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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007)
… Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general … across the spectrum is an outstanding touch, because they communicate not just the intellectual but also the artistic …
Allen Weinstein

Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?

… suggested to many that the White House wanted its own man supervising the release of the president's father's papers. … Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 commission. Decisions about access to these materials should … Collins of Maine, chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and a Republican, noted in Weinstein's …
Black Women's Rights Leaders

Prologued: Women and the Vote

Analyzing the myth of the women's voting bloc
… ) Apple Podcasts ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prologued/id1525013753 ) Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/439Ra0Qdd69CH20lsI6pcZ?si=vSbq3lSRTfOd1LbRHHhQcw ) Soundcloud ( https://soundcloud.com/user-435127104/sets/prologued-season-1 ) or where ever …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
President George W. Bush

Policies for the Fearful: Rollback Then, Regime Change Now

… the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its superiority in conventional forces placed the United States … country in the world is more or less on the level of Panama compared with the military strength of the United States. …
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh.

A Question of Power, Not Sex

… who belong to New Birth Baptist Church near Atlanta. Some commentators have condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently anti-gay theology and political … many other ways, too, they had little control over their bodies and intimacies.   Nineteenth-century accounts from …
a plane flying over a group of West Berlin citizens

The Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Airlift began on June 26, 1948, only two days after the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin.
… The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949   ( ⁠https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781603440905/to-save-a-city/⁠ ) Berlin on the … and the Early Cold War ( ⁠https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813136134/berlin-on-the-brink/⁠ ) "The Incomplete Blockade: Soviet Zone Supply of West Berlin, …
US citizens in unemployment line

America and Unemployment

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… unemployment. Our lesson plan follows this current event in comparison to the economy’s downfall during the Great … and present—that have been created to try and overcome the issue of unemployment. In addition to working with …
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.

What to Do About the Money?

Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Police attack protesters on Bloody Sunday in Alabama

The Federal Government and Policing the Police

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
American Government
…  article deals with the nature of Federalism when it comes to controlling police in the United States and some of … discuss different approaches to this issue and attempt to come to consensus about how state and federal governments …
people holding banner that reads ACT UP Shreveport AIDS coalition to unleash power

ACT UP, Ball Culture, and the AIDS Crisis

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
Gender & Sexuality
… This lesson deals with Queer Community response to the AIDS crisis in the U. S. The … explores the origins of HIV, where it stands today, and its complex history. We used this article to explore social change relative to AIDS and HIV in the Queer Community. Students will see document analysis modeled by …
a group of Ukrainian theatre performers on a stage

Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage

On a summer day in August 1920, in the middle of war, a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth.
… ensuing chaos and devastation, painfully relevant to all audiences who had endured not only World War I, but also the … region after the Romanov and Habsburg empires collapsed. Audiences and artists knew uncertainty, violence, and pain. …
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780. Pennsylvania State Archives.

The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom

… until seven years later, are usually credited with this accomplishment, having banished slavery in their remaining … move in novel areas. To be sure, these path-breaking acts compromised with the grim reality of slave owners’ property … tested the law-enforcement skills of Northern states compelled to check the felonious dispatch of slaves to the …
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.

Choking Off Our Past

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … items on July 20, 1969, to return to the orbiting command module, they didn’t know they were creating … The promise of establishing a base on the moon was soon compromised for the shuttle program and a near-earth space …
The United States Army Drill Team.

Should the Military Take Charge in Emergencies?

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … framers of the U.S. Constitution remembered how British soldiers served as police in 1770. Untrained in police work, the soldiers lost their discipline and fired into a crowd in an …
Tulsa aftermath. Jun 1, 1921.

In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations

… in the city that a lynching was imminent. The proud black community, which was reading "radical" literature such as … were required to work cleaning up the burned area for no compensation other than meals and housing. By noon, more … to the ground and thousands were left homeless. Now, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature is …
Jackie Robinson

Living Up to Jackie Robinson

… jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … "Then I could walk away from baseball and never become a star. But my son could tell his son what his daddy … will never accept as "legitimate." Why do today's so-called superstars act like overgrown teenagers? Probably because …
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.

Apologizing for Slavery

… that has raged ever since. Apologizing for slavery has become such a controversial issue not only because few understand what it will accomplish, but also because even more than 130 years after … the idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is becoming more popular. And why the Founding Fathers have …
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… In the face of disasters we have come to expect that our governments will respond. … and grave expression, personally inspecting the damage or comforting survivors or those who care for them. After the … traveled to the affected area to survey the damage and to supervise the restoration of the region. This is the first …