History Day - Frontiers in History

National History Day Theme 2023, 2021 : Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas

Additional topics and text from the Connecticut History Day Topic List 2022-2023. Document above. 

For suggested resources - see Resources subpage

• Impact on Indigenous peoples already occupying the "frontier"
  • Connecticut - John Mason; Pequot Wars; 
  • Westward Expansion - Serial Set; Smithsonian; War Department (I need to double check the date range)
• Space - FDLP NASA items; JFK administration, and other administrations
• Western Frontier - Serial Set, older federal documents
• Undersea - Serial Set, NOAA, Nautilus and/or submarines; Smithsonian publications
  • Jacques Cousteau, Ballard
  • First submarine, first nuclear sub
• Mapping and Explorations of USA - Serial Set maps; H&G maps
• Internet - more World Wide Web open to public.

• Westward Expansion
• Technological Innovation
• Space
• Sea
• Royal Charter of 1662

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