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Senator Joseph McCarthy questioning attorney Joseph Welch during Congress’s Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.

Media and Politics

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
American Government
… media, the government regulations on the media companies in the 1940s, then the deregulation of those companies in the 1980s and 90s, and ending with the media in … discussion and then an exit ticket for the students to complete. The PowerPoint presentation, stations documents, …
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Best in History Online: History Respawned

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … respond to some of the questions being raised. Why do we so commonly talk about the golden age of piracy the way that we …
1968 numbers with images behind the numbers

A Time It Was: 1968 Around the World.

Grade Level
9-12
… mirror each other. The Origins article that was chosen compares how student movements around the world in 1968 … by President Johnson on the Tet Offensive and then they compare that to the Pentagon Papers discussing the true … time and filling out a handout which will help students to compare how these student movement have many similarities …
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.

A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund

… Then it dedicates an amount of money every year out of incoming taxes to an account that goes to repay the bonds. … Security trust fund to buy federal bonds before they have come due, the federal government could invest that extra … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …
photo of Dan Snow

Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … Online highlights an award-winning podcast that brings audiences in touch with the wide world of history. History Hit … I, and fly in military aircraft, while also picking up medieval dance tips. The frequent, diverse topics and …
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.

An October Surprise Again?

… public diplomacy might lessen the value of such an accomplishment as a true surprise. A revived round of … with a belligerent Iraq would be risky. American soldiers might be killed, and Bush and Cheney could say that …
Carrie Buck

The Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Among the many states with eugenics legislation, Virginia is infamous for its legal campaign to forcibly sterilize Carrie Buck in 1927 and thereby entrench sterilization abuse as the law of the land.
French people waving flags and holding "Liberation" sign

The Liberation of Paris

On August 25th, 1944, Paris was liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation.
… this important moment in World War II, as well as the soldiers and civilians who took part in the liberation. Written …
George Washington Bridge Flag Retirement Ceremony

Who’s Desecrating the Flag, Anyhow?

… advertising–presumably this would apply to businesses now competing the have the biggest flag in the neighborhood. One … systematize them and bring them up to date, not as commandments but as guidance for people who prefer to salute … rag trade would react to that–or the millions who have become so heavily invested in the fad. Going after them would …
President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.

Leadership and the New Bush Administration

… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … they do appear to be fixated on the second major component of the leadership process: the followers. …
Russian peasants in the early 20th century.

Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia

… to the rules of the Constitution, all will … unite in common efforts for the common good," he proclaimed. Two centuries later, another … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …
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 …