2022-2023 Topic Examples
American Frontiers:
Places and Borders as Frontiers
People and Ideas as Frontiers
Exploration as Frontiers
Space: The Final Frontier
Breaking Barriers in Politics:
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Breaking Barriers in Education:
Breaking Economic, Social, and Gender Barriers:
Breaking Racial Barriers:
Breaking Barriers in Sports/Music:
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Breaking Barriers in Faith:
- Anne Hutchinson or Roger Williams braking barriers in the Puritan Church
- A. B. Simpson An Unlikely Founder of a Global Movement
- Jim Elliot Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached Acua Indians
- Balfour Declaration Setting Israel on a Path to Nationhood
- Queen Elizabeth Bringing Religious Freedom to England
- Jonathon Edwards and or George Whitefield Opening Hearts for the Great Awakening
- Fulton Street Prayer Meetings Braking Spiritual Strongholds in New York City
- John Wesley and the Holy Club
- Count Zizendorf 100 Year Prayer Vigil Brings a Missionary Explosion
- William Wilberforce Crusade to end Slave Trade in England
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Frederick Douglass“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
Frederick Douglass spent his life fighting for justice and equality. Born into slavery in 1818, he escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. People everywhere still find inspiration today in his tireless struggle, brilliant words, and inclusive vision of humanity. -NHD theme book 2019 |
William J. Powell fought racism upon returning home after serving in World War II by leading a resolute campaign to make the game of golf "color blind" by building Clearview Golf Club of East Canton, Ohio. He remains the only African American to build, own, and operate a golf course in the United States.
Frontiers in SportsKathrine Switzer, long been one of running’s most iconic figures, is known not just for breaking barriers during the 1966 Boston Marathon but also for creating positive global social change. Because of her, millions of women are now empowered by the simple act of running.
-kathrineswitzer.com |
Frontiers in CongressJeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States when she was elected to the House of Representatives from Montana in 1916. She was sworn into office on April 2, 1917, more than two years before the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women nationwide the right to vote, was passed by Congress and ratifed by the states.
Rankin campaigned as a suffragist, pacifist, and social reformer, prevailing against seven men in the Republican primary in her home state of Montana, where women had gained the right to vote in 1914. She served in the 65th Congress, from 1917 to 1919, and again in the 77th Congress, from 1941 to 1943. In 1917, she was one of 50 members of the House of Representatives who, along with six senators, opposed United States entrance into World War I, and was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war against Japan in 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. -NHD theme book 2019 |
The Berlin Wall and Berlin Airlift: Flying over Communist Barriers
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The United States, United Kingdom, and France controlled western portions of the city, while Soviet troops controlled the eastern sector. As the wartime alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union ended and friendly relations turned hostile, the question of whether the western occupation zones in Berlin would remain under Western Allied control or whether the city would be absorbed into Soviet-controlled eastern Germany led to the first Berlin crisis of the Cold War. The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin.
-history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The United States, United Kingdom, and France controlled western portions of the city, while Soviet troops controlled the eastern sector. As the wartime alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union ended and friendly relations turned hostile, the question of whether the western occupation zones in Berlin would remain under Western Allied control or whether the city would be absorbed into Soviet-controlled eastern Germany led to the first Berlin crisis of the Cold War. The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin.
-history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift
Breaking Racial Barriers in the United StatesBayard Rustin is best known today as a master strategist of the African American civil rights movement. Working closely with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), he was an organizing force behind two landmark events of twentieth-century United States activism: the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. However, Rustin’s vision for social change was a global one, and throughout his life he worked to break barriers all over the world.
-NHD themebook 2019 |
Breaking Barriers in the Middle EastFrom June of 1947 to August of 1949, Bunche worked on the most important assignment of his career – the confrontation between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. He was first appointed as assistant to the UN Special Committee on Palestine, then as principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission, which was charged with carrying out the partition approved by the UN General Assembly. In early 1948 when this plan was dropped and fighting between Arabs and Israelis became especially severe, the UN appointed Count Folke Bernadotte as mediator and Ralph Bunche as his chief aide. Four months later, on September 17, 1948, Count Bernadotte was assassinated, and Bunche was named acting UN mediator on Palestine. After eleven months of virtually ceaseless negotiating, Bunche obtained signatures on armistice agreements between Israel and the Arab States.
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Race to Space: John Glenn and Yuri Gagarin (The Final Frontier)
“Poyekhali!!” With that one Russian word, meaning “Let’s go!” on April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to become the first human to travel in space.
A little less than a year later on February 20, 1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. For the next few decades the Soviets and Americans would be engaged in a race to break barriers in science and technology. |
Frontiers in Aviation
Elizabeth Jennings Graham
One hundred years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Elizabeth Jennings Graham drew attention to the right of African Americans to access public space and questioned the second class status of African Americans in the antebellum North. In 1854, Graham was directed to disembark from a horse-drawn streetcar in New York City simply because she was a black woman. She refused. The white conductor wrestled her out of the car and threw her to the street. Although she was a free woman in a free state, she had to fght for her rights in the public space. She took her case against the Third Avenue Railway Company to court. She was awarded $250 in damages and the line was ordered desegregated. This ultimately led to the desegregation of all of New York City’s streetcars. -NHD themebook 2019 |
Frontiers on the Frontline: French Maginot Line vs German Siegfried Line in WWII
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The Grimke Sisters
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Breaking Social Barriers: Booker T Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited African-American educator Booker T. Washington, who had become close to the president, to dine with his family at the White House. Several other presidents had invited African-Americans to meetings at the White House, but never to a meal. And in 1901, segregation was law. News of the dinner between a former slave and the president of the United States became a national sensation. The subject of inflammatory articles and cartoons, it shifted the national conversation around race at the time. Inviting a black man to dinner crossed a social boundary "African-Americans were invited to meet in offices. They built the White House. They worked for the various presidents. But they were never, ever invited to sit down at the president's table. And when that happened, the outrage was just unbelievable. ... " 'Dining,' and I put it in quotation marks, was really a code word for social equality. And the feeling was, certainly in the South, that if you invited a man to sit at your table, you were actually inviting him to woo your daughter. He should feel perfectly comfortable asking your daughter to marry him. And so that's really the primary reason why people were so offended. It just shouldn't happen in 1901 that a black man would be able to ... have that entree into your family." -NPR.org |