Project Ideas...
 

I have a bit of catching up to do here, but first I'm going to sit outside for a bit.
The wind beacons me...
I'm sure there'll be rain soon also.


So I have a question.
I have a project in U.S. History due in a couple weeks...
I'm thinking of doing it on horror movies/stories in American history or something along those lines.
Should I do that, or the pathetic Alamo project idea instead???
And if I do, where would I start?
Or do you have any better ideas?

Well, I'm off. :p

What exactly is your assignment?

Depending on the time frame in US History, you could do it on the beginning of horror films, you could do it on other horror topics too, like Poe or Lovecraft and the influence of the golden age of pulp.

horror advancement in the Us could be interesting. You could speak about how times have changed and what used to be scary is now on daytime television. And novels too.

If this is a US History project, you could use horror movies as a symbol of political and social turmoil in society.Examples would be the civil rights movement and Night of the Living Dead, the exanpsion of free market with Dawn of the Dead, Vietnam backlash with movies like the Hills have Eyes and Last House on the Left.

How about a project on how, due to the absence of a better way to inform the public about current events, historical falsehoods in America were created by pop culture.

eg. Christopher Columbus sailed west to prove the world was round....WRONG. A round earth was common knowledge at that that time. But Washington Irving thought it made a compelling story, and he was the most popular writer in the world when he wrote The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

or

April 18, 1775 - A man rides from Boston to NYC and down into Pennsylvania warning the people of the impending British Invasion "The British are coming" and his name was...

Israel Bissel

You were thinking Paul Revere? He rode from Cambridge to Boston - just a few miles. Why is he more famous? At the beginning of the US Civil War Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (a Unionist) wanted to write a poem that would stir the souls of Americans, something patriotic and thrilling. And Israel Bissel wasn't a good hero name...too Jewish sounding, we like our heroes goy in the US. So the poem goes...

"Listen my children and you shall hear of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,
Twas the eighteenth of April in '75, hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year"

Hauntings/Ghost stories in US History. Google will give you lots of interesting places to look for info.

How are things, Nova? Haven't talked to you in a while. PM me if ya want. :)

Urban Legends and how they evolve, how they were started, the length of how long they stayed.

Honestly, I think the Alamo is a great idea! There's a lot of great history with that place and the whole last battle with Santa Ana where they lost the Alamo is really interesting. Davy Crocket and Jim Bowie died there during that battle.

I actually went there one time--it's super tiny! It is also just randomly in the middle of San Antonio. It's weird to think that at one time that stood all by itself until the city built up around it. Cool place though.

history into black slavery ??

custers last fall..?
americas introduction into the war..?

what else..ummm..

Clinton and lewinsky..now thats horror at its best.