Monthly Archives: January 2010
Videos for the Classroom: Lynchings of Italians in the 19th-20th Centuries
This clip is extremely disturbing to watch, so please use caution in your classrooms. To buttress my argument from last week, i.e. images of Italians, I’m enclosing a clip from a documentary about the Italian-American experience. This segment deals mostly … Continue reading
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This Day in History 1/8: The Battle of New Orleans
The minute you saw the title, you must be thinking, “Oh God, not that fucking song.” Yes, in fact. Three versions of that fucking song, to be exact. Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, the final … Continue reading
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The Battle for the Textbook: Texas rewrites its social studies
I get a lot of use from my textbook. Whenever my LCD projector’s a bit too low, two or three Grade 4 texts oughta do the trick. That is the extent to which I use these relics. The Information Age … Continue reading →
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