These are a few examples of resources.
Students: you may want to look at the Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources page of this guide. Often lesson plans link to primary resources - they may also pose interesting questions to help you focus your project.
You might also look at our guide for the current year's annual theme. You can reach it from the main History Day research guide - there are links under the page "Annual Themes".
These resources cover specific date ranges (often to correspond with state affiliates and/or National History Day eras.
The research guides will be updated, and specific topics may be added to pages located on the navigation menu.
The National Park Service highlights several locations to dig deeper into westward expansion. Consider these as starters:
•Using art: https://home.nps.gov/home/learn/photosmultimedia/promoting-westward-expansion.htm and media as a way to promote the west - engaging the imaginations of millions to head out west for new lives.
•Check out Nicodemus National Historic Site in Kansas:https://www.nps.gov/nico/index.htm to share the story of the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River.
•Learn about the legacies of Latino homesteaders at the Homestead National Monument of America: https://www.nps.gov/articles/latino-homesteaders.htm.
•Use this link: https://www.nps.gov/search/?query=westward+expansion&sitelimit=%2F&affiliate=nps to find the search results at nps.gov for westward expansion from many perspectives.