The Roswell Report - Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert - US Air Force 1995
1,000 page report debunking the captured alien myth
21: Nineties / Beginning of Now
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.
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson Blame 9/11 on Organizations Like People For the American Way - YouTube
Television broadcast after 9/11 attacks - two fundamentalists claim the attacks are a reflection of the wrath of God for the ACLU's attempt to "secularize" America. This video confronts students with domestic fundamentalism and therefore provides a comparison point with fundamentalist around the world.
The tiny town that became a beacon of hope on 9/11 | 60 Minutes Australia
There are many versions of the 9/11 Newfoundland story - this 16 minute video from Austinian television ahs a particularly effective combination of archival video and interviews with passengers and residents of Cander
Watch How the U.S. Supreme Court Decided the Presidential Election of 2000 Clip | HISTORY Channel
Five minute video that could be effective in presenting the basic facts of the disputed 2000 election.
The 2000 Election and the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case | C-SPAN Classroom
This lesson uses 6 cspan video clips to prepare students to judge themselves whether the Supreme Court made the correct decision to stop Florida from re-counting votes
Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary
12 page article for Civics and History teachers to scan quickly and get a sense of the current world of propaganda. When teaching students about posters and slogans from World War I and II, we have to let students know the infinitely more powerful tools of propaganda today
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 Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman
Perfect example of how the old world blends with the new. Is this important? Perhaps not - does anyone remember that "car" comes from railroads and not automobiles? There has to be other examples, right?
The Anatomy of a Search Engine
This is Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page's Computer Science project from college, a description of an internet search engine they called "Google"
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.
Richard Nixon on Russia - 1992, (a remarkably accurate prediction)
Quotes from Nixon's last book, written after the fall of the government of the Soviet Union were remarkably prescient.
The reestablishment of a dictatorship and a command economy in Russia would give encouragement to every dictator and would-be dictator in the world. Since an authoritarian Russia would be far more likely to adopt an aggressive foreign policy than a democratic Russia, freedom’s failure would threaten peace and stability in Europe and around the world. If Russia turns away from democracy and economic freedom and we have not done everything possible to prevent it, we will bear a large measure of responsibility for the ominous consequences.
In developing a policy toward the new Russia, we must begin by recognizing that the Russians did not lose the Cold War. The communists did. We should therefore treat the Russians not as defeated enemies but as allies who joined with us in defeating Soviet communism in its heartland—Russia.
I am convinced that the Russian people will not turn back to communism. But if they have no choice, they will turn to some kind of political dictatorship, which will at least promise the safety-net guarantees that were supposed to have been delivered by the communist regime.
"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
TERROR IN OKLAHOMA: TALK RADIO; President Is Criticized By Oklahoma Senators (Published 1995)
Not a New Revolution | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
Short essay that could be used as homework assignment or follow-up reading after a lesson on the Oklahoma City bombing, It places the bombing in context of anti-government fervor that stretches back to the start of the country
Watch Oklahoma City | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
Oklahoma City Bombing | C-SPAN Classroom
Handout: Oklahoma City Bombing
Clinton Assails 'Angry Voices' Spreading Hate Rush Limbaugh Assumes He Was The Target And Takes Exception
“Talk is not a crime. And talk is not the culprit here. Talk didn’t buy fertilizer and fuel oil. Talk didn’t drive the van. Talk didn’t rent the van. A person did. A lunatic did.”
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Useful for teachers to see how we choose to remember the past. You won't find any lessons or resources exploring the causes of the bombing
The Flamethrowers | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
“The Flamethrowers” captures the punch-you-in-the-mouth energy and sound of right-wing talk radio. Host Justin Ling takes us from the fringe preachers and conspiracy peddlers of the 1920s to the political firestorm that rages today. With humour and candour, Ling examines the appeal of broadcasters like Rush Limbaugh, who found a sleeping audience, radicalized it, and became an accidental kingmaker — culminating in the election of Donald Trump.
“The Flamethrowers” captures the punch-you-in-the-mouth energy and sound of right-wing talk radio. Host Justin Ling takes us from the fringe preachers and conspiracy peddlers of the 1920s to the political firestorm that rages today. With humour and candour, Ling examines the appeal of broadcasters like Rush Limbaugh, who found a sleeping audience, radicalized it, and became an accidental kingmaker — culminating in the election of Donald Trump.
Ruby Ridge Carved Niche in History
Article with quotes to steal for a DBQ
Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing - Bill of Rights Institute
Notice the subtle inferences that McVeigh did not work alone and that "the government" is a fault for Waco. Notice how the reference about Wounded Knee calls Native Americans "civilians" when they were not considered citizens at the time. The entire article ignores slavery
According to the FBI
Still, throughout the investigation, the focus of law enforcement and media always remained on McVeigh
According to the government,
. But the federal government saw the situation differently
Waco proved to be the deadliest encounter between American civilians and their own government since 1890, when more than 100 American Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Some have pointed
These raids, they claim
Bill Clinton’s 1993 Attempt at Health Care Reform: Almost Sinking a Presidency
Teaching Clinton: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Not all teachers are new to teaching the 90s, this was written in 2013
The Rise of Fundamentalism - The Twentieth Century - Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
Pat Robertson Blames Haiti's "Pact To The Devil" For Catastrophe - YouTube
Example of modern fundamentalism in the United States.
Period 9: 1980-Present (AP US History) | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again
Buchanan grew up in a giant family in northwest Washington, D. C., one of nine kids. He and three brothers, born in successive years, formed a posse of brawlers and street fighters, "the scourge of Washington's Catholic community,"
Famous Sounds