LIST OF COMPARATIVE EVENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
List of Comparative events of American History
Students are not limited to these – needless to say there are far more available than are listed here, this list simply provides a starting point. No student may write on the same topic as another student in the same class. Be original.
Supreme Court Decisions
The Dred Scott case (1857) and Roe v. Wade (1973)
Audience – Black Ministers who trained under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lifestyle Revolutions
Industrial Revolution (1800-1850) and Information Revolution (1990-2011)
Audience –American CEO’s all heads of modern electronic and software firms
The New Deal and The Great Society
Audience – The congressional Republican caucus – National Republican leaders
Polio Vaccine research and development of the 1940’s and 1950’s compared to today’s stem cell research and development
Audience – Doctors specializing in Diabetes research.
Scandals
Compare Two
|Watergate |Iran Contra |Teapot Dome |
|Credit Mobilier |Whiskey Ring |Monica Lewinsky Affair |
Audience – The American society of Midwestern retired Republican county judges.
Baseball’s Black Sox Scandal of 1919 and the Steroid Scandals in sports today
Audience – Sports reporters gathered to vote for inductees into baseball’s Hall of Fame
The Black Sox Fix of the 1919 World Series and the game show fixes of the 1950’s
Audience – A national convention of Gamblers Anonymous in Las Vegas
Economic upheavals
The Great Depression and The Great Recession
Audience – Council of High School Economics teachers on Wall Street in New York City
Transportation
Building the Intercontinental Railroad (1860’s) and the Interstate Highway system (1950’s)
Audience – NASA administration executives in Houston, Texas.
Exploration
Columbus steps onto Hispaniola (1492) and Neil Armstrong steps on the moon (1969)
Audience – Oceanographers searching the arctic ocean for oil.
Immigration and Population control conflicts
1800’s Immigrations of Irish (1840’s) – Chinese (1870-1890’s) compared to current Latino immigration.
Audience – At a cabinet meeting before Mexico President Felipe Calderón in Mexico City.
1920U.S Population reaches 100 Million –October 17, 2006 U.S Population reaches 300 million
Audience – E. F. Schumacher, Paul Ehrlich and Donella H. Meadows and Ian Morris at Norte Dame University.
New Beginnings
President Obama’s first 100 days & FDR’s first 100 days
Audience – A convention of Liberal Democrats gathered to nominate the next President
The computer and the internet (1980 –to today) and what it is doing to American culture compared to the introduction of the automobile1890- 1915) and what it did to American culture.
Audience – Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and twenty five of their best friends and associates.
Wars
Compare Two
|The war in Iraq (2003 -2010) |The Spanish American War (1898) |
|Vietnam War (1961-1975) |WWI ( 1917-1918) |
|The Mexican War 1845 |War of 1812 |
Audience – The memorial activities honoring the death of the last soldier of WWI
Trials
Impeachment trials of Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
Audience – Students of Journalism from the University of Missouri
John Brown trial (1859) and the Chicago Seven trial (1969-1970)
Audience – Michael Lind and a convention roundtable of the Radical Middle
The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials 1987-1990 and the Salem witch trials (1692)
Audience – Convention of the National Trial Lawyers in Springfield Illinios
John Brown (1859) and Timothy McVeigh (1997)
Audience – Society of William Moses Kunstler radical trial lawyers
Fatty Arbuckle Rape Case (1921) and Farwell Vs Flynt (1984)
Audience – UCLA undergraduate cinema class
Henry Wirz Trial "Andersonville" (1865) and Nuremberg Trials 1946
Audience – The opening session before the judges of the International Criminal Court, at The Hague,
Racism
|The Antebellum South |Compared to |Racism during WWII |
|Reconstruction of the South 1965-1877 |Compared to |Civil rights movement of 1950’s and 1960’s |
|Interracial marriage fifty years ago |Compared to |Gay marriage today |
Audience – The Little Rock Society for honoring the confederate dead annual Fourth of July picnic.
Red Scare vs the fear of terrorism
The Japanese Internment Camps and Trial of Tears
Audience: Grand Wizard of the KKK
Birth of the KKK and the Birth of the Black Panthers
JFK Assassination and the Lincoln Assassination
Philo Farnsworth creates Television and Steve Jobs introduces the Apple II computer
Audience: Gathering of Green energy innovators, inventors and business leaders.
Battle of the Little Big Horn and D-Day
Hiroshima and Roe V Wade
Edison and Motion Pictures and Philo Farnsworth creates television
Audience: Convention of Video Game developers
9/11 and Pearl Harbor
Audience: Incoming Freshman class at West Point
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