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Suggested Topics for Research Paper:

Cahokia and Mississippian Culture

Islamic Empires of West Africa

Coronado’s Expedition to the North

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Tobacco and Social Structure in Early Virginia

Women in Puritan New England

The English Civil War and the Colonies

Slavery in the Caribbean and Carolina

French Jesuits among the Indians

King Philip’s War

The Odyssey of Olaudah Equiano

The Enlightenment in America

French Settlement in the Illinois Country

Society in the 18th Century Spanish Borderlands

Rogers’s Rangers

Sir William Johnson and British Indian Policy

Class and Politics in 18th Century Colonial Cities

The Boston Tea Party and Historical Memory

Country Whig Ideology and the Revolution

Loyalists in the American Revolution

Women in the Continental Army

The Saratoga Campaign

The Continental Navy

Slavery and the American Revolution

Debtors, Creditors, and Economic Nationalism

Separatism in the West and the “Spanish Conspiracy”

The Antifederalists

Daniel Boone

Free Blacks in the Early Republic

Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Era

The United States and the French Revolution

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Aaron Burr

The U.S. and the Revolution in Haiti

Tecumseh’s Pan-Indian Movement

The U.S.S. Constitution

The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821

John Marshall and the Constitution

Martin Van Buren and the Second Party System

John C. Calhoun, Nationalism, and States’ Rights

The Political Culture of the Whig Party

Mary Boykin Chestnut

Slavery and Southern Religion

“Scientific” Racism and the Pro-slavery Argument

Workingmen’s Parties, 1820-1840

The Temperance Movement

Utopian Socialism and the Owenites of New Harmony

The Lane Rebels and Oberlin College

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Squatters, Speculators, and Public Land Policy

Kit Carson

Tejanos and the Americanization of Texas

Race, Democracy, and Manifest Destiny

Henry Clay and the Fate of the Union

American Filibustering in the Caribbean

Know-Nothings and Nativism

John Brown’s War on Slavery

Slaveholders, “Black” Republicans, and Secession

Civil War Medicine

Lincoln and Emancipation

Great Britain and the American Civil War

Guerilla Warfare in Missouri

The Vicksburg Campaign

Sherman and the Concept of Total War

Confederate Women in Wartime

The Freedmen’s Bureau

The Rise and Fall of Southern Republican Parties, 1867-1877

The Panic of 1873

White Terrorism in the Postwar South