NHD 2023 – Frontiers in History: Places Resource Sets
The 2023 National History Day theme is Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas. A frontier may be a geographical area like a new region beyond some established border. While considering topics for history fair projects, keep the following questions from the NHD 2023 themebook in mind.
- What factors contributed to the development of a frontier?
- Why did the frontier emerge?
- How did the frontier change?
- When did it cease to be a frontier?
- What impact did the frontier have on the people who experienced it, and how did they affect it?
U.S.
- Stono Rebellion
- French and Indian War
- Missions of Old California
- Northwest Ordinance
- Louisiana Purchase
- Western Expansion & Manifest Destiny
- Indian Removal
- New Philadelphia, Illinois
- Mexican American War
- California Gold Rush
- Gadsden Purchase
- Alaska Purchase
- Ellis Island
- Spanish American War
- Internment Camps During the World Wars
- Alcatraz
World