NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Women & Family

Last Updated on August 8, 2021

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 women and family 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.

Encountering Masculinity: The Armour Mission

• Armour Mission historic newspaper coverage

Exchanging Domesticity for Civic Engagement in the 19th Century: Women’s Clubs

• Introduction to Clubwomen & The General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) National Women’s History Museum
• Women’s clubs primary source set
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs primary source set
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs historic newspaper coverage
• YWCA
  • Y.W.C.A. Girls in Service
  • YWCA image set
  • YWCA historical newspaper coverage
• The Black Women’s Clubs
  • National Association of Colored Women reports, articles & other texts
  • African-American women’s clubs in Chicago 1890-1920 Illinois Periodicals Online
  • National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs historical newspaper coverage
  • Ida B. Wells Club historic newspaper coverage
  • Alpha Suffrage Club historic newspaper coverage
  • Phyllis Wheatley Club historic newspaper coverage
  • Cornell Charity Club historic newspaper coverage

Exploring Reform and Encountering Inequality: Hull House and Women’s Rights

• Today in History: Jane Addams & Hull House background & primary sources
• Hull House & women’s rights: historic newspaper articles
• Settlement House Women National Women’s History Museum

Ellen Gates Starr: Arts and Activism

• Ellen Gates Starr portrait
• Ellen Gates Starr historic newspaper coverage
• Today in History: Jane Addams & Hull House background & primary sources

Women’s Trade Union League: Encounters and Exchanges between Labor Movement and Women’s Movement

• Working Women: The Women’s Trade Union League National Women’s History Museum
• Women’s Trade Union Seal
• More Women’s Trade Union League images
• The Economic Position of Women 1910
• American Citizenship Rights of Women Senate subcommittee hearing March 2, 1933
• Women’s Trade Union League historic newspaper coverage
• Agnes Nestor historic newspaper coverage

Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement: Exploring Social Reform

International Exchanges in the WCTU: The Global Fight to End Alcohol Abuse

• Amendments 18 and 21 Inside Adams blog post February 12, 2014
• Causes: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union National Women’s History Museum
• Woman and temperance; or, The work and workers of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union c1883
• The truth in the case : concerning partisanship and non-partisanship in the W.C.T.U. 1889
• Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union by their president, Frances E. Willard 1893
• Women’s Work in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1898
• A brief history of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union c1907
• More texts by and about Frances Willard
• Frances Willard image set
• Frances Willard temperance: historic newspaper coverage
• W.C. T.U. historic newspaper coverage
• W.C.T.U. international historic newspaper coverage
• W.C. T.U. primary source set
• Today in History: Temperance & Prohibition background and primary sources

Eunice Tietjens – Modern Woman in the World

• Eunice Tietjens historic newspaper coverage

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 – Power, Authority, and Governance
• NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Environment & Geography

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
• NHD presentation categories