Last Updated on August 3, 2021
Every year National History Day puts together a list of sample topic ideas. TPS-Barat went through that list and selected a subset of those topic ideas to create curated collections highlighting Library of Congress resources. All topic ideas are related to the 2015 NHD theme: Leadership & Legacy in History but the set below focuses on themes related to the 1930s and beyond. Links to more NHD follow this resource list.
The Veterans Administration: Leading the Fight for Veterans Rights
A. Philip Randolph: Leading the Way to Integrate America’s World War II Labor Force
- A. Philip Randolph historical newspaper articles through 1922
- “Plan Negro Labor Union – Socialists & Hebrew Trades Mean to Organize Them” New-York Tribune New York , N.Y., 07 July 1918
- “I.W.W. Planned World Union of Marine Workers” The Evening World New York, N.Y., 17 July 1919
- “South Carolina Representative Declares Race Antagonism Is Fostered Through Magazines” The Herald and News Newberry S.C., 29 Aug. 1919
- “The Movements Among the Afro-Americans in New York City” The Broad Ax Salt Lake City, Utah, 15 Nov. 1919
- Human Hand sent to Editor A. Philip Randolph
- Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s
- We Must Learn to Think in Terms of Collective Action: Industrial Democracy and the Civil Rights Establishment of the 1930s streaming webcast
- A. Philip Randolph career biography A. Philip Randolph Institute
- A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom PBS via the Internet Archive
- The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP streaming webcast
- NAACP joined union organizer A. Philip Randolph in support of a massive March on Washington background
- A. Philip Randolph letter to NAACP Secretary Walter White March 18, 1941
- The Negro in National Defense 1941 poster
- Why Should We March? 1941 flyer
- Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry 1941 Our Documents
- President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 July 26, 1948 Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
- National Civil Rights Campaign memorandum October 21, 1949
- A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963
- A. Philip Randolph image set
- U.S. legislation in recognition of A. Philip Randolph
- Primary Source Learning: Labor
- Primary Source Spotlight: Labor
Finland and Norway: Leading the Resistance to the Soviet Invasion in World War II
- World Spotlight: Finland
- World Spotlight: Norway
- World Spotlight: Russia & the former Soviet Union
- World War II primary source collections & teaching resources
The Marshall Plan: The Economic Legacy of World War II
- Today in History: The Marshall Plan
- George C. Marshall: stories from America’s Library
- U.S. legislation in recognition of George C. Marshall
- World War II primary source collections & teaching resources
Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
- Today in History: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Today in History: United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 United Nations
The Truman Doctrine: Setting American Foreign Policy in the Cold War
- Today in History: Harry S. Truman
- Truman Doctrine timeline and associated primary sources Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
- Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection mentioning the Truman Doctrine
- Revelations from the Russian Archive online exhibition
- World Spotlight: Russia & the former Soviet Union
Leading the Charge to Legislate Equality: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Voting Rights Act
- Lyndon B. Johnson primary source set
- Lyndon B. Johnson image set
- NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom online exhibition item
- Voting Rights Act 1965 Our Documents
- Continuation of a March cartoon by Herb Block August 11, 1965
- Civil Rights History Project oral histories mentioning the Voting Rights Act videos + written transcripts
- Voting Rights Act books, reports & other texts
- U.S. legislation related to Voting Rights Act 1973-present
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Leading the Civil Rights Movement
- History of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Southern Christian Leadership Conference website
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference image set
- Civil Rights History Project oral histories mentioning the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
More National History Day resources
NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Power, Authority & Governance and Reform & Social Justice
NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Economics, Science, Art, Architecture & Design
NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Women and Civil Rights
NHD 2015: Leadership & Legacy Topic Ideas – Early America
NHD 2015: Leadership & Legacy Topic Ideas – The 1800s
NHD 2015: Leadership & Legacy Topic Ideas – Beginnings of a New Century
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