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Teaching Nuclear Issues Through Popular Culture Texts
Social Education 82(3), pp. 149–150, 151–154 ©2018 National Council for the Social Studies The Bomb and Beyond: Teaching Nuclear Issues through Popular Culture Texts Hiroshi Kitamura and Jeremy Stoddard America’s atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—on August 6 and 9, 1945, of ways, but often revolves around an respectively—instantly killed some 200,000 Japanese and precipitated the end of effort to understand how and why the World War II. They also helped usher in the Cold War, a new era of global tension Truman administration unleashed a that pushed the world towards the brink of destruction. In this menacing climate, in pair of destructive weapons on a mass which the United States and the then-Soviet Union pursued a fierce international of civilians. Often a debate or delibera- rivalry, nuclear issues became central to top-level diplomacy and policymaking. tion model is used to engage students in Citizens around the world experienced a full spectrum of emotions—fear, paranoia, exploring the motives and implications rage, and hope—as they lived in this “nuclear world.” of official U.S. decision making—such as to save American lives, check Soviet Presently, nearly three decades after classroom, including films, TV shows, expansionism, or justify the two-billion- the fall of the Berlin Wall, the original video games, photography, and online dollar cost of the Manhattan Project. But nuclear arms race has subsided, but databases. These cultural texts illustrate this intellectual exercise also carries the nuclear issues remain seminal. Continued diverse societal views from different risk of reducing the experience to strate- challenges related to the development points in time. -
National Treasure
DIARY of JOHN WILKES BOOTH 0. DIARY of JOHN WILKES BOOTH - Story Preface 1. FORD'S THEATRE 2. A SHOCKING DEATH 3. DIARY of JOHN WILKES BOOTH 4. MISSING PAGES of a DIARY 5. THE STATUE of LIBERTY 6. HMS RESOLUTE 7. OLMEC GLYPHS 8. MOUNT RUSHMORE This image depicts an 1864 appointment book which John Wilkes Booth used as a diary after he shot President Lincoln. This artifact is part of the museum collection of the National Park Service, maintained at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Online via the Library of Congress. Click on the image for a full-page view. On the run, Booth carried a small (6 by 3½ inches) red appointment book (for 1864) which he used as a diary. According to the FBI (who’d been requested to forensically examine the evidence), the diary is missing forty- three sheets, totaling eighty-six pages. (See Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President, by Edward Steers, Jr., page 188) Although the first entry is for April 14—the day of the shooting—Booth likely penned his words between the 17th and the 22nd of April, 1865. The text appears to initially reference Booth’s original (but failed) idea ... to kidnap Lincoln: Until to day nothing was ever thought of sacrificing to our country's wrongs. For six months we had worked to capture. But our cause being almost lost, something decisive & great must be done. -
Political Friendship in Early America
CAMPBELL, THERESA J., Ph.D. Political Friendship in Early America. (2010) Directed by Dr. Robert M. Calhoon. 250 pp. During the turbulent decades that encompassed the transition of the North American colonies into a Republic, America became the setting for a transformation in the context of political friendship. Traditionally the alliances established between elite, white, Protestant males have been most studied. These former studies provide the foundation for this work to examine the inclusion of ―others‖ -- political relationships formed with and by women, persons of diverse ethnicities and races, and numerous religious persuasions -- in political activity. From the outset this analysis demonstrates the establishment of an uniquely American concept of political friendship theory which embraced ideologies and rationalism. Perhaps most importantly, the work presents criteria for determining early American political friendship apart from other relationships. The central key in producing this manuscript was creating and applying the criteria for identifying political alliances. This study incorporates a cross-discipline approach, including philosophy, psychology, literature, religion, and political science with history to hone a conception of political friendship as understood by the Founding Generation. The arguments are supported by case studies drawn from a wide variety of primary documents. The result is a fresh perspective and a new approach for the study of eighteenth century American history. POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP IN EARLY AMERICA by Theresa J. Campbell A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate School at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Greensboro 2010 Approved by Robert M. -
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies'
H-CivWar Norman on Kauffman, 'American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies' Review published on Saturday, September 1, 2007 Michael W. Kauffman. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies. New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 508 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-375-75974-1; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-375-50785-4. Reviewed by Matt Norman (Gettysburg College) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2007) Brutus or Bin Laden? Abraham Lincoln delivered a rather extraordinary speech to a crowd that gathered outside the White House on April 11, 1865. Though Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant just two days prior, and the end of the Civil War appeared imminent, Lincoln chose to focus his remarks on the daunting task of Reconstruction. Lincoln realized much important work would remain after the shooting stopped and he took the first opportunity following the surrender at Appomattox to plead his case for the Unionist government in Louisiana that had been formed under his auspices. Louisiana Unionists had failed to implement Lincoln's private suggestion that the franchise be extended to "very intelligent" African Americans and those who had served in the military, yet the president continued to favor a limited franchise for African Americans and he made this position known to the public in his April 11 address. That Lincoln would raise the highly contentious issue of equal rights at a time when he could have basked in the glory of victory over the rebel armies was further evidence of his evolving views on the purpose and meaning of the war. -
Full List of Book Discussion Kits – September 2016
Full List of Book Discussion Kits – September 2016 1776 by David McCullough -(Large Print) Esteemed historian David McCullough details the 12 months of 1776 and shows how outnumbered and supposedly inferior men managed to fight off the world's greatest army. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler - In this timely and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund - Marie Antoinette lived a brief--but astounding--life. She rebelled against the formality and rigid protocol of the court; an outsider who became the target of a revolution that ultimately decided her fate. After This by Alice McDermott - This novel of a middle-class American family, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of their changing world. Ahab's Wife, or the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund - Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, this tale of 19th century America explores the strong-willed woman who loved Captain Ahab. Aindreas the Messenger: Louisville, Ky, 1855 by Gerald McDaniel - Aindreas is a young Irish-Catholic boy living in gaudy, grubby Louisville in 1855, a city where being Irish, Catholic, German or black usually means trouble. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. -
Killing Lincoln: the Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
Children's Book and Media Review Volume 36 Issue 4 August 2015 Article 15 2015 Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever Pat Frade Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Frade, Pat (2015) "Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever," Children's Book and Media Review: Vol. 36 : Iss. 4 , Article 15. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr/vol36/iss4/15 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Children's Book and Media Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Frade: Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Book Review Title: Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever Author: Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Reviewer: Pat Frade Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Publication Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780805093070 Number of Pages: 324 Interest Level: Young Adult Rating: Excellent Review Killing Lincoln is a non-fiction (though it reads like historical fiction) account of the end of the Civil War, the assassination of Lincoln, and the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators (time period between March 4, 1865 thru July 7, 1865). The book is divided into 4 parts: total war, the ides of death, the long good Friday, and the chase. Part 1 describes the final days of the Civil War as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant are locked in battle. -
Tombstone, Arizona Shippensburg University
Trent Otis © 2011 Applied GIS with Dr. Drzyzga Tombstone, Arizona Shippensburg University Photo © dailyventure.com. Photographer unknown. Tombstone and the Old West The People Wyatt Earp Virgil and Morgan Earp Tombstone established itself as a boomtown after The tragedy that occurred at Tombstone, Arizona involved Wyatt has been most often Virgil and Morgan Earp are the silver was discovered in a local mine in 1877. It quickly characters who were as interesting as the time period. From characterized as a strict, no nonsense brothers of Wyatt. Virgil held various became a prospering community which attracted all lawmen turned silver prospectors, dentists turned gam- person who prefered to settle disputes law enforcement positions throughout walks of life. blers, outlaws and worse, these men all had their stakes in with words rather than confrontation. his life and was appointed as a Deputy the events at Tombstone. Following are short descriptions U.S Marshal before moving to of these men. Wyatt is arguably one of the most Tombstone. Later on, he was The American Old West has captured the minds and inuential individuals in the Old West. appointed as acting marshal for the imaginations of the American people since the West He encoutered some initial hardship in town after the current marshal was became more civilized in the late 1800s to early 1900s. his life when his rst wife died. accidentally slain by one of the Earp In the early 1880s, a specic event occurred that would Eventually, his sutuation improved and antagonists. capture the essence of the old west in one story. -
Woodrow Wilson Fellows-Pulitzer Prize Winners
Woodrow Wilson Fellows—Pulitzer Prize Winners last updated January 2014 Visit http://woodrow.org/about/fellows/ to learn more about our Fellows. David W. Del Tredici Recipient of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Music In Memory of a Summer Day Distinguished Professor of Music • The City College of New York 1959 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Caroline M. Elkins Recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt) Professor of History • Harvard University 1994 Mellon Fellow Joseph J. Ellis, III Recipient of the 2001Pulitzer Prize for History Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Alfred A. Knopf) Professor Emeritus of History • Mount Holyoke College 1965 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Eric Foner Recipient of the 2011Pulitzer Prize for History The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (W.W. Norton) DeWitt Clinton Professor of History • Columbia University 1963 Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Hon.) Doris Kearns Goodwin Recipient of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Simon & Schuster) Historian 1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Stephen Greenblatt Recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W.W. Norton) Cogan University Professor of the Humanities • Harvard University 1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Hon.) Robert Hass Recipient of one of two 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins) Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics • The University of California at Berkeley 1963 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Michael Kammen (deceased) Recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for History People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (Alfred A. -
Available for a Project Like This Book, Which We Thought Would Become a National Orleans in 1813
PAGE 4 LULING NEWSBOY & SIGNAL THURSDAY, OCtoBER 8, 2020 WHAT’S NEW AT THE LIBRARY... Teachers urged Killing Crazy Horse to apply for Most of our readers are familiar with Bill O’Reilly, been answered, and we don’t expect it will be. But we the “trailblazing TV journalist” who has had great are tempted to believe that O’Reilly thought our idea TFB garden success with a series of non-fiction books, the sales of was a good one but wanted to add the Indian’s name which now number in the seventeen million copies, rather than Custer’s, so the book became Killing just in the “Killing” series. You may also have heard Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars of America. grant program him on the radio and other social media outlets. He In a word, the book will sell another million copies has had at least thirty books published, mostly non- and become a national best seller. It has wonderful Less than a month remains for teachers fiction; some are even geared for young readers. maps and numerous illustrations. interested in applying for the Texas Farm Bu- Our library has many titles by O’Reilly, some of The title is very misleading. It suggests the book reau “Learning from the Ground Up” Garden which include Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Kill- is a biography of Crazy Horse whose claim to fame Grant Program. ing Jesus, Killing Patton, Killing the SS. We have read is that he participated in the Battle of the Little Grants may be requested for up to $500 per these titles in the “Killing” series and found them Big Horn in 1876. -
Pima County Sheriff's Department
Pima County Sheriff’s Department Keeping the Peace Since 1865 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ________________________ 3 Message from the Sheriff ___________________ 4 Bureau Chiefs ____________________________ 5 Sheriffs Then and Now _____________________ 6 Badges Over the Years ____________________ 13 Pima County Patches _____________________ 16 Turner Publishing Company The 1800s ______________________________ 17 Publishers of America’s History P.O. Box 3101 Deputy Wyatt Earp _____________________ 20 Paducah, Kentucky 42002-3101 The Early 1900s _________________________ 23 Co-published by: The 1930s ______________________________ 26 Mark A. Thompson The Hanging of Eva Dugan_______________ 26 Associate Publisher The Notorious Outlaw John Dillinger _______ 28 For book publishing write to: The Robles Kidnapping__________________ 30 M.T. Publishing Company, Inc. P.O. Box 6802 The 1940s ______________________________ 33 Evansville, Indiana 47719-6802 First African American Deputy ____________ 33 Pre-Press work by: M.T. Publishing The 1950s ______________________________ 34 Company, Inc. The 1960s ______________________________ 39 Graphic Designer: Amanda J. Eads The 1970s ______________________________ 42 Copyright © 2003 The 1980s ______________________________ 47 Pima County Sheriff’s Department Special Deputy Justin Mongold ___________ 53 This book or any part thereof may not be The 1990s – Present ______________________ 54 reproduced without the written consent of the Pima County Sheriff’s Dept. and the Chief Deputy Stanley L. Cheske -
Students Entering The: 1
WEST MILFORD TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Department of History & Social Sciences 67 Highlander Drive, West Milford, NJ 07480 973-697-1701 x7056 [email protected] Dr. Gregory Matlosz District Supervisor, K-12 NJ Council for History Education, Vice President Organization of American Historians Member American Historical Association Member Gilder Lehrman Affiliated School District NJ Council for Social Studies Education Member National Council for History Education Member National History Club Chartered Member Theodore Roosevelt Association Member National Council for the Social Studies Member 2015-16 Summer Reading Assignment June 2016 Dear Parents, I am pleased to announce that the summer reading assignment will continue within the Department of History & Social Sciences, grades 7 – 12. The assignment has been restructured by our History & Social Science Planning Committee to reflect a broader range of books. These books represent the content students will focus on in the 2016-17 school year. As you already know, research has shown that the lack of reading over the summer months hinders reading growth within literacy activities. The Department focused on seeking out titles that would motivate our students to read over the summer months. We want our students to fall in love with history! Please take some time to review the appropriate grade level reading assignments. We have collaborated with the West Milford Twp. Library to secure copies of these books. You may also purchase these books through Amazon.com (where several were listed for as low as $.01 per copy) or Google Books. The Department is in possession of several copies for distribution. After reviewing the selections, some of the courses have attached assignments for students to utilize while they are reading the book. -
Post-Nuclear Monuments, Museums, and Gardens
Post~nuclear Monuments, Museums, and Gardens * MIRA ENGLER INTRODUCTION Mira Engler, Associate Professor of Lanrucape Architecture at Iowa ARKED BY THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY of atomic energy, the nuclear age, which State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, spans the twentieth century, has changed the nature of culture as well as M United States of America. l the landscape. Vast, secret landscapes play host to nuclear arms and commercial Email: [email protected] energy producers.2 Nuclear sites concern not only scientists and politicians, but also environmental designers/artists. The need to evoke a cultural discourse, protect future generations, reveal or conceal radioactive burial sites and recycle retired installations engenders our participation. How do we intersect with these hellish places? Do we have a potent role in addressing this conundrum? In what follows, I confront the consumption and design of today's most daunting places - the landscapes of nuclear material production, processing, testing and burial. The first part of this essay examines the cultural phenomenon of "danger consumption" embodied in atomic museums and landmarks across the United KEY WORDS States. The second part reviews the role of artists and designers in this paradoxical Nuclear culture undertaking, particularly designers who mark the danger sites, making them Nuclear landscape publicly safe and accessible, or who fashion 'atomic monuments'. The role of Post-nuclear monuments design and art is further examined using the submissions to the 2001 Bulletin of Atomic museums Atomic Scientists Plutonium Memorial Contest, which highlights a range of Post-nuclear gardens/wilderness design approaches to creating a memorial to the world's storage of the lasting, Nuclear waste glowing poison.