Think about a time period that interests you:

Ancient Civilizations

Civil War

Dust Bowl

Ellis Island

Frontier Life – The Wild West

The Great Depression

The Roaring Twenties

Pioneer Life

WWI

WWII

Middle Ages

Vietnam

Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan

Women’s Movement

Korean War

Mexican-American War

Industrial Revolution

Factory life

OR Find an event that interests you

Mt Vesuvius/Pompeii

The World’s Fair

The Olympics

The building of the GW Bridge

Segregation in Schools

Japanese Internment

Desegregation in Schools

The building of the Trans-Continental Railroad

The Atom Bomb- Hiroshima

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Titanic

Mutiny

Witch Trials

OR Find a life-setting from the past that interests you:

Plantation life

Colonial life

Railroad worker

Egyptian pharaohs

OR Find a group of people that interest you

Refugees

Coal miners

Textile workers

Women rights workers

Civil rights workers

Train conductors

Baseball players

Anyone famous but dead

Pirates

 Gladiators

Samurai

Pilots

Orphans

Explorers

Knights/Serfs/Lords

Pirates

Victims of: famine/floods/natural disasters/

Shakespeare

Survivors of war