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“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” – Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, January 1787 “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” [...]
The 1980’s was a very interesting decade. Ronald Reagan was president. The US and the USSR were enemies with thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at one another. Rubik’s cubes were everywhere. America went through a severe recession and the largest stock market crash since the Depression. A space shuttle exploded. Michael Jackson and Madonna were [...]
Welcome to the first podcast project for your class. In case you didn’t know, podcasts are either audio or video files (mostly mp3’s) that are created to serve a variety of functions. Some are about news, sports, entertainment, and culture, but ours are about history. Usually podcasts are updated regularly through a RSS or iTunes [...]
Welcome to the first podcast project for your class. In case you didn’t know, podcasts are either audio or video files (mostly mp3′s) that are created to serve a variety of functions. Some are about news, sports, entertainment, and culture, but ours are about history. Usually podcasts are updated regularly through a RSS or iTunes [...]
Religion, race and money. Some of these issues are still as divisive today as they were when the nation was first founded. Why is that? In the beginning of the school year, I asked you to go beyond simply gathering information concerning the past. We had to analyze it, synthesize it, and ultimately evaluate it. [...]
In the effort to gather research for our debate resolution this year, I am going to add blog posts that contain links, direct information and, in this case, podcasts. What’s this film about? Here’s it’s description: If you work hard, you get ahead. That’s the American Dream in a nutshell — no matter what your [...]
Mutiny in the army, the British still on the frontier, national debt out of control, a weak national government, attacks up and down the Atlantic Ocean and lots of other issues to provide headaches to the ‘founders’. Do you want to be in charge of this new country? Probably not. Well, maybe. Some of you [...]
A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writers Marilynn Marchione And Michael Casey, Associated Press Writers 48 mins ago BANGKOK – For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures [...]
In US History II today, I had the students view the flash video for the Miniature Earth Project in order to get a context for understanding issues of globalization that we discussed earlier in our notes. Students were generally surprised to learn that the statistics of the world – broken down to a village of [...]
Your text begins this section with some very important questions: “No areas of American life were more powerfully changed than politics and government. Who would have a voice in revolutionary politics, and who would be excluded? How vigorously would political equality be pursued, or how tenaciously would people cling to the traditional belief that citizens [...]
