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Term Paper Topic? (hexbear.net)
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Hexbears. I need your help. I have a term paper that I need a topic for. Here's the rub: It's for US history, and the topic has to be US history before 1893. I wanted to write about labor unions, which took off in the US around the 1870s, but the real "history" of organized labor in the US takes place well past 1893. So the professor will very likely reject that.

I'm not a history person. I know, I know "those who don't learn from the past..." I don't want to write about the American civil war and all that shit though. It's been done to death. Any ideas on a topic I could pick that would be more interesting and more left-leaning?

Not asking for any help writing it. I just need some help picking a topic that would be interesting to research.

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Agricultural Revolution, especially post-Civil War. There were major leaps in technology that completely changed how food was grown. Barbed wire for both keeping animals in and animals out. Trains allowing food to be delivered farther and remain fresher. The John Deer plow. Mechanical reapers. There's a bunch of cool shit being invented as the Inudstrial Revolution makes its way into agriculture.

This study is an interesting place to start with the topic. There's a discussion to be had on the impact of agriculture on American capitalism, looking through a Marxist lens.