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Select a Research Topic: History

Suggested research topics for each academic discipline.

History

•    9/11
•    African Americans
•    American Flag
•    American Revolution
•    American-Indian wars
•    Angel Island
•    Arbor Day history
•    Barton, Clara
•    Battle of the Somme
•    Battleships
•    Black Panthers
•    Bly, Nellie
•    Boomer generation
•    Booth, Edwin
•    Boxer Rebellion
•    Carnegie, Andrew
•    Cinco de Mayo
•    Civil protests
•    Civil rights movement
•    Civil War
•    Cold War
•    Communism
•    Confederate States of America
•    COVID-19 Pandemic
•    Dix, Dorothy
•    Dust bowl
•    Eastman, Crystal
•    Edison, Thomas
•    Electric Cars
•    Ellis Island
•    Eugenics
•    FDIC
•    Fireside Chats
•    Forrest, Nathan Bedford
•    Fort Sumter
•    Fugitive Slave Acts
•    Gandhi
•    Gilded Age
•    Glass-Steagall Act
•    Gold rush
•    Great Depression
•    Harpers Ferry
•    Hindenburg
•    Holocaust
•    Horseless Carriages
•    Houdini
•    Indigenous peoples
•    Industrialization
•    Irish Potato Famine
•    Ironclads
•    Kai-shek, Chiang
•    Keller, Helen
•    Kellogg, H
•    Khan, Kublai 
•    Khmer Rouge 
•    Korean Conflict
•    Louisiana purchase
•    Malcolm X
•    Martin Luther King, Jr.
•    May Day
•    Memorial Day
•    Montgomery bus boycott
•    Mother Jones
•    Native American cultures
•    New Deal
•    Newsies
•    Oklahoma City Bombing
•    Passenger pigeons
•    Paul, Alice
•    Plessy v. Ferguson
•    Poiret, Paul
•    Presidential history
•    Qing Dynasty 
•    Queen Victoria
•    Race riots (1900)
•    Ragtime
•    Reconstruction
•    Right to vote
•    Roaring 20s 
•    Rockefeller, John D.
•    Russo-Japanese War
•    Russo-Japanese War
•    Sacagawea
•    Salt March
•    Sherman’s march
•    Silent Protest Parade
•    Slave ships/trade
•    Slavery
•    Social Security Act
•    Socialism
•    Spanish-American War
•    Stock market crash
•    Taiping Rebellion
•    Taj Mahal
•    Teamasters Union Strike
•    Tiananmen Square protests
•    Trail of Tears
•    Transportation
•    Treaty of Versailles
•    Tubman, Harriet
•    Tulsa Race Massacre
•    TVA
•    Typhoid Mary
•    US Presidents
•    Villa, Pancho
•    War on Terror
•    Washington, Booker T.
•    Wells, Ida B.
•    Wilson, Edith
•    Women's history
•    Women's suffrage
•    Woodhull, Victoria
•    Works Progress Administration (WPA)
•    World War I
•    World War II
•    Wounded Knee Massacre
•    Wright brothers
 

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