Suggested Topics for 2013

Each year, National History Day offers a list of suggestions for project topics which relate to the annual theme. This list is by no means exhaustive, and students are encouraged to develop topics of their own. Any topic in any era of local, regional, state, national, or world history is acceptable, as long as it relates clearly to the annual theme.

In addition to the list of topics compiled by National History Day, Central Texas topics are provided each year to encourage area students to develop an understanding of their own community's history and heritage. Local teachers, history fair judges, THD, and HOTRHF board members and staff assist in compiling this list.

SUGGESTED TEXAS TOPICS for the 2013 Theme of the Year, "Turning Point in History: People, Ideas, Events"

• Central Texas Indian Tribes Fight for Freedom


• The Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto


• The East Texas Oil Boom and/or Spindletop


• Texas A&M Admits Girls


• The Texas Revolution Officially Begins: Battle of Gonzales


• The Siege of the Alamo


• LBJ and the Great Society


• The Texas Declaration for Independence


• The Mexican-American War


• Stephen F. Austin and the Anglo-American Colonization of Texas


• Barbara Jordan, Trailblazer for African American Women


• The Texas Rangers (law enforcement unit)


• Sweatt v. Painter: Supreme Court Upheld Equal Protection Clause for Black Student to be Admitted to UT Law School
  
• Mirabeau Lamar and Texas Indian Relations


• Waco and Dr. Pepper


• William C. Brann and Journalism in Texas


• Branch Davidian Siege of 1993

HOTRHF Note: this page is up to date for 2013.