Interesting Extra Credit Readings
These articles are all interesting and can provide you with extra-credit. See me for more info.
Current Event Readings- Good Opportunities for Extra Credit
The Rise of Hitler-Book Review about Hitler's appeal and rise to power as no one took him seriously.
Blitzed!- How the Nazi Conquest Was Aided By Drugs
The New Yorker and Sarah Stillman- A variety of pieces by one of the best young writers of her generation. She just received the MacArthur Genius Grant.
The Controversy of the Indian Mascot
What if We Never Run Out of Oil?
Where Does Your State's Money Come From?
Extra Credit: Edward Snowden interviewed by John Oliver (some inappropriate HBO language)
The Middle East Conundrum- How to Maintain a Balance
Extra Credit Alert! Queen of Coding- Great movie about an innovative and complex woman at the dawn of the information age.
Ebola Outbreak and Future Diseases
Traveling While Black in Jim Crow America- How did Black Americans move safely in a dangerous country?
1491 What if our understanding of the Pre Columbian World is all Wrong?
Progress as an Invention- The idea of progress as a viewpoint is very new. Here is when it started.
The Reclusive Billionaires that made Trump President- Article about Robert Mercer the hedge fund investor that financed the 2016 Trump campaign.