Not necessarily an ivy league school. Those schools are only on the upper east coast and they are the oldest prestigious unis in America. There are newer schools not limited to the upper east coast that are still great schools.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.