Geography 235 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES

Some Suggested Term Paper Topics in No Special Order:

Comparison of Land Tenure Systems in North America

Comparison of European Colonial Practices in North America

Recent Methodological Advances in Historical Geography

Sources of Historical­Geographic Information About Northern California: An Annotated Bibliography

Cartographic History as an Aid to Historical Geography

(Name the Place) in (Name the Year). An Historical Landscape Reconstruction

The (Name of Cultural Group) Impact on the Settlement Geography of North America

The Effectiveness of the Federal Government As an Agent of Geographical Change in North America

Perception of Natural Barriers in Early North America

The role of the military in the settlement of the American west

Differentiation of Native North American Culture Regions

Geographic and Historical Backgrounds to the American Character

The Political Geography of North America in (Pick a Year)

Geographical Knowledge of North America in (Pick a Year)

James Mitchner (or other author of fiction) as Historical Geographer

The Effectiveness of the Homestead Act (Or Other Land Act) in the Growth of Western North America

The Historical Geography of the American Revolution (Or Civil War)

Examples of Culture Conflict in North America as Expressed on the Landscape

The Effects of (Pick an Explorer) on the American Experience

The Development of (Pick a Region) As A Cultural­Economic Entity

Development and Importance of (trail or road)

Indian Occupance and Ecology of the (Pick One) Region

The State of Franklin and Other "Unrealistic" Places

Urbanization in (pick place) in (pick time)

The Conservation Movement in the United States

Water as a Determinant of Land Use in the Western United States

Historic Preservation, Successes and Failures

The Uses of Historical Geography in the Public School Curriculum

A Self Guided Historical Geographic Field Trip of (pick place)

A World Systems Approach to the Historical Geography of (pick a place)

Historical Geography in Popular Culture

Historical Geography in Cultural Resources Management

Comparison of Public History and Historical Geography

A Case Study in Applied Historical Geography

Historical Reconstructions of A Physical Landscape

Return to Syllabus