22: 21st Century United States

22: 21st Century United States

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Bush v. Gore and the 2000 Election Never Ended
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
Bush v. Gore and the 2000 Election Never Ended
Teachers Guide - The Torture Question | Teacher Center | FRONTLINE | PBS
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
Teachers Guide - The Torture Question | Teacher Center | FRONTLINE | PBS
New York - World Trade Center 1999 - YouTube
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
New York - World Trade Center 1999 - YouTube
Source Notes- The Parrot and the Igloo Notes
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
Source Notes- The Parrot and the Igloo Notes
Science and Environmental Policy Project
Science and Environmental Policy Project
One of Frederick Seitz's climate science denial projects useful for information literacy lessons or a climate change DBQ
Science and Environmental Policy Project
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
The Cigarette Papers
Gallery of New Release's - It's Our Story
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
Gallery of New Release's - It's Our Story
(1) The Keeling Curve Hits 420 PPM - YouTube
(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
(1) The Keeling Curve Hits 420 PPM - YouTube
Processed World - Underground Newspaper San Francisco in the 1980s
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
Processed World - Underground Newspaper San Francisco in the 1980s
Everything You Wanted to Know About Y2K but Were Afraid to Ask - YouTube
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
Everything You Wanted to Know About Y2K but Were Afraid to Ask - YouTube