NHD 2017: Taking a Stand – U.S. History Topic Ideas Part II

Last Updated on December 27, 2021

These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the NHD 2017 theme sample topics list. Links lead to additional curated sets of resources. Note: historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922 unless otherwise noted.

Standing Against Federal Authority: The Plight of the Farmers During the Whiskey Rebellion

• “A great body of the people of the country will meet tomorrow in Braddock’s fields . . . Gazette of the United States and Daily Evening Advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 08 Aug. 1794”
• Whiskey rebellion: historic newspaper coverage
• Whiskey insurrection: historic newspaper coverage
• Braddock’s Battlefield
• Whiskey Rebellion Research Guide
• Whiskey Insurrection from History of Washington County 1870
• Liquor tax: historic newspaper coverage 1789-1795

Standing Against the British: The Boston Tea Party and Its Consequences

Rosa Parks: Sitting Down to Take a Stand

The Fight for Social Equality: Jane Addams and Hull House

William Lloyd Garrison: Taking a Stand with Words

Fighting Unemployment: The Journey of Coxey’s Army

• Co-join Coxey’s army sheet music
• Coxey’s Army historic newspaper coverage
• Jacob Coxey historic newspaper coverage 1894

Taking a Stand Against Kingship: George Washington’s Denial of Power

Standing Against the President: Congress’ Victory in Radical Reconstruction Against [Andrew] Johnson

Taking a Stand Against the Trusts: Teddy Roosevelt as a Trust Buster

Standing Against Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act

• Sherman Act historic newspaper coverage
• Everybody’s doing it! 1912 political cartoon
• Modern U.S. legislation related to the Sherman Act

Defiance in Leaps and Bounds: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Claudette Colvin and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Astor Place Riots: Taking a Stand for Theater

Standing Against Conquest: Chief Osceola and the Seminole Indians

• Seminole Indians historic newspaper coverage through 1838
• Osceola in Florida background
• Osceola of Florida portrait
• Osceola’s grave photo
• The Death of Osceola sheet music
• Osceola march sheet music
• Chief Osceola historic newspaper coverage

More resources

• NHD 2017  U.S. History Topic Ideas Part I
• NHD 2017 European History Topic Ideas Part I
• NHD 2017 European History Topic Ideas Part II
• NHD 2017: World History Topic Ideas
• NHD 2017: World History Topic Ideas Part II
• NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project