HIT: History Day Topics

[Audrey Glick <glick@IWAYNET.NET>]

Here is the big list of topics for History Day that I promised.  The theme
is Triumph and Tragedy.  The day before I made up my mind to really work on
this list, I learned that the topics can cover Triumph and/or Tragedy.  The
ideas really flew then!  There is a section of topics of Ohio interest
because there is a special cash prize for best Ohio-related project in our
state competition. This might be divided into two parts.  It's late and I'm
not going to give this my usual proofreading.  Forgive any typos.

MEDICINE
        Smallpox Vaccine
        Polio Vaccine
        Pasteurization
        The Black Death
        Anesthetics
        Fertility Drugs
        Burns Research (Shriner's Burns Hospitals)
        Siamese Twins
        Artificial Heart
        Heart Transplants
POLITICS
        Richard Nixon
        Shirley Chisholm
        John F. Kennedy
        Presidential & VP Also-rans
        United Nations
LITERARY
        F. Scott Fitzgerald
        Ernest Hemingway
        Lois Duncan
        Sylvia Plath
CURRENT ISSUES
        Bosnia
        Fall of Communism in Russia
        Colombian Drug Lords
        Dunblane, Scotland Massacre
        O.J. Simpson--Criminal & Civil Trials
        Nicole Simpson
        The Unibomber
        Zlata's Diary
        Nelson Mandela
        Apartheid in South Africa
        Swiss Banks & Laundered Nazi Money
SOCIAL ISSUES
        Homelessness
        Vietnam War Veterans
        Drug Rehabilitation Programs
        Violent Crime
        Foreign Adoption
        Education Equity
        Affirmative Action
        Jimmy Carter--Habitat for Humanity
        Henry David Thoreau
        Dr. Kevorkian
        Rosa Parks
        Riots at Attica
        Underground Railroad
        Pogroms
        Gandhi
        Booker T. Washington
        Frederick Douglass
        Freedom Riders
        Karen Ann Quinlan
        Special Olympics
ECONOMY
        Stock Market Crash
        Roosevelt & the New Deal
        The Depression
        The Dust Bowl
        Wall Street Scandals
ENTERTAINMENT
        Judy Garland
        Steven Spielberg
        Kurt Cobain
        John Lennon
        Elvis Presley
        Gilda Radnor
        Harry Houdini
        Charlie Chaplin
        Oprah Winfrey
        Marilyn Monroe
        Jerry Lewis
        Billie Holiday
        Elizabeth Taylor
        Christopher Reeve
HISTORICAL
        Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
        The Nurenburg Trials
        China-Tiannamen Square
        Formation of the State of Israel
        Napoleon
        Custer's Last Stand
        Native Americans--Alcatraz
        Homesteaders/Pioneers
        The Masada
        The Maccabees
        The Alamo
        The Shah of Iran
        Imelda & Ferdinand Marcos
        Yitzhak Rabin
        The French Revolution
        England during WWII
        Theodore Roosevelt
        The Battle of Britain
        The Liberation of the Death Camps--WWII
        Adolph Hitler
        Anne Frank
        Prisoners of War
        Civil War Issues
        Julius Caesar
        Japanese Americans in WWII--Manzanar
        The Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
        Oskar Schindler
OHIO
        The Limited
        The Ohio Theatre
        Xenia, Ohio
        Buster Douglas
        Stolen Vatican Manuscripts
        Leroy Jenkins
        Columbus Zoo Breeding Program
        Captol South
        Capital Area Humane Society
        Central State University
        Dave Thomas
        Alfred Tibor--Holocaust Surivor and World-Famous Artist
        Underground Railroad
        Paul Tibbets--Pilot of Enola Gay
        The Wright Brothers
        Columbus Neighborhood Revitalizations
        Kent State
        Woody Hayes
        Art Schlichter
MISC.
        Nancy Kerrigan
        Pete Rose
        Elie Wiesel
        Mr. Everest Tragedy
        Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
        Donald Trump
        Bill Gates
        Ludwig von Beethoven
        Greg Louganis
        Helen Keller
        Alaskan Oil Spill
        Race to the Moon
        Wilma Rudolph
        Jesse Owens
        The Space Shuttle Challenger
        The Royal Windsors
        Olympic Athletes
        Fallen Athletes who Came Back
        Nobel Prize Winners
        Ancient Civilizations that Died Out
        Time Man of the Year
        Cars like Edsel, Tucker, DeLorean
        Alternate Fuel Sources
        Coal Mining--Devastation and Reclamation
        NASA
        Natural Disasters
        Michelangelo
        The San Francisco Earthquakes
        Chicago's Great Fire
        The Titanic
        Chuck Yeager
        Alexander Graham Bell
        Thomas Edison
        Albert Einstein
        Muhammad Ali
        Dionne Quintuplets
        Dian Fossey
        Hoover Dam
        Golden Gate Bridge
        Railroads in the U.S.
        Bombing at the Atlanta Olympics
        Poaching
        Japan--WWII to the Present
        Amelia Earhart
        Charles Lindbergh
  Audrey Glick
    Worthington, Ohio
      glick@iwaynet.net