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Dirty Water, Dirty Government

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
American Government
… regulation over time, at the state and federal level, by visiting four stations around the classroom that are made up … excerpts from an Origins article and primary sources. After visiting each station and answering the corresponding …
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.

Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … emotional support of Virginia’s ban on cross-burning. The incoming governor of Georgia meanwhile ponders whether to … the wrath of his neo-Confederate supporters. Such ghostly visitations are hardly new in a region whose history is …
Fidel Castro in 1959

Easing Up on Cuba

… the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … year Pope John Paul II changed the picture. In an historic visit to Cuba, he criticized the embargo, thus encouraging … movement in the U.S. to end it. Shortly after the Papal visit, Secretary of State Albright hurried to Miami to …
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Best in History Online: The Bowery Boys Podcast

… history, from native New Yorkers to those who hope to visit one day.” You can find recent Bowery Boys Podcast episodes here . (For older shows, visit “ The Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years ” on … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …
Nixon shakes hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

Nixon and China, Bush and Cuba?

… Fidel Castro is not exactly welcoming the new president of the United States with open … Richard Nixon. But Nixon surprised almost everybody by visiting China and meeting with its leaders. In many ways … Clinton, after all, opposed the war in Vietnam, had visited Russia in the 1970s, and had close ties to China — …
Hollywood Movie store in Hong Kong, 2010.

Film, Television, and China’s (New) Cold War

… the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … rapprochement with the US. Nixon, after all, famously visited the country in 1972; the Shanghai Communique was signed during this visit. Calling for normalization in diplomatic relations …
Fidel Castro during a visit to Washington.

Why Economic Sanctions Often Fail

… Yet there's every reason to believe that the president's visit, even coupled with European sanctions, will not … to Iran in 2007. Switzerland's Swiss EGL energy trading company recently completed a forty-two billion dollar … leaders said the right things on President Bush's recent visit, it remains to be seen if Europeans will carry through …
Portrait photograph of woman, boy and two dogs, ca. 1890s.

How Dogs Became Our Faithful Family Companions

… activities ranging from taking neighborhood strolls to visiting pet stores. Their owner is responsible for meeting … were often labeled luxuriant leeches. However, by 1900, the common dog was a faithful companion and beloved family … One advertisement from 1863 urged anyone wanting a dog to visit since “very often valuable, and always useful Dogs are …
Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.

A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History

… been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … of almost 10% per year since 2000. The number of annual visitors doubled between 2000 and 2010, when half a million people visited the island. At this rate, Iceland’s Tourism Board …

Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts

… 2009, with events sponsored by national and state "Lincoln Commissions," and because of the remarkable presidential … like a badge of honor. So now that the Darwin Year has come to a close, I want to review the difficult reception … exhibits a certain degree of variation, he proposed that competition over resources and breeding would tend to favor, …
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … spirit as well. In this book, Koistinen explains how that complex (he abbreviates it MIC) came to be and how it has … $7.5 trillion on nuclear weapons, but when he takes us to visit warehouses full of mothballed tanks, Koistinen points …
Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.

At the Movies: Downton Abbey

… survive in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. … of Independence. While this central plot about the royal visit venerates the preservation of the traditional order, … its effects: “My maid was rather curt with me, but she is a Communist at heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from …
One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … off from any new American products. The Kennedys no longer visited the Tropicana, the 1950s Ford Fairlane would be one …
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.

A Vanishing American Remembrance?

… in Arlington National Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or … Gibbons (R – Nevada). Both bills were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government …
Malawi

A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi

… Livingstonia in honor of his mentor. The Gordon Road People visiting Livingstonia travel on the Gordon Road, named after … to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The … a good number of nurses are Malawians, with only few visiting doctors from abroad. Since DGMH is a small …
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair

Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … have spent their careers demonstrating that  Confederate commemoration  tells us precious little about the Civil War … in Georgia. A view of the carvings on Stone Mountain, the visitor center, and the surrounding park ( left ). A …
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote

Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial

… Welcome to Prologued ! Prologued is a serial podcast from … be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations ot background … to Seneca Falls, lived on the Seneca reservation. She was visiting the Seneca reservation in early summer and was …
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)
… birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish … by swearing to obey Jehovah. Yet the story of Alexander's visit to Jerusalem is certainly fiction, and he did not at …
The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá.

A Postcard From Chichén Itzá

… Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific … Indigenous Communities …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … the years before World War I was most remarkable for combining expanding trade, growth, and industrialization … of state power oriented toward global military and economic competition.  Until 1873, when a newly united Germany …