Below you will find Library of Congress resources curated by TPS-Barat that relate to National History Day 2016 topic ideas from the Chicago Metro History Education Center. This set specifically focuses on economy, science & technology but all topic ideas are related to the 2016 NHD theme: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History.
Interest in this area involves studying labor, trade, business, advertising, consumerism
Arbitration: Exchanging Mediation of Labor & Capital to Solve Encounters (e.g. Stockyards 1918, Clothing Workers, etc.)
- America at Work 1894 to 1915 (essay)
- Chicago Union Stockyards overview
- Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions (primary source lesson plan)
- Rascher’s birds eye view of the Chicago packing houses & union stock yards
- Chicago stockyards primary source set
- Chicago stockyards labor historical newspaper coverage
- Chicago clothing workers historical newspaper coverage
Charles Gates Dawes and the Dawes Plan: Exchanging Peace for Reparations
- Charles Gates Dawes brief bio Congress.gov
- Charles G. Dawes – Biographical Nobel Prize Foundation
- Charles Gates Dawes primary source set
- Charles Gates Dawes historic newspaper coverage
- Distribution of Dawes Annuities (Finance Ministers’ Agreement, 1925)
- Allocation of Dawes Annuities (Agreement signed at Paris September 21, 1925 Extended and amended by agreement of January 13, 1927)
Exchanging Millions for Philanthropic Works: Julius Rosenwald
Exploring Retail: Montgomery Ward, Marshall Fields
- Montgomery Ward & Co primary source set
- Montgomery Ward & Co historic newspaper advertisements & articles
- The Merchant and the New National Spirit published by Marshall Field & company c1920
- Marshall Field primary source set
- Marshall Field’s historic newspaper articles & advertisements
The Making of Standard Time Zones: Facilitating Exchange
- Four Standard Time Zones for the Continental U.S. Were Introduced
- Today in History: Time
- Historic newspaper articles: Standard Railway Time
- 19th-century periodical articles
- “Standard Time by Electricity” Manufacturer and Builder Volume 5, Issue 8, August 1873
- “Uniform Standard Time” Manufacturer and Builder Volume 24, Issue 5, May 1892
- “Standard Time” Manufacturer and Builder Volume 14, Issue 12, December 1882
- “Standard Railway Time” The Century a popular quarterly Volume 26, Issue 5, Sept 1883
- “The New Standard Time and its Advantages” Manufacturer and Builder Volume 15, Issue 12, December 1883
- More time primary sources
Silver vs. Gold Struggle: Encountering Populism
- William Jennings Bryan and the Free Silver Movement
- William Jennings Bryan primary sources
- Free silver primary source set
- Free silver historical newspaper coverage
- Silverite political cartoons
- Silverite historical newspaper coverage
Railroads: Transcontinental Railroad
The Creation of Suburbs
Exploring New Methods of Trade: Role of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago
- Illinois Central Railroad primary source set
- Illinois Central Railroad historical newspaper coverage
Cyrus McCormick and the Exchange between Productivity and Farming
Encountering the 1918 Influenza Epidemic and Exploring New Ways of Public Health
- Topics in Chronicling America – The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
- More 1918 influenza newspaper articles
- 1918 influenza primary source set
Encountering Transportation in the Service of Exchange: The I&M Canal versus Shipping and Railroads
- Illinois & Michigan Canal primary source set
- Illinois & Michigan Canal historical newspaper coverage
- Illinois railroad primary source set
Explorations in Communication: Telephone….Telegraph and the Impact of Faster Exchanges
- Today in History: First Telegraphic Message Sent background & primary sources
- Today in History: The Transcontinental Telegraph & the End of the Pony Express background & primary sources
- Today in History: Alexander Graham Bell background & primary sources
- Today in History: Bell’s Photophone background & primary sources
- 1894 Telephone Lines map
- Postal Telegraph March sheet music
More CMHEC Topic Ideas
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Arts & Culture
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Civil Rights
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Environment & Geography
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Power, Authority, and Governance
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Women & Family
More NHD-related resources from TPS-Barat
- NHD 2016: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
- NHD 2016: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange Topic Ideas Part I
- NHD 2016: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2016: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange Topic Ideas Part III
- Selecting Sources: Tertiary, Secondary, Primary
- Selecting Primary Sources for Research Projects
- Using Sources: Creating a Digital Annotated Bibliography
- Tech Tools: Citation Tools
National History Day project resources
- National History Day 2016 Theme: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History article
- National History Day 2016 Theme Book
- NHD state affiliates
- Illinois History Fairs
- Chicago Metro History Education Center
- History of the Great Lakes States and Century Past Library
- NHD Contest Rule Book
- NHD presentation categories
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