Illinois!
Railroads and How Chicago Became the Center of the Nation
John Fitzgerald, Victor Olander, Chicago Federation of Labor and Progressive Unionism
- The cause of industrial panics in the United States 1903 by Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council
- Chicago Federation of Labor: historic newspaper coverage
- Illinois Federation of Labor: historic newspaper coverage
- Victor Olander: historic newspaper coverage
- John Fitzgerald: historic newspaper coverage
- American Federation of Labor & Quarry Workers
Stockyards Industry
- Chicago Union Stockyards overview
- Rascher’s birds eye view of the Chicago packing houses & union stock yards
- Chicago stockyards primary source set
- Chicago stockyard: historical newspaper coverage
- Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions
Mail Order Catalog Industry: Amazon’s Great-Great Grandparents
- Mail order catalog primary source set
- Mail order catalog: historical newspaper collections
- Sears Roebuck primary source set
- Sears Roebuck: historical newspaper coverage
- Montgomery Ward primary source set
- Montgomery Ward: historical newspaper coverage
Scientific Innovation
Manhattan Project
- From the Manhattan Project to Chernobyl: science reference guide
- Who Was the Man Behind the Manhattan Project? Profiles in Research, Library of Congress Information Bulletin May 15, 1995
- World War II ‘Scientific Manpower’ Inside Adams Science, Technology & Business blog November 10, 2010
- Military Intel: Behind the Scenes Veterans History Project oral histories
- Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943 (analysis help)
- Manhattan Project primary source set
Atoms for Peace
- Dwight D. Eisenhower primary source set
- Dwight D. Eisenhower “Atoms for Peace” speech 8 December 1953 Voices of Democracy Project
- Foreign service oral histories mentioning atoms for peace
- S.Con.Res.151 – A concurrent resolution recognizing the essential role that the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 has played in development of peaceful uses of atomic energy
- International Atomic Energy Agency originally the world´s “Atoms for Peace” organization in 1957 within the United Nations
Arts, Architecture, Design, and Cultural History
Chicago’s Leadership in Architectural Engineering and Design
- Daniel Burnham primary source collections
- Frederick Law Olmsted primary source collections
- Louis H. Sullivan primary source collections
- Frank Lloyd Wright primary source collections
Jens Jensen: Architect of the Landscape
- Jens Jensen image set
- Jens Jensen landscape: historical newspaper coverage
- Jens Jensen Legacy Project
- American Landscape and Architectural Design 1850-1920
Redefining Dance: Katherine Dunham
- Collection Spotlight: Katherine Dunham Selections images, videos, articles
Related Resources
NHD 2015: Preparing for National History Day
NHD 2015: Free Primary Source Primer PD
NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Power, Authority & Governance and Reform & Social Justice
NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Women and Civil Rights
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