Host Harry Kreisler is joined by activist and strategic analyst Daniel Ellsberg, …
Host Harry Kreisler is joined by activist and strategic analyst Daniel Ellsberg, a key figure in the public protest to halt the Vietnam War. His leaking of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times set in motion a series of events, including illegal actions by then-President Richard Nixon that led the president to resign his office rather than be impeached. (58 min)
Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes journalist Max Boot for a discussion of …
Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes journalist Max Boot for a discussion of U.S. foreign policy in light of American history, the events of 9/11, and the impact of neo-conservative thinking. They are joined by Professor Thomas Barnes of the Boalt School of Law.
UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler in conversation with Norman Podhoretz, whose 35 years …
UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler in conversation with Norman Podhoretz, whose 35 years as an author, literary critic and editor of Commentary magazine has had a profound influence on the ideas that have shaped public debate in the United States. (53 min)
Historian and author Walter Russell Mead, in a conversation with UC Berkeley's …
Historian and author Walter Russell Mead, in a conversation with UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler explores the ideas that have shaped and defined U.S. foreign policy throughout American history. (57 min)
International Relations specialist Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development …
International Relations specialist Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, analyzes U.S. national interest in the Middle East and talks about his new book, The Stakes, America and the Middle East. (58 min)
On this edition of Conversations with History, host Harry Kreisler welcomes Shibley …
On this edition of Conversations with History, host Harry Kreisler welcomes Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for peace and Development at the University of Maryland, for an intriguing dialogue on the search for peace in the Middle East. (59 min)
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Peter Dale Scott for a discussion …
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Peter Dale Scott for a discussion of secrecy and its consequences in the making of U.S. foreign policy. Their discussion focuses on CIA interventions, the rise of Al Qaeda, the role of U.S. government in supporting Islamic jihadists to counter Soviet power during the Cold War, and the response of the Bush administration to the 911 attack. (59 minutes)
A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 …
A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election, ascribing his loss of the state of New York to his cousin Cassius M. Clay's campaign tour on his behalf. Oddly, though given prominence in the title, Cassius M. Clay does not appear in the picture itself. As Clay and his running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen--each having raccoon bodies--cross a bridge, it collapses in pieces, spilling Clay and his entourage of raccoons and starving dogs into the river. Clay grasps Frelinghuysen's tail and says, "Hold on Vice Frelinghuysen I have not only lost my election, I fear my principles are leaking out and will be exposed to the gaze of the Common people." From his open abdomen fall pistols, playing cards, and dice, evidence of his penchant for dueling and gambling. Freylinghusen responds: "Oh! Great Henry this is the effect of keeping bad Company. I think YOU are about the right material for a Vice President. I advise you to study Divinity it is your only hope left." (Frelinghuysen was a prominent churchman.) Assorted exclamations come from the hapless animals, one of whom cries, "help me Casius or I sink." On the section of the bridge at right several roosters holding brooms (symbolizing reform) jeer at the two candidates, the largest one saying, "Humbug has had its days." Below the roosters, in the distance, a crowd dances around a flagpole with a banner inscribed "Oregon" and "Texas." Further on, a fortress with a flag "Our Thunder" fires one of its guns. Standing on the left side of the bridge are two Pennsylvanians. One says, "Did you hear the news from New York-York York all honest & true" and the other, "Oh! give us Polk & Dallas how happy we will be . . . ." In the water below, a boat marked "Make way for Gov. Shunk" rows by with three men aboard. One man in the boat, possibly newly elected Democratic governor of Pennsylvania Francis R. Shunk, observes of Clay, "that large Coon has very black Legs I reckon." "Blackleg" was common slang for scoundrel. |Entered . . . 1845 by Wm. Dohnert . . . E. District of Penn.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 85.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1845-1.
Masako Suzuki helps a customer with thread at the counter in cooperative …
Masako Suzuki helps a customer with thread at the counter in cooperative store. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-40. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Poster showing several dishes made with corn, including yeast bread, corn-meal fish …
Poster showing several dishes made with corn, including yeast bread, corn-meal fish balls, and homemade hulled corn or lye hominy; text lists numerous corn dishes, and offers free recipes on request. Text continues: Corn meal - Hominy grits - Samp. The nation's most abundant cereal[...]Eat some corn to-day[...]for breakfast, luncheon, dinner[...]Try a wheatless meal to-morrow. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. No. c8-3810.
Poster showing a woman serving muffins, pancakes, and grits, with cannisters on …
Poster showing a woman serving muffins, pancakes, and grits, with cannisters on the table labeled corn meal, grits, and hominy. United States Food Administration.
Corporal Jimmie Shohara, bust portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' …
Corporal Jimmie Shohara, bust portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on negative sleeve. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Corporal Jimmie Shohara, bust portrait, facing front. His two ribbons are for …
Corporal Jimmie Shohara, bust portrait, facing front. His two ribbons are for good behavior pre-Pearl Harbor and Rifle and Pistol Citations. He visited his parents who were confined at Manzanar (but who were American citizens by birth). Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Subject information taken from negative sleeve. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-49-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Service ribbons and qualification badge above pocket of military uniform worn by …
Service ribbons and qualification badge above pocket of military uniform worn by Corporal Jimmie Shohara. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-35. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Corporal Jimmy Shohara, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in uniform. Title transcribed from …
Corporal Jimmy Shohara, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in uniform. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-34. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
"Salt River," the fictitious river of political doom, is charted here as …
"Salt River," the fictitious river of political doom, is charted here as a meandering stream of Democratic misfortunes. The chart was purportedly "prepared by Father Ritchie," i.e., Democratic editor and Polk administration spokesman Thomas Ritchie. Swipes are taken at the Tariff of 1846, Polk's Vice President George M. Dallas, Martin Van Buren, and 1848 Democratic presidential nominee Lewis Cass. The river winds upward from the Ohio River (Ohio was a Democratic stronghold in 1848) to the Lake of Oblivion with an island on which sits the "Mansion of Despair." The "Fast Sailing Steamer Free Trade," captained by Lewis Cass and piloted by Ritchie, sets out on the "Slough of Despond" below (one of the landmarks in John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress&1). The ship approaches a fork, from which the "Old Fox Branch" on the right leads to "Cabbage Point" and the home of Martin Van Buren. Van Buren can be seen sitting in a rowboat on the river complaining, "Hard work this all; your fault 'John,' with your D--d Free Trade." His son John, a Free Soil party leader and campaigner, encouraged Van Buren's bid for the party's presidential nomination in 1848. On the left Salt River continues past the "Sub Treasury Bluffs," "Noise and Confusion Shoals," "Two Face Points," and "Irish Relief Shoal" (a reference to Democratic support for anti-British insurgents in Ireland), to another fork, "Prince John's Creek." Here John Van Buren walks along the shore and calls, "Good bye Dad! We could not Gull the People." The main branch of the river continues to "Pillow's Cemetery" (named after Gen. Gideon Pillow, conspirator against popular Mexican War commander Winfield Scott and a friend of James K. Polk), "One Seal Island" (?), "Casting Vote Point," and "St Anna Pass." The last is named after Mexican president and commander Santa Anna, whom the Polk administration returned from exile only to see him lead the war against the Americans. On Lake Oblivion is a small ferry boat heads toward the shore at upper right where it will connect with a train named "Tariff [of 18]42," bound for Washington. On the left is a funerary monument "In Memory of Dallas," a memorial to Vice President and former Pennsylvania senator George M. Dallas. Many of Dallas's fellow Pennsylvanians viewed him as a traitor to the state's interests in his support of the Tariff of 1846, which supplanted the popular 1842 tariff.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 97.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1848-26.
In 1792, recent college graduate Eli Whitney moved to Georgia to work …
In 1792, recent college graduate Eli Whitney moved to Georgia to work as a tutor on a plantation. There, Whitney learned that southern planters were eager to make cotton a profitable crop. Once cotton was picked from the field, seeds had to be removed from the cotton fiber by hand before cotton could be sold. This process was labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it limited the amount of cotton that planters, relying on the work of enslaved people, could produce.
It is widely accepted within the study of history that cotton played …
It is widely accepted within the study of history that cotton played a crucial role in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This lesson allows students to understand the specific causes and consequences of the dramatic increase of cotton production in southern states and its influence on the emergence of the nation’s first major manufacturing industry—textile production. Students will read both primary and secondary sources detailing the growth of both northern industrialization and southern cotton expansion. Additionally, students will develop data literacy skills using FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data) and other statistical information to analyze the development of the two regions further. Finally, students complete the lesson by responding to an AP U.S. history exam short-answer, three-part question.
This inquiry leads students through the causes and influences on the Civil …
This inquiry leads students through the causes and influences on the Civil War, compelling them to determine if the Civil War could have been avoided. By using primary sources including political cartoons, speeches, legislation, and the Constitution, students are given the opportunity to travel through time and change history.Resource created by Audrey Freeman, Cedar County Catholic Schools, as part of the Nebraska ESUCC Social Studies Special Projects 2022 - Inquiry Design Model (IDM).
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