Last Updated on October 11, 2020
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 power, authority, & governance but all topic ideas are related to the 2016 NHD theme: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History. More CMHEC topics will be referenced in subsequent posts.
Interest in this area involves the way that government functions, how politicians lead, laws made and impact, and how citizens participate in government.
Encounters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
- Illinois delegates
- Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee
- Pat Paulsen for President
- Democratic National Political Conventions 1832-2008
Exploring Progressive Encounters with Industrial Capitalism: Hull House Reformers in Europe
Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Encounter and Exchange of the Nation’s Future
- Political debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the celebrated campaign of 1858 in Illinois (1860)
- The Lincoln-Douglas debates (c 1918)
- Letters related to the Lincoln-Douglas debates
- Lincoln scrapbook of Lincoln-Douglas debates
- More books & primary sources related to the Lincoln Douglas debates
Pullman Strike: A Landmark Encounter Between Capitalists and Labor
- Pullman Strike background information Encyclopedia of Chicago
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1894 personal narrative
- Pullman strike 1894 historical newspaper coverage
- Collection connections: the Pullman Strike
- “Report on the Chicago strike of June-July, 1894” by the United States Strike Commission 1894
- The insurrection of June and July 1894, growing out of the Pullman strike at Chicago, Ill. 1894
- The government in the Chicago strike of 1894 by Grover Cleveland 1913
- Pullman strike image set
Pullman Town: Exchanging Freedom for a Job
- The town of Pullman, Illinois–the homes and wages of the Pullman operatives
- Pullman Industrial Complex
- Pullman Porters – Topics in Chronicling America
- Historic newspaper coverage: Pullman town
Exchanges in the Wigman: How Presidential Candidates were Selected
- Presidential candidates primary source set and additional resources
- Presidential elections primary source set & additional resources
Exploring Anti-Slavery: Lincoln and Colonization
- Lincoln and Colonization primary source set and additional resources
- Historic newspaper coverage: Abraham Lincoln and colonization
1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago
- 1860 Republican National Convention primary source set
- 1860 historic newspaper coverage: republican convention
- Republican National Political Conventions 1856-2008
Chicago and the Civil War
- Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War 1914
- Five unidentified prisoners of war in Confederate uniforms in front of their barracks at Camp Douglas Prison, Chicago, Illinois
- Winter camp of the 16th Michigan 1863 Jan. 10
- Primary Source Spotlight: Illinois Civil War Resources
Lincoln and the Building of the Nation’s Infrastructure: Exploring Government Responsibility
- Abraham Lincoln Takes a National Role primary source set and background information
- Abraham Lincoln as an Advocate of Improved Transportation p. 18 Defense Transportation Journal February, 2009
Ida B. Wells and the International Exchanges to End Lynching
- Ida B. Wells brief bio
- A resolution honoring Ida B. Wells for her activism in the civil rights and women’s rights movements and for her influential and inspirational leadership
- A Red Record: Lynchings in the United States by Ida B. Wells
- Lynch law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- To the members of the Anti-Lynching Bureau Ida B. Wells-Barnett, chairman
- Historic newspaper coverage related to Ida B. Wells and lynching
- Primary Source Spotlight: Lynching
Exchanging Slavery for Statehood: Illinois Moves from Northwest Territory
- The Northwest and the Ordinances, 1783-1858 from Pioneering the Upper Midwest
- The Jefferson-Lemen compact; the relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the exclusion of slavery from Illinois and the Northwest Territory 1915
- Notes on a journey in America : from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois 1818
- The states of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois and Michigan Territory 1836 map
- A new guide for emigrants to the West : containing sketches of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, with the territories of Wisconsin and Arkansas, and the adjacent parts 1836
- The western tourist; or, Emigrant’s guide through the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa 1846
More CMHEC Topic Ideas
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Arts & Culture
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Civil Rights
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Economy, Science & Technology
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Environment & Geography
- 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
I really would like the ability to embed these primary source picks in my web pages. I have been embedding by sending your pages to FaceBook first, and then getting the code from FaceBook. I would rather the code come directly from the PSN. It would look more professional.
I have forwarded your request on Lisa.