18: Turbulent 1960s

18: Turbulent 1960s

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The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
"War is not combat, though combat is a part of war. Combatants are not the main participants in modern war. Modern war affects civilians far more and far longer than combatants"
War is not combat, though combat is a part of war. Combatants are not the main participants in modern war. Modern war affects civilians far more and far longer than combatants.
#secondary sources#reading#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·theintercept.com·
The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
Theodore H. White Reacts to President Kennedy's Death Video - ABC News
Theodore H. White Reacts to President Kennedy's Death Video - ABC News
Does your class read an excerpt from Theodore White's "Making of the president 1960?" Show them this 3 minute video after your lesson - what do you think about what he wrote now? Is this an unbiased source? Does the level of his bias change how you judge the conclusions he makes in his book?
#secondary sources#President John F Kennedy#Historical video#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·abcnews.go.com·
Theodore H. White Reacts to President Kennedy's Death Video - ABC News
JFK Assassination Conspiracy Part 2: Jim Garrison's Johnny Carson Interview 1968 - YouTube
JFK Assassination Conspiracy Part 2: Jim Garrison's Johnny Carson Interview 1968 - YouTube

Just 3 minutes of video that students should see if their teacher shows them the Oliver Stone film JFK. This is a primary source document showing a thoroughly incredulous Carson questioning Jim Garrison, who was played by Kevin Costner in the film. Rather than simply showing the film and entertaining the conspiracy theory, teachers should teach students about the attraction of conspiracy theories and why they are so enticing, and so wrong. This lesson can be taken a step further by culling comments from the video and having students judge them - this is historical debate of the masses, notice how it is different than academic debates?

#President John F Kennedy#Historical video#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·youtube.com·
JFK Assassination Conspiracy Part 2: Jim Garrison's Johnny Carson Interview 1968 - YouTube
Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks T-O-R-T-U-R-E using Morse Code as P.O.W. - YouTube
Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks T-O-R-T-U-R-E using Morse Code as P.O.W. - YouTube
That might be a good way to teach students about the importance of context. Just show the short video to them (only about a minute and a half) and they can listen to him saying that he is healthy and being fed well. etc. Make sure they don't see anything else on the page. Although we can take what he is saying at face value, when we consider the context, our understanding changes. They might notice that he is blinking a lot. He is doing that on purpose - he is blinking the word "torture" in morse code. That is what context does to interpretation.
#Vietnam War#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·youtube.com·
Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks T-O-R-T-U-R-E using Morse Code as P.O.W. - YouTube
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.
#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·asp6new.alexanderstreet.com·
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974
President Nixon 's daily schedule, March 1972
President Nixon 's daily schedule, March 1972
Sometimes the most prosaic historical evidence can be the most informative. Teachers can have students skim through these diaries to get a sense of what a president's day looked like in the early 1970s. Many of the names may surface in a Watergate lesson, do any of the events listed correspond to other events teachers talk about?
#President Nixon#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·nixontapes.org·
President Nixon 's daily schedule, March 1972
Barry Goldwater 1964 Campaign Film, "Choice": Opening - YouTube
Barry Goldwater 1964 Campaign Film, "Choice": Opening - YouTube
This excerpt from a Goldwater campaign film that the candidate ultimately vetoed does give insight into the growing cultural divide of the 1960s that has continued for the next fifty years. Teachers can advance to the 2:30 minute mark and show just a minute of the video to get value from the clip.
#primary source#Historical video#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·youtube.com·
Barry Goldwater 1964 Campaign Film, "Choice": Opening - YouTube
The Computer as a Communications Device - JCR Licklider and Robert Taylor
The Computer as a Communications Device - JCR Licklider and Robert Taylor
April 1968 - Thirty years before Americans started to access the internet through their phones, JCR Licklider predicted how computers would change how people live their lives with astonishing accuracy.
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face.
we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information -- not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it.
Tables were arranged to form a square work area with five on a side. The center of the area contained six television monitors which displayed the alphanumeric output of a computer located elsewhere in the building but remotely controlled from a keyboard and a set of electronic pointer controllers called "mice." Any participantin the meeting could move a near-by mouse, and thus control the movements of a tracking pointer on the TV screen for all other participants to see.
#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·ais.org·
The Computer as a Communications Device - JCR Licklider and Robert Taylor
Re-examining the 1960s, Part Two | Teaching Tolerance
Re-examining the 1960s, Part Two | Teaching Tolerance
This longer article is only for teachers in the summer or over a break when they have time to step back and look at the last semester of the US II course and consider how they teach the 1960-1990 period. It's important to note that this professor talking about his approach is predicated on a narrative structure to history instruction, only on a much broader scale than the taught narrative canon. Such an approach is doomed to collapse of its own weight - because we can't include everything.
#LGBTQ+#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·tolerance.org·
Re-examining the 1960s, Part Two | Teaching Tolerance
Robert Kennedy Speech - Martin Luther King's Death - YouTube
Robert Kennedy Speech - Martin Luther King's Death - YouTube
Not only could Bobby Kennedy just quote Aeschylus off the top of his head, he can touch a moment without any preparation. THis is arguably the best contemporaneous political speech in American history. Teachers should skip the "I have a dream" clip they have seen a dozen times before and use this 4 minute speech instead
#primary source#Historical video#Martin Luther King#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·youtube.com·
Robert Kennedy Speech - Martin Luther King's Death - YouTube
Letter from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to President Richard M. Nixon | National Archives
Letter from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to President Richard M. Nixon | National Archives
The summary introduction included with this document gives teachers and students a brief but concise description of the resignation of Spiro Agnew and the selection and appointment of Gerald Ford as Vice President in 1973
#President Ford#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·archives.gov·
Letter from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to President Richard M. Nixon | National Archives
Barry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964)
Barry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964)
Goldwater's acceptance speech is used by many historians to mark the birth of the modern conservative movement. It has quotes for "Do Nows", lesson introductions, DBQs and full analysis lessons. Creative teachers can throw it into a lesson about today and perhaps convince students this speech was made in 2016 - see if they can be convinced
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·americanyawp.com·
Barry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964)
This 1967 educational film predicts the technology we’d be using in the future - YouTube
This 1967 educational film predicts the technology we’d be using in the future - YouTube
There are many examples of predictions of the future that were wrong, this one is eerily accurate. Showing students this Bell Labs view of the future made in 1967 might make students wonder why this vision of the future didn't come more quickly given how accurate it was. Or maybe teachers can show it just for fun.
#video lectures and lessons#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·youtube.com·
This 1967 educational film predicts the technology we’d be using in the future - YouTube
LBJ and Richard Russell on Vietnam | Miller Center
LBJ and Richard Russell on Vietnam | Miller Center
This is a recorded conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Richard Russell concerning Vietnam in May 1964, before Tonkin. This includes the audio and the text, showing the remarkable difference between what Johnson is saying in public and what he is saying in private. It also shows that Johnson and Russell agreed that they didn't "know what we are going to get out of there?
#Vietnam War#President Lyndon Johnson#historical audio#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
·millercenter.org·
LBJ and Richard Russell on Vietnam | Miller Center