Volunteers needed

As you may have found out, some of the links in the text lead to parts that have not been written yet. We are looking for volunteers to write articles about the following subjects. Linked subjects refer to information already published within the project or elsewhere on the WWW.

(this list is by no means complete: there are more topics which should be written about. If you would like to treat a topic that is not mentioned here, all suggestions are welcome.)

Aspects of American history that are not treated very well by the main text

• The history of the Native Americans
• The wars between the colonists and the indians
• The "melting pot" idea

  Biographies

• John Quincy Adams
• Samuel Adams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Benedict Arnold
• Napoleon Bonaparte (especially his ideas about an Empire in North America)
• John Wilkes Booth
• John Brown
• Martin van Buren
• General John Burgoyne
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• John C. Calhoun
• Charles Carrol
• Cochise
• Cornwallis
• Crazy Horse
• J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur
• Jefferson Davis
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• David Farragut
• John Frémont
• General Thomas Gage
• William Lloyd Garrison
• General Horatio Gates
• Geronimo
• Ulyses Grant
• Andrew Hamilton
• William Henry Harrison
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
• Andrew Johnson
• Henry Lee
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert R. Livingston
• James Russell Lowell
• James Madison
• Horace Mann
• José de San Martin
• Cotton Mather
• George McClellan
• James Monroe
• Lucretia Mott
• Pocahontas
• William Seward
• Roger Sherman
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Lucy Stone
• John Tyler
• George Washington
• Gideon Welles
• George Whyte
• Eli Whitney
• Emma Willard
• De Witt Clinton
• Frances Wright

  Battles, Wars and Peace-treaties

• King William's War
• Queen Anne's War
• King George's War
• The Seven Years War
• Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748
• The Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Bennington
• Battle of Tippecanoe

  Historical moments

• South Carolina's secession from the Union
• Clay's tariff-bill (1833)
• Texas revolt against Mexico
• Acquisition of Texas 1845
• Mexican War
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• the Industrial Revolution in the USA
• First women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. (1848)

  Institutions, History of Ideas

• Patriots and Radicals
• The Underground Railroad
• the Bank of the United States
• Freedmen's Bureau
• The Confederate States of America
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• the Holy Alliance
• The Fugitive Slave Law
• Republican Party
• Democratic Party
• The public-school system
• The awakening of women - American feminist movement
• The expansion of the Railways
• Library of Congress

  Literature,Fine Arts, Science and Technique

• Washington Irving
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Jared Sparks
• Horace Greeley
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• John Greenleaf Whittier
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• James Russell Lowell
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• William Cullen Bryant
• George Bancroft
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Richard Howe
• Samuel F. B. Morse

  Famous Courtcases