NHD 2023 – Frontiers in History: Ideas Resource Sets
The 2023 National History Day theme is Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas. A frontier may represent the outermost limits of a defined body of knowledge or a new field waiting to explored.
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?
Movements
- Abolition
- Bonus Army
- Civil Rights
- Conservation
- Freedmen’s Bureau
- Great Migration
- Harlem Renaissance
- New Deal
- Title IX
- United Nations
- Woman Suffrage
- Works Progress Administration
Technologies
- Air Balloons & Airships
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Cable cars
- Daguerreotype
- Diseases
- Electricity
- Elevator
- Flights & planes
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Gramophone
- Hoover Dam
- Kinetographic camera
- NASA & the Space Age
- Nuclear Fission
- Photophone
- Polio
- Sewing Machine
- Skyscrapers
- Submarines
- Steamboat
- Telegraph & Transcontinental Telegraph
- Titanic
- Transcontinental railroad
- Typhus
- Yellow Fever