POSSIBLE PAPER TOPICS
   
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Any President in our time period
The Populist Movement in a certain state
The Ghost Dance Movement
Any Native American people and what happened to them
The Chinese (or other Asian immigrants) in the West
Italians in the West (or other European immigrants)
African-Americans in the West (or in a certain state)
Sharecropping or tenant-farming
Crime in late 19th century America
Sports in late 19th century America (or a history of a certain sport in our period)
The Social Consequences of the Bicycle
Women's Magazines of the late 19th century in America
The Spanish-American War
Labor Conditions in late 19th century America
The story of a particular strike in our period from 1877 to the present
The Assassination of James Garfield, William McKinley, JFK (choose one)
Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed (or any other city boss)
Post-Civil War 19th century Depressions (or choose one)
Fashion in the late 19th century
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
The History of Mexican-Americans
Alice Paul and the Woman's Party
Carrie Chapman Catt
Jessie Daniel Ames
Anything on the Depression of the 1930's
A specific New Deal program, e.g., Social Security, the minimum wage
Anything of World Wars I and II (Battles, Women's Roles, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, technology, the Home
         Front, whatever)
The Flapper of the 1920's
The New Sexual Attitudes of the 20th century
The New Ku Klux Klan
Prohibition
Gangsters of the 1930's (or whenever)
The Impact of the Movies
Some new technology--the auto, airplane, plastics, radio, nylon
Any historical person you are interested in 1877-2001
Modernism in art or anything else
The Harlem Renaissance
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Women Blues Singers in the 1920's
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
The NAACP
The Urban League
Mary McLeod Bethune
An event from the Cold War (e.g., the Berlin Airlift, the U-2 Incident, the Cuban Missile Crisis)
Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The Korean War
A figure from the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Dr. King, Malcolm X, Daisy Bates, Fannie Lou Hamer)
An event from the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sit-In Movement, the Freedom Rides,
         Freedom Summer in Mississippi)
The Chicano/Chicana Movement
Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
The American Indian Movement (AIM)
Wilma Mankiller
The Brown Power Movement
Anything on the Women's Movement of the 1960's and 1970's or a person from that movement (e.g., Betty Friedan,
         Gloria Steinem)
Anything on Vietnam
Any topic on the space program
The History of the Pro-Abortion or Anti-Abortion Movements
Watergate
The Environmental Movement
The Iran-Contra Scandal
Whitewater
Postmodernism (itself, or in something, e.g., dance, art, architecture, literature)
Technological changes since World War II (or the history of a specific one, e.g., TV)