U.S. History research topic...? What are you interested in?

Question

i want to find and interesting topic so that i enjoy learning about it and talking about it


any ideas or things you've done presentations on that are interesting and fun to hear about

Answer 1

How about Douglas MacArthur, hero to Americans, Japanese, and Filipinos alike? His life is one of the most interesting research topics in American history.

Did you know he was the only American General to ever hold the title of Field Marshal in the military of another country?

Answer 2

What are you intrested in? It would help to know so as to make suggestions. For instance, in school I did aseventy-five term paper on the history of NASA up to the early '90s, complete with with a one-man re-enactment of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon (done with a tape recorder and a pretty bad mock-up of mission control, but still the adults who actually remembered the actual landing really enjoyed it). I also did two different projects on the Civil War (one by choice, the other a class assignment), in the first I did a twenty-page pamphlet on some elements of the war including the Gettysburg Address and the March to the Sea (and I included a cardboard map of Georgia, South and North Carolina as the March to the Sea part wasn't just about the march from Atlanta to Savannah but also about Sherman's marching through the Carolinas). The second I actuallytried dressing up as a soldier and presenting what his life was like.

But these were some of the thingsthat intrest me and might not be of intrest to you.

Answer 3

I always enjoy things that are controversial:

Try the SS St. Louis ... it's the story of a ship filled with Jews during WW II who was rejected by the Roosevelt administration and sent back to Europe where 2/3 of the 900 Jews on-board were killed.

What about the Donner Party? A group of people who went west in covered wagons, got caught in the snows of the Sierra Nevada and some of them had to eat the dead to survive.

Or, the Mountain Meadows Massacre? The largest massacre of whites, by whites, in the history of the United States. Still very controversial, and the one huge black spot on Mormon history.

Answer 4

I presented a paper on why Robert E Lee was a poor judge of conditions in battles and turned many purely defensive engagements into offensive battles and suffered a far higher casualty rate than he should have and therefore holds a fair share of responsibility for his eventual final defeat and surrender.

It was received with boos and hisses from the southerners in the audience.

Answer 5

The Golden Age of Piracy.
US Naval History from 1770 onward, especially the USS Constitution.