Florida History Day Sample Topics: Innovation in History - Impact, Influence, Change
Florida History Sample Topics
Baseball Before Brooklyn: Jackie Robinson’s Florida Fight for Integration
British Mapmaker of the Florida Peninsula: The Innovative Career of Bernard Romans
Cross-Cultural Innovations on the Florida Frontier: Daily Life at Mission San Luis de Apalachee
From Arms Smuggler to Florida Governor: Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, A New Type of Politician
Frozen Sunshine: Concentrated Orange Juice and Its Impact on Florida's Citrus Industry
Innovation in Information: Exploring the History of the Modern State Library Through Dorothy Dodd
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park: The Nation's First Undersea Park
Keeping It Cool: Dr. John Gorrie and the Innovation of Refrigeration
Leading the Pack: Florida and the Space Race
Mary McLeod Bethune and Her Innovative School for Girls
Next Stop: Equality – The Tallahassee Bus Boycott
On Track to The Florida Keys: Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railroad
Putting Tampa on the Map: Henry Plant and the Plant System
Quenching the Thirst for Energy: Gatorade’s Impact on the Refreshment Industry
Revolutionary Refugees: British East Florida & the American Revolution
Rolling Change: Ybor City’s Cigar Revolution
Tallahassee’s Last Stand: The Battle of Natural Bridge
Training for Victory: Camp Gordon Johnston and the D-Day Invasion
American History Sample Topics
A Recipe for Change: Julia Child and American Food Culture
Barbed Wire: Fencing the Future
Beacons of Change: The Impact of Lighthouses on Navigation
Can You Hear Me Now? How the Telephone Impacted Communication
Code Girls: Cracking the Ceiling in WWII
From Zero to Hero: Comic Books and their Influence on American Culture
Leveling the Playing Field: The Impact of Title IX
Power to the People: The Rural Electrification Act
The 19th Amendment: A Vote for Change
The Double V Campaign: Victory on Two Fronts
The Manhattan Project: The Innovation that Changed War Forever
The Mirror With a Memory: Daguerreotypes and the Beginning of Modern Photography
The Reaper: Slicing through Labor Costs
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World: Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
The Wright Stuff: Innovation Takes Flight
The Zip Code: Five Digits of Change
World History Sample Topics
Books in the Desert: Timbuktu and the Development of African Centers of Knowledge
Dynamite: Exploding and Expanding Construction Project
Gutenberg Press: Spreading Literacy to the Masses
Heliocentric Solar System: Centering Our Thoughts on Astronomy
Mercator’s Projection: A Grid of Directions
Nothing Becomes Everything: The Innovation of Zero
One Wall, Two Worlds: The Impact of the Berlin Wall
Press Start: The Nintendo Entertainment System’s Impact on Gaming
Radar: The Innovation that Changed Warfare
Start Your Engines: The Impact of Internal Combustion
The Anime Effect: Japanese Animation and the Globalization of Popular Culture
The Great Wall of China: Engineering an Empire
The Telescope: Bringing the Stars into Focus
Water, Wind, and Wayfinding: Polynesian Navigation and the Settlement of the Pacific
When the World Got Smaller: The Silk Road and the Expansion of Global Change
Although you can select a topic dealing with any time or place in history, excellent subjects often are found by investigating local or statewide history. The availability of firsthand informants, historic sites, and documents and records provides many research options, although your search for information about any topic should extend far and wide. Be sure to look at the Florida Research Directory on the FHD website for repositories in Florida. The State Library and Archives of Florida has many online resources in their collections that relate to Florida topics which can be accessed by clicking on the links below.
