Junior Thesis Topic Ideas: Topics

Puritans
Native American religions
Native American responses to U.S. gov’t
Early Indian wars
Colonial era- women’s roles
American Rev: radical?
Propaganda in American Revolution
Benjamin Rush
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis & Clark
Barbary Pirates
1^st & 2^nd Great Awakening
Constitutional issues
Controversial S.C. cases
Indian Removal
Irish immigration
19^th century Boston
19^th cent. Artistic movements
Transcendentalism
Antebellum reformers
Protestant education
Rise of public schools
Utopian society failures
“Anti-reformers”
Texan Revolution
Mexican-American War
“Texan identity”
Harriet Tubman
Civil War tactics
Role of artillery in CW
The West
​Chinese immigration
Chinese & Railroad
The economy of cotton
Jim Crow laws
Big Business
Prohibition
NYC Immigration
Lower East Side Manhattan
Labor unions
Rockefeller +/-
Socialism/Communism
Urbanization (NYC)
Shell-shock WWI
Medical advancements
Eugenics
Anti-miscegenation laws
19^th/early 20^th
Anarchists & terrorists                
Lewis Hine
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Progressive Era
Boston Police Strike 1919
Flappers
Women’s suffrage
Scopes Monkey Trial
Harlem Renaissance
Origins of jazz
Jazz & racial integration
1920s literature
Early “green tech.”
Farming revolution
Impact of the tractor
Henry Ford & assembly line
Great Depression

Evaluating New Deal
Hoovervilles
1930s mobsters
Entertainment WWII
Theatre during WWII
Italian mob in WWII
Women in WWII
Navajo code-talkers
Atomic bomb drop
A-Bomb scientists
WWII generals
Dehumanization in war
Old Hollywood
Zoot Suit Riots
Korean War
Beat Movement
1950s conformity
FBI spying C.R.M.
Mississippi State Sovereignty Committee
Interstate Highway Act
McCarthyism
NASA
Sputnik
U2 Crisis
Women & civil rights
Second Wave feminism
Cold war propaganda
Other civil rights movements
Failures of C.R.M.
Redlining & gerrymandering
Disability rights movement
Anti-Vietnam War music
Vietnam & the media
Vietnam vets, stereotype
Kent State
“Chicago Seven”
Counter-culture
Gay rights movement
Television/other media
Comic books
Tobacco companies
Abortion
Birth control
Hippies
Watergate
Boston bussing crisis
Bobby Fischer 1972 match
Title IX
Cold War & identity
Computers
1979 Iran hostage crisis
Manuel Noriega & Panama
The U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer
Olympics
Reaganomics
Reagan’s role in ending Cold War
1980s crack epidemic
AIDS epidemic
Persian Gulf War 1990-91
Origins of gangsta rap
Women in combat

Non-chronological topics:

• Barbie
• Television
• Radio
• Ballet
• Industrialization of food
• The Jewish Mafia
• Advertising
• Rise of coffee culture
• History of circuses
• Vegetarianism
• Whaling

• Fairy Tales
• Serial Killers
• History of mental illness
• Origami in America
• Tin Pan Alley
• Comic books
• Presidential qualities
• Amtrak
• U.S. foreign interventions
• Musical theater
• Jazz & Civil Rights