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868 Topics
          Books & Literature 
          
                        
        
                
                
                
                
                - Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
 - Biography & Memoir
 - Cheever, John
 - Children's Literature
 - Comics & Graphic Novels
 - Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
 - Dictionaries
 
- Essays & Essayists
 - Fantasy
 - Fictional Characters
 - Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
 - Historical Fiction
 - Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
 - LGBTQ+ in Literature
 
          Entertainment 
          
                        
        
                - Acting
 - Actors
 - Allen, Woody, 1935-
 - Animation & Cartoons
 - Blacklisting
 - Carmichael, Hoagy, 1899-1981
 - Cartoonists
 - Censorship
 
- Cher, 1946-
 - Child actors
 - Dramatists
 - Fame
 - Fashion
 - Female Impersonators
 - Fictional Characters
 - Garland, Judy
 
          Film 
          
                        
        
                
                - Action & Adventure
 - Actors
 - Animation & Cartoons
 - Apocalypse Now
 - B-Movies & Cult Films
 - Biopics
 - Blaxploitation films
 - Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957
 - Brando, Marlon
 - Cannes Film Festival
 - Cassavetes, John, 1929-1989
 - Censorship
 
- Cinematography
 - Comedy
 - Corman, Roger, 1926-
 - Critics
 - Dance in Film
 - De Niro, Robert
 - Dean, James, 1931-1955
 - Documentary
 - Fantasy
 - Film Noir
 - Ford, John, 1894-1973
 - French Film
 
          Government & Politics 
          
                        
        
                - Abortion
 - Al Qaida
 - Authoritarianism
 - Capital Punishment
 - Capitalism
 - Cheney, Richard B.
 - City Planning
 - Civil Rights
 - Clinton, Hillary Rodham
 - Communism
 - Conservatism
 - Conspiracy Theories
 - Constitutional Law
 - Corruption
 - Coups d'état
 - Crime
 - Criminal Justice
 - Democracy
 - Democratic Party
 - Dictatorship
 - Diplomacy
 - Disaster Relief
 - Elections
 - Energy Policy
 - Environmental Policy
 - Espionage & Spying
 - F.B.I.
 - Fire Fighters
 - Firearms & Gun Control
 
- Fiscal Policy
 - Foreign Relations
 - Freedom of Speech
 - Genocide
 - Gingrich, Newt
 - Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
 - Hill, Anita
 - Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
 - Hostages
 - Human Rights
 - Immigration
 - Impeachments
 - Imperialism
 - International Affairs
 - International Relations
 - Intervention (International law)
 - Iraq & Afganistan Wars
 - Irish Republican Army
 - IS
 - Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
 - Law
 - Leaks (Disclosure of information)
 - Lobbying
 - Mafia
 - McCain, John, 1936-2018
 - McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
 - Middle East Conflict
 - Military & Armed Forces
 - Monarchies
 
- NASA
 - National Endowment for the Arts
 - National Security
 - National Security Agency (NSA)
 - Nationalism
 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 - Nuclear Armament
 - NYPD
 - Palin, Sarah, 1964-
 - Police & Policing
 - Political Activism
 - Political Cartoons
 - Political Consultants
 - Political Idealogy
 - Political Prisoners
 - Poverty
 - Prisoners of War
 - Prisons
 - Prostitution
 - Protests
 - Public Housing
 - Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
 - Radicalism
 - Refugees
 - Regime Change
 - Republican National Convention
 - Republican Party
 - Right-Wing Extremists
 - Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
 
- Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
 - Sex Scandals
 - Sexual Harassment
 - Snowden, Edward J., 1983-
 - Speechwriters
 - Surveillance
 - Taliban
 - Taxation
 - Terrorism
 - The Kennedys
 - Torture
 - U.S. Congress
 - U.S. Constitution
 - U.S. Department of Justice
 - U.S. Department of State
 - U.S. Federal Communications Commission
 - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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                  U.S. Presidency 
                  
- Bush, George H.W., 1924-2018
 - Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
 - Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
 - Clinton, Bill, 1946-
 - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
 - Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
 - Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
 - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
 - Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
 - Obama, Barack
 - Reagan, Ronald
 - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
 
 - U.S. Supreme Court
 - United Nations
 - War
 - Weapons of Mass Destruction
 - WikiLeaks
 - Wilson, Valerie Plame
 - World Politics
 - Zionism
 
          Health & Medicine 
          
                        
        
                - Aging
 - Alcoholism & Drug Addiction
 - Alternative Medicine
 - Anxiety
 - Assisted Suicide
 - Autism & Asperger's Syndrome
 - Blindness
 - Cancer
 - COVID-19 and Coronaviruses
 - Deafness
 - Death & Dying
 
- Depression
 - Disabilities
 - Drugs
 - Dwarfism
 - Dyslexia
 - Epidemics
 - Ethics
 - Gender & Identity
 - Grief
 - HIV/AIDS
 - LSD
 
          History 
          
                        
        
                - 1920s
 - 1950s
 - 1960s
 - 1970s
 - 1980s
 - 9/11
 - Abu Ghraib Prison
 - Afghan War (2001-2021)
 - American Civil War (1861-1865)
 - Apartheid
 - Arab Spring (2010-)
 - Arab-Israeli Conflict
 - Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004
 - Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011
 - Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : 1945)
 - Boston Marathon Bombing (Boston, Massachusetts : 2013)
 - Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
 - Capone, Al, 1899-1947
 - Castro, Fidel, 1926-
 - Civil War (Chechniï¸ a︡ : 1994-)
 
- Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990)
 - Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
 - Civil War (Sierra Leone : 1991-2002)
 - Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
 - Cold War (1945-1989)
 - Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
 - Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
 - Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945)
 - Freedom Rides (1961)
 - Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
 - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
 - Great Depression
 - Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
 - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
 - Hurricane Katrina (2005)
 - Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006
 - Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)
 - Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1990)
 - Iraq & Afganistan Wars
 - Iraq-Kuwait Crisis (1990-1991)
 
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
 - Korean War (1950-1953)
 - Kosovo War (Serbia : 1998-1999)
 - Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
 - Nazis
 - Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing (Oklahoma : 1995)
 - Oswald, Lee Harvey
 - Partition of India (1947)
 - Pentagon Papers
 - Persian Gulf War (1991)
 - Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
 - Postwar reconstruction
 - Prohibition
 - Project Apollo (U.S.)
 - Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-1995
 - Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1992)
 - Selma to Montgomery Rights March
 - September 11, 2001
 - Siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina : 1992-1996)
 - Somalia Affair (1992-1997)
 
- South Africa
 - Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989)
 - Soviet Union
 - Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
 - Tea Party Movement
 - Thatcher, Margaret
 - U.S. Civil War
 - U.S. History
 - U.S. Slavery
 - Vietnam War
 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States)
 - War on Terrorism
 - Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
 - World War I (1914-1918)
 - WWII
 - Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, 1931-2007
 - Yugoslav War (1991-1995)
 
          Music 
          
                        
        
                
                - Accordionists
 - Arrangers
 - Avant-Garde
 - Banjo
 - Bass
 - Blues
 - Bossa Nova
 - Children's Music
 - Christmas Music
 - Clarinet
 - Classic
 - Classical
 - Composers
 - Conductors
 - Country
 
- DJs
 - Doo-Wop
 - Drummers
 - Electronic
 - Ethnomusicology
 - Fiddlers
 - Folk & Bluegrass
 - Funk
 - Gershwin, George, 1898-1937
 - Gospel
 - Guitar
 - Hip-Hop/Rap
 - Improvisation
 - Instruction and Study
 - Jazz
 
- Klezmer Music
 - Latin
 - Lyrics & Lyricists
 - Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976
 - Metal
 - Novelty Music
 - Opera
 - Pianists and Keyboard Players
 - Politics in Music
 - Pop
 - Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
 - Protest Music
 - Punk
 - Record Labels
 - Reggae
 
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                  Rock 
                  
- Grateful Dead (Musical group)
 - Holly, Buddy, 1936-1959
 - Led Zeppelin (Musical group)
 - Lennon, Julian, 1963-
 - Lewis, Jerry Lee
 - Morrison, Jim, 1943-1971
 - Phillips, Sam, 1923-2003
 - Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977
 - Rolling Stones
 - Roxy Music (Musical group)
 - Springsteen, Bruce
 - Sun Records
 - Talking Heads
 - The Beatles
 - The Doors
 - The Kinks
 - The Who
 - Velvet Underground (Musical group)
 
 - Rockabilly
 - Saxophone
 - Singers & Singing
 - Soul and R&B
 - Soundtracks
 - Tejano Music
 - Trumpet
 - Violin
 - World Music
 - Writing & Composition
 - Yodeling
 
          Places & Travel 
          
                        
        
                
                
                - Afghanistan
 - Africa
 - Air Travel
 - Alabama
 - Alaska
 - Algeria
 - Amazon River Region
 - Antarctica
 - Arab Countries
 - Argentina
 - Asia
 - Atlanta, GA
 - Australia
 - Balkan Peninsula
 - Beirut
 - Berlin, Germany
 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
 - Boston
 - Brazil
 - Burma
 - California
 - Cambodia
 - Canda
 - Chicago
 - Chile
 - China
 - China--Hong Kong
 - China--Tibet Autonomous Region
 - Colombia
 - Congo (Democratic Republic)
 - Cuba
 - Czechoslovakia
 
- Detroit
 - Egypt
 - England
 - Ethiopia
 - Europe
 - Florida
 - France
 - Germany
 - Great Britain
 - Haiti
 - Hawaii
 - Hizballah (Lebanon)
 - Hollywood
 - India
 - Iran
 - Iraq
 - Ireland
 - Israel
 - Italy
 - Jamaica
 - Japan
 - Las Vegas, NV
 - Latin America
 - Lebanon
 - Libya
 - Los Angeles
 - Louisiana
 - Mali
 - Maryland--Baltimore
 - Memphis, TN
 - Mexico
 - Miami
 
- Middle East
 - Minnesota
 - Mississippi
 - Montana
 - Morocco
 - Mount Everest
 - Mumbai, India
 - Nashville
 - Netherlands
 - New Jersey
 - New Orleans
 - New York
 - New York City
 - New York State
 - New Zealand
 - Nicaragua
 - Nigeria
 - North Korea
 - Northern Ireland
 - Pakistan
 - Palestine
 - Paris
 - Pennsylvania
 - Peru
 - Philadelphia
 - Philippines
 - Poland
 - Rome, Italy
 - Russia
 - Rwanda
 - San Francisco
 - Santa Clara Valley
 
          Society & Culture 
          
                        
        
                
                - Adoption
 - African-American Issues
 - Anatomy
 - Astronauts
 - Atheism
 - Beat Generation
 - Bioethics
 - Bullying
 - Chinese Americans
 - Christmas
 - Church & State
 - Civil Rights
 - Coming of Age
 - Counterculture
 - Cowboys
 - Cuban Americans
 - Cults
 - Democratic Party
 - East Indian Americans
 
- English Language
 - Ethics
 - Fashion
 - Female circumcision
 - Feminism
 - Folklore
 - French Langugage
 - Friendship
 - Futurism
 - Gambling
 - Gangs
 - Gender & Identity
 - German Americans
 - Hispanic Americans
 - Hispanic Issues
 - Homelessness
 - Indigenous Peoples
 - Irish Americans
 - Italian Americans
 
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