Photographer Adrienne Salinger’s series of teenage bedrooms from the 90s
What can students learn about the lives of their 1990s counterparts from looking at this photo essay of their bedrooms?
Bill Gates' 1993 prediction for the future of computers | BBC Global
Five minutes of Microsoft employees talking about computers in 1993, great primary source . These are some of the first people that used email at work. Interesting to think that they never said anything about being overloaded with too much information
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
The Roswell Report - Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert - US Air Force 1995
1,000 page report debunking the captured alien myth
Sept 11 Eye Witnesses Reactions As It Happened
The first ten minutes of this video provides insight into what it must have been like to stand with a random group of strangers several blocks from the World Trade Center during the attack.
House Report 104-849 - INVESTIGATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE FIRINGS AND RELATED MATTERS
531 page report investigation of the Clinton Administration's Travel office firings. Notable in this report is the unfounded and disproven allegations regarding the death of Vince Foster.
The Kids' Guide to the Internet 1997 - Video
This 30 minute video was produced in 1997. Even though its overloaded with the saccharin-sweetness of a "perfect" nuclear family, it does provide and insight into the early internet and how people envisioned its role in their lives. The teenage boys innocently admits that he'd rather be "on the internet" than do anything else. Ten years later public service ads would be asking kids to get outside at least one hour a day.
It's unlikely that the whole video should ever be used, though selected portions could be used in a primary document exercise that develops the skills without having to dive into 17th and 18th century language in an unfamiliar historical context. Certainly short segments can be used in digital literacy or computer applications courses.
"How To Lose The Cold War" Richard Nixon 1992
Seldom does one come across a prediction so accurate as this one. Nixon warns that if the United States does not throw significant aid into Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russians will turn back to an authoritarian nationalist dictator that will work to expand the borders of Russia. Much of this is exactly what happened
USA: Clinton Denies Having An Affair With Monica Lewinsky - 1998 - YouTube
2 minute video of Bill Clinton's first public comments after the Lewinsky story broke
New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape - YouTube
gopac - Language, a mechanism of Control
"This document, a working paper from GOPAC, Newt Gingrich's political action committee, was circulated to freshman Republican members of the 104th Congress in 1995. It functions as a rudimentary rhetorical handbook, providing inexperienced political speakers with a lexicon of terms that drive a wedge of distinctions between themselves and members of the opposing party.
James Carville Pep Talk - YouTube
3 1/3 minutes of James Carville talking to Clinton Campaign workers in 1992, preceded by a short clip of a press conference with Jennifer Flowers. This can help students understand politics in the 1990s
Buchanan, "Culture War Speech," Speech Text - 1992 Republican Convention
Pat Buchanan was invited to speak at the 92 convention, he expressed view about women in the military that might surprise students of the 2020s. The phrase "This war is for the soul of America" was used by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential campaign
“Bill Clinton and Al Gore represent the most pro-lesbian and pro-gay ticket in history.” And so they do.
The agenda that Clinton & Clinton would impose on America – abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units – that’s change, all right. But it is not the kind of change America needs. It is not the kind of change America wants. And it is not the kind of change we can abide in a nation that we still call God’s country.
we stand with him against the amoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing in law as married men and women.
We stand with President Bush for right-to-life, and for voluntary prayer in the public schools, and we stand against putting our wives and daughter and sisters into combat units of the United States Army. And we stand with President Bush in favor of the right of small towns and communities to control the raw sewage of pornography that so terribly pollutes our popular culture.
There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself, for this war is for the soul of America.
Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition' - March 9, 1999
This was the interview in which just one sixteen-word sentence condemned Al Gore to ridicule for claiming he "invented the internet"
During my service in the United States Congress, I took
the initiative in creating the Internet.
Renting videos at a Blockbuster store in 1993 - YouTube
Students of the 21st century could look at this to know what "browsing Netflix" looked like in 1993