According to Dictionary.com, these songs were "a sailors' song, especially one sung in rhythm to work." You "shall not" get points if you can't recall the name.
What is a sea shanty?
100
An interview with a person who lived through Japanese internment.
What is primary source?
100
The National History Day final product may be a paper, an exhibit, a performance, or these other two options.
What is a documentary or website?
200
This government owned library is the largest in the world and is the home of the U.S. Copyright office. Digital resources include books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts among other tools.
Viewed as a popular protest anthem, this Public Enemy song from 1989 was revived in the 2016 movie, Star Trek: Beyond, both to protest misuse of power and to demonstrate "classical music" in the 23rd century.
What is Fight the Power?
200
An article based upon eyewitness accounts and photos which describes the experience of Iqbal Masih, a young Pakistani orphan who stood up against child labor.
What is a secondary source?
200
This statement explains what you believe to be the impact and significance of your topic in history.
What is a thesis?
300
This section of the History and Art History Dept of George Mason University "creates websites and open-source digital tools to preserve and present the past, transform scholarship across the humanities, advance history education and historical understanding, and encourage popular participation in the practice of history."
The first major modern clash between a politician and a musical artist over rights to a song was in 1989 between Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and this "Born to Run" artist.
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
300
A document with the arrangement and words to a hymn meant to describe an escape to an Underground Railroad location.
What is a primary source?
300
A synonym for "interview," with the purpose of adding to the established knowledge of a person, place, event or time period.
What is oral history?
400
This government agency turned 100 last year and has its own historical archive, complete with a section on their website dedicated to American Stories such as "The Woman Who Saved the Everglades."
According to the National Endowment for the Humanities, this contemporary musical promotes its namesake founding father's idea of America as a place in which a young person possessing only talent and grit can rise to prominence. Take your shot at this answer!
What is Hamilton?
400
The results of an experiment proving that accepted beliefs about the shape of the earth are incorrect.
What is a primary source?
400
The key difference between opposing something versus taking a stand against something boils down to this.
What is action, taking action?
500
This U.S. government bureau is responsible for population information and employment trends, to name a few, but it also has links to infographics, photos, maps, innovation information and more.
In The Art of War, Machiavelli praises the virtues of this instrument as a tactical tool for field signals that can pierce through the noise of battle.
What is a trumpet?
500
Content about Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees, conservation and environmental crises from the Jane Goodall Institute website.
What is a secondary source?
500
This organization will accept project findings from student NHD primary source research that helps shed light on what Americans knew about the Holocaust.
What is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum?