Development: refers to economic, political, or social growth and progress. Documents assigned this term include: economic documents; references to political changes; documents regarding agricultural or land development; accounts of medical progress; etc.
Diplomacy: refers to negotiations or treaties between groups, states, nations, or their representatives regarding commerce, peace, or war. Documents assigned this term include: treaties; letters or diaries written by diplomats; post-war negotiations between nations; etc.
Emancipation: refers to both individual and national freedom or independence. Documents assigned this term include: abolition documents; documents related to national independence movements; national declarations of independence; revolutionary documents; documents related to the Texas Revolution; etc.
Federalism: refers to a divided power structure in which powers are shared between groups, such as state and national governments; a political entity formed by distinct groups. Documents assigned this term include: election records; political documents that account for individual state policies; state legislative records; federal constitutions; etc.
Gender: refers to women’s rights; gender equality or inequality; gender roles; gendered customs and traditions; women’s writings; and images of women. Documents assigned this term include: descriptions of women’s customs; women’s letters and journals; documents describing women’s jobs; constitutions describing specific roles of women in civic society; images and photographs of women; etc.
Historiography: refers to the study of history and the study of history through primary sources. Documents assigned this term include: descriptions of historical events; historical maps; historical photographs; national founding documents, such as constitutions, declarations, and plans; etc.
Indigenity: refers to native peoples, traditions, customs, and territories, as well as native art and artifacts; it was also used to describe landscapes and plants indigenous to a region. Documents assigned this term include: descriptions of Native and Aboriginal peoples; images of native art or tools; images of native plants and landscapes; reports of military advances on native occupied regions; government documents on native peoples’ rights; descriptions of Indian warfare; descriptions of the religious conversion of native peoples; etc.
Inter-American Relations: refers to relationships and interaction (be it political, economic, or social) between countries, states, colonies, representatives, and people in the North and South Americas. Documents assigned this term include: treaties; international war documents; newspapers describing such interactions; Confederate documents, etc.
Labor: refers to employment, working conditions, the workforce, and job descriptions. Documents assigned this term include: letters from a nurse describing work conditions and episodes during the yellow fever outbreak; letters from engineers working on the Panama Canal; letters from doctors; documents describing the construction of the Panama Canal; descriptions or depictions of work done during land surveys; photographs of the construction of the Panama canal; etc.