DBQ on Cult of Domesticity Theme
Month: September 2007
Age of Reform Lecture Notes
Revolution During WWI
WWI, Revolution & Dissent (Six Parts)
WWI External Links of Interest
PBS accompanying site for the “Great War” video series
BBC on the 80th Anniversary of WWI
Mt. Holyoke’s extensive collection of primary sources
Georgetown University’s collection of US Propaganda Posters
firstworldwar.com (note: the author of this site, Micheal Duffy, full concedes that his is an amateur site– but is it a fine one)
Songs of WWI (almost all songs from the US)
Versailles Simulation
Poetry of WWI
In case you are moved by these poems, here are some links to extensive collections of WWI poetry:
from worldwarone.com
from Fordham
from the BBC
WWI Secondary Sources
WWI Primary Sources
Socratic Dialogue Questions
Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook on Imperialism
British India Soures
Imperialism Document Based Questions
Secondary Source Documents
Imperialism Primer
Supreme Court Justice Breyer on 'Active Liberty'
In a new book Justice Stephen Breyer, often at odds with Scalia and Thomas, outlines his judicial philosophy, and makes the argument that his is in fact a more democratic philosophy. The book is called Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution.
“I say ‘active liberty’ because I want to stress that democracy works if — and only if — the average citizen participates,” Breyer tells Nina Totenberg in an exclusive interview.
After 11 years on the Supreme Court, Breyer says he is comfortable in describing how he goes about interpreting the Constitution, the statutes and the regulations that come before the court. And without saying so, his book is something of a rejoinder to justice Scalia’s 1997 manifesto entitled: A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law.
Scalia’s view, called originalism, instructs judges to look to the words of the Constitution and what they meant at the time the document was written. He is critical of those like Breyer, who argue for a more flexible and adaptive interpretation of the Constitution’s words.
Breyer applies his theory of Constitutional interpretation to some of the most divisive legal questions tackled by the high court in recent years — affirmative action, privacy, separation of church and state and campaign finance.
(9 minutes)
On TJ…
The first selection, published in the 4th of July 2004 edition of Time Magazine, is by novelist and essayist, Walter Kirn. The second selection, published in the same edition of Time, is by the Pulitzer Prize winning Brown university history professor Gordon Wood.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of TJ
Where are the Jeffersons of Today
After you’ve read the selections, please respond to these questions:
If you, share my fascination with TJ, here are other contributions to that same July 2004 issue of Time…
Order v. Liberty: Reading and My Lecture
“You may think that the Constitution is your security it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security but they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security but it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery.”
-Charles Evan Hughes, Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-1941
Contemporary Connection…
My Lecture: Order v Liberty – An Enduring Theme in U.S. History
Time Magazine calls Alien & Sedition Acts the Patriot Act of the 18th Century
Identification List
Here is the term list for the “Introduction to Comparative Politics” unit (9 pages)
Italian Unification
Contemporary Connections
What is the state of nationalism in modern Germany? Here are four perspectives:
From an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune
Glad To Be German, More or Less
From a Professor of Sociology at Brown University who was in Germany for the World Cup
Response Sheet to Above Documents on Contemporary Nationalism in Germany