NHD 2021 Communication in History: Topic Ideas & Resources

Conventions, Expositions, Fairs

• Today in History: Woman’s Rights Conventions
• Paris Exposition resources
• World’s Columbian Exposition resources
• World’s Fair resources
• World’s Fair St. Louis resources | timeline & select historical newspaper articles

Methods of Communication

• Sign language
• Braille
• Political Cartoons
• Posters

Movements

• Abolition
• Civil Rights
• Conservation
• Harlem Renaissance
• Woman Suffrage | Tactics in the March to Suffrage
• Works Progress Administration

News

• African American Newspapers
  • Honoring African American Contributions: The Newspapers Inside Adams blog
  • Digitized African American Newspapers from Chronicling America
• Jewish American Newspapers
• Latino Spanish Language Newspapers
• Native American Newspapers
• Collection Spotlight: All American News first newsreels produced for a black audience 1942-45
• National Press Club Luncheon Speeches 1954-1989

People

• Activists
• Artists
• Justices
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • United States Supreme Court
• Politicians & Political Debates
  • John Peter Altgeld
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • James F. Byrnes
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Salmon P. Chase
  • Margaret Chase Smith
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Henry Clay
  • Stephen A. Douglas
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • José Manuel Gallegos
  • Patrick Henry
  • Robert M.T. Hunter
  • John Jay
  • Barbara Jordan
  • John Lewis
  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Patsy Mink
  • Gifford Pinchot
  • Carl Schurz
  • Daniel Webster
• Photographers
  • Matthew Brady
  • Esther Bubley
  • Walker Evans
  • William P. Gottlieb
  • Samuel H. Gottscho and William H. Schleisner
  • Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
  • Dorothea Lange
  • Carl Van Vechten
  • Women Photojournalists
• U.S. Presidents

Protests

• Protest & Reform Primary Source Set
• Race Riots/Protests
• “Bonus” Army
• First March from Selma
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Technologies

• Film
  • Made to Persuade: Advertising and Promotional Films
•  Radio
  • Guglielmo Marconi resources
  • Radio and Television 1940 film
  • Behind your radio dial 1949 film
  • More films & videos related to radio
  • Radio images
  • Historical newspaper articles
  • Radio operator life history
  • Contemporary U.S. legislation related to radio
  • American Archive of Public Broadcasting
• Telegraph
  • Today in History: First Telegraphic Message Sent
  • Today in History: The Transcontinental Telegraph & the End of the Pony Express
  • Primary Source Spotlight: Samuel Morse
• Telephone & Photophone
•  Television
  • Today in History: Television