Junior History Paper Topics

Uses selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, and fiction to trace the evolution of women's work in America.

This collection of journals, newsclips, historic photos, poems, songs, essays, and political cartoons highlights the woman's suffrage movement in the United States.

Discusses how America's monuments, museums, and historical sites are changing in response to new thinking about the role of racial and ethnic groups in the history of the country.

Materials listed feature women from all regions of the country and from many American cultural groups. The guide concentrates on materials published or produced during the 1990s, and its final section outlines the field of women's history in terms of its historiography, theory and methodology, and its place in education.

Biographies of women who pioneered the American West that includes their personal letters and over 150 historic photographs.

American women: who are they? -- Women in the labor force -- Women's occupations -- Women and their children -- Child care and elder care -- Money, income and poverty -- Women in American politics -- Women and their health -- Women and education -- women as victims -- Women as criminals.