2005-2006 Junior American History Research Paper Topics
Robert Taft
George Kennan
Desert Storm
1988 Election
Truman Capote
Abby Kelley Foster
ANWR Controversy
Robert Bork Nomination
Proposition 2 ½
The Role of Retire Presidents in the
Security and Exchange Commission
William McChesney Martin
Pre-Columbia Indian Culture
Spanish Explorers of North America
Quakers in the English Colonies
Tobacco in the English Colonial
Economy
Pilgrims on Cape Cod
Massachusetts in King George’s War
Family Life in Colonial America
Roots of Slavery
Benjamin West
Ben Franklin
Boston Massacre
Great Awakening
Impact of the Revolution on
Women
Samuel Slater
Political Parties in America
Lewis and Clark
James F. Cooper
Henry Clay
Hudson River School
Horace Mann and Education Reform
Democratic Reform in the Age
of Jackson
Election of 1824
Monroe Doctrine
Battle of New Orleans
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod in the 19th Century
Herman Melville
Know Nothing Party
Slave Life in the Deep South
Election of 1860
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jenny Lind
Abigail Adams
James Russell Lowell
John Singleton Copley
Oneida Perfectionists
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Texas War for Independence
Bleeding Kansas
Panic of 1837
Seneca Falls Convention
German Immigration
John Brown
Senator Charles Sumner
Shakers
Lowell Girls
Battle of Antietam
Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
Radical Reconstruction
Election of 1876
Transcontinental Railroad
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Plessy v. Ferguson
Booker T. Washington
Election of 1896
William Dean Howells
Alice Paul
Eugene Debs
Trustbusting
Robber Barons
Populist Party
Black Troops in the Civil War
American Imperialism
H. L. Mencken
Sinclair Lewis
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Frances Perkins
Causes of the Great Depression
Teapot Dome Scandal
Woodrow Wilson and the League
of Nations
German U-boat activity near Cape Cod
Scopes Trial
Hollywood in the 1930s
Civilian Conservation Corps
Marian Anderson
Eleanor Roosevelt
America First Movement
Social Security Act
Labor in the 1930s
Iwo Jima
442nd Combat Unit
Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Tuskegee Airmen
Rosie the Riveter
Election of 1948
Alger Hiss
Inchon Landing
Little Rock School Crisis
Jackson Pollack
Betty Friedan
John Foster Dulles
British Invasion
March on Washington, 1963
Tet Offensive
Disco
Reagan Revolution
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Political Radicals in the 60s
Iran-Contra Scandal
Nuclear Arms Race
Malcolm X
Rachael Carson
Apollo Missions
Sandy Koufax
Jim Brown
Joan Benoit
George Wallace
Annie Leibowitz
American Indian Movement
Huey Long
Dust Bowl
Granger Movement
Jane Fonda
William Buckley
Lincoln Brigade
Wind Talkers
Margaret Chase Smith
Hastings Keith
Gerry Studds
Joni Mitchell
Janette Rankin
Interstate Highway System
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Barry Goldwater
Energy Crisis
Pequot War
Yalta Conference
Panama Canal Treaty
Battle of Shiloh
GI Bill
Rough Riders
Carpetbaggers
Carl Schurz
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Henry Knox
US acquisition of Hawaii
Cape Cod Canal
Cape Cod Economy Since WWII
Freedmen’s Bureau
Election of 1888
Fourteen Points
North American Free Trade Agreement
Elizabeth Blackwell
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Ike and Lebanon
CIO
U-2 Crisis
Mormon Church
Dred Scott Case
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Ernie Pyle
Lost Generation
Palmer Raids
Edward Hopper
Abstract Expressionism
Adam Clayton Powell
Dixiecrats
Bull Moose Party
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Truman and the Bomb
Rosa Parks