Term Paper Resource Guide to Twentieth-Century United States History

by Ron Blazek, Teri Maggio, Robert Muccigrosso

Overview

Students will write more effective term papers with this guide to 500 term paper ideas—as well as a listing of appropriate print and nonprint sources— on twentieth-century U.S. history. This guide presents entries on 100 of the most important events and developments in twentieth-century U.S. history organized in chronological order. Each entry consists of a short description of the event, followed by five specific suggestions for term papers about the event, and a wide-ranging annotated bibliography of 15-35 books, articles, videos, and a web site appropriate for student research. In every case the emphasis is on recent and up-to-date material, as well as landmark works and primary sources. Every entry contains a video and concludes with a recommended web site, producing a multimedia approach designed to appeal to the current information-gathering habits and preferences of young people.

From the Spanish-American War to the creation of NAFTA, the 100 events and developments cover political, social, economic, and cultural issues. The work has been designed to meet the needs of the U.S. history curriculum. Term paper topic ideas offer students thought-provoking suggestions that are challenging and develop critical thinking skills. The annotated bibliography is organized into reference sources, general sources, specialized sources, biographical sources, periodical articles, recommended videos and World Wide Web sites. All items are readily available in school, public, and academic library collections. This unique guide is valuable not only to students, but to teachers and librarians who guide students in research, and is an excellent purchasing guide for librarians who serve student needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313300967
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1999
Series:	Term Paper Resource Guides
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	920L (what's this?)

About the Author

ROBERT MUCCIGROSSO is Professor Emeritus of History at Brooklyn College in New York, where he taught for thirty-seven years. He has edited three volumes of the Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1988). He has written, among other works, American Gothic: The Mind and Art of Ralph Adams Cram (1980), Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (1993), and with David R. Contosta, America in the Twentieth Century (1988).

RON BLAZEK is Professor of Information Studies at Florida State University, where he teaches courses in reference/information services and bibliography. He is author of The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (4th ed., 1994) and United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (1994), both of which were named Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Books. He has written numerous other works and articles.

TERI MAGGIO is Deputy Directory of Technical Services and Outreach Coordinator for the Southwest Georgia Regional Library in Bainbridge, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Preface
One Hundred Important Events in Twentieth-Century United States History
Spanish-America War (1898)
Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902)
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Panama Canal
Assassination of President McKinley (1901)
Wright Brothers Flight at Kitty Hawk (1903)
Muckraking
Conservation Movement during the Progessive Era
Establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)
The Presidential Election of 1912
Women's Suffrage
Progressive Reforms Enacted
Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Crisis (1913-1917)
The Armory Show (1913)
Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
The United States and World War I (1917-1918)
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
The Red Scare (1919-1920)
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921)
Prohibition
Ford Model T
Revival of the Ku Klux Klan
First Radio Broadcasts
Silent Movies
Harlem Renaissance
Scopes Trial (1925)
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.'s Transatlantic Flight (1927)
Opposition to Immigration in the 1920s
Jazz Age Culture
Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Great Depression
The Bonus Army (1932)
The Presidential Election of 1932
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933)
Tennessee Valley Administration (TVA) (1933)
Growth of Organized Labor during the 1930s
The Dust Bowl
Establishment of Social Security (1935)
Good Neighbor Policy
Pre-Pearl Harbor Debate between Isolationists and Interventionists
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (1942-1944)
The Manhattan Project (1942-1945)
Women and World War II
Minorities and World War II
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1944)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
United Nations Established (1945)
War Crime Trials (1946-1948)
Cold War Begins
Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball (1947)
Marshall Plan (1947)
NATO Established (1949)
Alger Hiss Trials (1949-1950)
Trial of the Rosenbergs (1950-1951)
McCarthyism (1950-1954)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)
Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll Music
Polio Vaccine Discovered
Little Rock School Crisis (1957)
Sputnik (1957)
Golden Age of Television
U-2 Plane Shot Down (1959)
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement
The 1960s Counterculture
Black Power Movement
Vietnam War
Student Radicalism during the 1960s
Great Society Programs (1965-1968)
National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded (1966)
American Indian Movement (AIM) Founded (1968)
Tet Offensive (1968)
My Lai Massacre (1968)
Apollo 11 and the Moon Landing (1969)
Earth Day Observed (1970)
Environment Protective Agency (EPA) Created (1970)
Kent State Killings (1970)
Watergate Scandal (1972-1974)
Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements (SALT I and II) (1972, 1979)
President Nixon Visits China (1972)
Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
Roe v Wade (1973)
Panama Canal Treaties (1978)
Camp David Accords (1978)
Iran Seizes American Hostages (1979)
First Woman Appointed to the Supreme Court (1981)
Invasion of Grenada (1983)
Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1987)
Invasion of Panama (1989)
The Breakup of the Soviet Union
Persian Gulf War (1991)
Clarence Thomas Appointed to the Supreme Court (1991)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1993)
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