Core Topic Guide Vol.1

Vol.1 History & the Arts
I. North American History
1. 17th Century: The Cherokees, Native Americans
2. 17th Century: The story of Pocahontas
3. 17th-18th Century: Pirates
4. 18th Century: George Washington
5. 19th Century: The growth of newspapers
6. 19th Century: State versus federal authority
7. 19th Century: President Lincoln's brain
8. 19th Century: Clipper ships
9. 19th Century: Outlaws
10. 20th Century: American cities in the early 1900s
11. 20th Century: The car culture arrives
12. 20th Century: Television in the 1950s
13. 20th Century: The Dyna-Soar spaceship
14. 21st Century: Are we changing too fast?

II. North American Literature
1. Native American legends
2. Puritan writers
3. Thomas Jefferson's Notes
4. Humorists
5. James Fenimore Cooper
6. Charlotte Gilman
7. Louisa May Alcott
8. Emily Dickinson
9. Dime novels
10. Detective fiction
11. American essayists
12. Robert Frost
13. Theodore Dreiser
14. Eugene O'Neill
15. Mary McCarthy
16. Science fiction and the American mind
17. Techno-thrillers
18. Folk heroes
19. John Steinbeck
20. Sinclair Lewis

III. North American Art
1. Native American art (petroglyphs)
2. Gilbert Stuart
3. Audubon's birds
4. The 'Yellow Kid'
5. 'Wild West' art
6. Thomas Nast
7. Georgia O'Keefe
8. Edward Hopper
9. John Singleton Copley
10. Andy Warhol
11. Comic books
12. Rockwell Kent
13. Walt Kelly
14. Herblock
15. Norman Rockwell
16. Theodore Geisel

IV. World History
1. The Vikings in North America
2. The Columbus controversy
3. The Northwest Passage
4. O?ate and the Spanish conquest
5. Genocide and the 'opening of the West'
6. Lost in the Arctic
7. Washington's warning
8. France and the American Revolution
9. Russia and the sale of Alaska
10. The Hispanic influx