2004-2005 Junior American History Research Paper Topics
George Washington in the French and Indian War
Ancient Greek Influences on the American Revolutionaries
The Mayflower Compact and Pilgrim Ideals
Influences of the Enlightenment on the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock and the American Revolution
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
The Impact of the Three-Fifths Compromise on American History
XYZ Affair
Little Turtle
Theodore Weld
Transcendentalist Movement
German Forty-eighters
Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Chancellorsville
Presidential Reconstruction
Sand Creek Massacre
J.P. Morgan
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
President Wilson’s intervention in Mexico
William Jennings Bryan
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Nineteenth Amendment
Marcus Garvey
Influence of John Maynard Keynes on the New Deal
Friedrich von Hayek
Securities and Exchange Commission
Fair Labor Standards Act
American isolationism
Okinawa
101st Airborne in World War II
Tehran Conference
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Truman’s Fair Deal
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Robert Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
George Kennan
Equal Rights Amendment
Gemini Space Program
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Supreme Court case, Bush v. Gore
“Contract with America”
Invasion of Panama
American Intervention in Somalia
Wampanoag Recognition
Geraldine Ferraro
Sally Ride
Georgia O’Keefe
Louisa May Alcott
Nancy Pelosi
Wilma Rudolph
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Bill Russell in Boston
Crossing the Gender Line at the BAA
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Election of 1952
Election of 1976
Election of 1892
Election of 1796
Battle of the Thames
Battle of Monmouth
Conservation Efforts in Pleasant Bay
Paul Robeson
John Wayne and American Mythology
Lena Horne
Bob Matthias
Martha Stewart Case
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Amelia Earhart
Mother Jones
Women in the American Revolution
David Walker
Jonathan Walker
Harwich Junior Theatre
Civil Rights Issues on Cape Cod
Shannon O’Brien
Margaret Heckler
Thomas Cole
James Whistler
Isaac Stern
Strange Fruit
Joe Kennedy
Condoleezza Rice
Eugene McCarthy
William and Mary College
Metacomet
Steriods in Major League Baseball
Janis Joplin
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Joe Louis and Max Schmelling
Spiro Agnew
Clark Clifford
Thurgood Marshall Walt
Whitman and the Civil War
John Hay
Donna Shalala
George Bancroft
Zora Neale Hurston
Barnburners of 1848
Chinese Immigrants in the Transcontinental Railroad Construction
Robert Henri
ILGWU
Jack Johnson
John Muir
Eliza Pinckney
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Sally Tomkins
Confederate Flag Controversies
Yazoo Land Controversy
Zoot Suits
Black Friday Scandal
The US and Lon Nol
CIA in Guatelmala
Red Cloud and the Bozeman Trail
The Irreconcilables
Norman Thomas
Zbigniew Brzezinski and US Foreign Policy
Harwich in the Great Depression
The Exchange Building
Flying Tigers
The Changing Harwich Waterfront
CREEP
William Faulkner
Truman’s Point Four
John Collier and Indian Affairs
Ike in the Suez Crisis
James Dean
Shirley Chisholm
Dodge City in the Days of the Cattle Drive
Oneida Community
US Involvement in Nicaragua
The Alabama in the Civil War
Collis P. Huntington
Lester Frank Ward
William Graham Sumner
Henry Adams