Internet History Sourcebooks Internet Modern History Sourcebook The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. Explanation of Sources of Material Here. See the Help! page for all the help on research I can offer. The Modern History Sourcebook now works as follows: This Main Index page has been much extended to show all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Modern History in the Movies Older Style Big Indices Still Available Since some faculty members had built into their course pages direct links to the Sourcebook's old indexes, these remain available, but will not be updated with materials added after 12/31/1998. Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying History The Early Modern World Reformation Early Modern World Absolutism
Politics Home Page : Roll Call The @RollCallPols Blog By Emily Cahn Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo Rep. Hank Johnson , D-Ga., testifies during a House Budget Committee hearing on budget issues for the 2015 fiscal year on March 25. With his popularity in decline, many of this cycle’s most vulnerable Democrats avoid association with President Barack Obama. John Tierney Survived 2012. By Shira T. SALEM, Mass. — Rep. DSCC Outraised NRSC in March By Kyle Trygstad The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee outraised its Republican counterpart in March, ending the month with more than $22 million in cash on hand for the competitive midterms. Will Walter Jones Be the First Incumbent to Fall? A well-funded conservative outside group is devoting significant money to make North Carolina Rep.
How Presidential Campaigns Became Two-Year Marathons The comedian John Oliver doesn’t think the length of the American presidential campaign is funny. “I have no interest whatsoever in the 2016 election, at the start of 2015,” he recently told reporters. “There’s a time and a place for that, and it’s in 2016.” Yet 19 months before Election Day, more than a dozen presidential hopefuls have made serious moves toward a run. It hasn’t always been this way, at least not out in the open. It’s easy to identify the problems associated with a drawn-out campaign — boredom and a focus on the trivial, among them — but there are several benefits. In the country’s early days, members of Congress chose the presidential nominees. It wasn’t until after World War II that presidential primary elections began to catch on, and they became a way for dark-horse candidates to prove their viability. John F. The start of campaign season began to creep even earlier. Jump to the 2016 cycle, and it may even seem as if things are getting off to a slow start.
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The 10 political games everyone should play | Technology My Gamesblog column in this week's Technology section deals with the simmering genre of political games. Usually distributed via the internet or virally through emails, these typically short, sharp titles present real-world situations in interactive form, providing users with a unique means of engaging with contemporary issues. Some of them are pretty good fun, too. As an accompaniment to the piece, I got together with serious games specialists Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca to gather 10 of the most important and/or influential titles for you to check out. There's a real diversity here taking in hawkish shooters, cynical anti-corporate jokes and heart-rending charity sims. Importantly, two strands seem to be developing: titles that seek to objectively inform players about a specific situation, and titles with a definite agenda. Anyway, have a look through and give one or two a go... JFK Reloaded Interesting but perhaps insensitively handled attempt to examine the Kennedy assassination.
U.S. Political Parties DEMOCRATIC PARTY (DNC) - The Democrats won the White House in 2008 and 2012, won some key governorships (PA, NY, MO, MN, and CA) -- but lost control of the US House in 2010, and lost the US Senate in 2014. Democrats run the wide gamut from the near Euro-style democratic-socialist left (Barbara Lee, Raúl Grijalva and the Congressional Progressive Caucus) and traditional liberals (Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden) to the pragmatic "centrist" moderate-to-liberal style (Hillary Clinton, Mark Warner) to the Dem center-right (Harry Reid and the New Democratic Coalition) to the dwindling GOP-style center-conservative right (Joe Manchin, Blue Dog Coalition). Official affiliated national Democratic sites include: REPUBLICAN PARTY (RNC) - Republicans lost control of the Presidency in 2008 and 2012. THE "BIG THREE" THIRD PARTIES: (Based upon vote performance over past two election cycles and ballot access) Party in 1999. AMERICA FIRST PARTY - The America First Party PIRATE PARTY - The U.S.
Answering the Illegal Question - Manage Your Career By Julianna Baggott I'm lucky in that I work in a department that is kid-friendly, at a university that's making a concerted effort to support women on the faculty and families (including with a new parental-leave policy). As a novelist whose personal bio exists on the back of every one of my books, I don't have the luxury of pretending not to have kids. At my job interviews at the Modern Language Association convention a few years ago, it was obvious to anyone who knew my work and could count on their fingers that I was immensely pregnant with my fourth child. I've been treated extremely well on job interviews when I was hugely pregnant—so large I once had to ask for a golf cart for the campus tour. However, it was when I was not pregnant that I was asked the big illegal question during a campus visit at an institution that shall remain nameless. I wasn't pregnant during that interview but I did have four kids at home. Everyone looked at me patiently, as if to say, "Well?" Wrong.
Historical Adventures: Newcomer Teacher Invents Educational Role-Playing Game | Taylor Nix may be a newcomer to teaching—he introduced himself as a n00b in my interview with him—but his approach of using gaming in the classroom is something many veteran teachers trying to reach apathetic students should take note of. Nix has taught for one year in the low-income area of Poplar, Montana on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. On his blog, Nix wrote of a sophomore world history class he taught that was “plagued with utter apathy.” An experienced gamer in his spare time, he decided to liven up the class by inventing an adventure role-playing game. “It worked a lot like a combination of D&D and Magic: The Gathering,” Nix said. Nix posted history assignments on a bulletin board on the back of his classroom every Tuesday which served as the game’s “quests.” The Quest Board The students would complete the assignments and receive loot in addition to their letter grades. Taylor Nix’s epic loot Quests also gave students’ RPG avatars new skills, abilities and character stats.
Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (9780838906804): Wayne A. Wiegand The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the 21st Century Conference Overview The conference aims to identify new directions and new trends in scholarship on the American Revolution. The conference organizers expect that it will be the first in a series of conferences exploring important themes on the era of the American Revolution. The format of the conference will differ from most academic conferences. Instead of reading papers, panelists will pre-circulate short papers (10 pages). History - British History in depth: The Irish Famine