Explore Freely Available Resource Guides on History Research Topics

By Kelly A. Latham, Editor

What history-related research topics are trending today?

We’ve put together a set of freely available resource guides that offer an introduction to some of these hot topics, along with documents that support them. You’ll also find guiding questions and suggested keyword searches.

These resource guides are ideal for teaching, learning and research:

• • Researching the Civil Rights Movement
  • The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks & Aftermath: Primary Sources & Research Topics
  • Plagues, Epidemics, Peculiar Beliefs & Practices Through Time: 1500-2020
  • Decolonization of Africa & Asia
  • New Deal Programs and Race, Class and Ethnicity
  • Socialist Party of America Papers
  • British Illustrated Newspapers & Magazines
  • Women’s Health, Education & Employment in the Long 19th Century
  • Black Women & Civic Engagement From Reconstruction Through the Jim Crow Era

You may also be interested in the following use cases on more specific topics:

• • African American Women & the Women’s Army Corps During World War II
  • The Rivalry Between Margaret Sanger & Mary Ware Dennett
  • FBI Files Enable Balanced Research on the Black Panther Party
  • Mass Incarceration and Social Justice in the United States and Around the World
  • Blind Disability Activism: The Blind Marches of the 1920s & 1930s
  • Unearthing the Hidden History of the Voter Education Project (VEP)
  • Slavery & the History of Business
  • Eugene V. Debs: “Traitor to His Country” & “Modern Messiah”

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