The Fed - Distribution: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989
22: 21st Century United States
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
For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT
Two minutes of a blacksmith showing what happens to steel when it is heated to 1,500 degrees. Conspiracy theories will say that jet fuels burns at 1,500 degrees but steel doesn't mealy until it reaches 2,500 degrees, so the Twin Towers did not collapse because of burning jet fuel. This blacksmith shows the stupidity of that thinking in just two minutes
TRUE BELIEVERS AT THE INSURRECTION- From Charlottesville to the Capitol
The Hidden Tribes of America
2018 report detailed the social and political landscape of the United States
Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda - Columbia Journalism Review
This article is only for teachers, not for students. Yet, it is essential for understanding the media environment they explain to students. This is worthwhile PD reading for anyone who teachers students about the news and social media
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism | Technology | The Guardian
Another news article that can prompt a relevant Enlightenment discussion
The Last Exit From Iraq - Foreign Affairs
Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Our Addiction to Technology: Resistance Must Begin in the Home | Public Discourse
Certainly a high-brow article, but of great value, even to those not infatuated with its religious foundation. Most useful for teachers however, is the connection between the temperance movement that preached the avoidance of alcohol and the temperance movement that preached the avoidance of technology
No Government Help?
Image made in reaction to 2012 presidential campaign (non)issue regarding business owners being solely responsible for their success. Labels on the image demonstrate government's role in the economy
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.
Ferguson: As It Unfolded
Referencing Ferguson in your classroom? St. Louis Times Dispatch can change the nature of the discussion with this information and these pictures
The Authoritarian Playbook - Project Democracy
28 page document itemizes seven ways in which authoritarians disable democracy in the 21st century. Each is described in one page, succinctly with an example. Examples are drawn from the United States and other countries. Included in each is suggestions of how the press can cover them without supporting them.
the Legacy of 9/11
Interesting article about the world beyond the Cold War and the implications for US foreign policy
YouTube - A Nashi advertisement-Putinjugend our Army
A Nashi advertisement-Putinjugend our Army. This video can be used to show the nature of competition in the Cold War though it is from the present. Just the same, it can be used to show nationalism today.
Oxford Internet Institute - Computational Propaganda Research Project
Computational propaganda – the use of algorithms, automation, and big data to shape public life – is becoming a pervasive and ubiquitous part of everyday life.
Senate Intelligence Committee Report on 2016 Election
Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security | Homeland Security
October 7, 2016 statement of confidence that the Russian Government hacked emails with the intention of interfering with US elections
A New Story Told at Ground Zero - NYTimes.com
Interactive tour of memorial and museum
Local Heroes | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Lesson plan for younger students, be sure to follow the link which provides an age-appropriate description of the event. (though with a NY focus) Lesson uses a New Yorke cover
Teaching About 9/11 | NEA
Teachers Explore Different Ways of Bringing 9/11 to Young Students - The Atlantic
Local Heroes | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Lower elementary lesson highlighting heros
Grover Norquist - We just need a President to sign this stuff
February 2012 Republican Party talking point - elect the most conservative Republican in every House seat and every Senator - all we need then is a president with enough working digits to use a pen. We don't need a president who can think. This prediction can be seen to lead the way to President Trump
Sept 11, 2001 at the Magic Kingdom
Students seldom think of all of the implications of the 9/11 attacks, and how they were documented. This private video shows how the park was closed during the morning of 9/11
United States Department of Defense - Law of War Manual - July 2023
It's difficult to explain to students that there are written laws of war when the conflicts they explore, particularly in the 20th century are replete with examples of untethered violence.
The Iraq War
The Bush Presidential Library blame the was on "unreliable or misinterpreted intelligence"
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: DEMOGRAPHICS AND IMPACT
Lesson about the war in Iraq will be unfinished for some years to come - this National Library of Medicine provides some insight into the effects of the war on the 1 to 3 million Americans who served