Russell History Day Topics: Western Hemisphere
Choose a topic to research from the list below.
1) Expanding the Boundaries of Dance: Martha Graham
2) Exploration and Ice: Encountering the North Pole
3) A Unique Biome: Exploring the Galapagos
4) A Great Encounter: How Horses Changed the Life of Plains Indians
5) Encountering a New Religion: Catholicism in the Americas
6) Exploring and Encountering: Female Pirates of the Caribbean
7) Encounters with the Environment: The Inuit and the Arctic
8) Unequal Exchange: Slaves and the Triangle Trade
9) Exploration of a Passageway: The Panama Canal
10) A Great Exchange: Pizarro and the Empire of Gold
11) Cortez Encounters Montezuma: The Fall of the Aztec Empire
12) How the Mayan Trade Routes Linked Mesoamerican City-States
13) Mysterious Encounters: The Bermuda Triangle
14) Exploring the Life, Myth, and Art of Native Americans
15) The Columbian* Exchange: Food and Diseases
*Christopher Columbus (Europeans) and Native Americans