I have to do an essay for "Cultural History of the United States", about something relevant between 1920-2001.
Any suggestions? It can be anything as long as it's engaging I guess. I already did an essay for this class, about the electric feud between Thomas Edison and Westinghouse, scored pretty well, but now I can't find any topic that inspires me.
Would prefer it to be be "semi obscure", as writing about something really common might be easier to catch bullshit and score lower I guess.
The 1920-1940th
Bootleggers, Jazz and economic depression
>>536335
>Any suggestions?
Take social history courses instead.
Just do zoot suits. You know you want to.
>>536425
>this course is mandatory
Ha ha ha, your lecturers are cunts.
>>536433
? I mean, I don't know from which educative system you are speaking, but I'm in a European system with the whole Bologna Process shit, and I basically got 2 years in which the subjects are all mandatory, and then on the 3rd I can start cherrypicking stuff
>>536439
I'm all for compulsory subjects, but cultural history of 20th century america as a compulsory subject, they're joking.
>>536464
if you are curious about all the topics
for me it was pretty interesting, learnt a bunch, even if sometimes the teacher got a bit overboard with conspiracies
my degree is "modern languages: english and french", which is basically learn the languages as 2nd and 3rd, study the literatures and some stuff about culture. I will have the same kind of subject focused in France next year
>>536486
So basically it is a reductivist course in western imperialism.
>>536497
I guess so.
Still got no idea what to write about
>>536526
zoot suits
