When Dissent Became Treason
America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History by Margaret E. Wagner, with an introduction by David M.
Resources For Educators To Use In The Wake Of Charlottesville : NPR Ed
Four-year-old Leo Griffin leaves a Chicago protest against the alt-right movement held to mourn the victims of Charlottesville, Va. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Four-year-old Leo Griffin leaves a Chicago protest against the alt-right movement held to mourn the victims of Charlottesville, Va. How should educators confront bigotry, racism and white supremacy?
Puritan Values in American Society
Suggested Task 2: List and explain possible reasons for the differences in the interpretations that appear above. Grades 4-5: relate answers to "the evidence presented or the point of view of the author." Grade 6-8: relate answers to the historians "choice of questions and use of sources." Grades 9-12: relate answers to the historians' "choice of questions, use and choice of sources, perspectives, beliefs, and points of view."
After Orlando, Examining the Gun Business - The New Yorker
Bars in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia let out at 2 A.M. On the morning of January 17, 2010, two groups emerged, looking for taxis. At the corner of Market and Third Street, they started yelling at each other. On one side was Edward DiDonato, who had recently begun work at an insurance company, having graduated from Villanova University, where he was a captain of the lacrosse team. On the other was Gerald Ung, a third-year law student at Temple, who wrote poetry in his spare time and had worked as a technology consultant for Freddie Mac. Both men had grown up in prosperous suburbs: DiDonato in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia; Ung in Reston, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
Why do we think poor people are poor because of their own bad choices?
Cecilia Mo thought she knew all about growing up poor when she began teaching at Thomas Jefferson senior high school in south Los Angeles. As a child, she remembered standing in line, holding a free lunch ticket. But it turned out that Mo could still be shocked by poverty and violence – especially after a 13-year-old student called her in obvious panic. He had just seen his cousin get shot in his front yard.
What Is Puritanism?
Puritans was the name given in the 16th century to the more extreme Protestants within the Church of England who thought the English Reformation had not gone far enough in reforming the doctrines and structure of the church; they wanted to purify their national church by eliminating every shred of Catholic influence. In the 17th century many Puritans emigrated to the New World, where they sought to found a holy commonwealth in New England. Puritanism remained the dominant cultural force in that area into the 19th century. English Puritanism Associated exclusively with no single theology or definition of the church — although many were Calvinists — the English Puritans were known at first for their extremely critical attitude regarding the religious compromises made during the reign of Elizabeth I.
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law’
To get to the core of race in America today, read this new book by James Whitman. Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. Prepare to be as startled as this respected legal scholar was when he came upon a meticulous record of a meeting of top lawyers in Nazi Germany after Hitler’s rise to power. Not only did those lawyers reveal a deep interest in American race policies, the most radical of them were eager advocates of using American law as a model.
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