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Examples of Prior Topics in American Experience

Below are listed titles of a small sampling of the papers which have been written in the American Experience core course.

  • Dr. Doomsday, Mr. Sunshine, and the Horror-on-Hudson: The Unleashing of Herman Kahn
  • Punchboards: A History
  • The Character and Impact of the Zionist Transformation, 1943-1948
  • On the Origins of the Rebellion of the Nineteen Sixties: A Reexamination of the Turning Points Which Mark the Coming of Age of the Counter Culture
  • Media Nativism and the Death of American Exceptionalism
  • Adam and Eve in America's Paradise
  • The Genesis of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
  • War of Words: Political Symbolism and the Boston Busing Conflict
  • The Fall of The Hawaiian Kingdom and Modern Sovereignty Movement
  • The Making of the President: An Example of Jackal Syndrome?
  • Desegregation in Prince George's County Public Schools: The End of Busing?
  • Senator Vandenberg, Article 51, and the Early Institutionalization of the Cold War
  • Phyllis Schlafly and the Struggle Between Myth and Reality
  • The Myth of The Fall: The Artistic Conversion of Kate Millett
  • The Last Revolutionaries: The Democratic-Republican Societies and the Battle for American Democracy
  • The Stereotypical Depiction of African Americans in Television and the Links to the Advertising Industry
  • Opening the Credibility Gap: How Congressional Hearings on the Dominican Intervention of 1965 Led to the Exposure of a Flawed U.S. Policy in Vietnam
  • When National and Local Service Organizations Form Alliances: The Incentives, Strengths, and Weakness
  • We're movin' on up! The Effects of the Black Migrations on Baltimore Politics, 1947-1959
  • "The Greatest Threat to the Internal Security of the Country": A Look at How the Black Panther Party Served as a Special Example of Hoover's Broad-Based Claims of Ownership and Entitlement
  • Sam Lacy, The Press, and the Negro Leagues
  • A City Ready to Explode: How Tensions Over Urban Renewal in Washington, D.C. Led to the 1968 Riots
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