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National History Day Topics in ARC

2011 Theme - Debate & Diplomacy: Successes, Failures, Consequences

Contents:

1. Sample NHD 2011 Topics and ARC Search Links
2. Next Steps

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) contains a wealth of primary source materials for National History Day research projects. For resources for past years' themes, see National History Day Topics in ARC.

This page provides search hints for NARA's online catalog, the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), to help students and teachers locate descriptions of archival materials:

• available in NARA facilities across the country
  • in the Washington, DC area
  • at Regional Archives nationwide
  • at Presidential Libraries nationwide
• available online as digitized copies -- over 153,000 images including
  • historical documents (handwritten and typescript)
  • photographs
  • maps
  • other graphic materials
  • digitized historical films (clips in ARC and longer films on GoogleVideo)

Sample NHD 2011 Topics and ARC Search Links

Larger Version "Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos at the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty." (ARC ID 179906 )

Click on the ARC Search Links to see a pop-up window with ARC search results on that topic. For more help, see:

• How to Search in ARC
• Tips for ARC Search Links

ARC Search Links	See more in ARC about ...
Treaty of Paris, 1783	Revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin's Diplomacy Efforts with England
Bill of Rights	NARA Items Featured in the World Digital Library
John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis	Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy
Chartering the United Nations	World War II: Notable Individuals
Constitutional Convention, 1787	Revolutionary War
Brown v. Board of Education	The Modern Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Act of 1964	Civil Rights Teaching the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Susan B. Anthony	Suffrage and the 19th Amendement Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Women and Equal Rights
Cherokee Land Disputes	Native Americans
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Civil Rigths Leaders
Dropping the Atom Bomb	World War II President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plessy v. Ferguson Dred Scott Case	Court Cases
Indian Reorganization Act 1934	Native Americans
Iranian Hostage Crisis	Jimmy Carter Middle East and Foreign Affairs
Helsinki Agreement	President Gerald R. Ford
Petitions to Congress	Congress
Sherman Antitrust Act	Antitrust Court Cases
Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act	Environmental Studies
Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations	World War I

Next Steps

Also check out DocsTeach for their set of NHD 2011 Documents

The ARC Guide for Educators and Students contains more ARC search tips and explanations of how to understand an ARC description.

Contact and Visit a NARA Location. If you find archival series, file units, and/or items and you would like to see them in person, contact the NARA unit responsible for those materials. You could arrange to visit the unit in person and conduct research at a NARA facility, or order photocopies.

Do you live outside of the D.C. area? NARA facilities are located nationwide. ARC's Location of Archival Materials filter is helpful in finding ARC items at the closest NARA facility.

Questions? Find contact information for general questions about NARA. Contact the ARC staff with questions about how to search in ARC at arc@nara.gov.