What are some good topics to write a historical 7 page research paper?

Paper must deal with something before 1950.


Also the topic must have something, in which I can justify.


E.g. " George Bush was the worst president" or something like that

What are some good topics to write a historical 7 page research paper?
I know you will not believe this but there has all ready been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnson s Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York).





This would be a unique report one I bet has not been heard.





The official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans. The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books. One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.





During the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."





One Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.





The story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented. There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs. The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners.





The North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take them without exchange. Again, the North refused to do so. They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.





God Bless You and Our Southern People.
Reply:If I were still in school, I would compare and contrast two of the greatest superpowers the world has ever seen: The Ancient Roman Empire and the United States of America.





For instance: government, cultural influence, military, food, social structure, art, literature, clothing, foreign policy and legacy.
Reply:The 1920s marked the most revolutionary shift in manners and morals that America had seen up to that point in our history.
Reply:Occutism in Germany. You could write volumes about it.
Reply:How about the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919? It killed more people than WW1, but was largely forgotten in the midst of the war. You could choose something like, 'The effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 were exacerbated by the War'. ie, global movement of sick and dying troops, depletion of healthcare workers serving the war needs, lack of $ to spend at home etc.
Reply:How about the building of the Erie Canal or the transcontinental railroad? Write a paper that focuses on which engineering/public works project was the most significant in U.S. history, which had the biggest impact on westward expansion, which had the biggest negative impact on Native American populations,....or something like that.