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Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

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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)