Special Collections Department - Resources - History Day Topics
Suggested Topics for 2011-2012 NHD Theme: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History
These topics use resources available in the Special Collections Department at Iowa State University Library. Links are provided to online finding aids (where available) for collection descriptions and listings. For additional information about resources available for these and other topics, please contact the Special Collections Department. For more detailed information about this year's topic, please visit the National History Day website.
Possible collections relating to this topic:
1000 Friends of Iowa: Citizens United for Responsible Land Use Records, MS 612: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS612.html
Agribusiness Accountability Project Records, MS 068: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS068.html
American Agriculture Movement Records, MS 463: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS463.html
Ames Peace Network, Nerve Gas Taskforce Records, MS 161: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS161.html
John Vincent Atanasoff Papers, RS 13/20/51: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/13-20-51.html
Hugh Hammond Bennett Papers, MS 164: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS164.pdf
Norman E. Borlaug Papers, MS 467: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS467.html
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, RS 21/7/3: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-3.html
George Washington Carver Collection, RS 21/7/2: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-2.html
Citizens Against River Pollution (CARP) Records, MS 472: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS472.html
Citizens Committee for a Constitutional Convention (Iowa) Records, MS 016: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS016.html
Citizens Committee to Eliminate Litter in Iowa Records, MS 088: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS088.html
Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation Records, MS 445: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS445.html
Citizens United for Responsible Energy Records, MS 142: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS142.html
Citizens United for the Conservation of Underground Water, Inc. Records, MS 222: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS222.html
Wayne Darrow Papers, MS 021: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS021.html
Duane E. Dewel Papers, MS 046: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS046.html
Farm Aid Ephemera Collection Records, MS 394: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS394.html
Farm Crisis Committee Records, MS482: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS482.html
Farm Land Preservation Association, Inc. Records, MS 108: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS108.html
Farmers and Ranchers Midwest Political Action Committee Records, MS 192: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS192.html
Farmers Holiday Movement Records, MS 461: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS461.html
Temple Grandin Papers MS 344: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS344.html
Merle PapersHansen , MS 595: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS595.pdf
Perry G. Holden Papers, RS 16/3/11: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/16-3-11.html
Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt Papers, RS 13/9/51: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/13-9-51.html
Iowa Citizens to Save the Ledges State Park Records, MS 097: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS097.html
Iowa Farmers Union Records, MS 092: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS092.html
Iowa River Greenbelt Resource Trust Records, MS 395: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS395.html
Iowa School Organization, Inc. Record, MS 145: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS145.html
Iowa Socialist Party Records, MS 211: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS211.html
Iowa State Grange Patrons of Husbandry Records, MS 486: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS486.html
Iowa State University, Government of the Student Body, (Carrie Chapman) Catt Hall Review Committee Records, RS 22/1/8: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/22-1-8.html
Iowa Tax Reform Action Coalition Records, MS 168: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS168.html
Iowa Taxpayers Association Records, MS 125: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS125.html
Iowans for Returnable Beverage Containers Records, MS 138: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS138.html
Iowans for WOI-TV, Inc. Records, MS 584: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS584.html
Iowa-Yucatan Partners of the Americas Records, MS 34: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS034.pdf
League of Women Voters of Ames Records, MS 341: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS342.html
Mary Krumboltz Hurd Papers, MS 275: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS275.html
McCall Family Papers, MS 10: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS001.html
Re-Route Crude Oil Records, MS 156: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS156.html
National Crisis Action Rally Records, MS 436: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS436.html
National Family Farm Coalition Records, MS 548: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS548.html
National Farmers Cooperatives Union/National Council of Farmers, MS 444: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS444.html
National Farmers Organization Records, MS 481: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS481.html
National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association Records, MS 044: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS044.html
Nellie M. Naylor Papers, RS 13/6/51: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/13-6-51.html
Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society Records, MS 364: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS364.html
New Alchemy Institute Records, MS 254: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS254.html
North American Farm Alliance Records, MS 501: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS501.html
George J. Ormsby Papers, MS 109 : http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS109.html
Louise L. Parker Papers, MS 14: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS014.html
People United for Rural Education (P.U.R.E.) Records, MS 300: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS300.html
Prairie Fire Rural Action Records, MS 313: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS310.html
James V. Risser, Jr. Papers, MS 438: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS438.html
Vincent E. Rossiter Sr. Papers, MS 258: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS258.pdf
Sylvan T. Runkel Papers, MS 619: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS619.html
Rural Coalition Records, MS 368: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS368.pdf
Theodore Saloutos Papers, MS 396: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS396.html
Save the Ledges Coalition Records, MS 075: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS078.html
Margaret W. (Margaret Wragg) Sloss Papers, RS 14/7/51: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/14-7-51.html
Socialist Workers Party, Farm Protest Group Materials Records, MS 249: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS249.html
Frank H. Spedding Papers, RS 17/1/11: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/17-01-11.pdf
Story County [Iowa] Land Preservation Association Records, MS 169: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS169.html
L. H. (Lois Hattery) Tiffany Papers, RS 13/5/20: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/13-05-20.pdf
Jack Trice Papers, RS 21/7/23: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-23.html
United Farmers of Story County [Iowa] Records, MS 204: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS204.html
Alda and Elmina Wilson Papers, RS 21/7/24: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-24.html
Woman Suffrage Collection, MS 471: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS471.html
Previous Year's Topics
"Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences" 2010-2011"
"Innovation in History: Impact and Change" (2009-2010)
"The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies" (2008-2009)
"Conflict & Compromise in History" (2007-2008)
"Triumph and Tragedy in History" (2006-2007)
"Taking a Stand in History: People, Ideas, Events" (2005-2006)