National History Day Research @ UW Libraries: Sample Topics with Sources

Debating Women's Suffrage

Seward's Triumph: Acquiring Alaska in 1867

Communicating the Bounty of the Pacific Northwest: Early Travel Guides

Communicating the Future: The Century 21 Exposition

Black Lives Matter 1955: Coverage of the Murder of Emmett Till

Communicating Across the Nation: Samuel Morse and the Telegraph

Public Health Communication: The Pandemic of 1918

Revealing Secrets: The Pentagon Papers and the Press

Creating the Myth of the Lost Cause by the Daughters of the Confederacy

Advocating for Abolition: The Anti-slavery Writings of Frederick Douglass

Speaking to the Dead: Seances in Victorian England

Communicating the Horror of War through Poetry

Crisis Communication: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Depicting the Maori in New Zealand’s Newspapers