Researching a Major Historical Event
Researching a Major Historical Event
You want to choose an event that has had major significance on a given society, such as the passage of a law like Roe v. Wade or a scientific breakthrough like genome projects (see below for additional topic suggestions). This week you will choose the event and submit a 1-2 paragraph overview of your topic.
Questions to consider: What makes this event historically significant? How did this event impact society and culture? What was the media’s coverage and how did that coverage impact society and culture?
In your submission, state the event you want to use for this project with a brief rationale for your choice, explaining why your topic is socially significant. In addition, submit three APA citations for articles that you will use in your research. Include any questions you have for your instructor at the end of your document.
Your instructor will provide feedback on your choice. Though this assignment is not worth points in Week 5, points are included for it in Week 8, as it is a required deliverable for the final project, and you will lose points on your overall project grade if you fail to submit your topic. Keep in mind that you will have to have your topic approved by your instructor before moving forward. See the Portfolio Project Rubric for more details.
Topic suggestions (you are not required to choose any of these, they are here to assist you if you cannot settle on a topic):
- Arab Spring
- Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
- Cotton Gin invention
- Dot-Com Boom and Bust
- European Union Development
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Fall of the Soviet Union
- Germ Theory
- Great Recession of 2008
- History of the Emoticon
- Hurricane Katrina
- Iran Hostage Crisis of the 1970s
- Ludlow Massacre
- Mexican Revolution
- Obama’s Presidency
- The Rise of Domestic Terrorism in the U.S.
- Roe v. Wade
- San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
- Stanford Prison Experiment
- Stonewall Riots
- Trump Winning the Presidency
