Junior History Paper Topics

A collection of thirteen narratives that profile the top female athletes in different sports, including Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Billie Jean King, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sheryl Swoopes.

A narrative history of feminism traces the origins and evolution of gender inequality and the emergence of feminism, discussing a wide range of women's issues in relation to national and international political agendas and social welfare. The history of suffrage by women in several other countries in addition to the United States is highlighted.

Traces the history of women's participation in over thirty sports, including basketball, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, cycling, and skating, and includes brief biographies of more than 650 international athletes from the past and present, as well as a listing of statistics for each sport.

Traces the effects Title IX of the Education Amendments, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in American schools and sports, has had on college and high school sports throughout the country.

Profiles 250 women athletes from the twentieth century who have achieved remarkable success in their chosen sports, and describes some of the more memorable moments in the history of women's sports.

Snyder looks at the roots of Jackie Robinson's integration of major league baseball, but examines that historic event from a variety of angles.

Chronicles the life of the heavyweight boxing champion, from his early years to his draft resistance through his astounding boxing career which established him as one of the greatest fighters of all time.

Unforgettable fists -- Agents of challenge -- Of civil rights, culture fights, and abstract ideals -- Movement mobilizing -- Power plays : trials, triumphs, and polarization -- Only just begun -- Resolving the racial crisis -- The cultural politics of sport and race in the postprotest era -- Epilogue : Atlanta, 1996.

Examines early black baseball as represented in artwork and accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, image of the black athlete emerges, not always positive but nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Covers championship games, specific teams and athletes, fans, and culture surrounding black baseball.

Antebellum ordeals: slavery, sport, and the prospects of freedom -- Striving for success: African American athletes in the early period of Jim Crow, 1865-1915 -- Parallel institutions: Black sports between the world wars -- Quest for racial reform: affirmation and protest in the sporting realm, 1920s and 1930s -- African American athletes and democratic principles: interpreting the desegregation of sport, 1940s and 1950s -- Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s -- Progress, protest, and alienation in the sports factory, 1970s and beyond -- Black cultural commentary: race relations and sport at the turn of the Twenty-first century

Prologue -- A day to remember -- Out of Alabama -- Vincible -- Heel bones and a new start -- The judge and the millionaire -- "We are with you, Adolf" -- A blessing in disguise -- Jew kills Nazi -- A friend and a foe felled -- Olympic trials -- Olympia -- The belle of the ball -- The battle tent of some great emperor -- The youth of the world -- Day one -- Day two -- Day three -- He flies like the Hindenburg -- The relay -- Epilogue.

Introduction : a bridge to the ancient Greeks? -- "Faster, higher, stronger" : the modern Olympics from Athens to Amsterdam -- Enter the Nazis -- Boycott Berlin! -- The winter games -- On to Berlin -- "Holy flame, burn" : the ceremonial games -- "Darktown parade" : track and field -- Of pools, mats, rings, and rough waters -- Olympia -- Epilogue : "the games must go on".

This study investigates the politics behind 100 years of Olympic history. The author asks who holds power within it, how it is financed and how the costly business of bidding for the Games works. He then covers recent history: the Cold War Games of Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984; Seoul 1988; and Barcelona 1992, arguably the most commercial and televisual Games in history. A further section covers the story of the South African boycott, ended in 1992, and there is also coverage of the successful bid by Atlanta and its preparations for the next Olympics. Finally, the book endeavours to predict the future for the Games, and whether "gigantism", both in terms of the scale of the Games and the movement's sense of its own importance, threaten its future.