20th Topic Selections

As with most topics, they change frequently, or more gems are discovered. Therefore, they are housed in one location here on my site rather than on the class platform. Please message me if you see a topic or keyword we should add. 

Welcome to your Topic Selections Resources page. Students can use this as a springboard for a topic for their in-person presentations. For this project, students survey old newspapers to learn more about a topic of their choice. After researching the topic, grabbing JPEGs, and deducing its mood, they will introduce our class to the topic via a visual presentation. The students are not limited to any topic, but to help prime the mind, we have a few below to help.

Also, you can view this document from previous students concerning Turning Points in the 20th Century. These topics are from student suggestions and course materials. 

Our objectives for this activity: 

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of cultural experiences by exploring other cultures through film, literature, museums, festivals, interviews, rituals, etc.

• Examining the background information to better understand the subject in question allows us to analyze rather than summarize what we are studying.

• Conducting research using old newspapers to examine and analyze the historical contextual framework of the topic.

Topics by Subjects

(These represent a few topics from previous students or late-night readings.)

• Other: Topic Not Listed (message professor so we can add it)

Abuse Cases

• Angels Burnt: Middle Eastern Collection (rated R for mutilated faces due to acid) 

Animals

• Chicago: “Hog Butcher for the World”

Alien Lifeforms & Space

• Artemis One Lunar launch 

• War of the Worlds audio 

• Battle for Los Angeles by UFOs

  • Summary

  • Podcast 

  • Military Times

  • Memo to President 

  • Radio broadcast 

• Aliens and UFOs

  • A brief cultural history of UFOs, from secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors

  • History of UFOs (video)

  • Harry Reid: What We Believe About UFOs

  • A Brief History of UFOs in Japan

  • 'The Phenomenon' uncovers 70 years 

  • Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report

Art

• Spotlight on art, book, artist, or movie

• Chinese Calligraphy art

• Boubou Design's Amazing Portraits Painted with Everyday Objects

• Yellow peril art and movies (racism towards Asians) 

  • Article Clipping

• Haitian Art Renaissance 1940s

• Marina Abramovic, 1974, evil witch or victim?

• Korean Dansaekhwa art

• Harlem Art

  • African American Art Experience 

  • Harlem Renaissance Artists

  • Against The Odds Artists Of The Harlem Renaissance

  • Aunt Jemima brand

  • Racist Art, Anti-Art

  • How the art industry is grappling with its systemic race inequality

  • Black Artists Combat Racism

  • race and ethnicity in art

Automobiles

• Auto industry through the years

Astrology and New Age 

• History of

• New Age Communes

Beauty Standards

• Beauty standards by gender / Culture

  • Black American Beauty

Book Related

• Alice in Wonderland scandal 

• Banned books, movies, etc

  • Races of Mankind Pamphlet

  • Ban on W&tback Traffic 

• Clarence Leroy Holt (African Historian)

Business Related

• Real Estate redlining: home prices & deeds

• Advertisements of the 1950s

• Wall Street Traders of the 80s

• Casinos and the mobs

  • Anarchy and the Mob

• Hostile business takeovers (pick one)

Cave Exploring 

• Cave rescues or death

Censorship

• Censorship in movies, music, or social media

Child Related

• Beauty pageants: Scandals and/or praises

• Baby Jessica Falls Down a Well (1987)

• Bride Kidnapping of Ethiopia 

• Child brides or Comfort Women (such as Kim Bok-dong)

• Dingo Ate the Baby (death of baby Chamberlain)

Civil Rights

• Apartheid in South Africa

• Apartheid in The United States 

  • Inequality in the South

• Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islamic, Demands Negro State like Jewish Israel

• S.C & the Klan

• 1942 St. Louis Small Arms Ammunition Plant protest / Kansas City Standard Steel v FEPC Supreme Court case 

• Brown Berets (Chola/Chicana movement)

• China vs Japan Citizens

• Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, a Women’s Rights Activist 

• James Baldwin, Pride Community and African American Rights activist

• Claudette Colvin (predates Rosa Parks)

• Sharecropping: The New Slavery 

  • Census Report & Migration

  • Rights Denied

  • Govt Studies Sharecropping

• Racial Covenants Barring Black families from owning homes (USA)

  • “The Color of Law” book

  • Jim Crow & Restrive Home Deeds

  • Corrigan v Buckley (Supreme Court case)

  • Hansberry v. Lee (Chicago)

  • Shelley v Kraemer

• Little Rock Nine News Clippings

• LGBTQI+ Rights by Country 

• Indian Untouchable Caste System

• Black Panthers

  • Murder of Dr. Huey P. Newton

• Nation of Islam and New Black Panther Party

• Korean Women

  • Entering the Work Force

• India Caste System

• Segreation to prevent Social Evil

• Sojourners for Truth and Justice 

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Prior to 1964

• US Emancipation Interactive Maps

• Depiction of an enslaved man, York, in the 1900s: (Lewis and Clark expedition)

• Suffrages of UK / NY

  • Women are too incompetent to vote

• Rose Lee Ingram and sons sentenced to the electric chair, GA. 1948

• Plainville Lynchings

• Forced Military Service (The Draft)

  • Your Number is called, Draft Quota, Native American Draft, Dead Hero's

• African Americans joining the military

  • VA Refuses to Integrate

  • Removed from the Defense Department

• Chinese indentured servitude: California, Peru: Coolies

Crashes (Auto, Plane, Train)

• Amazonian plane survivors: Kids: Lesly Bonbaire

Coffee, Chocolate, or Tea industry

• Brazilian coffee industry 

• Ethiopia, home of coffee

Cooking, Chefs, Food Related

• Cooking with hot sand

• Cuisine of choice 

Conspiracy Theories or Oddities 

• Midnight radio conspiracy show with Arthur William “Art” Bell

• Bigfoot

• Conspiracy theories (pick one)

• Q-anon

• Princess Kate Middleton of England Missing 

• Moon landing

• Montauk Project; Stranger Things Conspiracy Theory

Cultures

• Amish Culture

• Generations (pick one, i.e., Boomers, X, Z, Millennials, etc.)

• Back-to-Africa Movement (1920) Marcus Garvey

• Black Hebrews documentary 

• Comic book heroes (impact of, pick one)

• Carnival Festivals (choose country)

• Cultural Appreciation vs. Appropriation

• Decades in Change: (spotlight a decade)

• Tribal Belly Dancing 

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Death Penalty

• Death Penalty (pick country or methods)

• George Stinney Jr. (14 years old)

  • Preston Cobb Jr (16 y/o)

Dictators

• Karl Marx & the Communist Manifesto

  • Manifesto Anniversary Clipping

  • Manifesto Analysis Clipping

  • Marx and the N*gro Question

  • International Slave Cartoon

• The Bolsheviks

• The Mensheviks

• Lavr Kornilov

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Leon Trotsky

  • Fall of Trotsky in Germany Clipping

• Marxist Aesthetics

• Impact of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier of Haiti 

• Hitler

  • Weird Sleep Habits (Pre-WWII article)

• Mussolini

• Mao

Drugs

• War on Drugs: Nixon & Elvis

• Opium Crisis

  • Opium News Clippings

  • Kensington St, PA

  • Skid Row, LA

Diamonds

• Blood Diamond mines in Africa

Disasters (Manmade or natural)

• Anchieta rail disaster: Brazil 

• Chornobyl nuclear meltdown

• Dust Bowl farming of the 1930s

• Bhopal Gas Tragedy of India 

Existentialism 

• Existentialism 

  • Existentialism and Literature (article)

Economics

• Capitalism v communism

Exercise 

• Aerobics craze of the 1980s (Tony Britts)

Eugenics

• Eugenics and Race Relations 

• Marriage and Breeding

Education

• George McLaurin, the first black man to attend a US college

• Affirmative Action Repealed

• COVID High Schooler Struggle to Cope

• Student strikes/protests (name schools/events)

• India Women Struggle for Education and Freedom from Britain

  • (Source: Maryland Suffrage News., April 24, 1920, Page 27)

• Tibetan Sealed Library discovery 

• Textbook publishers changing history?

• Segregation in US schools (pick a school to focus on)

  • Fed Court Upholds Law

• Student Strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (2010)

• Secularism in Western Schools 1940 and 50s

Expeditions

• Toxic Tourism

• Arctic expeditions

  • The Terror, Admiral Byrd, Hollow Earth Theory

Fascism

• Italian Amendola Attacked

Fashion

• Fashion (pick a decade or style)

Gas Shortages through time

• Gas shortage of the (pick decade and country)

• OPEC History

Ghost Hunting

• Paranormal: Pick one

• Queen Mary

Govt Relations

• Founding Fathers (PDF)

• Brexit

• Venezuela & US Relations (1950s)

  • Import Export Trade

  • Statement on Solidarity 

  • US Trade Progress

  • War and Castro

  • British & Germans Seize Castro

• Uganda Jewish Plan by Britain 

• Sharecropping in the U.S. Southern States 

• Philippines vs Spain 

  • Source II

• Korea Split (North vs. South)

• First Female U.S. President Edith Wilson?

• BRICS

• Imperialism and Colonization (pick empire)

• France vs. North Africa

• The Wilcox Rebellion of 1888; US Gvt Steals Hawaii 

• ECOWAS

• The Red Scare (USSR)

  • NSC 68 Blueprint

  • The Red Scare is a Menace

  • Black Scare, Red Scare

  • NSC-69 Explained

  • Project Troy: How Scientists Helped Refine Cold War
    Psychological Warfare by Audra Wolfe

  • Red Scare: 100 years

  • 1st Amendment Encyclopedia 

  • What is the Red Scare?

  • Germany Invades the US: Life Magazine PDF

• Great Depression (pick a country)

• Gaddafi: Rise and Fall of Libyan Gold King

Govt vs. Rebels/Freedom Fighters

• Amharas vs. Ethiopian govt 

• Nazi War Criminals and Argentina/North Carolina/NASA (pick person/place)

• Imperial China

• Communism and the USA: USSR Attacks the USA

• Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987 (led a coup, killed four years later)

• Govt engrossed Fascism in America: German-American Bund (1930s)

• British Mandate of Palestine

• June Fourth Incident in China

• CIA covert operations: Manchurian Candidate, Operation Northwoods, 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

  • THE CIA'S APPALLING HUMAN EXPERIMENTS WITH MIND CONTROL

  • William James: The Will to Believe

  • White Bulger

  • MK-Ultra

  • KGB Mind Control I, II, III

  • The Naked Lunch

  • Brain Warfare I, II

  • Allen Dulles

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Human Trafficking

• Human Trafficking (history of / pick a country/aspects)

Holidays and Customs 

• Holidays and customs (pick one)

Human Zoos

• Human Zoos of the Victorian age: Sarah Saartjie Baartman

• Human zoos of the 1910s

  • The sad case of Ota Benga; Ota Benja Orphaned

Historians

• Georgie Washington Williams (first US African Historian in the US )

• Dr. Clarence T Walker: Negros in Science, Entertainment, Arts circa the 1920s, (Source II) (III)

• Marian Stokes: The Woman Who Recorded Everything (YouTube, 90 mins)

Internet

• Forty years of the internet

• Comment Click Farms (YouTube)

  • Inside an illegal Vietnamese Social Media Click Farm

• A Brief History of the Internet

• A short history of the internet

• Y2K Scare

• Deep Fakes of Tom Cruise

• The internet should be restricted. 

• Censored Artists

• Artists Take a Stand

• Freedom of Artistic Expression

• Worldwide Internet Restrictions

• Ranking Internet Restrictions

Immigration 

• Darien Gap in South America

• Laws (pick a country)

• Migrant ships Europe

• Tong Wars of San Francisco (Chinatown)

• Deferred Action Child Arrivals (DACA)

• Texas border issues

• Sanctuary Cities / Plane Flights

• The Great Migration & The Harlem Renaissance (video)

• Immigration and Naturalization Act

• Quota Act of 1924, or National Origins Act of 1924

• Ellis Island Narratives 

• Immigrants, the Literacy Test, and Quotas:1917-1929 (JSTOR)

• The New Colossus (poem on the Statue of Liberty)

• Pew Research Center

• Pew Research Center: Laws

• Immigration in the US by race

• U.S. Immigration Before 1965

• Immigration Timeline into the US by Acts

  • Colombian Immigration

    • The Colombian Diaspora in the United States

    • Colombia Emigration and Immigration

    • Colombian Americans - PureHistory.org (video)

    • How Jackson Heights Earned the Nickname 'Little Colombia'

    • Colombian Americans - History, Immigration, Acculturation

    • Evolution of Colombian Emigrants 1960 - 2005

    • Colombians in the USA

    • The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960

Laws

• National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (Frank Collins)

• New Laws for Socialism

• Indian Child Welfare Act - reversal

  • Established

• Reversal of Roe v Wade

• Jim Crow Laws and Voting

• Prohibition and speakeasies

• Reversal of Affirmative Action

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Modern Marvels: Architecture 

• Canal Building: Panama Jungle disaster and Cleopatra’s Egyptian Suez Canal

Murders (infamous)

• George Stinney: 14 y/o boy person executed by the electric chair 

  • Governor Denies Release

• Pearl Concubine of the Forbidden City

• Racist Night Riders of MO 

• Russia Czar

Medical

• Rebel Woman: Margaret Sanger (Planned Parenthood)

  • Set against poor people having babies

  • Woman and the New Race

  • The New China Woman

• Psychological experiments (pick one)

• Second Heart (PDF) 

• Age Reversal Pill Telomir (Video)

• X-ray Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen hands

• Medical Advancements

• Germ Warfare in 1950s Korea (PDF clipping)

• Morphine and Addictions 

  • Users of Meth

• Minamata Japan Mercury Zombie Outbreak (1953)

• UK National Health Service

• Healthcare (pick an aspect of interest)

• Mangbetu tribe head elongation practice

• Dr. Max Gerson, the Gerson Therapy controversial cancer treatment 

• Fall of the Midwifery Industry

• 1st Womb Transplant

• Dogs Head Transplant (PDF)

• Lalen and Laden, Iranian Conjoined Twins

• 3D printed organs

• Cigarettes: The Silent Killer

• Birth Control History

• Mental Asylums and Healthcare 

  • Mental healthcare and asylums are fascinating topics, but they are frequently very challenging for those with a weak stomach. For this topic, students want to begin their research with the state of Mental Medicine circa 1890. Starting in the 1890s gives us a good base of information where most doctors tried to heal the mentally impaired with religious tactics called Moral Treatment. Next, I suggest jumping ahead to the mid-1950s with Perceptions of the Mind. Then, to rip off the bandaid, look into Willowbrook Mental Home. I follow that up with a decade-by-decade look into the atmosphere of mental care. 

  • University of Toledo Libraries: Mental Minds

  • Moral Treatment Movement 

  • Perceptions of Mental Illness Across History

  • Mental Health America

  • Inside the Abandoned Asylum

  •  lobotomies on children as well. Howard Dully caught my eye during research. 

  • The history of Informed Consent is a blight on the global healthcare community, with four legal cases: Mohr v Williams, Pratt v Davis, Rolater v Strain, and Schloendorff v Society of New York Hospital. In the case of Pratt v Davis

• Rosemary Kelly lobotomized

• Canada's tuberculosis scandal 

• Medical Marvel (pick one)

• The flu epidemic of 1910

• Cholera outbreak in Haiti (present-day)

• Dr. Cornelius Rhoades: Doctor of Death in Puerto Rico

• Darwinism and Eugenics

  • You will research US and German Doctors and specialists such as (but not limited to) Nathaniel Comfort, Karl Pearson, Lori Andrews, Sir Francis Galton, Charles Davenport, Edwin Black, Andrzej Pekalski, Buck v Bell, Thomas Morgan, the justifications during the Nuremberg Trials, Ashkenazi Jewish community, and unfit to reproduce ideals. 

  • Social Darwinism: The Theoretical Justification for Imperialism

  • Cecil Rhodes

  • Descend of Mankind in 1871 Charles Darwin

  • Eugenics in Art, the JAMA Network

    • Der Würgengel, 1909, Franz Karl Bühler (1864-1940)

    • Departure, Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

    • Episode 705 Artwork

  • The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933–1939

  • Eugenics; Andrzej History

  • Social Darwinism: The Theoretical Justification for Imperialism 

  • Charles Davenport, the Man behind American Eugenics (video)

  • A Dangerous Idea: The History of Eugenics in America (video)

  • A History of Eugenics (video)

  • Bio: Charles Darwin

  • The Crimes of The Auschwitz Doctors

  • Charles Darwin and Francis Galton

Massacres / Genocides / Famine

• Visual Aid to the Eight Stages of Genocide (Canva)

• The Red Summer of 1919 (massacre) 

• Rwanda Hutu Massacre

• Armenians

• Columbine High School 

• Columbia, Tenn Race Riots

• Carandiru Prison Massacre

• Serbian Concentration Camps

• Namibia vs Germany 1904

• Nanking Massacre

• King Leopold's Defense Against the Congolese circa 1903

• Waco Shootout in Texas

• North Korean famine 1990s

• Holodomor Massacres Ukrainian history

• Hay Market May Day Labour Union massacre

• Ocoee Voting Tragedy

• King Leopold and the Congolese

• Kent State massacre

• Tulsa Mass Lynchings 1920s

• King Leopold, the butcher king of the Congo

• Guyana Enmore Tragedy

• MOVE bombing in Philadelphia 1980s

Movements

• Nationalist Party uprising: Puerto Rico 

• New Culture Movement (Chinese)

• Tell Your Story (YouTube Channel)

  • Stories from people who have survived PTSD and Trauma 

• Men’s Rights (history of)

  • Dubois’ the New Negro ideas

    • “The Sport of the Gods”

    • “Hagar’s Daughter”

    • Alain Locke

• Women's Rights (history of)

  • The New Woman (1890s)“The Doll House”

• Pride Community Rights (history of)

• Birth of the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1954

• The “Lying Flat” Chinese movement

• Mexico Civil Rights March sews mouth shuts.

Movies / TV

• Signature Sounds (TV)

• The Hays Codes of 1934 - 1968

• Marvel: Modern-day Myths

• War of the Worlds: Orsen Wells Audio Broadcast

• Star Trek and the Kiss

• Vampires (rise of in movies) 

• Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (First African Americans owned movie studio)

  • Almost all Micheaux movies are uploaded to YouTube. 

  • The Symbol Of The Unconquered (1920) (YouTube, 59mins)

    • Reactionary movie towards Birth of a Nation (Klan Movie)

  • Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood (YouTube, 9 mins)

    • Documentary

  • The Lasting Legacy of Oscar Micheaux (YouTube, 4 mins)

  • Who Is Oscar Micheaux? The Homesteader 1919 (YouTube, 5mins)

  • Blackface Films, which Micheaux was trying to fight against

    • First Ever Sound Film Of A Minstrel Show 1913 (YouTube, 4 mins)

    • Cotton Watts and Chick Watts (YouTube, 4 min)

    • Judy Garland as a Blackface Pickaninny (YouTube, 3 mins)

• Sex Symbols and Children Models

  • War Babies with Shirley Temple (Rated-R for vulgar display of children)

• Popular shows (by decades)

• Superman and the power of TV (1950s Christopher Reeves shot)

Music

• Musical genre or artist of choice 

• Sock hops of the 1950s USA

• Billboard Charting system controlled music

• War of the Worlds broadcast

• Woodstock and/or other Musical Festivals

• Who Killed Tupac? SOLVED!!

• Pagoda Music of Brazil

• Russian Woodstock 1992

• Summer of Love (1960s)

• Rhythm and Blues history: such as (Roy Hamilton) 

• Practical movie effects (movie magic)

• Patriotic music of WWI and II

• Music Videos kill the radio star.

  • Discuss how music videos changed the music industry 

• AfroPop of Morocco 

• Jazz: Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers, 1943

• K-pop and Kdrama and Khorror

• Breakdancing Craze 1980s

• Country OGs vs. Country Pop/Patriotic

• Gangasta Rap of the 90s

• Brazil Pagode, music of the people 

• Harlem Jazz/Art Renaissance

  • The Harlem Jazz Renaissance is one of the most inspiring times in African-American history. Notable items of interest will be Langston Hughes's powerful poems on the Black Identity, the Kansas City Harlem Museum, the New Negro, Zora Neale Hurston, All That Jazz, SpeakEasy, Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret, Gee's Bend Alabama, and the Quilt, Aaron Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Jacob Lawerence, 92nd & 93rd Infantry Units & Lt. James Reese Europe, Ragtime, and the Foxtrot. 

  • Harlem Renaissance Playlist (video)

  • Lena Horne and the Cotton Club (video)

  • A Raisin in the Sun (Video)

  • The Greats (Video)

  • The Literature, Music, and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

  • The Harlem Renaissance - USHistory.org

  • Sterling A. Brown: The Last Of The Harlem Renaissance Greats (JSTOR)

  • Harlem in NYC

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Nature

• Morocco's Blue City

• Yemen Socotra Island (Dragon’s Blood)

• Jadav Payeng, tree savior

• Lack of access to State Parks for Inner-city Middle Schooler

• Jadav Payeng, India’s forest man

Natural Disasters 

• Haiti earthquake 2010

• South Sudan's epic flooding 

Oceans

• Deadly Diving: Oceans Blue Holes 

• Sinking of ships

• Bermuda Triangle

• Ocean Gate

• Deadly Orca Attacks 

• Pirates

Prison Systems

• US: Prison Reform of the 1900s

• Siberian Prisons

Pirates

• (Pick a group)

Psychology

• Identity and Gender Norms (pick decades/person)

  • Harry Allen (1882-1922) - Famous for being sensationalized by newspapers of that era for petty crimes but one of the earlier exposures of someone who is transgender to the public media

  • Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989) - Famous for sex reassignment surgery in such an early period of history

  • Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) - Famous for being the first one to "Throw the brick" during the Stonewall Riot

  • Sexual Identity in the New Women

  •  Gender and Sexuality at the Fin-de-siècle

  •  Male Sociability and the New Woman (JSTOR required)

  • The New Woman

  • Fin-de-siecle: Once More with Feeling (JSTOR Required)

  • Symbolism and Decadent

  • Symbolism and Decadence

Religious Movements

• Religious wear

• Religious customs, rituals, holidays, etc

• Hindu Metei vs. Christian Kuki (present day)

• Moral Majority of the 1980s

  • Reagan and Nancy, Censorship of Music, DARE program

• The Christian Amendment & Christ and Congress

  • Christ and Citizenship

• Communes (pick one)

• Cult leaders (select one)

  • Cult: Kenya: Paul Makenzie Nthenge

  • Cult: Rael Maitreya

Race Relations

• Pick Country or Era

• Right to exist

• What is the Jewish Race circa 1950s article

• United Colored Democracy Party of 1890

• USA Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s

  • Lynching in America

  • Segregation Era

  • July Perry – Ocoee Race Massacre of 1920

  • Jim Brown and Gov Lester Maddox Part I 

  • Gov Lester Maddox Storms off Set Part II

• Ruby Bridges: Through Her Eyes (video)

Religious Figures

• Buddhism: 

  • Can Christians Stop Buddhism in the Orient?

  • Buddha Birthday

  • Ashes of Buddha

Revolutions, Rebels, & Riots / Protests

• Amar Bharati, a Hindu Sadhu

• "Soveit Russia! Hands Off China" 1925 NY

• What is a Just War?

• Pirates of …. (Caribbean or Barbary) 

• Russians Protest Gas Masks

  • Revolution Kicks Off

  • Fighting Capitalism through Unions

  • Communist Against Segregation

• Galvarino mapuche (Mapuche warrior with knives for hands)

• Pipelines in East Africa (protests)

• Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 & Operation Wetb**k

• Algerian Revolution against France 1962

  • Terrorist Attack in Turkey (PDF)

• Queen Muhumza of AbaKiga

• Attica Prison Riot 1972

• Syrian White Helmets

• Boxer Rebellion of China

• Forsyth, GA Lynchings 1912- 1980s

  • National Guard Sent, Oscarville Martial Law, 

• Chicago's Chicano community of the 1910s

• Guyana Revolt of 1905

• Somali Expansion against Britain 

• Hard Hat Riots of NY

• Independence Gained (by country)

• The White Revolution of 1963, Iran

• Revolt of the Lash (Brazil)

• Wall Street Bombing 1920

• Russian Revolution of 1917

• Iran Revolution (2022)

• Latino Revolution in CA (1980s)

Robotics 

• Boston Dynamic robots

• Theseus the AI Maze Mouse | IEEE Races

• AI usage in farming

• AI usage in medicine 

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Science

• Time is relative (different calendars) 

• Space Cadets Hoax TV show of 2005

• VR Chat (video game) vs. Meta

• Space Race (aspects of)

  • FATE magazine

  • Space Race Permeated Pop Culture

  • When the Space Age Blasted Off, Pop Culture Followed

  • How the Space Race Altered Art in the Americas

• Moonwalk: USA (1960s)

• Moon Landing: India (2023)

• Sputnik: Russie

• Radium Girls

Science Vs. Religion 

• Charles Darwin

  • Brother has to close his business

• The Monkey Trial

  • The Scopes Trial is a fascinating time in our history, repeated many times. Long story short, the government of Tennessee enacted the Butler Act, which mandated it was illegal to teach evolution in school. Many people residing in the state were agitated and contacted The ACLU. They decided it was not in line with their 1st Amendment Rights and wanted to fight it. What is Objective Education, and who determines it?

• THE FIRST AMENDMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA: Scopes Monkey Trial

• Scopes v. State Summary Judgment

• Tennessee Evolution Statutes

• Monkey Trial - John Scopes - Evolution (Video)

• THE MONKEY TRIAL - 1925 (video newsreel)

Society & Sociology 

• The Great Reset of 2022

• Housewives of the 1950s (pick a country)

• Divorces in 1950s

• Quinceañera traditions 

• Religious holidays

• The Wild West

• Year of the Dragon meanings

Sports

• Racing Sports

  • Rally

  • Motorbikes

  • NASCAR

  • Formula 1

• Baseball

  • Racist Rejection of Willie Mays

• Futball history (pick a team)(this means soccer for Americans)

Symbols

• Hitler Nazi identification Badges

Slave labour / Slavery

• Congo Cobalt Slave Labour Crisis

• Human Trafficking 

• Slave Labor in California and Oregon (PDF News clipping)

• Kimberley Diamond Mines

• Debt slavery of the 1900s

• Johnson v. McAdoo: Cotton tax lawsuit (1915)

  • Ex-slave reparations litigation

• Ex-slave pension bill of 1890 (H.R. 11119)

  • Callie House

Unions

• IWW (International Workers of the World), Eugene Debs, and his role with the unions.

• Union Strikes in history (pick one)

• Mexican Rail Unions: Strike or Die

• Union Packing House Ad for African-American Workers

  • Women Losing Jobs to the NRA

• Union Party & Farms

Unusual Oddities, Events, Stories

• Englishman Brandon Grimshaw, One Man Island

• Extreme tourism 

• New York 1977 Blackout

• Kedareshwar Hindu Temple predicts the end of the world 

• Exploitation of Ringling Bros. Circus Performers

• First high five: Baker and Burke, LA Dodgers

• Racial Tensions: Whites Selling Negros

• Lion Riders Of Ethiopia

• Snake charmers 

Writers and Authors

• Magazine Revolution (origins of the magazine)

• The Little Paris Group (1920s African-American, African-French writers)

  • Loïs Mailou Jones, Langston Hughes, Alma Thomas, Delilah Pierce, Richard Dempsey, Ruth Brown, Don Roberts

• Lost generation (1920s writers) 

  • John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane

War Events & War Related (Civil Wars)

• Bikini Island (Nukes)

  • Bikini Island Watchers

  • Bombs being Tested

• Bomb shelters 

• Japanese Interment Camps (Executive Order 9066) (Source II) (Source III)

• Captain Charles Hall, African-American WWII Pilot

• Russia V USA, Russia's Race to the Weapons

• Triple Nickles ALL-Black Airborne unit 

• Banned Swastika Street Art Poland immortalized

• US Marines Invade Haiti

• Stateless citizens: such as tribal societies, Tham fütbol team, etc

• Refugees (pick one group)

• US Navy Messman Charles Jackson French (1942) 

  • Saved his squad during WWII when his ship was sunk by swimming 8 hours pulling a raft behind him in shark infested waters.

• Drug makes faint

• Buffalo Soldier of the Civil War

• Tangier Crisis

• Syrian Crisis

• Argentina’s connection to Nazism

• Agent Orange Warfare

• Berlin Wall: Rise and Fall

• The Draft

  • 1860s Northen Revolt

• Paulista War in Brazil

• Rise of the KKK in the US

• The Lebanese Civil War

• Isreal v Palestine 

• Battle of Waterberg (Germany v Heroro/Namaqualand South Africa)

• Child Soldiers (pick a country)

• Concentration Camps (select one)

• Indigenous American code breakers of WWI and WWII

• Chinese vs. US 

• Harlem Hell Fighters

• Lynching in HI during WWII

• US vs. Russia

• Hitlerites in Berlin Pre-WWII

• Japanese Unit 731 during WWII

• Russia vs. Ukraine/Georgia/Poland

• Invasion of Haiti by the USA (1915 massacre)

• Coup d'état (pick one)

• Carnival of Blood, Ohio

• Sudan: Russian/Us Proxy war

• Fall of the Ottoman Empire (1922)

• Farnham Plan and US Invasion of Haiti (1915)

• Rise of Global Terrorism 1980s

• Vietnam War (aspects of)

• Warsaw Pact

• Invasion of Puerto Rico by the USA

  • After the storm

  • Puerto Rico Genocide

  • Close All US military Bases On Foreign Soil

  • Lesser Known Campaigns

World Leaders

• Assassination of …. (pick someone)

  • President Wilson

• Death of (pick person)

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These articles/topics do not reflect an overly accurate or comprehension examination of the topic. However, you can gain an insight into the media portrayal of the event in real time. 

Topics by Subjects

(These represent a few topics from previous students or late-night readings. Could you send me yours, too?)

Ads

• Laborers, Dry Cleaners 

• Aunt Jemima & Uncle Tom

Bans or banning of 'something;

• Turkey Bans Evolution (Website)

Communism & the Red Scare

• Reaction v Democracy

Civil War

• General Granger & the Negro Troops (PDF Clipping)

• Syria vs Isreal (PDF Clipping)

Civilisation Exploring

• Robert Louis Stevenson & Tahitans

Education 

• India Women Pleads for Education and Britain Removal (PDF Clipping)

  • • Maryland suffrage news., April 24, 1920

Housing Discrimination 

• Housing Conference Detroit  (PDF Clipping)

Indigenous Movements

• Trail of Tears (1951)  (PDF Clipping)

Jail

• Oscar Wilde: Jailed for Homosexual Behaviour (PDF Clipping)

KKK

• The Klan Rides Again

Media

• War of the Worlds: Orsen Wells Audio Broadcast

Nazi Colonization Plans

• London Awaits New Colonies

• Nazi War Cartoon

Safety

• Baby and Sibling Drowns (PDF Clipping)

• Motorcycle and Speed (PDF Clipping)

Social Issues

• Succession of the North, South, and States

• Pro-Life in 1941 (PDF Clipping)

Veterans

• Active Duty vs. Reserve (PDF Clipping)

Women

• Young Girls Frighten Middle-Aged Women (PDF Clipping)

• Venona Project - Woman Code Breakers (Website)

• Suffragettes & Returning to the Home (PDF Clipping)

• Suffragettes & Returning to the Home II (PDF Clipping)

• Suffragettes & Returning to the Home III (PDF Clipping)

Topics & Keywords by Years

(Slowly, I am attaching links to the keywords)

1800-1899:

• Industrial Revolution, Tenament Housing, Irish Housing

• Child Labour Factory Workers

• Women's Suffrage and gender equality, 19th Amendment 

• Spanish American War

• Jim Crow, Black Codes, Andrew Johnson, and Radical Republicans, Plessy

• American Civil War battles, general, soldier, etc. 

• Manifest Destiny, Imperialism, and Colonialism

• Indian Untouchable Caste System

• Technological advancements, i.e., an appliance, factory item, or farming.

• The development of photography

• Titanic Sinking (PDF Clipping)

• The American Western Cowboy, Ranches, Mexican Americans, Texans, and Indigenous Tribes.

• Immigration trends and the experiences of immigrants during this period.

• The emergence of new political ideologies and their effects on governance.

1900 - 1950:

• World War I, Assassination Archduke Ferdinand, Sarajevo Anarchist (PDF Clipping)

• WWI: Hitler, Himmler, Camps, warships

  • Rise of Hiter & NAZI Boycott

• The Roaring Twenties: Jazz, flappers

• Puerto Rico Elections in 1924 (Spanish) (PDF Clipping)

• The Great Depression, Socialism, Communism, Red Scare, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism.

• The Harlem Renaissance, African American, Latino, and Afro-Latino

  • William Wells Brown (Novalist) (PDF Clipping)

• The Dust Bowl

• Rise of Christianity, Great Awakening

• The Palestine Question

• The Manhattan Project and the development of atomic weapons.

  • Sweden Blast (PDF Clipping)

• The Bracero Program: Examining the experiences of Mexican migrant workers during World War II and its aftermath.

• The Zoot Suit Riots, Tulsa Massacre

• The Puerto Rican migration

1950 - Present: (the papers only go to 1963, but some of these might have pre-history context for you)

• Various Civil Rights Movements: Haitian, Feminin, LGBTQI, Hispanic, Irish, Indgidious American

• The Space Race: the United States vs. the Soviet Union

• Germany, Stalin, Berlin Wall, 

• Emancipation Topics

  • NAACP: Fugitive Story (PDF Clipping)

• Decolonization in Africa (PDF Clipping) (PDF Clipping)

• The Arab-Israeli Conflict

• The Vietnam War and Korean War

• The Digital Revolution

• The Cuban Missile Crisis (PDF Clipping) (PDF Clipping)

• The Duvalier Era: Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. (PDF Clipping)

• Haitian Diaspora and Transnational Identity

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