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History Club Event 1/17/12 Video - "Prince Among Slaves"
Gregory Room, M-Block
Run A Booth @ The Black History Fair The History Club is looking for enthusiastic students to run booths at the club's annual Black History Month Fair. The topic may be anything and everything in American Black History - even sports and music!
Multimedia presentations, discussions, debates, and traditional foods have always been popular boothes in past years.
Team up with your buddies, ask your instructor for extra credit!
See Mr. Fleishman, Mr. Conn, Mr. Thompson, or Tim Mason for details.
The Fair will be held in the last week of February.
History Club events Tuesdays and Thursdays Young historians,
The History Club willl conduct World War II forums on Tuesdays in T-245
and...
Current Events forums on Thursdays in T-245.
Extra credit opportunities for all.
He's Dead...but at what cost? He was certainly a bad guy, but the legal implications are troubling. The Obama administration decided to skip the formality of even a trial in absentia.
From the article...
"Al-Awlaki's death is the latest in a run of high-profile kills for Washington under President Obama. But the killing raises questions that the death of other al Qaeda leaders, including bin Laden, did not.
Al-Awlaki is a U.S. citizen who had not been charged with any crime. Civil liberties groups have questioned the government's authority to kill an American without trial."
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ?
Share them in the discussion blog below! First Freedom Student Competition This national essay and video contest offers 9th - 12th grade students an opportunity to compete for $2,500 awards as they examine the First Amendment and the history and implementation of religious freedom and freedom of conscience in American democracy and the world today.
This year, students will select a person and/or group in their community, state or region, whose present or historic rights to the free exercise of belief are accommodated or, on the other hand, challenged by the public schools. They will then research and analyze how this relates to the broader narrative of First Amendment law and the right to freedom of religion, conscience or belief in the United States. . For the complete topic, essay and video guidelines, registration, classroom poster, student flyer and other details, visit www.firstfreedom.org. Students must register online on or before Monday, November 14, 2011, and the postmark deadline for mailing the essay or video with its accompanying entry materials is Saturday, November 26, 2011. Winners will be announced on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, April 13, 2012.
First Freedom Center
1321 E. Main Street
Richmond, VA 23219
804.643.1786 phone
804.644.5024 fax
competition@firstfreedom.org
Visit us online at: www.firstfreedom.org
New History Department Writing Guide! The new History Department Writing Guide is now online. Please see the document under class files.
Ford Assembly Line Short Video - cool stuff.
"NEW" HISTORY Dept. Writing Guide The "New and Improved" History Department Writing Guide.
See FILE Below.
 Revolutionary war powerpoint now online under class files Outline of talk to middle school 10/14/09
Powerpoint of German Exchange trip Basic Info for German Exchange June '12 Excellent overview of the DBQ process by Laurie Lynn Johnson. |
 "Little Bighorn Reborn"Competing views of Custer's defeat"The Spark of Genius"Thomas Edison and the growth of modernity "When Our Ancestors Became Us"American Heritage article on the development of modernity American Revolution Timelinefrom the companion website to the PBS "LIBERTY!" series. The timeline leaves a lot out, but it is interesting, and there is a fair amount of information on other parts of the website. Anti-Tom NovelsInteresting, not to read the books, but for the titles. Literature opposing _Uncle Tom's Cabin_. Antique musical boxesBefore the Ipod, before the CD, before Hi-Fi, in fact before electronic music, electric record players, or even the Edisonphone, there were music boxes. These were the first form of music on demand. If the guy in the video seems familiar, it's because he's Mr. Conn's father... Building LevittownGreat site on the Levitt developers and the explosion of suburbia. Civil rights Movement Veteransa good deal of information on different aspects of the civil rights movement, including interviews, documents, etc. CounterArguments A site that overs counter or even Anti-US opinions on major issues...interesting. Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives...not the homework article. This is the full text of Riis's book and photographs. Journal of American HistoryExcellent Source for In Depth Analysis. Search by topic, year, author. Know Your Middle East & AfricaThis is a great geography exercise. Try it! Kunsthistorisches Museum WienOne of the best art museums in the World. Take a look at some of the collections. Also has a fabulous Ancient Egypt collection. Morris Museum OnlineKnow your local history and what's in your area. If you haven't been to the Morris Museum in years, a lot has changed. Go see it. Morristown National Historical ParkWashington's Headquarters, Jockey Hollow, Fort Nonsense - well worth a visit! Schloss LinderhofOne of "Mad King" Ludwig's palaces, a homage to Louis XIV. Overwhelming... Schloss NeuschwansteinThe most famous "fairy-tale" castle in the world - built by "Mad King" Ludwig II of Bavaria. The Papers of Sir William JohnsonRemarkable letters from a man who helped Britain win the F&I War and so inadvertently helped provoke American independence. The Terrible TransformationPBS.org on Africans in America. Many good primary sources We Didn't Start the FireFlash presentation of the Billy Joel song with pictures of the references. I'm not a Billy Joel fan, but if you have a familiarity with all of these terms, you've got a good start to the vocabulary of the '50's - '80's. Test your knowledge, and look up unfamiliar ones. |
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