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

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