War & Military Commemoration & Grant Writing
National Archives
Interpreting the Iran Hostage Crisis
Civil Rights & Oral History
Memorializing September 11th
100

The  Executive Order that forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps in the United States during WWII.

What is 9066?

100

The most accurate job title for someone who catalogues, preserves, maintains, and administers the use of collections of historical records.

What is archivist?

100

The 2 presidential libraries that feature interpretations of the Iran Hostage Crisis.

What are Carter and Reagan?

100

A third party who feels they have suffered harm from false and damaging information told in an oral history can sue the interviewer, the interviewee, and the sponsoring institution or repository for this. 

What is Libel?

100

The terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US.

What is Al Qaeda?

200

The California internment center for Japanese-Americans that is now a National Historic Site

What is Manzanar?

200

The National Park Service Museum Resource Center in Landover, Maryland houses collections for this NPS region.

What is the National Capital Region?

200

In 1953, the intelligence agency/agencies that carried out a coup d'etat in Iran to remove Mohammed Mosaddeq from power.

What are the CIA and MI6?

200

The 1800's German historian who pushed the field of history toward written documentation and "great men" narratives.

Who is Leopold von Ranke?

200

In 1979, Osama bin Laden joined this US-backed group fighting against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

What is the Mujahideen?

300

This exhibit never came to fruition, and thus did not receive National Endowment for the Humanities grant funding.

What is the Enola Gay exhibit?

300

When the Library of Congress's book collection was destroyed in the War of 1812, they rebuilt by purchasing this former president's personal library.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

The 1963 revolution in Iran, promoted and carried out by the Shah himself.

What is the White Revolution?

300

The type of history Allan Nevins is credited with institutionalizing while at Columbia.

What is oral history?

300

The majority of the 9/11 hijackers came from this country.

What is Saudi Arabia?

400

Ideal grant applications should contain sentences with this many words.

What is 17 to 23 words?

400

The US governmental institution currently responsible for administering all of the presidential libraries (now including Nixon's).

What is the National Archives and Records Administration?

400

The radical Iranian religious leader who sparked violent revolution against the Shah in 1979.

Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?

400

The acronym GIS

What is Geographic Information Systems?

400

The hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11 initially took off from this airport before being forced into the twin towers.

What is Boston?

500

The name of the agreement signed by the US and Iran for the resolution of the hostage crisis

What are the Algiers Accords?

500

Dr. Matthew Delmont's digital history project with the tagline "Everyday History in African American Newspapers"

What is the Black Quotidian?

500

Osama bin Laden's father died in this way before his son first developed the terrorist organization known as al Qaeda.

What is in a plane crash?