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Topics for Project 3:

• The Early Women's Rights Movement:
  • Sojourner Truth
  • The Seneca Falls Conference
  • Amelia Jenks Bloomer
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
  • Julia Ward Howe & Lucy Stone
• Utopian Communities:
  • Brook Farm
  • Oneida
  • Fruitlands
• Slavery:
  • Slavery defended
  • Slavery attacked
• The Irish Immigrant Experience
• American History through Film:
  • Hollywood and the Alamo
  • Hollywood and Slavery
  • Hollywood and the Old South
  • Hollywood and the Civil War
  • Hollywood and 19th Century Indians
  • Hollywood, Cowboys, and the Old West
  • Heroes and Villains (e.g. Jesse James, Wyatt Earp)
• Pre-Civil War American Popular Culture:
  • P.T. Barnum
  • The Minstrel Show
• American History through Music:
  • Stephen Foster and Race
• Mexico and the Mexican American Experience:
  • The Mexican War
  • Mexican American Responses to Conquest
• Who Freed the Slaves?
  • John Brown: Hero or Terrorist?
  • The Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln in Art and Memory
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• African Americans after the Civil War:
  • African Americans in post-Civil War art, cartoons, and caricature
  • Sharecropping
  • Lynching
• Science, Exploration & Nature:
  • Asa Gray
  • John James Audubon
  • Major John Wesley Powell
  • Charles Wilkes and The United States Exploring Expedition
  • Colonel John C. Fremont
• Political Cartoons:
  • Thomas Nast
  • Presidential elections depicted in cartoons
• The West:
  • The Donner Party
  • The Oregon Trail
  • The Mormon Trail
  • The Pony Express
  • The California Gold Rush
  • The Transcontinental Railroad
  • The Colt .45
• Native Americans:
  • The Trail of Tears
• Asian Americans:
  • John Manjiro (This is one of those fascinating untold stories.)
  • Chinese contributions to the Transcontinental Railroad
• Medicine or something like it:
  • Mental health – nineteenth century
  • Phrenology
  • Spiritualism (The Fox Sisters)
  • Mesmerism
  • Lydia Pinkham (Ladies, you really should take a look at this.)
• Literature:
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Walt Whitman
  • Herman Melville
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Louisa May Alcott
• America through the Lens:
  • Matthew Brady
  • Timothy O’Sullivan
  • Alexander Gardner
  • William Henry Jackson