2015 Sample Topics List
• Benjamin Franklin and the Library Company of
Philadelphia: A New Intellectual Nation
• The Three Leaders: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour and the
Unification of Italy
• The Euro: How the European Union Led the Movement for
Economic Integration
• Thomas Paine’s Revolutionary Writings
• Charlemagne’s Conquest and its Impact on European
Architecture
• Mikhail Gorbechev: Leading a Struggling Nation out of the
Cold War
• William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
• The World Health Organization: Leading the Fight to
Eradicate Communicable Disease
• Yoga Bonita: How Brazil Led a Soccer Revolution
• Globalization of McDonalds: American Corporations
Leading the World’s Economy
• Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev: Leading the World
Out of the Cold War
• The Legacy of King Leopold’s Vision in the Congo
• Pierre de Coubertin and the Rebirth of the International
Olympic Committee
• Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
• Drawing Boundaries: Thomas Jefferson’s Land Ordinances
and the Settling of the American West
• Pancho Villa: Leading Northern Mexico
• Toussaint L ’Overture: Leading the World’s Only Successful
Slave Rebellion
• Nelson Mandela and the Fight for Equality in South Africa
• Eva and Juan Peron: Leaders of the Argentinian People
• Woodrow Wilson and the Organic Act: Creating the
National Park Service to Protect America’s National Land
• Nora Zeale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance
• Simon Bolivar and Gran Columbia: Leading the Fight for
Independence from Spain
• Lilly Ledbetter: Leading the Charge for Equal Pay
• Emiliano Zepata: Leadership for “Reforma, Libertad Ley y
Justicia”
• Olaudah Equiano: Exposing the Horrors of the Middle
Passage
• Emmeline Pankhurst: Leading a Militant Struggle for
Suffrage in Great Britain
• Alexander Dubček: Leading the Prague Spring
• Vladimir Lenin: Leading the Russian Revolution
• The International Space Station: Leading an International
Effort to Unite Space
• The Iran Hostage Crisis: Defining the Leadership of a
Presidency
• Bacon’s Rebellion and the Growth of Slavery in Colonial
Virginia
• The Bloodless Revolution of 1800: John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson, and the Legacy of a Peaceful Transition of Power
• Andrew Jackson: The Legacy of the People’s President
• Invoking the Power of the Federal Government: Grover
Cleveland and the Pullman Strike of 1894
• Alice Paul: Leading the Movement for Equal Rights
• Leading the Charge to Legislate Equality: Lyndon B.
Johnson and the Voting Rights Act