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Montana History Topics NHD 2017-2018

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National History Day 2018 Theme: Conflict and Compromise in History

 

The following are a few potential topics for a 2018 "Conflict and Compromise in History" National History Day project based on Montana's state or local history.  Click on any topic to find a brief description linking it to the theme and a list of a few primary and secondary sources related to the topic and interesting relevant resources available on the internet.

 

Please note that these lists are designed just to get you started. Some of these topics will need to be further narrowed down to make good history day projects. In addition, as you research, we are certain you will find many other sources. For example, newspaper articles are rarely listed in these bibliographies--and many of these topics received on-going newspaper coverage. The Montana Historical Society will interlibrary loan microfilm reels of its extensive newspaper collection.  The Society is actively

digitizing parts of its newspaper collection and is offering a $500 prize for the project that makes best use of newspapers

digitized as part of the Chronicling America Project and/or the Montana Historical Society website MontanaNewspapers.org

 

National History Day projects and presentations must be built around a thesis, not just a list of dates or facts.  So, use this list of potential topics and resources only as inspiration to consider what particular position or thesis you want to present based on historical events, people, places, and information.

 

In addition to the topics outlined below, there are many other relevant Montana history topics. Especially consider local events and local historical figures. Leaders in your own community may have left significant legacies that illustrate topics of state and national significance based on taking a stand in history. 

 

Mining 

            Chinese Boycott

            Gov Joseph Dixon and the Mining Tax

 

Environmental Issues and Actions

          Fire Policy

          Lee Metcalf

          Sustained Yield Forestry

 

Women's History:  In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Montana, the Montana Historical Society created the Women's History Matters website.  We recommend that you browse through the more than 100 essays on that page and the bibliographies that accompany them.  You will find information about women and women's groups who faced conflict in their efforts to participate fully in their communities, the state, and the region--and responded with both strong actions and skilled compromise.  You will be able to learn about the skills and strategies they employed as they took positions and defended them: using words, examples, research, politics and much more.  The WHM website really is one of the richest sources of Montana topics and ideas that you'll find as you explore "Conflict and Compromise in History." 

          Elouise Cobell: The Blackfeet Banker Who Took on the Federal Government

          Hazel Hunkins

          Jeannette Rankin

          Montana Women's Suffrage Movement

          Ella Knowles: Fight to Become Montana's First Female Lawyer  

               

Civil Rights/Social History

           Immigrant Rights and the Chinese Experience

          "Not In Our Town": Combating Hate Crimes in Billings

           Prohibition

           1909 Missoula Free Speech Fight 

 

Economic/Labor History

          Frank Little

          Non-Partisan League: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in Eastern Montana 

          Hogan's Army

          Montana Labor Unions

          Populists, Progressives, and the Eight-hour Day

 

Political History

Gov. Joseph Dixon and the Mining Tax

1972 Constitutional Convention

Mike Mansfield

Lee Metcalf

 

Indians & European American Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange

          Allotment and The Opening of Indian Land to Homesteaders

          Creation of Rocky Boy's Reservation

          Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow 

           Elouise Cobell: The Blackfeet Banker Who Took on the Federal Government

          Salish Attempts to Retain the Bitterroot 

          1868 Fort Laramie Treaty

          Robert Yellowtail, Crow Negotiator

          1855 Hellgate Treaty

 

War and Resistance

          Louis Riel: Metis Revolutionary

Montana Sedition Act-Montana Council of Defense (World War I) 

          Montana's World War II Conscientious Objector Camps

 

 

 

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