Choose from one of the following controversial decisions. You will be writing your essay as one of the participants in the decision (so it will largely be in first person). The paper will have three parts: explain the background leading up to the/your decision, the decision itself, and the aftermath.
Ex: The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision. You could write the paper as Roger Taney. Explain the buildup to the case, why you made the decision you did, and the aftermath. Or you could write the paper as Dred Scott, explaining why you chose to sue, what happened during the case, and the aftermath.
The paper MUST include the following criteria: one primary source, one secondary source, a works cited page, and in-text citations. This means that you MUST cite where you get your information from WITHIN the paper and not just in the works-cited page. So when you, as whatever historical actor you choose, says “I made the decision because of this, this, and that” you would need to follow it up with the citation. All citations and the paper itself will be in MLA.
- Primary sources: (these are sources that are created by people who lived during the time of your topic. This would include letters, diaries, government documents, newspapers, interviews, pictures, paintings, maps. For example, if you do one of the topics on a Supreme Court case, the decision of the court would be a primary source. A book written in 2011 by a historian about the case would not be a primary source.
- Secondary sources are written by historians after an event has taken place. This would include articles, webpages, and books. Encyclopedias and textbooks are NOT secondary sources; they are a summary of secondary sources. However, you can use encyclopedias and textbooks, they just won’t count as your required secondary source. Your secondary source needs to be scholarly. How do you know if it is? It will cite its sources.
The paper will be 1000 words, minimum.
You will submit it through SafeAssign for plagiarism issues.
Here are the controversial choices you can choose from. Additionally, you can submit another controversial decision to me that is not on the list but is during the time period covered in this class, but you would need to get that pre-approved before December 18th.
- Investigate President Harry Trumans decision to desegregate the U.S. military in 1948.
- Investigate the actions/decisions of Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long in limiting the number of European Jews who were permitted to enter the United States during World War II as they attempted to escape Nazi persecution.
- Investigate President Lyndon B. Johnsons decision to send U.S. troops into Vietnam in 1965.
- Schenck vs. U. S. (1919) During World War One Schenck mailed circulars to persuade draftees not to report and serve in the military. He maintained a freedom of speech defense and the court ruled against him. Investigate the courts decision.
- In 1925 John Scopes was a high school science teacher arrested for violating Tennessees law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Scopes defense was the First Amendment (free speech). He was found guilty. Investigate the courts decision.
- Buck vs. Bell (1927) The case ruled that forced sterilization of feeble minded females was constitutional. Investigate the courts decision.
- Clay vs. United States (1971) Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) was drafted and refused to serve because of religious objections to war. He claimed status as a conscientious objector due to his Muslim religion. The court ruled against him. Investigate the courts decision.
- Investigate the U.S. Governments (president, congress, and the courts) decision to place Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II.
- Investigate the integration decisions made in East Texas by Judge William Wayne Justice
- Investigate the decision to add “sex” among the prohibited discriminations in the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Investigate the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas (declared all sodomy laws to be unconstitutional)
- Investigate the National Women’s Party’s decision to protest in front of the White House of women’s suffrage.
- Investigate Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta’s decision to organize boycotts
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