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List of Potential Topics for HIS 100

Human Rights/Inequality

· Apartheid (South Africa)

· Jim Crow/ de jure segregation (U.S. South)

· “Juan Crow” – legal segregation and Mexican/Latin Americans in U.S. Southwest

· Decolonization Movement (20th century)

· Slavery/slave trade

· U.S. Civil Rights Movement

· Can also include various “power” movements (Black Power, Brown Power/Chicano Movement, Red Power (Native American Movement), Yellow Power/Asian American Movement, etc..)

· Disability Rights

· Labor Movements

· LGBTQIA+ Movements

· Women’s suffrage

· Indigenous rights

· Eugenics

Political Revolutions

(Note: the dates listed may vary in other sources depending on how the source is defining the onset and end of the revolutionary period)

· American Revolution (1775-1783)

· Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)

· Philippine Revolution (1896-1898 (several different dates, some date as beginning in 1898)

· Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)

· Indian Independence Movement (1916-1947)

· Russian Revolution (1917)

· Cuban Revolution (1956-1962)

· Iranian Revolution (1979)

· French Revolution (1789-1799)

· Revolutions of 1848 (Europe)

· Latin American Wars of Independence (1808-1833)

· Greek War of Independence (1821-1832)

· Taiping Revolution (1850-1864)

Climate Change/Environment

· Industrial Revolution

· Formation of National Parks

· Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act

· Sagebrush Rebellion

· Conservation Movement

· Preservation/wilderness movements

· Green Revolution

· Dust Bowl (United States)

· Adoption of fossil fuels

· Kyoto Protocol

· Rise of the automobile

Globalization

· Formation of European Economic Community

· Formation of United Nations

· Formation of World Trade Organization

· Formation of International Monetary Fund

· Formation of World Bank

· Formation of international cooperative groups (NATO, SEATO, Warsaw Pact, Organization of American States, OPEC, Arab League, etc..)

· Fair Trade Movement

· Marshall Plan

· Suez Canal

· Ancient Silk Road

· Columbian Exchange

· Great Depression

· Printing press

· Establishment of World Wide Web (1991)

· Railroads

· Global Capital and the American West (e.g. British/Scottish investment in American ranches in the 19th century)

· Piracy