Tennis Battle of the Sexes special (September 20, 1973) - YouTube
More than 2 hours of primary source evidence in the complete broadcast of the 1973 broadcast of the Billie Jean King's match against Bobby Riggs
19: 1970s Malaise
Iran Hostage Crisis Video Questions - Google Docs
CSPAN Lesson that uses a collection of 3 to 5 minute videos of authors and historians discussing various aspects of the Iranian Hostage crisis
Let’s Read Ms. Magazine, June 1974! – The Avocado
Title IX at 50 | Perspectives on History | AHA
This essay makes a good case for including Title IX in US History classes.
Moreover, across 25 years, I almost never met a student athlete who could tell me how 20th-century sex discrimination had affected their own sport. None knew the basic prongs of Title IX that covered their own educational rights. Yet in the absence of a ratified Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX remains the closest legal guarantee of sex equity in American education.
“Gavel-to-Gavel”: The Watergate Scandal and Public Television
51 days of the Senate Committee investigation hearing are available here. Hours and hours and hours of primary source video
Tape snippet: September 18, 1971: “Going after Dan Schorr” | Richard Nixon Museum and Library
This tape and moving transcript from the Nixon Library shows students how the president of the United States was using the IRS and the FBI to "go after" specific reporters
If it blows, it blows - 4 minute tape excerpt. | Richard Nixon Museum and Library
Don't give students a long article to try and understand Watergate - have them listen and reading this rolling transcript of Richard Nixon and Haldeman talking about what is happening with the burglers arrested at the Watergate
OAH | Abolishing Abortion: The History of the Pro-Life Movement in America
Concise and informative essay on the history of abortion in the United States, useful for teachers preparing to present a lesson on this topic. With editing, this can be used with students as well
President Nixon - August 30 1972 press conference
Teachers and students would be hard-pressed to find a more bold-faced lie in American history - that is, before Bill Clinton stared into the camera and said "I did not..." Here is Nixon in August of 1972 - two months after the break in and 3 before the election saying that the worse part of "these matters" is when you try to cover it up. Which is exactly what he was doing at the time
I think under these circumstances we are doing everything we can to take this incident and to investigate it and not to cover it up. What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur, because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong. What really hurts is if you try to cover it up.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
I must say to you that the state of the Union
is not good: Millions of Americans are out of work. Recession and
inflation are eroding the money of millions more. Prices are too
high, and sales are too slow. This year's Federal deficit will be
about $30 billion; next year's probably $45 billion.
Now, I want to speak very bluntly. I've got bad news, and I
don't expect much, if any, applause