HIST102

A Short Paper Assignment allows you to demonstrate your research skills to your instructor and to receive feedback that will benefit you as you continue your studies. With this assignment, you will learn how to do proper and adequate research and write a short paper.   

This short paper is at least three double-spaced pages of text (Times New Roman, font size 12) and you must consult a minimum of two academically credible sources. Bibliographies and citations will be in an acceptable style format, either MLA, APA, or Chicago..   The short paper needs to be turned in through the assignment section for grading. If you use any of the information from your sources word-for-word, you must cite the source by using endnotes or footnotes. If you read the information and write it in your own words and it is not common knowledge, then you must cite the source because you are paraphrasing someone's information.   

The short paper must include a cover page with your name, course number and course title, instructor's name, and date. You must also include a bibliography at the end of your paper. While composing your paper, use proper English. Do not use abbreviations, contractions, passive voice, or first/ second person (I, you, we, our, etc). 

Before submitting your paper, check your grammar and use spell check. Remember, the way you talk is not the way you write a paper. Please label your paper as follows: lastnamefirstnameHIST102ShortPaper.     

-List of possible topics:    

 

1. Grant as President  

2. “Jim Crow” 

3. Boss Tweed  

4. J.P. Morgan  

5. The Transcontinental Railroad  

6. The Steel Industry  

7. J.D. Rockefeller  

8. The American Labor Movement  

9. The New Immigration  

10. Booker T. Washington  

11. The Growth of American Cities  

12. The Suffrage Movement  

13. The Indian Wars  

14. The Settlement of the West  

15. The Populist Movement  

16. William Jennings Bryan  

17. The Spanish American War  

18. Theodore Roosevelt  

19. The Conquest of the Philippines  

20. Theodore Roosevelt and the Monroe Doctrine  

21. The Building of the Panama Canal  

22. The Great White Fleet  

23. The Conservation Movement  

24. Woodrow Wilson  

25. The United States in World War I  

26. The Sinking of the Lusitania  

27. Wilson’s Fourteen Points  

28. Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference  

29. The United States and the League of Nations  

30. The Roaring Twenties  

31. Prohibition  

32. Al Capone  

33. The Scopes Monkey Trial  34. The Rise of Professional Sports  

35. The Stock Market Crash of 1929  

36. Interwar U.S. Foreign Policy  

37. The Washington Naval Treaty  

38. Franklin D. Roosevelt  

39. The New Deal  

40. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)  

41. The Dust Bowl  

42. The America First Movement  

43. U.S. Neutrality 1939-1941  

44. Lend-Lease  

45. The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor  

46. George C. Marshall  

47. Any U.S. Military Leader of World War II  

48. Individual Battles and Campaigns of World War II  

49. The U.S. Army in World War II  

50. The U.S. Navy in World War II  

51. Allied Grand Strategy in World War II  

52. The United States and the Atomic Bomb  

53. Women in the Military: World War II  

54. The Battle of Midway  

55. Douglas MacArthur  

56. The Truman Doctrine  

57. Post War American Society  

58. The Early Days of the Cold War  

59. The Civil Rights Movement  

60. Martin Luther King  

61. The Occupation of Germany  

62. The Korean War  

63. MacArthur in Japan  

64. The Red Scare  

65. Senator Joseph McCarthy  

66. Eisenhower as President  

67. The Sixties  

68. John F. Kennedy  

69. The Bay of Pigs  

70. The Cuban Missile Crisis  

71. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society  

72. Any Aspect of the Vietnam War  

73. Nixon and Vietnam  

74. Nixon and China  

75. Watergate  

76. The Arab Oil Embargo of 1973  

77. Feminism  

78. Jimmy Carter as President  

79. The Reagan Revolution  

80. Arms Control Treaties  

81. Reagan and the Soviet Union  

82. George Bush and the End of the Cold War 

 83. Desert Shield/Desert Storm  

84. The Impeachment of Bill Clinton  85. The United States in the Post Cold War World  

86. The 2000 Presidential Election  

87. September 11, 2001  

88. The War on Terrorism  

89. Immigration in the 1990s  

90. Minorities in Contemporary America  

91. The Changing American Family  

92. The Drug Wars  

93. The United States and the Global Economy  94. PAX Americana  

95. Contemporary American Foreign Policy  

96. The United States Military in the 21st Century  

97. U.S. Policy Toward Cuba  

98. Operation Iraqi Freedom  

99. The War in Afghanistan  

100. Kosovo Crisis 1999