Help!!!! I need some suggestions for a Research Project...Ideas??

Question

RESEARCH PROJECT:
-HAS TO BE AMERICAN HISTORY
-HAS TO BE AN EVENT, (something that happend)
-HAPPEND BEFORE 1956, more than 50yrs ago.

help is very appreciated!!!

Oh! AND IT HAS TO BE UNDER A 2 WEEK PERIOD.

Answer 1

How about women's rights and when and how women fought for and gained the right to vote.
Its a great topic, and also there's tons of info (including movies) on the topic.

Answer 2

The field is wide open.

One of the things that came to my mind was the first Woman Doctor. The actual protype to that TV show.

I reasearched her once long ago. She was VASTLY different than the character on TV. She had to go from college to college, doctor to doctor, because no one would teach her for more than a year and she finally settled down in one of the Plain states, like Montana or Kansas or Oklahmoma. She even studied with a dentist for a while

I don't recall her name.

There is also the foundation, settlement and unionhoold of Utah and the Mormons.

Going back to the woman topic there is French nation who founded an American company in NY and Fort Lee, Alice Guy-Blache and her Solax film company in 1910

That also inspired Lois Weber, who was a singer and Religious advocate who made independent films.

There is also the whole Westinghouse, Eastmas, Edison and Tesla thing, mostly in NY state and NJ.

Any of them.

The Edison empire, mistakes included (he sold, I believe, bad patents to Tesla, including his tube which turned out to be the Diode, but Edison didn't know what he had because he didn't know Ohms law).

This whole thing centers around entertainment (Edison invented the Phono, Motion Picture, Sound Motion Pictures), electricity and lighting, power generating.

That Patents Trust Company, totally facinating.

It was a facinating cut-throat venture!

Edison and his DC current VS Westinghouse and is AC current.

Jefferson's a good project.

So is Franklin.

Depends on how specific you have to be.

That whole era is facinating.

Answer 3

As a history major in college, When i have to choose a research project, always choose something that you are not going to have trouble finding research on, pick something on a large scale like Pearl Harbor, Stock Market Crash, Atomic Bomb on Japan, Civil War/revolutionary Wary.....hope this helps

Answer 4

What is your scale and timeline for the project?

I'd recommend the Boston's Great Molasses Flood for a smaller or lighter project, and the Teapot Dome Scandal for a slightly larger one.

Answer 5

Baby boom.... Great Depression... Civil War (good one, lots of people have misconceptions abou the issues...) Pilgrims @ Plymouth Rock.... Great Awakening...Hope these help??