Suggestions For Student Research Papers Using The Resources Of The Bentley Historical Library
The following topics for student research papers have been suggested by the staff of the Bentley Historical Library. While the archival staff pulled these suggestions together based on their knowledge of the collections and other resources housed at the Bentley Library, they do not guarantee that a term paper can be written based solely on the library's sources. It is the responsibility of the student, in conjunction with his or her professor, to determine whether or not there is sufficient primary and secondary source documentation for a term paper.
List of Topics
African Americans
- The Black Action Movement: An Assessment of its Goals
- Black Involvement in Preservation of Black History in Michigan, 1939 - 1942
Business
- Highway Hype: Advocacy of the Lincoln Highway Association
- From Kresge to Kmart: The Changing Nature of the Variety Store Industry
- Michigan's Spas, Springs and Sanitariums
Environment
- Environmental Policy in Michigan: 1949 - 1982
- Environmental Controversy: The Creation of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Ethnicity
Medicine and Health Sciences
- Education of the General Public regarding Medicine, Hygiene, and Public Health
- Homeopathy or Allopathy: The Fight Over Medical Education at the University of Michigan, 1873 -1913
- Medical Education in Michigan
- Eugenics in Michigan
- Public Health in Michigan Cities
Philippines
Politics
- The Collapse of George Romney's Presidential Campaign in 1968
- Michigan and the National Democratic Party: G. Mennen Williams and the Presidential Election of 1960
- The Politics of Sexuality and Reproduction in Michigan, 1950 - 1988
- The Role of Women in the Resurgence of the Michigan Democratic Party, 1948 - 1960
- The Effects of McCarthyism on the University of Michigan Community
- The Changing Face of Liberalism: The Congressional Career of James O'Hara
- Politics and the Historical Records Survey, 1936 - 1942
- Gerald R. Ford and the Political Reform Movement in Grand Rapids
Science and Technology
- Robert R. McMath and the Development of "Big Science" Astronomy
- Chasing Sputnik: Scientific Instruction, Research, and Administration at the University of Michigan in the late Fifties
University of Michigan
- At War at Home: The Response of the University of Michigan to World War II.
- Chasing Sputnik: Scientific Instruction, Research, and Administration at the University of Michigan in the late Fifties
- Green for Blue: The University of Michigan's Postwar Chase for Funding
- The University as a Great White Parent: Changing Ideas on in loco parentis
- The University Community and the Viet Nam War
- The Development of Women's Athletics: Making a Place for Women at Michigan
- Homeopathy or Allopathy: The Fight Over Medical Education at the University of Michigan, 1873 -1913
- The Effects of McCarthyism on the University of Michigan Community
- Michigan Medical Scientists: Novy, Lombard, Dock
- Gender and Social Space on the University Campus, 1870 - 1970
- The Black Action Movement: An Assessment of its Goals
- Robert R. McMath and the Development of "Big Science" Astronomy
University of Michigan Athletics
- The "Angell Conferences," Football Reform, and Michigan's Departure from the Western Conference in 1908
- The Development of Athletic Facilities at the University of Michigan
- Biographical Sketches of U of M Athletes
- Radio and Television Broadcasting of UM Football and Basketball Games
- Black football Players in the Yost Era
- Annotated Bibliography of "This I Remember ..."
- Golf at the University of Michigan
- On the Objectives of Athletics at the University: The Struggle for Control of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation at the University of Michigan in the 1920s
- Title IX and Its Influence on the University of Michigan Athletic Program
- Michigan Athletes in the Olympics
- Broadcast a Michigan Football Game
- Sports Clubs, The Athletic Association, and the Board in Control: Governance of University of Michigan Athletics, 1863-1920
War
- Pacifism in Michigan During World War I
- The University Community and the Viet Nam War
- Civil Defense in the Nuclear Age, 1940s - 1960s
- Home Front Reaction to U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War: The Michigan Polar Bears
- At War at Home: The Response of the University of Michigan to World War II.
Women
- Woman to Woman: Female Communication in Nineteenth-Century Michigan
- The Politics of Sexuality and Reproduction in Michigan, 1950 - 1988
- Gender and Social Space on the University Campus, 1870 - 1970
- The Development of Women's Athletics: Making a Place for Women at Michigan
- The Role of Women in the Resurgence of the Michigan Democratic Party, 1948 - 1960
- Women In Medicine: Careers Bound by Gender
- Two Sides of Michigan Feminism: Support and Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment