AP History Homework

 
FINAL PROJECT

Final Project = 25% - 30% of Final Grade. The Final Project is to be done on Power Point complete with links, graphics, cited sources, details and short & long versions.

5 Parts to the Final Project:
1. Top 10 (reconsidered?) (Theory)
2. Proposed Action Plan (Theory)
3. Civic Duty (Action) Proof Needed!
4. Legacy project (Action)
5. Oral Presentation (6 minutes) on (1-4 above)


1. Top 10 (Reconsidered?) - Theory
Students are to review & reconsider their initial Top 10 issues of the US and Top 10 of the World. Student power point should include their initial & reconsidered Top 10 issues’ list. Include a short explanation of changes, shuffling or non-changes to your Top 10 lists.

2. Proposed Action Plan - (Theory)
Students are to identify one of the Reconsidered Issues. In detail, students should research that one selected issue. Next students are to answer the

Current Issue Questions
1) What is the in-depth current issue?
2) What are your sources of the project?
2) Why is it important? Is it a problem? If so, why is it a problem? Why is it more important than other current issues?
3) Who are the cast of main characters on each of the opposing sides?
3) Why do you think students (people) need to know about it?
4) What practical solutions can be implemented? What can be done immediately? What changes can be implemented to achieve long term goals?
5) What action have you taken? Be sure to be able to have proof of what action you took? Do you plan to take action in the future? If so, what? If not, why not?
6) What are your overall thoughts on doing the research? What are your conclusions? Are you hopeful or pessimistic about the future of this issue?

3. Civic Duty (Action) Proof Needed!
This is simply proof and evidence of the action students undertook to DO something about the issue they have identified. Evidence may be in the form of: a. Copies of letters or emails written by students to Congress or other powerbrokers related to the identified issue. b. pictures of student taking action (speaking with powerbrokers of issue or informing others about their Top 10 Issue, etc.).

4. Legacy Project (Action)

AP AMERICAN FINAL LEGACY PROJECT

PURPOSE: The purpose of this project is to have ‘veteran’ AP students leave behind their legacy to help improve and ease the learning of AP American history subject matter.

INSTRUCTION: Students need to type up 3 legacy project proposals by Tuesday, May 30th. There are 4 options for the Legacy Project. Each of the four options are listed and described below.

VALUE OF ASSIGNMENT: The legacy project will amount to about 20% of the total semester grade. Hence, this assignment should be taken with the utmost seriousness. Students should also put forth supreme effort.

OPTION #1 – FUTURE HELL WEEK ESSAY REVIEW

1) Select unit topic of American History
(i.e. Discovery, Colonial, Revolutionary, Constitutional, Jeffersonian, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, Populist, Progressives, WWI, Roaring 20s, Great Depression & New Deal, WWII, Cold War, Ike Years, Storming 60’s: JFK, LBJ, Great Society, Vietnam, 70s: Nixon, Watergate, Carter, Reagan Years, Bush, Gulf War, Clinton & the 90s. Students are also welcome to select a theme instead of era. Some acceptable themes might be comparing over time: women, war, labor and civil rights, etc. )

Pick a topic you are interested in or would like to know more about. If you could care less about the unit you are researching, your project will most likely be worthless. Thus, focus on something of interest and become an “expert” on that topic.

DUE: On Tuesday May 29th

2) Develop essay questions related to unit topic Essay questions should be broad to allow AP students to express the knowledge of the terms, people, ideas and events from that period time (ie 1950s was an era of triumph or suppression?). Mr P will then review your essay question(s). He will select 1 of your essay questions for you to work on for your legacy project. Students may indicate which of the three they would prefer to work on for the project. Students should also provide a brief explanation outlining the purpose and value of having such a question on future AP Hell Week exams.

DUE: On Tuesday May 29th = Option #1 parts 1 & 2

3) Create power point review of essay question. Follow the same format of Post Hell Essay power point reviews. i) Question ii) Thesis & Subs for both sides iii) Key terms iv) Key People v) Dates vi) Misc (Constitution, Stats, Quotes & Cases). Each of the items for (i-vi) should be linked to other pages that provide more specific info & pictures on the term, person, etc as it relates to the essay and unit. Make sure the info is relevant to the essay and unit. For example, a question about American Imperialism at the end of the 19th century and early 20th Century should mention Teddy Roosevelt under key people. If one were to click on Teddy’s name it would link to a page with Teddy’s name at the top of the page and then some bullets related to Teddy and the American imperialism question. Some bullets under Roosevelt would be Creation of Panama, Open Door Policy, Roosevelt’s Corollary, “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” Great White Fleet and so on. One should NOT mention Roosevelt’s pushing for the FDA, Conservation of National Parks, Anti-monopoly as it doesn’t have to do with the essay question. More information will follow regarding the specific power point format and layout for this legacy project.

4) Create an essay grading rubric on power point & print 3 hardcopies as well.
Mr P will provide examples to students so they know the appropriate format.

FINAL DUE DATE: On Monday, June 18th = Option #1 power point project

OPTION #2 – ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

1) Create power point for roundtable discussion day (i.e. Vietnam roundtable)
Basically, create a power point DBQ. Use your own broad essay question. List 20-25 characters representing various opinions relating to historical question you have selected. Design a main page with historical figures placed into groups (like Vietnam roundtable)

By clicking on any name, the power point presentation will move to a slide with more information on that name. The pages of each specific person all contain: a) the name of the person, b) picture of the person, c) their general position on the subject matter d) detailed quote and or e) detailed information regarding historical figure’s position on topic of roundtable.

This legacy project is intended to be used in future AP classes to discuss overall themes of units like: Manifest Destiny, Pro & Anti Lassaire Faire, Pro & Anti Federalists, Vietnam, etc.
.
2) Extra Credit: If you put your roundtable power point online, email the link to Mr. P and post the link on P-Ville.

DUE: On May 30th = Option #2: typed roundtable proposal

FINAL DUE DATE: On Monday, June 18th = Option #2: Roundtable power point

OPTION #3 – AP REVIEW GAME

1) Create quality, easy to use, much needed and valuable review games for power point to be used as a tool for reviewing for the AP exam. Many students participated at the lunch time AP review competitions. Now those students can leave behind their destiny at West High by creating review games to be used at lunch by future generations of AP Students.
2) Student needs to type up and perhaps provide a sample of how the review games as well as provide an explanation justifying the need for such a review game.

DUE: On Tuesday, May 29th = Option #3 Review Game Proposal

FINAL DUE DATE: On Monday, June 18th.

OPTION #4 – OTHER AP LEGACY PROJECT

1) Students can also propose ideas they have for other types of legacy projects. Mr. P will review their idea and may approve such a legacy project proposal. Students who have a desire to do an “other” type of legacy project must explain and convince Mr. P of the need and value of such a legacy proposal.

DUE: On Tuesday, May 29th = Option #4 Other Legacy Proposal

FINAL DUE DATE: On Monday, June 18th

5. Oral Presentations – on (1-4 above)

Current Issue Presentation
a) Students will create a power point presentation to accompany their oral presentation. Be sure to have good use of quality visuals that enhance the oral presentation.
b) Students will provide Mr. P with a power point printout and a typed report printed when they present.
c) Students’ oral presentations will be 5-6 minutes long. Timing will strictly be enforced using the 2006 Stock watch. Hence, practice and time your performance before your actual performance. Practice makes perfect. Getting up and “winging it” shows and it will also show up on your semester grade. You have a short period of time to do the following during your presentation:

i) keep the attention of your classmates
ii) get classmates interested in subject matter
iii) lay down the basics so audience clearly understands and learns the importance of the issue
iv) if audience is indifferent during and after your presentation, expect a low score
v) if Mr. P does not hear anything ‘new’ from your presentation, expect a low score
vi) make sure your sources and information are valid.
posted by Mr. P at 5/25/2007

 
AP AMERICAN FINAL LEGACY PROJECT

PURPOSE: The purpose of this project is to have ‘veteran’ AP students leave behind their legacy to help improve and ease the learning of AP American history subject matter.

INSTRUCTION: Students need to type up 3 legacy project proposals by Tuesday, May 30th. There are 4 options for the Legacy Project. Each of the four options are listed and described below.

VALUE OF ASSIGNMENT: The legacy project will amount to about 20% of the total semester grade. Hence, this assignment should be taken with the utmost seriousness. Students should also put forth supreme effort.

OPTION #1 – FUTURE HELL WEEK ESSAY REVIEW

1) Select unit topic of American History
(i.e. Discovery, Colonial, Revolutionary, Constitutional, Jeffersonian, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, Populist, Progressives, WWI, Roaring 20s, Great Depression & New Deal, WWII, Cold War, Ike Years, Storming 60’s: JFK, LBJ, Great Society, Vietnam, 70s: Nixon, Watergate, Carter, Reagan Years, Bush, Gulf War, Clinton & the 90s. Students are also welcome to select a theme instead of era. Some acceptable themes might be comparing over time: women, war, labor and civil rights, etc. )

Pick a topic you are interested in or would like to know more about. If you could care less about the unit you are researching, your project will most likely be worthless. Thus, focus on something of interest and become an “expert” on that topic.

DUE: On Tuesday May 30th

2) Develop essay questions related to unit topic Essay questions should be broad to allow AP students to express the knowledge of the terms, people, ideas and events from that period time (ie 1950s was an era of triumph or suppression?). Mr P will then review your essay question(s). He will select 1 of your essay questions for you to work on for your legacy project. Students may indicate which of the three they would prefer to work on for the project. Students should also provide a brief explanation outlining the purpose and value of having such a question on future AP Hell Week exams.

DUE: On Tuesday May 30th = Option #1 parts 1 & 2

3) Create power point review of essay question. Follow the same format of Post Hell Essay power point reviews. i) Question ii) Thesis & Subs for both sides iii) Key terms iv) Key People v) Dates vi) Misc (Constitution, Stats, Quotes & Cases). Each of the items for (i-vi) should be linked to other pages that provide more specific info & pictures on the term, person, etc as it relates to the essay and unit. Make sure the info is relevant to the essay and unit. For example, a question about American Imperialism at the end of the 19th century and early 20th Century should mention Teddy Roosevelt under key people. If one were to click on Teddy’s name it would link to a page with Teddy’s name at the top of the page and then some bullets related to Teddy and the American imperialism question. Some bullets under Roosevelt would be Creation of Panama, Open Door Policy, Roosevelt’s Corollary, “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” Great White Fleet and so on. One should NOT mention Roosevelt’s pushing for the FDA, Conservation of National Parks, Anti-monopoly as it doesn’t have to do with the essay question. More information will follow regarding the specific power point format and layout for this legacy project.

4) Create an essay grading rubric on power point & print 3 hardcopies as well.
Mr P will provide examples to students so they know the appropriate format.

FINAL DUE DATE: On Friday June 17th = Option #1 power point project

OPTION #2 – ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

1) Create power point for roundtable discussion day (i.e. Vietnam roundtable)
Basically, create a power point DBQ. Use your own broad essay question. List 20-25 characters representing various opinions relating to historical question you have selected. Design a main page with historical figures placed into groups (like Vietnam roundtable)

By clicking on any name, the power point presentation will move to a slide with more information on that name. The pages of each specific person all contain: a) the name of the person, b) picture of the person, c) their general position on the subject matter d) detailed quote and or e) detailed information regarding historical figure’s position on topic of roundtable.

This legacy project is intended to be used in future AP classes to discuss overall themes of units like: Manifest Destiny, Pro & Anti Lassaire Faire, Pro & Anti Federalists, Vietnam, etc.
.
2) Extra Credit: If you put your roundtable power point online, email the link to Mr. P and post the link on P-Ville.

DUE: On May 30th = Option #2: typed roundtable proposal

FINAL DUE DATE: On Friday June 17th = Option #2: Roundtable power point

OPTION #3 – AP REVIEW GAME

1) Create quality, easy to use, much needed and valuable review games for power point to be used as a tool for reviewing for the AP exam. Many students participated at the lunch time AP review competitions. Now those students can leave behind their destiny at West High by creating review games to be used at lunch by future generations of AP Students.
2) Student needs to type up and perhaps provide a sample of how the review games as well as provide an explanation justifying the need for such a review game.

DUE: On Tuesday, May 30th = Option #3 Review Game Proposal

FINAL DUE DATE: On Friday June 17th.

OPTION #4 – OTHER AP LEGACY PROJECT

1) Students can also propose ideas they have for other types of legacy projects. Mr. P will review their idea and may approve such a legacy project proposal. Students who have a desire to do an “other” type of legacy project must explain and convince Mr. P of the need and value of such a legacy proposal.

DUE: On Tuesday, May 30th = Option #4 Other Legacy Proposal

FINAL DUE DATE: On Friday, June 17th







Current Issue Presentation
a) Students will create a power point presentation to accompany their oral presentation. Be sure to have good use of quality visuals that enhance the oral presentation.
b) Students will provide Mr. P with a power point printout and a typed report printed when they present.
c) Students’ oral presentations will be 5-7 minutes long. Timing will strictly be enforced using the 2006 Stock watch. Hence, practice and time your performance before your actual performance. Practice makes perfect. Getting up and “winging it” shows and it will also show up on your semester grade. You have a short period of time to do the following during your presentation:

i) keep the attention of your classmates
ii) get classmates interested in subject matter
iii) lay down the basics so audience clearly understands and learns the importance of the issue
iv) if audience is indifferent during and after your presentation, expect a low score
v) if Mr. P does not hear anything ‘new’ from your presentation, expect a low score
vi) make sure your sources and information are valid.

Current Issue Questions
1) What is the in-depth current issue?
2) What are your sources of the project?
2) Why is it important? Is it a problem? If so, why is it a problem? Why is it more important than other current issues?
3) Who are the cast of main characters on each of the opposing sides?
3) Why do you think students (people) need to know about it?
4) What practical solutions can be implemented? What can be done immediately? What changes can be implemented to achieve long term goals?
5) What action have you taken? Be sure to be able to have proof of what action you took? Do you plan to take action in the future? If so, what? If not, why not?
6) What are your overall thoughts on doing the research? What are your conclusions? Are you hopeful or pessimistic about the future of this issue?


HERE IS A LIST OF CURRENT ISSUES

1) CORPORATE FRAUD: It is bigger than Enron. This program contends corporate fraud runs deep in the US economy. Enron is only a glimpse into serious economic flaws. How did US investors lose billions of dollars due to the greed and fraud of accountants, corporations and politicians?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/regulation/view/

2) UNDERSTANDING CHINA & GLOBALIZATION:
a) A glimpse into globalization and China. This program chronicles China and globalization since the famed Tank Man incident of Tiananmen Square in 1989. This program gives viewers a good sense of the massive change taking place in China, also the effects of globalization, media control in contemporary societies, the how to ‘erase of history’ and how America business is wrapped up into this subject matter.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/

b) CHINA: A look at a country undergoing massive transformation on the world stage.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/red/view/


3) WHO IS WATCHING AND IMPACTING TEENAGERS?

A) How do giant media corporations spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the "next big thing" that will snare the attention of their prey--a market segment worth an estimated $150 billion a year.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/

B) Medicating Kids: What explains the surge in behavior-modifying drugs for children? How safe – and necessary – are they?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/watch/

C) Inside the Teenage Brain: It's the mystery of mysteries -- especially to parents -- the unpredictable and sometimes incomprehensible moods and behaviors of the American teenager. Generations of adults have pondered its cause. Hormones? Rock music? Boredom? Drugs?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/

4) RETIREMENT: The baby boomer generation is headed for a shock as it hits retirement: many of them will be long on life expectancy but short on savings. The two main strategies for funding retirement -- lifetime pensions and 401(k)-style savings plans -- are in serious trouble. In "Can You Afford to Retire?"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement/view/

5) TAXES? WHO PAYS? WHO CARES? WHAT IS RIGHT? WHAT IS WRONG? WHAT IS IDEAL?
This program examines the hide-and-seek game of taxes. Who pays and who does not pay? What are the tax shelters and its implications? Corporate profits rise and corporate taxes decline due to tax shelters schemes. Extra Feature: See good German public transportation.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tax/view/

6) CREDIT CARD: The surprising history of the credit card and the clever tactics of an economic sector few Americans really understand.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/view/

7) WAL-MART STYLE CAPITALISM: Is Wal-Mart good for America?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

8) PERSUADERS & ADVERTISEMENTS: Each year, legions of ad people, copywriters, market researchers, pollsters, consultants, and even linguists—most of whom work for one of six giant companies—spend billions of dollars and millions of man-hours trying to determine how to persuade consumers what to buy, whom to trust, and what to think. Increasingly, these techniques are migrating to the high-stakes arena of politics, shaping policy and influencing how Americans choose their leaders. If you are interested subject matter like that discussed in Naomi Klein’s No Logo, then you’ll like this program.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/view/

9) ISRAEL & PALESTINE:
a) Kahanists: They do not believe in peace talks. They do not want to share the land. They are well armed and are carrying out increasingly violent attacks, even targeting innocent civilians. They are members of Israel's militant far right, and they are threatening to become Israel's next big problem.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/israel/view/

b)

10) SEPTEMBER 11th

a) The Man Who Knew: John O’Neill, the FBI’s expert on Al Qaeda warned of possible threats but his my-way-or-the-highway style create career barriers for himself.



Here are some excellent general Internet resources for Politics and Economy: Government: Executive Agencies — Independent Government Agencies — Legislative Groups — Think Tanks
We also have annotations on the following topics: FCC and Media Deregulation —Civil Liberties — Campaign Finance — Cuba — Energy — Focus on Iraq — Freedom of Information Act — Gun Control — Hunger in America — The Middle East — NAFTA — Public Opinion Polls

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Executive Agencies
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
U.S. Department of State
Department of Veteran Affairs
Department of the Air Force
Department of the Army
Department of the Interior
Department of the Navy
Department of the Treasury
U.S. Marine Corps
The White House
Independent Government Agencies
Commission of Civil Rights
Environmental Protection Agency
Export - Import Bank
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Election Commission
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Peace Corps
United States Postal Service
Central Intelligence Agency
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives and Records Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Agency for International Development
United States Supreme Court
Legislative
Congressional Budget Office
General Accounting Office
Library of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
Politico-Economic Think Tanks
(* Think Tanks that appear are the most widely cited institutions in newspaper, radio, and TV transcripts and are given their ideological label from a FAIR report, which can be found at: Think Tanks
The Liberal/Left
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center for Defense Information
The Centre for Economic and Policy Research
Economic Policy Institute
Institute for Policy Studies
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
The Urban Institute
World Watch Institute
Centrist
The Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Council on Foreign Relations
Freedom Forum
Institute for International Economics
Progressive Policy Institute
Conservative/Right
American Enterprise Institute
Cato Institute
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Heritage Foundation
The Hudson Institute
International Institute for Strategic Studies
The Manhattan Institute
Progress and Freedom Foundation
The Rand Corporation


FCC and Media Deregulation sites:
Below are sites which contain more information about the issue of media deregulation and ways to take action on either side of the issue. The FCC site provides an area to make views on deregulation known, and provides contact information for the agency.
Center for Digital Democracy
The Web site of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving media diversity, provides information regarding the issue of media concentration. The Center highlights the 1945 Supreme Court decision (Associated Press v. United States) which maintains that mergers that narrow the dissemination of information are unconstitutional. Other features include press headlines, articles, and resource links.
Colombia Journalism Review: Who Owns What?
"Who Owns What?" by the Colombia Journalism Review (CJR) features a list of media conglomerates and what they own. The page also provides a selected list of articles from the CJR archive on media concentration.
Consumer Federation of America
The Consumer Federation of America provides press releases, studies, brochures, and testimony to educate the American public about telecommunications issues and to advocate for pro-consumer policies.
Consumers Union: Nonprofit Publisher of Consumer Reports
The Consumers Union Web page, devoted to telephone-telecommunications regulation, provides a long list of articles, studies, and research describing how the deregulation of the telecommunications industry in 1996 has hurt consumers.
Economic and Political Consequences of the 1996 Telecommunications Act
Thomas Hazlett of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the 1996 Telecommunications Act resulted both in benefits to consumers and in "megamergers" that have benefited stockholders and market function. He contends that increased competition in the market had an effect on the political process, where the Telecommunications industry outspent all other industries in political contributions.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
The Federal Communication Commission is an independent government organization accountable to Congress. The FCC regulates "interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable" within U.S. jurisdiction. The FCC Web site features a special section on media ownership which includes information on the Broadcast-Newspaper Cross-Ownership Rule and the Local Radio Ownership Rule in the form of announcements, press releases, and policy studies.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996
This Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Web page is devoted to the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996, which promoted deregulation of the telecommunication industry (cable, long distance telephone service, local telephone service, and broadband) to create a competitive communications market and deliver better services and prices to consumers. The Web site features the complete text of the legislation and provides relevant FCC materials related to the implementation and guidelines of the Act.

FRONTLINE: The Merchants of Cool - Media Giants
On PBS.org, the FRONTLINE Web site features a diagram of the seven largest media conglomerates and their numerous holdings. This information is provided within a larger context, asking how media mega-mergers and the products they sell affect children's psychological development.
Media Access Project
The Media Access Project (MAP) is a public interest telecommunications law firm dedicated to promoting what they call "the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow." MAP covers a broad spectrum of issues concerning electronic media, including media consolidation, broadband access, Internet governance, promoting civic discourse, and protecting free speech. MAP's Media Consolidation Web page provides an overview of the telecommunications industry and its regulator, the FCC, and documents recent attacks on media-ownership limits and why the repeal of these limits harms citizens.
US Capitalism and the Public Interest: Restoring the Balance in Electricity and Telecommunications
Dr. Marc Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America argues that the deregulatory effort of the 1990s in the electricity and telecommunications industries has upset the delicate balance between private interest and public responsibilities. Dr. Cooper concludes that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must reassert their regulatory responsibilities to salvage public interests.
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Crispin Miller of THE NATION magazine describes and analyzes the media cartel that has integrated all cultural industries into a few large corporations. Miller fears that American culture will become more homogenous with less dissent and fewer independent voices..
Campaign Finance Reform:
The American Conservative Union on Campaign Finance Reform
The American Conservative Union (ACU) commissioned this report, Who's Buying Campaign Finance Reform? to shed light on where the anti-First Amendment campaign 'reform' movement gets its money and what its leaders, followers and funders really want for America.

Campaign Finance Reform
This page on conservative U.S. politics asks if campaign finance reform is solving a problem or restricting free speech by providing bulleted lists of reformers' views and opponents' views, and links to resources.

The Center for Responsive Politics
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The site outlines the contributions of Enron and Andersen to Congress, including a breakdown of Enron's top individual donors.
Common Cause
This Common Cause Guide to the Enron Collapse features articles which illuminate the course of events and regularly publishes investigative studies on the effects of money in politics and reports on a variety of ethics and integrity-in-government issues. Also on this site, an extensive section on campaign finance reform.

In Depth on Campaign Finance Reform
A consortium of over 80 top public policy organizations and advocacy groups, the Electronic Policy Network provides timely information and leading ideas about policies and politics. Inside this site, EPN offers up-to-the-minute information on new releases from member organizations; the latest columns and editorials from policy debate shapers; and includes a catalog of articles on topics of soft money, financial disclosure, campaign finance reform and free speech, clean money, and other related topics.
Public Campaign
Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of special interest money in America's elections and the influence of big contributors in American politics. Public Campaign works with various organizations, particularly citizen groups around the country that are fighting for change in their states. On the site, frequent updates and press releases give you the latest news on campaign finance reform.

Money and Politics
The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. In the articles on this web site, Cato scholars explain why the various proposals for extensive new regulations on campaign finance are unconstitutional, based on faulty assumptions and destined to result in unintended and undesirable consequences.



Civil Liberties and the Patriot Act:
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Not for profit grassroots group concerned with American civil liberties. The site contains updates on local civil liberties actions, tools for activists, a legislation watch and policy briefs on the Patriot Act.
The Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security offers information about Homeland Security legislation, the President's Homeland Security proposal, and analysis of the department. Other features include transcripts of speeches given by Governor Tom Ridge at the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation 2002 Service to America Summit and President Bush's Address to the Nation concerning homeland security. Online chat transcripts with Governor Ridge are also included.
Homeland Security, Homeland Profits
On the Corpwatch Web site (a corporate watchdog group), Wayne Madsen argues that corporations are standing to make billions from selling "surveillance and information-gathering systems to government agencies and the private sector." Madsen cautions that this technology will be utilized to intimidate and squelch dissent.
How the USA Patriot Act Puts the CIA Back in the Business of Spying On Americans
In this issue brief, the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the USA Patriot Act includes domestic espionage against American citizens. According to the ACLU, the USA Patriot Act "permits a vast array of information gathering on U.S. citizens from school records, financial transactions, Internet activity, telephone conversations, information gleaned from grand jury proceedings and criminal investigations to be shared with the CIA (and other non-law enforcement officials) even if it pertains to Americans."
Preparing the U.S. Army for Homeland Security
In this Rand Corporation publication, the organization analyzes the security threats facing the U.S. and helps to clarify the U.S. Army's core responsibilities in preventing and responding to attacks on the U.S. homeland.
Seizing Dictatorial Power - William Safire
In this New York Times op-ed, journalist William Safire admonishes the Bush Administration for usurping "dictatorial powers" in the prosecution and sentencing of suspected terrorists. Safire trumpets a clarion call for all "conservative iconoclasts and card-carrying hard-liners to stand up for American values."
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Village Voice correspondent Nat Hentoff reports on 300 citizens of Northhampton, Massachusetts that organized a community meeting to resist the USA Patriot Act. Under the banner of Northhampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Hentoff describes the town's activism as a "new American Revolution."
The Northampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee
The Northampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee (NBORDC) is a grassroots initiative that organized to resist the U.S.A Patriot Act. The NBORDC Web site provides helpful tips to individuals and groups interested in creating their own Bill of Rights Defense Committees in their communities. The Web site also includes an issues page which analyzes provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and Federal Executive Orders in the context of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.
USA Patriot Act
Thomas is the legislative search engine provided by the Library of Congress. Thomas allows users to read the complete text of the USA Patriot Act, follow its path through Congress and its many committees, review its co-sponsors in Congress, and much more.
USA Patriot Act Includes Provisions on Student Records
The American Council on Education(ACE) highlights provisions in the USA Patriot Act that authorizes the ability of the U.S. government to collect detailed information on foreign students. According to ACE, the USA Patriot Act also directs the U.S. Attorney General to implement an electronic database to store and track foreign students from selected countries. Those educational institutions that fail to authorize the intelligence network can be denied the ability to accept foreign students.
Watching You: Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
A Cato Institute issue brief, "Watching You," documents the push to enact a federal tracking system to monitor U.S. citizens in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. If this federal tracking program is instituted, the Cato Institute warns that the government "will have perverted its most fundamental mission and destroyed the privacy and liberty that it was supposed to protect."
Task of a Terror Czar
Robert Maginnis of the Family Research Council makes recommendations to ensure the effectiveness of the Gov. Tom Ridges' Department of Homeland Security.
The Posse Comitatus Act: Can We Maintain American Freedom Without It?
In this essay, C. T. Rossi responds to Homeland Security head Tom Ridges' attempt to repeal the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. The Posse Comitatus Act barred the U.S. military from serving as a civilian police force, effectively protecting the right of states and local communities to police themselves. Its repeal, argues Rossi, "would open the door to old abuses" and concentrate undue power in the federal government.

Cuba:
CIA World Factbook: Cuba
The CIA World Factbook provides a brief profile of Cuba, including information relating to the Cuban geography, people, government, economy, communication, transportation, military and transnational issues affecting the Cuban people. Visuals include a large map of Cuba.
It's Time, Finally, to End the Cuban Embargo
Aaron P. Lukas, of the Cato Institute, argues that there is a multitude of reasons to end the Cuban embargo. He argues that Cuba is neither a terrorist or security threat to the United States, the embargo punishes innocent Cubans and according to Cuban dissidents maintains Castro's rule, and finally it punishes U.S. export industries that lose out on $684 million to 1.2 billion in trade to Europe and Canada. All combined, Lukas concludes the embargo has outlived its purpose.
U.S. - Cuba Relations

This policy brief from the State Department recounts the more than 40-year history of opposition to Communist Cuba. Included in this policy brief is an outline of the U.S.'s current strategy to end Castro's rule and bring American-style democracy to Cuba.
Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuban Invasion in 1962
These declassified papers from the Joint Chiefs of Staff tells highlights a set of covert proposals to on Cuba titled OPERATION NORTHWOODS. "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba," tells how certain elements of the U.S. government fabricated pretexts to justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba.
Unfriendly Neighbors
The NEWSHOUR with Jim Lehrer presents a brief history of U.S.-Cuban relations beginning with the U.S. occupation of Cuba after the Spanish-American War, through the 1959 Revolution, to the present-day diplomatic stalemate between the Castro government and various U.S. Administrations. Other features include an examination of the massive migrations of Cubans to Florida and descriptions of daily life in Cuba.
What's Life Really Like In Cuba?
BBCNews offers a description of life in Cuba and the contradictions between the revolutionary ideology and the desire for American-style prosperity.
Online NewsHour: Life in Cuba
A recent report from NewsHour describes the impact of the Soviet Union's fall and the recent moves to "dollarize" the economy on the lives of Cubans. This site includes an examination of how the market-style reforms have reverberated throughout Cuban civil society, Cuban education and ideology, and migration outside of Cuba.


Energy Policy/H.R. 4 Web Sites:
The H.R. 4 Bill
Legislative history of the H.R. 4 energy bill.

Download the Bill
Printable version of the bill.

Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth
The Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth is a broad-based coalition of a thousand members representing consumer and community groups, energy companies involved in all phases of energy exploration, production and transmission, and business and labor organizations in every state — all united in support of a comprehensive energy plan.

Halliburton
Halliburton Energy Services is a provider of products, services and integrated solutions for oil and gas exploration and production.

"The Disappearing 2001 Surplus: Tax Cuts, Budget Increases, and the Economy" by Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein
An article from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people)

General Motors
General Motors (NYSE: GM), the world's largest vehicle manufacturer, designs, builds and markets cars and trucks worldwide.

Grist Magazine
Environmental news and humor daily

Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader)
National non-profit public interest organization "protecting health, safety, and democracy"

Recent trends in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Scientific report on the controversial "greenhouse effect" including charts and graphs. Report prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group
This report, presented on the official White House energy page, represents current administration thinking on energy policy.

Sierra Club
The Sierra Club works to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.

U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Public advocacy group.

Focus on Iraq:
American Enterprise Institute
Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, D.C., the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is one of America's largest and most respected "think tanks." At AEI's annual dinner in February 2003, President Bush delivered a historic address on the need for a new government in Iraq and the role it could play in spreading democracy in the Middle East. Video, audio, and text of the speech are available on the AEI site.

The Gulf War
A FRONTLINE in-depth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis in which more than one million troops faced off against each other in the deserts of the Gulf states. From the Allied coalition's air war, to the ground assault, to the liberation of Kuwait, and the fallout of Saddam Hussein's retaining power, "The Gulf War" deconstructs what really happened, how it happened and why.

Iraq Resource Information Center (IRIS)
IRIS is a comprehensive, categorized, multi-media, Internet database of various Iraqi topics and issues based on eyewitness testimonies, human rights reports, reference sources, official government documents, notable editorials, maps, chronologies, bibliographies, photographic images, audio, and video related materials.

Iraq Special Collection
The Center for Nonproliferation Studies, providing information and analysis to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction, features a hub page for recent articles on Iraq, research on Iraq's missile programs, international reactions to past action in Iraq, and more.

Iraq: What Next?
The Brookings Institution provides a page of Iraq resources, including current commentaries and selected readings.

"Is Truth a Victim?"
In an interview with the BBC's NEWSNIGHT, Dan Rather of CBS, says the U.S. media has stopped asking tough questions of the Bush administration since 11 September and he blames a climate of extraordinary patriotism. The CBS anchorman says that fear of offending the politicians "keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions" and adds: "I do not except myself from this criticism."

The Middle East Institute
The Middle East Institute was founded in 1946 and is the oldest organization of its kind. The Institute does not take policy positions, but publishes the quarterly Middle East Journal, where policy briefs, and programs are presented scholarly objectivity and tolerance on issues where passions are often intense. The Institute also offers an intellectual hub, an extensive library, resident experts, cultural and political programs and a forum for the exchange of ideas between analysts, scholars, and officials from the U.S. and around the world.

Middle East Media and Research Institute
MEMRI, an independent, non-profit organization providing translations of the Arabic and Farsi media and original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East.

Middle East News Online
Middle East News Online (MENO) is the companion site to the Middle East News Service Inc., which syndicates news and information about the Middle East and North Africa regions. The site and service specializes in information related to the political, economic, social and cultural realities of the Middle East and North Africa, with particular emphasis on economic and financial coverage and policy analysis. MENO aggregates a massive amount of constantly updated information obtained from over 120 sources, and offers daily local and regional news content. The online news can be read in English, French or Arabic and is organized according to both country and topic.

UN News Service
The United Nations News Service features the latest statements from the Secretary-General and news on current UN talks and actions.

The White House
The web site of the White House contains information about the President of the United States, the Vice President, the West Wing and more. Current news updates provide details on the President's actions regarding the situation in Iraq.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):
US Department of Justice
The Department of Justice's Office of Information and Privacy (OIP) is the principal contact point within the executive branch for advice and policy guidance on matters pertaining to the administration of the Freedom of Information Act.

The National Security Archive
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act..

Access Reports
For more than 25 years, Access Reports has been the news source of choice for professionals concerned with access to government information

The General Accounting Office (GAO)
The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people.

Judicial Watch, Inc.
Judicial Watch, Inc. was established in 1994 as a non-partisan, non-profit foundation to serve as an ethical and legal "watchdog" over the US government, legal, and judicial systems. The organizationâs site provides more information about current lawsuits, many of which are filings under the Freedom of Information Act, as well as documents from previous suits.

Ashcroft Memo
The text of Attorney General John Ashcroftâs memo to all government agencies concerning the Freedom of Information Act, published in October.




Gun Control:
Americans for Gun Safety (AGS)
Americans for Gun Safety is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that advocates moderate gun control, and respects the rights of law abiding citizens to own guns, while keeping firearms away from criminals and children. The AGS Web site features a media and press center, volunteer and advocacy opportunities, and contact information.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Jim Brady, former press secretary for Ronald Reagan, now runs an organization that advocates and lobbies for tough, sensible gun laws. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Web site features facts, briefs, research, and statistics on a variety of gun issues; topics range from an "Assault Weapon Ban Q & A" to a "Guns in the Home" issue brief. The Activist page provides step-by-step instruction in how to become a gun control activist within 10 minutes. Additionally, the Legislation section allows concerned citizens to monitor their elected officials' voting records on gun control issues at the state and federal level. Other features include a portal to the Brady Center, another Jim Brady-founded non-partisan, grassroots organization committed to ending gun violence without banning all firearms.
Gun Owners of America
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue.
National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
The National Crime Prevention Council's mission is to inspire people to create safe neighborhoods by addressing the causes of crime. The NCPC Web site describes ways citizens can organize community-based prevention initiatives to combat crime in their neighborhoods. The "Training and Tools" section gives citizens ideas about how to implement their own neighborhood prevention initiative. The "What You Can Do" section describes the many activities in which concerned citizens can participate to help combat crime. The Crime Prevention Library provides many resources for continuing education on the topic of crime prevention.
National Instant Criminal Background Check System
The Federal Bureau of Investigation provides a quick overview of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The NICS, by means of background checks on prospective gun purchasers, helps ensure that people legally prohibited from buying guns cannot purchase them.
National Rifle Association (NRA)
The National Rifle Association is widely considered the foremost defender of Second Amendment rights. The NRA Web site features NRA news, national news, reports on gun-related politics, legislation news and updates, a list of affiliated clubs and associations, and a directory of NRA field agents by region. Other features include safety and training resources, the Eddie Eagle program that seeks to prevent children from handling firearms, and a portal to the non-profit NRA foundation.
National Shooting Sports Foundation
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the shooting, hunting and firearms industry. Formed in 1961, the National Shooting Sports Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with a membership of more than 2,500 manufacturers, distributors, retailers, sportsmen's organizations and publishers.
The New American: Issues in Focus - Gun Control
On this "Issues in Focus" Web page, New American magazine tackles the issue of gun control, arguing through articles, research, statistics, and testimonials that guns save lives and that any effort to ban firearms in unconstitutional.
Violence Policy Center
The Violence Policy Center, a national non-profit organization, seeks to refocus the gun violence debate from its strict concentration on crime to one more concerned with gun violence as a public health problem. The Violence Policy Center Web site features background reports, research studies, and topical issue briefs detailing the cost of gun violence on American society.


Hunger Resources:
Almanac of Policy Issues
A project of Policy News Publishing, The Almanac of Policy Issues provides comprehensive links and background information on major U.S. public policy issues. The site contains this entry on "Food and Nutrition" as well as links to related sites, issues, and articles.

America's Second Harvest
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. The site includes in-depth fact sheets on hunger in America, a section focusing on childhood hunger, an in-depth treatment of public policy, and information on finding your local food bank or food-rescue program.

Center on Hunger and Poverty
The Center on Hunger and Poverty, part of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, promotes policies that improve the lives and developmental capacities of low-income children and families in the nation. Center programs fall into two categories: The Food Security Institute, which includes federal and state data, a guide to recent studies, and explanations and definitions of various elements of Food Security Measurement; and the Asset Development Institute, which contains information on events and initiatives, and copies of publications.

Food Security in the United States
The Economic Research Service (ERS) is the main source of economic information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, intended to inform and enhance public and private decision making on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural development. The site provides explanations, complete with graphs and charts, of conditions and trends, measuring food security, household survey tools, community food security. Also available are links to recent reports and recommended reading.

Hunger in the US
This site is from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country. Sections of the site include: Federal Response to Hunger; Hunger & Poverty; Health Consequences of Hunger; Public Attitudes Toward Hunger; National Statistics; Recent Hunger Studies.

Oregon Food Bank
The Oregon Food Bank provides statistics about hunger in Oregon and related information on income and poverty levels. The site also includes details on the Food Bank's work to make a difference.

World Hunger Notes
Hunger Notes is a quarterly print, and online publication of World Hunger Education Service. The site offers a fairly large catalog of recent articles about hunger issues.

"The Myth of Widespread American Poverty"
The Heritage Foundation, September 18, 1998


Barbara Ehrenreich:
Articles by Barbara Ehrenreich
Links to online versions of articles written by Ehrenreich for Salon.com, THE NATION, TIME and other publications.

A National Survey of American Attitudes Towards Low-wage Workers and Welfare Reform
Complete text of study conducted by in 2000 by Lake Snell Perry & Associates for Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based employment research organization.



The Middle East:
There are numerous American mainstream news outlets offering coverage of events in the Middle East. The following links provide the perspectives of Israelis and Palestinians, as well as other media and organizational resources.
BBC News
BBC news presents this in-depth section on Israel and the Palestinians, with updates on the latest news, analysis of current events and issues, a history told through maps and timelines, and a feature on Jerusalem's holy sites.
Ha'aretz Daily Newspaper
Ha'aretz is an independent daily newspaper based in Tel Aviv covering both domestic issues and international affairs. The paper is perhaps best known for its Op-ed page, where its senior columnists - among them some of Israel's leading commentators and analysts - reflect on current events.

The Israeli Government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents a news flash section, headlines divided into categories such as Diplomatic Contact and Palestinian terrorism and the Israeli response, as well as the opportunity to learn more about Israel in sections such as Facts about Israel, Foreign Affairs, Peace Process, and Culture.
Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information
IPCRI, founded in Jerusalem in 1988, is the only joint Palestinian-Israeli public policy think-tank in the world. It is devoted to developing, what is described as, "practical solutions" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Web site includes articles and research findings such as "Israeli-Palestinian Youth Encounter Workshops in the Framework of IPCRI Educational Peace" and "A New American Peace Initiative: Can it Work?"

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is an international news service that provides up-to-the-minute reports, analysis and features on events and issues of concern to the Jewish people. The JTA correspondents in New York, Washington, Jerusalem, Moscow and 30 other cities around the globe provide coverage of political, economic and social developments affecting Jews in North and South America, Israel, Europe, Africa and Australia. View the JTA Web site for daily reports on news and politics in Israel.

Middle East Media and Research Institute
MEMRI, an independent, non-profit organization providing translations of the Arabic and Farsi media and original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East.

Zondervan News Links
Zondervan is an international Christian communications company. Most notably, its site offers links to approximately 100 different religion news services and news wires, including specialized presses, religion pages of mainstream papers, and some religion search engines.

Middle East News Online
Middle East News Online (MENO) is the companion site to the Middle East News Service Inc., which syndicates news and information about the Middle East and North Africa regions. The site and service specializes in information related to the political, economic, social and cultural realities of the Middle East and North Africa, with particular emphasis on economic and financial coverage and policy analysis. MENO aggregates a massive amount of constantly updated information obtained from over 120 sources, and offers daily local and regional news content. The online news can be read in English, French or Arabic and is organized according to both country and topic.

The Online NewsHour
The Online NewsHour is the companion Web site to PBS' THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER. The site features a special subsection devoted to coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. This area offers current and archived information and analysis related to the conflict.

Palestinian National Authority
The official web site of the Palestinian National Authority offers daily headlines, and arranges news and interviews within categories such as Peace Process, On the Ground, Building the State, and Palestine & UN.

The Palestinian Report
The Jerusalem Media and Communications Center was established in 1988 by a group of Palestinian journalists and researchers. The weekly online news digest covers events in the Gaza Strip and West Bank through feature stories, photo galleries and commentary.

PLO Negotiations Affairs Department
The Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) is an institution of the Palestinian Liberation Organization that was established in 1994 in Gaza in order to follow up on the implementation of the Interim Agreement signed between Israel and the PLO. This site offers an eye on negotiations, a description of the Palestinian position on Jerusalem, settlements, refugees, borders, security, and much more.

The United Nations
Fifty-one countries committed to preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security established the United Nations on October 2, 1945. This URL links to a subsection of the UN site entitled "The Question of Palestine." The area collects a wide variety of materials offering deeper insight on the subjects in question, including a historical overview of the region, an outline of the current obstacles to a resolution of the conflict between Israel-Palestine and a database of U.N. documents discussing aspects of the conflict.

UN News Centre
The United Nations News Centre presents this Middle East section, which includes chronological detail of Security Council action, the Secretary-General's statements, information on UN envoys, and much more.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Chapter 11 resources:
The NAFTA Secretariat
The NAFTA Secretariat, comprised of the Canadian, U.S. and Mexican Sections, is an unique organization, established by the Free Trade Commission, pursuant to Article 2002, Chapter 20 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It is responsible for the administration of the dispute settlement provisions of the Agreement. The mandate of the NAFTA Secretariat also includes the provision of assistance to the Commission and support for various non-dispute related committees and working groups.

Global Exchange
A human rights organization that describes itself as a group dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world, since 1988. Global Exchange is opposed to globalization and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Their site features a top 10 reasons to oppose the FTAA section, tips on how to democratize the global economy, FAQ, and more.

The Heritage Foundation
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. Access articles about trade and foreign aid, including articles on the positive impact of agreements such as NAFTA.

Biodiversity Economics Forum
Private Rights, Public Problems: A Guide to NAFTA's Chapter on Investor Rights by Howard Mann. This guide, aimed at a non-technical audience, presents Mann's perspective on the problems with NAFTA's Chapter 11 in easily accessible detail.

Resources from the P.O.V. documentary "Life and Debt."
This site allows visitors to download a reading list on related topics, peruse pro- and anti-globalization perspectives by linking to selected online articles, or link to an array of non-profit organizations active around the issues or offering background information on the subject of globalization, in general.

NAFTA Five Years Report
Official report of the United States Trade Representative on NAFTA after five years. "We recently concluded an operational review of the work program of each of the NAFTA working groups and committees, to fortify the direction and oversight to this complex venture."

The full text of the NAFTA agreement is available online.




Public Opinion Polls
PollingReport.com
Self described as an "independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion." Updated regularly, the site contains a database of poll results that are divided into three main categories: Politics and Policy, Business and Economy, and the American Scene. Allows users to view recent popular polls but does require a paid subscription to access in-depth polling statistics valuable to academics. Recent polls include "A Palestinian State," "Arm Airline Pilots," and "Superman vs. Spiderman."

Public Agenda Online
A nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization founded by Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. The two-fold goal of Public Agenda is to provide understanding of the public's point of view to politicians and leaders on major policy initiatives through critical analysis and opinion studies. Secondly, to help citizens understand policy issues therefore creating a better informed and thoughtful voting public. Public Agenda grapples with all the major issues affecting Americans, from abortion to the social security debate.

The Pew Research Center: For the People and the Press
The Pew Research Center is an independent opinion research group focused on attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. The Pew is mainly interested in five areas of inquiry: The People and the Press; The People, the Press and Politics; The News Interest Index; America's Place in the World; and Media Use. Pew and its services are commonly used by journalists, politicians, scholars, and public interest organizations to track public opinion trends. The site also includes commentary, survey reports, and an "In the News" section. Interesting content includes "Americans and Europeans Differ Widely on Foreign Policy Issues" and "Despite September 11, Interest Still Low in Foreign News."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/view/




Taxes
Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ)
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, CTJ's Web site provides analysis and policy recommendations in the interest of fair taxation at the local, state, and federal levels.

"How to Hide a Million"
From BBC NEWS, this report details how terrorists hide millions of dollars from authorities by using tax havens and offshore financial centers.

National Taxpayers Union (NTU)
A nonprofit, nonpartisan libertarian organization dedicated to laissez-faire principles, the NTU Web site provides information regarding taxes, wasteful spending projects, and limited government. Features of the Web site include "NTU on the Hill," "Commentary," "Congress By the Numbers," and "Grassroots Corner."

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Harmful Tax Practices
OECD homepage for Harmful Tax Practices provides background information, press releases, and up-to-date reports on the OECD's struggle to combat tax havens.

"Personal Exemptions and Individual Income Tax Rates, 1913 - 2002" (PDF)
An Internal Revenue Service publication, Personal Exemptions and Individual Income Tax Rates, 1913-2002 provides historical information on income tax rates levied on the lowest and highest income brackets.

Senator Chuck Grassley
Web site for Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley includes constituent services, news of Sen. Grassley, legislative information and biographical information. The Web site also provides access to Grassley's column "Capital Gains and Losses."

"Surge in Corporate Tax Welfare Drives Corporate Tax Payments Down to Near Record Low"
A Citizens for Tax Justice Report that details how the expansion of corporate welfare policies has shifted the tax burden onto ordinary citizens.

Tax Haven Reporter
An advocate of tax avoidance, the Tax Haven Reporter Web site offers information for prospective individuals and corporations seeking tax relief. Features include "Tax Havens in the Real World" and "How to Legally Avoid Millions in Taxes."

Tax Havens: Releasing the Hidden Billions for Poverty Eradication
A policy paper from Oxfam that argues proliferation of tax havens, and their use, have devastating effects on the ability of governments to provide basic social services throughout the developing world.

"U.S. Eases Stance on 'Tax Havens"
A BBC NEWS report from 200l describes U.S. Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neil's statements against the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's proposal to sanction 35 "potential tax havens" that have failed to comply with financial transparency and information exchange standards.
US Department of Justice
The Department of Justice's Office of Information and Privacy (OIP) is the principal contact point within the executive branch for advice and policy guidance on matters pertaining to the administration of the Freedom of Information Act.

The National Security Archive
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act..

Access Reports
For more than 25 years, Access Reports has been the news source of choice for professionals concerned with access to government information

The General Accounting Office (GAO)
The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people.

Judicial Watch, Inc.
Judicial Watch, Inc. was established in 1994 as a non-partisan, non-profit foundation to serve as an ethical and legal "watchdog" over the US government, legal, and judicial systems. The organizationâs site provides more information about current lawsuits, many of which are filings under the Freedom of Information Act, as well as documents from previous suits.

Ashcroft Memo
The text of Attorney General John Ashcroftâs memo to all government agencies concerning the Freedom of Information Act, published in October.


More Contemporary Topics

A) Media
B) Nuclear Issues
C) Patriot Act vs. Civil Liberties
D) Globalization/ Outsourcing of jobs
E) Federal Budget and taxes
F) State vs. Federal
G) Middle East
a. Israel and Palestine
b. Iraq
c. What is up with Central Asia?
H) 9/11
I) Education
J) WTO, IMF, etc.
K) Other
L) Water
M) E.U.
N) Environmental Issues
O) Genocide
P) Little Farmer vs. Big Farmer
Q) Election Process
R) Military Industrial Complex
S) Prison System
T) Health Care and Food
U) Social Security

To get extra information on these topics, visit:
http://randominfosites.blogspot.com
posted by Mr. P at 5/14/2007

 
MONDAY March 26, 2007

1) Storming 60s Vocab Game
2) Cold War Essay Review
3) Civil Rights Era Recap
4) Start Vietnam War Review

HW: Read Vietnam Packet

VIETNAM READING PACKET
1) Timeline
2) Vietnam War Ch.4
3) Down the Memory Hole Ch 9 – Loewen
4) Why did the US lose the Vietnam War? – Mark Grimsley
5) Vietnam Roundtable Packet
a) Round Table Questions 1-7 (listed below)
b) Round Table Historical Figures Packet (online link below)
c) Round Table Note sheet



TUESDAY March 27, 2007

1) Vietnam Era Quiz (based on reading handouts)
2) Vietnam Roundtable Discussion (Introduction, Explanation & Hist Figures assigned to students)
3) Vietnam War Power Point Review

HW:

a) Prep for Vietnam War Roundtable

Roundtable Questions
1) Why did the US fight in Vietnam?
2) What was the war like before the US entered it? How did we change it?
3) How did the war change the United States?
4) Why did the anti-war movement become so strong in the US?
What were its criticisms of the war in Vietnam? Were they right?
5) Why did the US lose the war?
6) What lesson(s) should the US take from the experience?
7) Did the Vietnam experience demonstrate American’s weakness or strength in democracy?

Link to historical figures of Vietnam War Roundtable



WEDNESDAY March 28, 2007

1) Vietnam War Recap
2) Start Roundtable

HW:

a) Prep for Roundtable
b) Due to lack of class time and the constant need to rush thru things because the AP exam is rapidly approaching, students will have to review JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society on their own. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net


THURSDAY March 29, 2007

1) Vietnam War Roundtable
2) POSSIBLE QUIZ FRIDAY Review JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net


HW:

a) POSSIBLE QUIZ FRIDAY Review JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net

b) Great C-SPAN Audio & Video Info on LBJ & links to info on other US Presidents. Great Stuff! "Wow! I didnt have anything like this when I was in high school!" - Mr. P

C) Read, listen or watch LBJs Great Society Speech from 1964. Start a post and get other students to place a post on P-ville regarding comments you had on the speech. Mr. P is considering making an LBJ posted comments an extra credit. Email Mr. P with a list of students interested in creating and posting LBJ comments on the Great Society.



FRIDAY March 30, 2007

1) Possible Quiz on JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net
2) Making Sense of the 60s: Vietnam (Bring your lunch to class)
3) Vietnam Roundtable Recap

HW:

a) Chapter Outline: Stalemate 70s (due Monday)



VIETNAM AUDIO FILES

Reviewing the Gulf of Tonkin
Morning Edition, August 6, 2004 • Forty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to grant him power to use force in Vietnam. The events that led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution have long been the subject of debate and controversy. NPR's Bruce Auster reports.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3822657

Cronkite on Vietnam War
All Things Considered, August 7, 2002 • In 1968, Walter Cronkite was the anchor for the CBS Evening News. The Vietnam War was raging and the American public was deeply divided about U.S. involvement in southeast Asia. CBS News, maintaining a strict policy of independent, non-partisan reporting, actually resorted to weighing the mail approving of their war coverage and comparing it to the weight of the critcal mail to judge if their approach was perceived as balanced. As the war continued, Cronkite left his studio to report from the field, bringing back reports that, some say, changed the U.S. public's attitude about the war. Walter Cronkite takes listeners back to those turbulent times in this report.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1147965

Letters: Cronkite on Vietnam, and Talking Books
by Melissa Block and Michele Norris
All Things Considered, August 5, 2004 • NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Michele Norris read from some of this week's listener letters. Among the topics: Walter Cronkite's remembrance of the Gulf of Tonkin.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3821613

Cronkite: Gulf of Tonkin's Phantom Attack
Faulty Intelligence Played Role in Decision to Engage Viet Cong
All Things Considered, August 2, 2004 • Forty years ago today, a murky military encounter at sea plunged the United States deeper into the war in Vietnam. On Aug. 2, 1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a U.S. destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the U.S. Navy reported to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that another American destroyer was under attack by the North Vietnamese.
Those critical events would ultimately lead the United States to send more than a half a million American troops into Southeast Asia.
The attacks spurred Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson power to use force in Southeast Asia. With the measure's passage, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War became legitimized and grew.
In 1964, CBS commentator and TV anchor Walter Cronkite knew only what official reports acknowledged. Four decades later, he offers a perspective on the incident he didn't have at the time.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3810724


Cronkite on Gulf of Tonkin, Part II
All Things Considered, August 2, 2004 • Walter Cronkite's survey of the events that led up to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 continues in its second part.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3811056

Looking Back at the Pentagon Papers
The Tavis Smiley Show, December 23, 2002 • Tavis Smiley interviews Daniel Ellsberg about his new book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=888552

TET OFFENSIVE 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Talk of the Nation, January 29, 1998 • \r GUESTS: \r Don Oberdorfer \nJournalist-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies \nAuthor, Tet: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War [DaCapo Press, 1986] \r Ronald Specter \nChairman, Department of History, George Washington University Author, After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam and Advice and Support: the Early Years of the US Army in Vietnam \r This weeks marks the 30th anniversary of the Tet offensive, a turning point for American involvement in the Vietnam War. Tet was a surprise attack -- Viet Cong guerrillas violated a temporary truce and launched a major offensive. It was a major setback for US troops, the South Vietnamese, and US supporters who thought America was on the verge of victory. Join host Ray Suarez for a commemoration of the Tet offensive, a watershed event in the Vietnam War ...on the next Talk of the Nation, from NPR News.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1010298


Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam" and I Have Been to the Mountaintop" April 4th, 1967
By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
Martin Luther King. His speech Beyond Vietnam, delivered on April 4, 1967 a year to the day before he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On the day of King's assassination, Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolous, Indiana campaigning for president. He announced the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. The night before he was killed, King gave his last major address in Memphis, Tennessee. He was there to support striking sanitation workers as he built momentum for a Poor Peoples March on Washington. Here is Martin Luther King "I Have Been to the Mountain Top."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/19/1630238&mode=thread&tid=25

Hear John Kerry's 1971 Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Plus Excerpts of Further Testimony from NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3874969



'1968: The Year That Rocked the World'
The Tavis Smiley Show, January 16, 2004 • NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Mark Kurlansky, author of 1968: The Year That Rocked the World.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1600907



The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4630596

War, Protests and the Election: Kent State from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4125879


Cronkite Recalls Mayhem of '68 Convention
Tensions over Vietnam Upset Chicago Political Scene
All Things Considered, July 23, 2004 • Next week's 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston will in all likelihood be a well-scripted affair. In these fractious pre-election days, Republicans and Democrats both have a desire to keep their nominating conventions on message. And that's often the case. But at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the script was thrown out the window.
The main flashpoint of the convention was the war in Vietnam. Thousands of anti-war protesters had gathered six miles away on Michigan Street. Fences, barbed wire and a strong police force kept them back from the delegate gathering at Chicago's International Ampitheater. And a telephone and taxi strike kept delegates and reporters inside in the dark for hours about what was going on outside.
Chicago police broke up a protest outside the Hilton hotel with tear gas and clubs. When footage eventually arrived at the convention, delegates reacted first with disbelief, then anger. Commentator and former CBS-TV anchorman Walter Cronkite replays what happened next.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613499


The Chicago Seven Trial: Audio Clips

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The Chicago Seven Trial:

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PBS Vietnam Online:

Great timeline, who’s who, primary sources, maps, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/whos/index.html
posted by Mr. P at 3/26/2007

 
MONDAY March 12, 2007

1) WWII Exam - MC or FR?

HW:

A) Main Discussion Question of the week: Was the 1950s a time of American triumph abroad and affluence at home, or was it a period that actually suppressed many social, economic and political problems such as race, woman's roles and cultural conformity?
B) Vocab Game - Historyteacher.net

25. Cold War Begins
26. 1950s America - Uniform & Affluence?


TUESDAY March 13, 2007

1950s Domestic & Foreign Issues

1) Chapter Outlines
Chapter 37 Outline: Cold War Begins (1945 - 1952) -- Turned in Friday March 10th
Chapter 38 Outline: The Ike Years (1952 - 1960) --- Due today, Tuesday March 14th

2) Vocab Game - Historyteacher.net

25. Cold War Begins
26. 1950s America - Uniform & Affluence?

HW: Be prepared to discuss

A) Main Discussion Question of the Week: Was the 1950s a time of American triumph abroad and affluence at home, or was it a period that actually suppressed many social, economic and political problems such as race, woman's roles and cultural conformity?

B)Possible 1950s Discussion Questions Topics: Students should be familiar with the topics listed below. In addition, the topics below should be incorporated into the answers for the Main Discussion Question (listed above). Students should follow the same 4 step process for each topic listed below:

I) State whether the topic is a form of triumph or suppression
II) Provide a brief discription and background information on the topic
III) Explain why the topic is important and / or relevant
IV) Recap of the topic


FOREIGN POLICY

1) Operation Gladio 1946
2) Berlin Crisis 1947 & 1961
3) Guatemala Coup 1953
4) Shah of Iran 1954
5) Suez Crisis 1956
6) Hungarian Revolt 1956
7) Korean War 1950-1953
8) Vietnam 1954-1975
9) U2 Incident 1959
10) Castro's Revolution 1959
11) Sputnik 1957
12) Military-Industrial-Complex
Ike's Farewell Address 1961


HOME FRONT

1) Jim Crow System "Separate But Equal"
2) Warren Court
3) Brown vs Board of Education
4) Little Rock
5) King's Montgomery Bus Boycott
6) Economic Prosperity
7) Suburbs (Subdivisions)
8) TV / Movies:
- I Love Lucy vs Film Noir
- Leave it to Beaver vs Rebel without a cause
9) Rise of Pop Culture: Monroe, The Beats
10) Rock & Roll
11) Woman's Roles
12) Red Scare
13) Taft-Hartley Act


C) Cool NPR segment on the Red Scare

D) Got 6 minutes for some random American History. Listen to this NPR segment on William Jennings Bryan. Remember him? Well, you should and will likely need to know him and other such folk of American History. So give it a listen, eh? If you are bored and lost during the segment, things might not be looking good for you come early May. Yet, if you listen and fully understand the segment, things might be looking good for you in early May. Well, happy listening and good luck. If you stumble across other NPR-ish segments related to American History, forward them to Mr P and/or let your AP classmates know about it.

E) Got 9 minutes to listen to some random NPR segment on Upton Sinclair . Remember him? You should for the AP and if you are an American who cares about the American past.


WEDNESDAY March 14, 2007 Assembly Schedule?

Discuss 1950s Domestic & Foreign Issues

HW:

A) Watch Why We Fight and take notes, write questions and comments you have related to the documentary subject matter. It is an American made documentary made by Eugene Jazecki (interview #1 = Democracy Now, interview #2 = PBS NOW)that has been aired on BBC and public TV in other countries. Ironically and unfortunately, it is not being aired on mainstream media sources in America. The film looks in depth at Eisenhower's farewell warning of the Military Industrial Complex. This stuff is incredibly related to your life and contemporary politics whether you realize it or not. Read about the movie online, if you cannot watch it.

THURSDAY March 15, 2007

Discuss 1950s Domestic & Foreign Issues

HW:

MC Practice

1) Chapter 37: Cold War Begins (1945 - 1952)

2) Chapter 38: The Ike Years (1952 - 1960)

3) Watch Why We Fight and take notes, write questions and comments you have related to the documentary subject matter. It is an American made documentary made by Eugene Jazecki (interview #1 = Democracy Now, interview #2 = PBS NOW)that has been aired on BBC and public TV in other countries. Ironically and unfortunately, it is not being aired on mainstream media sources in America. The film looks in depth at Eisenhower's farewell warning of the Military Industrial Complex. This stuff is incredibly related to your life and contemporary politics whether you realize it or not. Read about the movie online, if you cannot watch it.


FRIDAY March 16, 2007

MC Exam - Cold War Begins and The Ike Years

or

FR Exam - Cold War Begins and The Ike Years


MONDAY March 19, 2007

1) 1950s Recap
a) Groups will quickly recap topics on 1950s Home Front
b) Recap Foreign Policy of Cold War & 1950s

Additional Listening: Mr. P senses that a fair share of the students are not to clear on the importance of the beginning of the Cold War, the 1950s and topics like the Red Scare. So Mr. P found some links that cover some of the subject matter in more depth. Students can read or listen while they clean their room, do their daily push-ups / sit-ups, take a break from the constant running around of life, while they play video games, while they do their math homework and so on. Listen and read... you might learn some interesting stuff. Enjoy.

McCARTHYISM & THE RED SCARE OF THE 1950s

GOOD READING:

1) "Communists in Government Service," McCarthy Says
February 9, 1950

The junior senator from Wisconsin delivered a routine Lincoln's birthday speech to the Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. The result, however, was anything but routine. Claiming to have a list of 205 Communists who had infiltrated the State Department, Joseph McCarthy launched a four-year crusade with that speech, a crusade that tarnished the Senate, ruined careers, and ended in a Senate censure.


2) A Declaration of Conscience by Senator Margaret Chase Smith
June 1, 1950

Just four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech that launched the career of "McCarthyism," Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine voiced her opposition in a "Declaration of Conscience."


3) Have you no sense of decency, Senator?
June 9, 1954

Joseph McCarthy's crusade against communist infiltrators finally ended in a Senate censure in 1954. For four years, the junior senator from Wisconsin terrorized witnesses and silenced colleagues. When he took on the army in a spectacle known to history as the Army-McCarthy hearings, however, he met his match in Boston lawyer Joseph Welch.

4) Historic Senate Hearings Published

Joseph McCarthy
S. Prt. 107-84 -- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54). Closed according to Senate rules for 50 years, these hearings are now available to researchers and the public.

This five-volume collection of Senate hearings is available online (in PDF format). Volumes 1-4 cover the 1953 hearings, and 1954 hearings are found in volume 5.


GOOD LISTENING:

1) McCarthy Transcripts Released – NPR Talk of the Nation (42 minutes)

Talk of the Nation, May 7, 2003 • At the height of anti-Communist fervor in the early 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a Republican from Wisconsin, was perhaps the most outspoken enemy of global socialism. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election as president carried Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, and seniority elevated McCarthy to chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
What followed were two years of hearings, subpoenas and political pressure as McCarthy attempted to ferret out the Communists he was convinced were entrenched in all branches of government and among America's academic and artistic elites.
After McCarthy hinted at a huge Communist conspiracy in the U.S Army, and his confrontational investigatory style wore thin on the American public, McCarthy was censured by the Senate for "conduct unbecoming of a senator." The McCarthy era of hunting down Communists was over.

Members and staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations joined with the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee to form a special committee to investigate labor racketeering in the late 1950s -- with Robert F. Kennedy as chief counsel.
The McCarthy subcommittee conducted numerous public hearings -- many of which were televised -- but it did the largest share of its work behind closed doors. During McCarthy’s first year as chairman, the subcommittee interrogated 395 witnesses in private, but just 214 witnesses in public. Until recently, the transcripts of those behind-closed-doors hearings were never made public.

Wednesday on Talk of the Nation, NPR's Neal Conan talks with Donald Ritchie, Associate Senate Historian, about the release of some 9,000 pages of previously sealed transcripts of McCarthy's closed-door interrogations from 1953 to 1954. It is the largest disclosure of documents related to the McCarthy investigation, and offers a new look at what went on behind closed doors of some 160 executive sessions.


2) Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Revisited – NPR Talk of the Nation (12 minutes)

Talk of the Nation, December 16, 1999 • GUESTS: ARTHUR HERMAN *Visiting Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, Washington, DC *Author, Joseph McCarthy: Re-examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator (Free Press, 1999) VICTOR NAVASKY *Publisher and Editorial Director, The Nation *Author, Naming Names (Viking, 1980; being released in 2000 by Farrar-Strauss) Joseph McCarthy, Republican Senator from Wisconsin, is one of the most controversial and reviled figures of the 20th century. But now, declassified material recently released by the National Security Agency is being interpreted by some as evidence that McCarthy was right about a lot of things, including the number of Communists in the U.S. government in the 40s and 50s. Join Michael Krasny and guests as they examine this controversial reassessment of McCarthy, on the next Talk of the Nation, from NPR News.


3) March 9, 2004: McCarthy on 'See It Now' (12 minutes)

Fifty years ago, one of the most influential news programs in television history aired. It was on CBS-TV, and produced by Fred Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Part of the series See It Now, hosted by Murrow, it was a report on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and his campaign to root out "unpatriotic" Americans. Cronkite remembers the occasion as the night network television shook off its timidity and called the bluff of a bully.


4) Oct. 27, 2003: 'You Are There' (13 minutes)

In the 1950s, Walter Cronkite hosted a CBS-TV program that used real network correspondents to report events from days well before radio or TV in the style of "live" television news. Called You Are There,* the program taught history -- and had a secret history of its own. All the writers were victims of the McCarthy-era blacklist. They used the tales of Joan of Arc, Galileo and other historical figures to make thinly disguised points about contemporary witch hunts.


5) Revisiting McCarthyism in the Patriot Act Era (8 minutes) by Adam Burke

On Sept. 4, 1954, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) took the stand to defend himself against censure charges stemming from his campaign to purge the nation of Communist Party members and their sympathizers. Adam Burke has a retrospective of an era that tested American civil liberties on the fourth anniversary of President Bush's signing of the Patriot Act, which many critics consider a similar test of America's democratic principles.


6) Canada Lee: A Black Actor Blacklisted in Red Scare
The Tavis Smiley Show, October 21, 2004 • African-American actor Canada Lee was among the first to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Producer Roy Hurst talks with Lee biographer Mona Smith, author of Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee.


7) Inside the Secret Hearings of Joseph McCarthy: Newly Released Documents Shed Light On the Questioning of Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes and others (12 minutes)


8) The History of the Pledge: How It Changed From a Socialist Peace Pledge to a Patriotic Tool to Root Out Communists in the McCarthy Era Thursday, June 27th, 2002 (12 minutes)




SPUTNIK

1) How Sputnik Changed the World.
Forty-five years ago, Russia shocked the world with a tiny manmade moon orbiting the Earth. Cronkite remembers Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. SCROLL DOWN TO FIND SPUTNIK AUDIO LINK ON CRONKITE'S NPR PAGE



TAFT-HARTLEY ACT

1) Taft-Hartley Act (4 minutes)

All Things Considered, October 9, 2002 · Robert Siegel talks with Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about the history of the Taft-Hartley Act, which President Bush cited in his push to re-open West Coast ports. Lichtenstein is also author of State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, published by Princeton University Press, 2002.

2) TAFT-HARTLEY ACT as it related to the West Coast Dock Lockout of 2002 NPR (42 minutes)

Steve Greenhouse
*Reporter, The New York Times (covers labor and workplace issues)

Tom
*Longshoreman at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA
*Member, ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union)

David Olson
*Professor of Political Science, University of Washington (expert on port operations)

Stephen Cohen
*Professor, University of California, Berkeley (specializes in regional economics)
*Co-Founder, Berkeley Round Table on the International Economy

A ten-day lock-out has idled ports on the west coast and backed up consumer goods at the docks. How has the expensive labor dispute affected businesses and consumers? And what role should the President play? Join Neal Conan for a look at the cargo ship industry, from NPR News.


3)Harry Bridges & the suppressed union movement during the Cold War

Harry Bridges was one of the most powerful union leaders in US History. This website contains an audio link of his life and dedicated work for the working man. He was a hero to working class and despised by big biz for his effort to fight for causes that would benefit the working man. Bridges was continually labeled as a communist by big biz and conservative politicians before and after the Red Scare of the 1950s. Several attempts were made by anti-union politicians to deport Bridges, born in Australia. He is the only person in US history to be tried 3 times before the US Senate and each time found innocent. The Bridges' US Senate trials during the Red Scare are a classic example of forces within the US government trying to suppress working class rights. Working class folk will say that Bridges was labeled a communist as a means to discredit and deport him thus weakening the strength of workers (unions). In the end, Harry Bridges record was squeeky clean and he was touted as being the most uncorruptable union leader. Hence, the uncorruptable Bridges being labeled as a communist by business elite. Listen and learn a few things about an interesting figure of US history who is overlooked by "standard" textbooks.


EMAIL MR.P IF YOU STUMBLE UPON ANY OTHER GOOD AUDIO FILES RELATED TO AMERICAN HISTORY. THANKS.

HW:

a) 1950s & Cold War: FR & MC Exam (Tuesday)
b) Storming 60s Outlines (Wednesday)
c) Storming 60s Vocab Game (Wednesday)


TUESDAY March 20, 2007

1) 1950s timed FR Exam = 35 minutes. That is right, folks! It is time to start enforcing the time factor to prepare you all for the AP Exam in early May. The AP essay portion is 60 minutes for two FR essays and another 60 minutes for a DBQ and then followed by 55 minutes to tackle 80 MC questions. Hell WeekS' essays will be 30 minutes long. Get ready! The time is coming! Mr. P strongly suggests students get their writing speed up to AP levels by spending 30 minutes writing 5 paragraph essays daily. Students should write on any topic they want. The content of the essay writing drills do not have to be related to history, although it would not hurt if history was the subject matter. The point of doing these daily essay drills is to increase your writing speed and writing output. Many students are not producing enough writing in 50 minutes of writing. Thus, essay drills (like pushups) will mentally and physically prepare students for the AP exam. This is NOT mandatory work. Most students will not take all this seriously. Most students will not have the self-discipline to do essay drills daily. Yet, those who practice, train and study the most will most likely be successful on the AP exam in May. It is that simple.

2) Cold War & 1950s Mini MC Exam = about 30 Questions.

HW:

a) Storming 60s Vocab Game
b) Storming 60s Outline (Due Wednesday)


WEDNESDAY March 21, 2007

1) Storming 60s Outline = due before tardy bell
2) Storming 60s Vocab Game (Make it good! There are only a few more Vocab Games left this year! The AP hell ride will be over before you know it.)

HW:

a) Black History & Civil Rights Movement: The mind is a powerful thing when it is actually used. The potential of the mind is endless. Mr. P typed up this list below from memory. He certainly left out important information. No one is perfect. Yet, what is listed below is a print out from Mr. P's mind (mind = computer) on the topic of Black History & Civil Rights Movement. AP students should be able to draw upon their mental computer and make similar "printouts" on any given topic of American History. Most AP students are sluggish this year when it comes to such academic exercises. Start doing some mental exercises on the topic of Black History and Civil Rights Movement as preparation for the AP exam. Beyond the APs, students should just plain and simple be familiar with important subject matter of American History. Students should be able to provide an explanation and significance to each of the following dates, names, people and things:

DATES: 1619, 1831, 1847, 1863, 1865, 1868, 1865-1877, 1895, 1896, 1905, 1920s, 1941, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1977, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2004

PEOPLE(mainly political):
a) Nat Turner
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Booker T Washington
d) WEB DuBois
e) Langston Hughes
f) Marcus Garvey
g) Philip Randolph
h) Thurgood Marshall
i) Madam CJ Walker
j) Rosa Parks
k) MLK Jr
l) John Lewis
m) Malcolm X
n) Huey Newton
o) Bobby Seal
p) Alex Haley
q) Jesse Jackson
r) Colin Powell
s) Carol Moseley Braun
t) Louis Farrakhan
u) Condi Rice
v) Cornel West
w) Mumia Abu Jamal
x) Harry Belafonte
y) Maxine Waters
z) Sojouner Truth
1) Cynthia McKinney

MORE NOTE WORTHY FOLKS (mainly writers or cultural):

1) Maya Angelou
2) Bill Cosby
3) Brent Staples
4) Richard Wright
5) Spike Lee
6) Arthur Ashe
7) Jackie Robinson
8) Mohammad Ali
9) Toni Morrison
10) Angela Davis
11) Zora Neale Hurston
12) Alice Walker
13) James Baldwin
14) Duke Ellington
15) Fats Waller
16) Art Blakey
17) Miles Davis
18) Ella Fitzgerald
19) Hank Aaron
20) Kareem Abdul Jabbar
21) Magic Johnson
22) Max Roach
23) John Coltrane
24) Little Richard
25) Chuck Barry
26) BB King
27) Jimi Hendrix
28) Andrew Young
29) Paul Robeson
30) James Meredith
31) Larry Elders
32) Barack Obama

THINGS & NAMES:

1) Northern Star
2) Emancipation Proclamation
3) 13th Amendment
4) 14th Amendment
5) Reconstruction
6) Atlanta Compromise
7) Plessy v Ferguson
8) Jim Crow Laws
9) Separate but equal
10) Lynching
11) NAACP
12) Niagara Movement
13) March on Washinton
14) Executive Order 8802
15) Brown v Board of Educ.
16) Warren Court
17) Montgomery Bus Boycott
18) SCLC
19) SNCC
20) Sit-ins
21) Freedom Rides
22) Greensboro, NC
23) Letter from Birmingham Jail
24) Little Rock
25) Ballot or the Bullet
26) Selma Marches
27) Watts Riots
28) Voting Rights Act
29) Black Power
30) Black Panthers
31) But If Not
32) Beyond Vietnam
33) April 4th, 1968
34) Roots (Palazzo)
35) Nation of Islam
36) Million Man March
37) Rainbow Coalition
38) Back to Africa
39) Move



THURSDAY March 22, 2007

1) Civil Rights Movement

HW:

a) Be prepared for possible Black History & Civil Rights Quiz
b) Below are Civil Rights related audio and video files. This set of files focuses more on Malcolm X as well as the Black Panthers. (Malcolm was NOT a Panther).

1) Malcolm X: Make it Plain – watch, listen or read excerpts (37 minutes) from a documentary on Malcolm X. Mr. P highly recommends checking this out.

Malcolm X: Make it Plain, documentary produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell and aired on the PBS series American Experience.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1330233&mode=thread&tid=25


2) The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography

On this the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, we spend the hour with historian Manning Marable who has spent a decade working on a new biography of Malcolm X. He is one of the few historians to see the three missing chapters from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" that he says paint a very different picture than the book with Alex Haley and Spike Lee's film. Marable has also had unprecedented access to Malcolm's family and documents that shed new light on the involvement of the New York Police, the FBI and possibly the CIA in Malcolm X's assassination. Manning today called on the federal government to release all remaining classified documents on Malcolm X. [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/21/1458213&mode=thread&tid=25


3) A Life of Reinvention: Manning Marable Chronicles the Life of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was born 80 years ago today. To commemorate the occasion we hear a speech by Columbia University professor Manning Marable chronicling his life. Marable is currently working on a major new biography of Malcolm X which is tentatively titled "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention." [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1330226&mode=thread&tid=25


4) On the 41st Anniversary of the Assassination of Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (10 minutes)
We turn now to the words of Malcolm X, who was assassinated 41 years ago today in New York City as he spoke before a packed audience in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. He was just 39 years old. This is an excerpt of a speech he gave in Detroit on April 12, 1964 - just a year before he was gunned down. It is known as “The Ballot or the Bullet.” [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/21/1442222&mode=thread&tid=25


5) Professor Preacher Michael Eric Dyson on the State of the Country: "Some of Us are In First Class, But The Plane Is In Trouble" (23 minutes)

Professor Dyson talks about an abundance of historical Black American leaders, movements and views from long ago and today. His talk attempts to link contributions of Black Americans into an understanding of current American political and cultural society from a Black perspective. Do you agree or disagree with what Professor Dyson? If you agree, why do you agree? If you disagree, why do you disagree? At worst, it will be good to hear Professor Dyson mention terms and folks related to American History as a means of preparing you for the AP exam. At best, it will broaden your understand and heighten your interest about American history and contemporary society. When Dyson speaks today, it is undeniably similar to what Malcolm, MLK Jr, James Baldwin, WEB DuBois and others Black Americans, who are long gone, would probably say about the current state of the world you live in.

We play an address by professor and preacher Michael Eric Dyson speaking at the first annual Unvarnished Truth Awards in Washington D.C. Dyson says, "If you're in the plane, being in first class ain't going to stop you from going down with the rest of us. When there is turbulence, there is turbulence everywhere. Everybody be shaking. If that plane goes down, you might die first in first class. Yes, some of us are in first class, but the plane is in trouble." [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/14/1353201&mode=thread&tid=25


Stokely Carmichael: 5 audio clips related to this famous Famous Black Panther.

http://www.democracynow.org/search.pl?query=Stokely+Carmichael



FRIDAY March 23, 2007

1) Civil Rights Movement

HW:

a) Be prepared for possible Black History & Civil Rights Quiz

MONDAY March 26, 2007

1) Civil Rights Era Recap
2) Vietnam War Review



TUESDAY March 27, 2007 -- Mr. Egan will observe class.

1) Vietnam Era Quiz (based on 2 reading handouts)
2) Vietnam War Review

HW:

a) Prep for Vietnam War Roundtable


Roundtable Questions
1) Why did the US fight in Vietnam?
2) What was the war like before the US entered it? How did we change it?
3) How did the war change the United States?
4) Why did the anti-war movement become so strong in the US?
What were its criticisms of the war in Vietnam? Were they right?
5) Why did the US lose the war?
6) What lesson(s) should the US take from the experience?
7) Did the Vietnam experience demonstrate American’s weakness or strength in democracy?

Link to historical figures of Vietnam War Roundtable



WEDNESDAY March 28, 2007

1) Vietnam War Recap
2) Start Roundtable

HW:

a) Prep for Roundtable
b) Due to lack of class time and the constant need to rush thru things because the AP exam is rapidly approaching, students will have to review JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society on their own. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net


THURSDAY March 29, 2007

1) Vietnam War Roundtable
2) POSSIBLE QUIZ FRIDAY Review JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net


HW:

a) POSSIBLE QUIZ FRIDAY Review JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net

b) Great C-SPAN Audio & Video Info on LBJ & links to info on other US Presidents. Great Stuff! "Wow! I didnt have anything like this when I was in high school!" - Mr. P

C) Read, listen or watch LBJs Great Society Speech from 1964. Start a post and get other students to place a post on P-ville regarding comments you had on the speech. Mr. P is considering making an LBJ posted comments an extra credit. Email Mr. P with a list of students interested in creating and posting LBJ comments on the Great Society.



FRIDAY March 30, 2007

1) Possible Quiz on JFK 's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society. Mr P advises looking at the charts: "The Great Society & Culture in the 1960s & 1970s" found on historyteacher.net
2) Making Sense of the 60s: Vietnam

HW:

a) Chapter Outline: Stalemate 70s (due Monday)



VIETNAM AUDIO FILES

Reviewing the Gulf of Tonkin
Morning Edition, August 6, 2004 • Forty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to grant him power to use force in Vietnam. The events that led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution have long been the subject of debate and controversy. NPR's Bruce Auster reports.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3822657

Cronkite on Vietnam War
All Things Considered, August 7, 2002 • In 1968, Walter Cronkite was the anchor for the CBS Evening News. The Vietnam War was raging and the American public was deeply divided about U.S. involvement in southeast Asia. CBS News, maintaining a strict policy of independent, non-partisan reporting, actually resorted to weighing the mail approving of their war coverage and comparing it to the weight of the critcal mail to judge if their approach was perceived as balanced. As the war continued, Cronkite left his studio to report from the field, bringing back reports that, some say, changed the U.S. public's attitude about the war. Walter Cronkite takes listeners back to those turbulent times in this report.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1147965

Letters: Cronkite on Vietnam, and Talking Books
by Melissa Block and Michele Norris
All Things Considered, August 5, 2004 • NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Michele Norris read from some of this week's listener letters. Among the topics: Walter Cronkite's remembrance of the Gulf of Tonkin.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3821613

Cronkite: Gulf of Tonkin's Phantom Attack
Faulty Intelligence Played Role in Decision to Engage Viet Cong
All Things Considered, August 2, 2004 • Forty years ago today, a murky military encounter at sea plunged the United States deeper into the war in Vietnam. On Aug. 2, 1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a U.S. destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the U.S. Navy reported to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that another American destroyer was under attack by the North Vietnamese.
Those critical events would ultimately lead the United States to send more than a half a million American troops into Southeast Asia.
The attacks spurred Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson power to use force in Southeast Asia. With the measure's passage, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War became legitimized and grew.
In 1964, CBS commentator and TV anchor Walter Cronkite knew only what official reports acknowledged. Four decades later, he offers a perspective on the incident he didn't have at the time.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3810724


Cronkite on Gulf of Tonkin, Part II
All Things Considered, August 2, 2004 • Walter Cronkite's survey of the events that led up to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 continues in its second part.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3811056

Looking Back at the Pentagon Papers
The Tavis Smiley Show, December 23, 2002 • Tavis Smiley interviews Daniel Ellsberg about his new book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=888552

TET OFFENSIVE 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Talk of the Nation, January 29, 1998 • \r GUESTS: \r Don Oberdorfer \nJournalist-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies \nAuthor, Tet: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War [DaCapo Press, 1986] \r Ronald Specter \nChairman, Department of History, George Washington University Author, After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam and Advice and Support: the Early Years of the US Army in Vietnam \r This weeks marks the 30th anniversary of the Tet offensive, a turning point for American involvement in the Vietnam War. Tet was a surprise attack -- Viet Cong guerrillas violated a temporary truce and launched a major offensive. It was a major setback for US troops, the South Vietnamese, and US supporters who thought America was on the verge of victory. Join host Ray Suarez for a commemoration of the Tet offensive, a watershed event in the Vietnam War ...on the next Talk of the Nation, from NPR News.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1010298


Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam" and I Have Been to the Mountaintop" April 4th, 1967
By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
Martin Luther King. His speech Beyond Vietnam, delivered on April 4, 1967 a year to the day before he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On the day of King's assassination, Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolous, Indiana campaigning for president. He announced the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. The night before he was killed, King gave his last major address in Memphis, Tennessee. He was there to support striking sanitation workers as he built momentum for a Poor Peoples March on Washington. Here is Martin Luther King "I Have Been to the Mountain Top."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/19/1630238&mode=thread&tid=25

Hear John Kerry's 1971 Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Plus Excerpts of Further Testimony from NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3874969



'1968: The Year That Rocked the World'
The Tavis Smiley Show, January 16, 2004 • NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Mark Kurlansky, author of 1968: The Year That Rocked the World.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1600907



The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4630596

War, Protests and the Election: Kent State from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4125879


Cronkite Recalls Mayhem of '68 Convention
Tensions over Vietnam Upset Chicago Political Scene
All Things Considered, July 23, 2004 • Next week's 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston will in all likelihood be a well-scripted affair. In these fractious pre-election days, Republicans and Democrats both have a desire to keep their nominating conventions on message. And that's often the case. But at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the script was thrown out the window.
The main flashpoint of the convention was the war in Vietnam. Thousands of anti-war protesters had gathered six miles away on Michigan Street. Fences, barbed wire and a strong police force kept them back from the delegate gathering at Chicago's International Ampitheater. And a telephone and taxi strike kept delegates and reporters inside in the dark for hours about what was going on outside.
Chicago police broke up a protest outside the Hilton hotel with tear gas and clubs. When footage eventually arrived at the convention, delegates reacted first with disbelief, then anger. Commentator and former CBS-TV anchorman Walter Cronkite replays what happened next.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613499


The Chicago Seven Trial: Audio Clips

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The Chicago Seven Trial:

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PBS Vietnam Online:

Great timeline, who’s who, primary sources, maps, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/whos/index.html















































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What would Ike say about the current state of the world?
posted by Mr. P at 3/12/2007