Posts Tagged as ‘motion pictures’

March 9, 2010

This Day in History 3/9: The Supreme Court frees the Amistad Africans

I’m preparing a response to a statement by Sean Penn in yesterday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, in which he stated that certain reported should be jailed for criticizing Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
In the meantime, today we celebrate a moment in American history where people [...]

March 1, 2010

100 Years of Georgetown Basketball

100 Years of Georgetown Basketball
Even though the team took a drubbing this weekend against Notre Dame, and what looks like another tonight against West Virginia, I’m still proud of being a Georgetown Hoya.
I’m working on some curricular stuff this week, so I may be a little more sporadic than usual.  Today is a new video on [...]

February 23, 2010

The National Head Count: The Weird History of the US Census

Most moments in our life involve some sort of head count.
On a field trip, a teacher routinely counts heads multiple times, in fear that little Juan stuck his hand in the Ming vase.  Schoolchildren need to divvy up teams, insofar as to distribute the fat, slow kids evenly and without favoritism.  During tax time, the [...]