One of the main jobs of historians is to interpret the past by reviewing primary documents, scholarly secondary sources, and then creating an analysis of this research. Historians of the same time period vary their research in order for the larger picture of the past to be as accurate and complete as possible. In the interest of allowing you, as young historians, to follow your own interests, please select one of the following topics to address.
The Challenger: After reading your text and reviewing the assigned materials, submit an analysis of the Challenger Disaster. You might want to consider the following questions, but you are not limited to them: How did the Challenger disaster change and shape NASA? What was the impact on school children & how did it shape their perceptions of space?
The AIDS Crisis: After reading your text and reviewing the assigned materials, submit an analysis of the AIDS Crisis. You might want to consider the following questions, but you are not limited to them: In what ways do you think the perception of AIDS as a “gay disease” helped or limited the efforts to combat the disease? What do you think the effect of the AIDS quilt was? Is AIDS still a crisis in America?