My longest was a 40 page research paper on WWII infantry in the Pacific and European theaters. I wrote the paper in three days but my research at the WWII institute at FSU took five months of intense work reading journals, war reports, letters and transcripts from WWII infantrymen.
Some of my research included reading a journal written on a roll of toilet paper, reading burned journals barely readable, examining letters written on cardboard boxes, listening to taped accounts from nearly dead WWII GI on their death bed, reading awards and interviewing WWII infantrymen.
Some of the research I did included reading journals no one else but the man who wrote them ever saw and using magnifying glasses to try to uncover work on burned journals,
My paper focused on the unique challenges GIs faced in their theaters of operation. In this paper I make references to journals and accounts no other human besides me has ever read. I use military manuals of the time and personal accounts I collected from my interviews.
You better believe with the amount of research I did I got my A. This was required course to graduate with a history degree.
FSU has or had some really good classes like terrorism, organized crime, war and the nation state, rape, massacre and atrocity, the holocaust and other atrocities during WWII, the history of guerrilla warfare, WWII, WWI, Vietnam and a bunch of others. The classes I took for my history degree read like a demons resume.