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9/11: As Events Unfold | Transportation Security Administration
9/11: As Events Unfold | Transportation Security Administration
This 4 minute video includes government, military and personal audio communication and phone calls is combined with video footage makes for an extremely difficult video to watch. This shouldn't be used for high school students but teachers needing to center themselves before teaching a 9/11 lesson - this will put them in an authentic frame of mind
#US II Unit 12: Modern America#primary source#Historical video
·tsa.gov·
9/11: As Events Unfold | Transportation Security Administration
Digging through the Hillary Clinton Email Archive | Perspectives on History | AHA
Digging through the Hillary Clinton Email Archive | Perspectives on History | AHA
How will historians of the future research the digital age? We seem to be producing and saving much more than in the past - what does that mean for the history of our time? This article shows how research of Hillary Clinton's email's provides insight into the answers to these questions.
#digitization#primary source
·historians.org·
Digging through the Hillary Clinton Email Archive | Perspectives on History | AHA
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan - Google Books
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan - Google Books
Powerful quote from Carl Sagan that speaks to the leverage given to the strong by ignorance. Teachers can use this to spark thought, or to lead into conversations about the ways in which people can be deluded. It could fit into the end of a US or World History course as one of those "What does the future hold?" lessons. It also shows how some people can have a clear sense of what is coming before it comes. Sagan wrote this years before the iPhone and internet
#primary source#WS Unit 9: The Modern Era#US II Unit 10: Modern America
·books.google.com·
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan - Google Books
Pessimists Archive on Twitter / X
Pessimists Archive on Twitter / X
It is safe to safe that there are less than ten high school teachers in the entire United States that teach or even mention the bicycle fad and proliferation of bicycles in the 1890s. This 22 except shows how assertions made in documentaries won't stand up to the documents themselves.
#primary source#US II Unit 10: Modern America
·twitter.com·
Pessimists Archive on Twitter / X
ILW.COM - immigration news: Time To Rethink Immigration (II): Freeing America From The Immigration Gulag
ILW.COM - immigration news: Time To Rethink Immigration (II): Freeing America From The Immigration Gulag
History teachers who spend time with students exploring anti-immigration sentiment in the 1840s, 1890s, and 1920s do their students a great disservice if they don't also touch on anti-immigration in the early 1990s, This could be mined for DBQ material - Peter Brimlow's "Alien Nation" sold 37,000 hardcover copies in 1992
#primary source#lesson plan#US II Unit 10: Modern America
·ilw.com·
ILW.COM - immigration news: Time To Rethink Immigration (II): Freeing America From The Immigration Gulag
Hey, Texplainer: Is the United Nations going to take over the Alamo? No, it isn’t. | The Texas Tribune
Hey, Texplainer: Is the United Nations going to take over the Alamo? No, it isn’t. | The Texas Tribune
Evidence that 1990s paranoia -fueled fears that "World Heritage Site" designation was evidence of a UN plot to take over the United States persists 30 years later is this article and the proposed legislation it describes
#primary source#US II Unit 10: Modern America
·texastribune.org·
Hey, Texplainer: Is the United Nations going to take over the Alamo? No, it isn’t. | The Texas Tribune
Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - Executive Summary
Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - Executive Summary

This executive summary of an investigation of the 2000 presidential election in Florida concludes that evidence of violation s of the Voting Rights act should be investigated by the US Dept of Justice. The entire report can be found here https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm

Statewide, based upon county-level statistical estimates, black voters were nearly 10 times more likely than nonblack voters to have their ballots rejected.
Estimates indicate that approximately 14.4 percent of Florida's black voters cast ballots that were rejected. This compares with approximately 1.6 percent of nonblack Florida voters who did not have their presidential votes counted.
#primary source#US II Unit 10: Modern America
·usccr.gov·
Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - Executive Summary
Chads! - 2000 Presidential Election in Turmoil - ABC News - Nov. 12, 2000 - YouTube
Chads! - 2000 Presidential Election in Turmoil - ABC News - Nov. 12, 2000 - YouTube
5 Minutes ABC news segment on the recount in Palm Beach County Florida, explaining the ballot and the way in which the hand recount was being conducted. Teachers and students may be surprised by the lack of technology in 2000, when Florida ballots had "chads" in punch-hole ballots
#Historical video#primary source#US II Unit 10: Modern America
·youtube.com·
Chads! - 2000 Presidential Election in Turmoil - ABC News - Nov. 12, 2000 - YouTube
The Cigarette Papers
The Cigarette Papers
Book with sources detailing an industry that a federal judge ruled in 2005 was "guilty of fraud" yet does not appear in the taught narrative canon - anywhere. Teachers should pull material from this book rather than have next year's students read "The Jungle" just like last year's students
#US II Unit 10: Modern America#primary source
·publishing.cdlib.org·
The Cigarette Papers