- The Civil War
- Lincoln Assassination
- JFK Assassination
- MLK Assassination
- Bobby Kennedy Assassination
- Denying Women the right to vote
- Civil Rights brutality
- Jim Crow Laws
- Separate but equal laws
- Watergate
- Lehman Brothers Collapse and financial crisis of 2008
- 1929 Stock Market Crash
- Japanese Interment Camps
- Hurricane Katrina
- The Great Depression
- WWI
- WWII
- Vietnam
- Korean War
- 9/11
- Iraq War
- Gulf War
- Afghan War
- Columbine
- Fort Hood Shooting
- Dr Ben Carson becoming a national figure
Feel free to add to this but this is the list I could come off the top of my head.
