Local History
What are some good local topics for a History Day Project? (See description for theme)?
The theme this year is Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences. Me and my friend can’t come up with a good local idea. Any ideas?
The Lane Slavery Debates of 1834 were probably the most famous, influential and consequential debates in Cincinnati history.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/lane.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Theological_Seminary
Apart from the impact on the nation, note that Oberlin College’s gain was Cincinnati’s loss, as Cincinnati apparently lost the possibility of gaining one of the nation’s great liberal arts colleges. Oberlin continues to enrich Greater Cleveland, and Cincinnati remains a city renown for its relative conservatism.
http://www2.oberlin.edu/archive/holdings/finding/RG2/SG1/biography.html
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=775
One student of these debates likely was Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose father was president of Lane Theological Seminary. Within two decades of the Lane Slavery Debates, she would publish “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which inflamed both abolitionist and pro-slavery sentiments in the United States, exacerbating the tensions that led to the Civil War. The book also ignited anti-slavery attitudes in the United Kindgdom and elsewhere in Europe, helping keep European nations neutral during the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe
Good luck with your project.
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