Here is a list of sample topics related to this year's theme: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History
- John Brown's Revolt Against Slavery
- The U.S. Constitution: Reform or Counter-Revolution?
- Dorothea Dix and the Asylum Movement
- Simon Bolivar and Latin Amerian Independence
- The Coercive or Intolerable Acts: Britain's Reaction to the Boston Tea Party
- The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and Alcohol in America
- From Franklin Delanot Roosevelt (FDR) to Nixon: The Revolution of Presidential Press Coverage
- The Copernican Revolution: Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler
- Television: A Cultural Revolution
- The Boxer Rebellion: China's Fight Against Foreign Powers
- The Glorious Revolution and Britain's Bill of Rights
- The Edict of Nantes: A New Approach to Religious Dissent
- Jose Marti and Cuba's War of Independence
- The Black Panthers: Reforming Student Lunch Programs
- Canals and Railroads: The 19th Century Reforms in Transporation
- Bismarck's Reforms in Germany
- Classical Music: Reaction to the Baroque Era
- Confucius and Civil Service Reform in China
- Emilio Aguinaldo and the Philippine Uprising
- Jonas Savimbi: Angolan Revolutionary
- The Wesley Brothers and Methodist Reforms of the Church of England
- Hawks and Doves: American Reaction to the Vietnam War
- The Airplane: Revolution in Warfare
- Sit-ins and Freedom Rides: Reformers in Action
- Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
- The Reforms of Sosthenes
- William Wallace: Rebel Against English Oppression
- The Model T: Henry Ford Revolutionizes the Auto Industry
- King Phillip's War: Reaction to Puritan Expansion
- The "Red Scare": American Reaction to Communism
- Germ Theory: Revolution in Medicine
- Vatican II: The Modern Reformation of the Catholic Church
- Pablo Picasso: Revolution in Art
- "Hush, Hush": Reaction to Henrick Ibsen's A Doll's House
- Viriginia Woolfe and the Birth of Modern Feminism
- Curt Flood and Free Agency in Baseball