Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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
Bush v. Gore and the 2000 Election Never Ended
Written in between election day 2020 and the date Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election, this accounting of the 2000 election can help teachers understand the role of Al Gore himself in the 2000 election
resourcesforhistoryteachers / 2000 Presidential Election
Lesson Five: The Obama Administration - The Challenge of Change - Lessons - Kunhardt Film Foundation
Although there may be other lessons here, the video clips on birtherism can serve as an important element in a lesson exploring the challenges to Barack Obama's presidency
Teachers Guide - The Torture Question | Teacher Center | FRONTLINE | PBS
FRONTLINE's documentary "The Torture Question" traces the history of how decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of September 11 led to an interrogation policy that, in turn, laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Ira
Why inequality is growing in the US and around the world
Globally, inequality is so extreme that the world’s 10 richest men possess more wealth than the 3.1 billion poorest people, Oxfam has calculated.
<p>The rich tend to spend less of their money than the poor. As a result, the extreme concentration of wealth can slow the pace of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12237">economic growth</a>.</p>
<p>Extreme inequality can also exacerbate <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980822">political dysfunction</a> and <a href="https://ideas.ted.com/the-4-biggest-reasons-why-inequality-is-bad-for-society/">undermine faith</a> in political and economic systems. It can also erode principles of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-020-09697-z">fairness and democratic norms of sharing power and resources</a>.</p>
CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005 - YouTube
KNowing what happened to facebook makes watching this video of Mark Zukerberg fascinating in a way
New York - World Trade Center 1999 - YouTube
Clicking through this video and showing brief 30-second segments can give students a sense of scale that the 9/11 videos seldom provide. This has a place in 9/11 lessons
Animated Chart of the Day: Recorded Music Sales by Format Share, 1973 to 2022 | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Excellent graphic showing the rise an fall of 8-Track, Vinyl, Casetts, CD, Download and streaming formats of recorded music
Donald Trump Inaugural Address – The White House
<p>This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.</p>
<p>We are one nation – and their pain is our pain. </p>
From this moment on, it’s going to be America First.
I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.
Source Notes- The Parrot and the Igloo Notes
The source notes for this book that traces the history of climate science provides a treasure trove of primary source documents for a climate change DBQ
Science and Environmental Policy Project
One of Frederick Seitz's climate science denial projects useful for information literacy lessons or a climate change DBQ
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
Gallery of New Release's - It's Our Story
Teachers developing lessons on the Americans with Disabilities Act can find primary source documents hear, testimony of disabled people explaining their day to day lives
(1) The Keeling Curve Hits 420 PPM - YouTube
One minute video should be included in any global warming history lesson. It explains how Charles Keeling started measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 1958 - and where those measurements have gone in the last half-century
Processed World - Underground Newspaper San Francisco in the 1980s
Processed World was an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian magazine focused on the oppressions and absurdities of office work, which, at the time the magazine began, was becoming automated in San Francisco in the early 1980s. This primary document won't be found in any history education source, yet it is still history
Everything You Wanted to Know About Y2K but Were Afraid to Ask - YouTube
Very informative and effective delivery of explanation of concerns about y2K from a curator of the Henry Ford museum- better than any teacher can do. Balanced approach, acknowledging the overhype as well as the efforts to alleviate the problem