History Term Paper Topics

• William Bradford and Plymouth
• William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania
• John Smith and the Jamestown Settlement
• Roger Williams and the Rhode Island Colony
• John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• John Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press
• The Salem Witch Trials
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Puritanism
• The Slave Trade
• The French and Indian War
• Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
• John Locke and the Declaration of Independence
• The Battle of Yorktown
• Thomas Jefferson and Religious Liberty
• Abigail Adams: An Early Feminist
• James Madison and the Constitution
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Any Presidential Election
• Any Supreme Court Case
• The Evolution of Political Parties
• The War of 1812
• Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
• John C. Calhoun and States' Rights
• Henry Clay and the American System
• Changes Resulting from a Particular Invention or Discovery
• Andrew Jackson and the National Bank
• The Annexation of Texas
• The Mexican War
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Abolitionist Movement
• Stephen Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Lincoln/Douglas Debates
• Nat Turner's Revolt
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
• Comparison of the United States and Confederate Governments During the Civil War
• Matthew Brady and Photography During the Civil War
• Sherman's March Through Georgia
• Lincoln's Views on Slavery and African American Equality
• Various Battles During the Civil War

• Reconstruction
• The Transcontinental Railroad
• The Trial of Andrew Johnson
• The Black Codes
• Native American Tribes
• General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn
• Jim Crow Laws
• Cattle Drives
• Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor
• Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union
• Andrew Carnegie and the Steel Industry
• Boss Tweed and Tamany Hall
• Civil Service Reform
• The Populist movement
• The Spanish American War
• The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
• Yellow Journalism
• The Bull Moose Party and the Election of 1912
• Joe Cannon: Speaker of the House
• The NAACP
• The Women's Suffrage Movement
• The Progressive Movement
• American Involvement in WWI
• A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare
• The Scopes Monkey Trial
• The Ku Klux Klan
• Radio in the 1920's
• Andrew Mellon and his Economic policy
• The Teapot Dome Scandal
• Prohibition
• The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• The Great Depression
• Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady
• The New Deal
• American Involvement in WWII
• Harry Truman and the Bomb
• Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare
• The Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower
• The Feminist Movement
• The Civil Rights Movement
• The Environmental Movement
• J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
• The Race for the Moon
• Earl Warren and the Supreme Court
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassinations of the 1960's
• Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
• The Vietnam War
• The Watergate Scandal
• The Economy of the 1970's
• The Presidency of Jimmy Carter
• The Iranian Hostage Crisis
• The Presidency of Ronald Reagan
• The Iran/Contra Scandal
• The Persian Gulf War
  

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