1. Technology/Modes of Communication (How/why were these created? What affect have they had on society/innovation/realtionships?)
1.1. Printing Press
1.2. TV
1.3. Telegraph
1.4. Telephone
1.5. Computers
1.5.1. AIM
1.5.2. Email
1.5.3. Coding
1.5.4. Blogging
1.5.5. MySpace
1.6. Social Media
1.6.1. Instagram
1.6.2. Facebook
1.6.3. Twitter
1.6.4. TikTok
1.7. Newspapers
1.7.1. Influence on Politics
1.8. Postal Services/Letters
1.9. Pigeons
1.10. Radio
1.11. Compass
1.12. Clocks
1.12.1. Sundials
1.13. Podcasts
1.14. Sonar
1.15. Radar
1.16. Railroad
1.17. Air Travel
1.18. Sea-faring
1.18.1. Dutch East Indies Company(?)
1.19. Unintended Side Effects of Mass Media
1.20. Music
1.20.1. Songs of Protest (Jaxon)
1.21. Advertisements
1.22. News Channels
2. Language(s)
2.1. Relation to Power/Oppression
2.1.1. Colonialism
2.2. Braille
2.3. ASL
2.4. AAV
2.5. Computer Coding
2.5.1. Binary
2.5.2. JAVA
2.5.3. Python
2.5.4. C++
2.6. Written Language
2.6.1. Rhetoric
2.6.2. How it evolves
2.7. Spoken Language
2.7.1. Dialects/Slang
2.7.2. Impactful Speeches
2.7.3. FDR's Fireside Chats
2.8. More than 5,000 Languages
2.9. Codes/Secret Languages
2.9.1. Morse Code
2.9.2. Message Scrambling
2.9.3. The Enigma Machine
2.10. Khoisa Clicking Language
2.11. Yoodling
2.12. Throat Singing (Mongolia?)
2.13. Fictional Languages
2.13.1. Elvish
2.13.2. Romulen
2.13.3. Klingon
3. Visual
3.1. Art
3.1.1. Political Cartoons
3.1.2. Photography
3.1.3. Tattoos
3.2. Visual Rhetoric
3.2.1. Propaganda
3.3. Hieroglyphics
3.4. Media: TV, Ads, Movies
3.4.1. Who/what is shown and how are they/it shown? Who/what isn't shown?
3.5. Smoke signals
3.6. Cave Paintings
3.7. Mapmaking/Cartography
4. Failures/Miscommunications
4.1. Wars
4.1.1. The First Barbary War (First War on Terrorism)
4.2. Accidents
4.3. Censorship
4.4. Biased Communication
4.4.1. Journalism (sensationalized; yellow journalism)
4.5. Stereotypes/Prejudice
5. Psychology of Communication (How do we learn how to communicate? How does communication effect our interactions and how we see others and ourselves?)
5.1. Human Development
5.2. Body Language
5.3. Tone of Voice
6. Through Gatherings
6.1. World's Fairs
6.2. Olympics
6.3. United Nations
6.4. Trade Routes
6.4.1. The Silk Road
6.5. Conventions
6.6. E3 (The Electronic Entertainment Expo)
7. In Government/Politics
7.1. Diplomatic relations between countries
7.1.1. De facto Imperialism
7.1.1.1. CIA removal of Iranian leader and replaced him
7.2. Courts
7.3. Debates in Democracy
7.4. Protests (How did they communicate their message effectively?)
7.4.1. Civil Rights
7.4.2. Environmental
7.4.3. Women's Rights
7.4.4. LGBTQ Rights
7.4.4.1. Stonewall Riot Protests
7.4.4.1.1. Marsha P. Johnson
7.5. Presidential Speeches
7.5.1. Inauguration
7.6. Founding U.S. Documents (or other nations)
8. Historical Periods/Categories
8.1. Local History
8.2. European History
8.3. World History
8.4. Women's History
8.5. WWI History
8.6. The Cold War
8.7. WWII
8.8. Vietnam
8.9. Korean Conflict
8.10. The Revolutionary War
8.11. North Korea
8.12. Iran
8.13. The Dark Ages
8.14. The Industrial Revolution
8.15. The Dawn of Civilization (Mesopotamia)
9. Literature/Storytelling
9.1. Nursery Rhymes
9.2. Myths/Legends
9.2.1. Zeus
9.2.2. Poseidon
9.2.3. Egyptian
9.2.3.1. Isis
9.2.3.2. Bast
9.2.3.3. Osiris
9.3. Libraries
9.3.1. Alexandria
9.4. Oral Histories
9.5. Folklore
9.6. Religious Texts
9.6.1. Methods of Evangelism
9.6.2. Translations of the Bible
9.6.3. Communication with Deities
9.6.4. The Quran
9.6.5. The Torah
9.6.6. Development of Latin in the Catholic Church
9.7. Scientific Articles/Studies
9.8. Greek Epics
9.8.1. The Illiad
9.8.2. The Odyssey
9.9. Social Commentary
9.9.1. George Orwell
10. Symbols
10.1. Statue of Liberty
10.2. Trojan Horse
10.3. The Cross
10.4. Flags
10.4.1. The Surrender Flag