what's a good history project to do???????

Question

I have to do a 2,000 word history project on anything I want and I'm finding it hard to decide...I want to do a project on something interesting that will stand out from the rest.If you have any ideas that would be great..thanks !!!!

it also has to be before 1992.

Answer 1

underground railroad. you could map out common routes, have short biographies on some of the famous players (the dutch, harriet tubman), talk about the atmosphere in the country that led up the formation of the underground railroad and how it helped to start change. some of the techniques that were used to remain hidden. (candle in window = safe house, traveling at night, bird calls).

Answer 2

i think of 1962 would be an exciting twelve months. The Cuban missile disaster got here approximately in Oct. 1962. We very very nearly had a conflict with the Soviet Union over that incident. you additionally can do your history undertaking on 1974. in this twelve months, there became a smash-in on the Watergate hotel in Washington, D. C. This ultimately introduced approximately the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. The Congressional hearings went on for months. there's a large number of records obtainable in books, magazines, and on the internet approximately this.

Answer 3

If you are interested in political science or religious history, you can use up those 2000 words very quickly.

A. For religious history, show a timeline of the major religions, then give a brief historical description of the founder, the major countries or regions, and major splits between denominations. Buddhism came from Hinduism;
Christianity came from Judaism, and Islam followed from that (all three are supposed to follow the Bible Scriptures, but added on); Bahai came from Islam. And the history of the splits/growth in the Christian church (starting from Catholic and Protestant/Anglican and ending with Unitarian Universalism and current movement toward "pluralism") is a project unto itself. If you need more visuals, you can add maps of the world showing the areas where these expansions occurred, but that is not necessary. You should have plenty to write about.

B. For political history, the development of U.S. government is very easy to layout on a timeline. From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitutional Conventions, to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Then the adding of the Bill of Rights in 1791 which defined the rights of the people; the 14th Amendment which expanded these protections to state governments around 1868; the Civil Rights Act around 1964 that expanded equal protections to all public services and institutions to ban discrimination on a broader level; and the current debate today on whether non-U.S. born residents have the same human rights and civil rights protections as legal citizens.

If you need to add more material, you may contrast the right of citizens with the rights of corporations, and show where Corporations were first recognized as "citizens" (in a Supreme Court Case in 1886), UN/Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1945/1948, Code of Ethics for Government Service enacted in 1980 to try to check government from corruption, NAFTA and GATT explanding corporate globalization worldwide, and show pictures of protests of people fighting today to balance the rights of individual citizens with the power of collective governments and corporations. Note: POCLAD website explains that from the inception of the U.S., corporate colonization (through Spain and later Britain) was the financial force, so the current trends are no different from the original colonization of America.

Answer 4

Sometimes it is fun to research local history. If you can find the inside scoop on your hometown - battles fought, something invented, etc. especially if you include then and now photos, it should stand out.

Answer 5

You should check out the immense history of the celts and the invasions of Ireland well I suppose that is myths, but its still very interesting.

Answer 6

How about the 1970's Feminist movement?

Answer 7

Hitler, Saddam Hussein ,
How are the U.S. president (Bush) ancestors made money buy supplying the Nazis with weapons and taking the blood money. He really is an evil man.

Answer 8

2,000 words is a lot.
Why don't you start by picking a country of interest, and a time period of interest, and then start researching as much as you can about that topic.
Your work will be different and unique when it appeals to both yourself and your teacher.
Good luck!

Answer 9

The development of atomic weapons. It profoundly changed the way nations interact with eachother and the way they wage war.

Answer 10

do it on pirates!!!!!!!