These curated resource lists coincide with the topic ideas listed in the NHD 2018 Conflict & Compromise theme sample topics list. The links lead to resources accessed from the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1924 unless otherwise noted.
Dollar Diplomacy: Ending Conflicts Through Economic Investment
- United States and Latin America: Dollar Diplomacy 1912
- Distant Neighbors: The U.S. and the Mexican Revolution Hispanic Reading Room
- “The new diplomacy (formerly dollar, now 30 [cents])” 1913? political cartoon
- Dollar Diplomacy Speech excerpts American Decades Primary Sources, 1910–1919 Cengage Learning
- “Dollar Diplomacy” to Grow in 1912 Predicts Huntington Wilson The New York Herald January 1, 1912
- Historic newspaper coverage: dollar diplomacy
- Historic newspaper coverage: Taft & dollar diplomacy
- William Howard Taft primary source collections
- Dollar Diplomacy, 1909–1913 background, U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
Theodore Roosevelt and the Completion of the Panama Canal
Fighting in World War I and Not Compromising Ideals: The Harlem Hellfighters
- Primary Source Spotlight: Harlem Hellfighters
- James Reese Europe background & primary sources
- World War I primary sources & other resources
Conscientious Objectors in World War I
- C.O.’s [sic] in Leavenworth 1919 charcoal drawing
- Suppress them! political cartoon between 1916-17
- Theodore Roosevelt at Forest Hills, New York 1917 video
- Conscientious Objector oral history interview transcript
- Conscientious Objectors historic newspaper coverage
- Conscientious Objection During World War I Home Before the Leaves Fall online exhibition
- Conscientious Objectors, World War I, Database Introduction Swarthmore College Peace Collection
The Compromise to End All Conflict: The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
- Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy (Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact or Pact of Paris) document
- Signers of the Briand-Kellogg Pact of Paris standing in the garden of the estate of President Doumergue of France photo
- Frank Billings Kellogg after the “Pact of Paris” triumph 1928 photo
- Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Frank B. Kellogg, standing, with representatives of the governments who have ratified the Treaty for Renunciation of War (Kellogg-Briand Pact) 1929 photo
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 background U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
- Today in History: Calvin Coolidge
UAW v. General Motors: Sit Down for Compromise
- Labor strategists confer with heads image Jan. 12, 1937
- Head of U.A.W. (United Auto Workers) Women’s Auxiliary kitchen set up in a restaurant image Jan.-Feb., 1937
- More Flint strike photos 1937
- Voices of the Flint Sit-Down Strike oral history excerpts Mott Community College
- Sit-down strike of 1936-1937
- The Flint, Michigan, Sit-Down Strike resource guide
- Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936-1937) background & video Social Welfare History Project
- Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936-1937) background and oral histories Michigan State University
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