American Dream

Artifacts for Twenties Unit

St. Louis Blues

Melancholy Dame

Midnight Frolic

The Dearborn Independent - do research ... start with Wikipedia esp. citations and external links at bottom of page ... think JSTOR, ProQuest, and Gale "In Context" Database ... all of which are available through NAHS Library Website

Music Hath Harm

Howard Zinn - Delarations of Independence

As you read assigned chapters for this book, please stop and look up words you do not know. Write down the definitions in your notes.

Also, below you will find key idea words that you have to be on the lookout for...find out what they mean and what they mean to Zinn.

Ch. 1 - collectivization, laissez-faire, subsidize, pluralist, ideology, orthodox, dissident (different from dissidence on the same page), acquiescent, perpetuate, objectivity, the establishment, skepticism

Ch. 4 - tenements, fascism, communism, capitalism, socialism, anarchism, bias, neutral, means & ends, fact-value problem, egalitarian, distortion, objectivity, subjectivity, orthodox/unorthodox, deception, deemphasis, heroes, progress, trivia, conservative bias to history, present interest, presentism.

The Great Gatsby

3. "Fresh Air" interview with Maureen Corrigan on Gatsby (audio only)

4. Link to Cornell Univ site on Gatsby (link is broken)

5. Univ. of South Carolina F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection

6. Link to article on Gatsby book cover art (was in U. of South Carolina website ... thanks M.G. for finding it again!!

Eugenics

1. American Experience "The Eugenics Crusade" (1 hr 53 min) As of 9/15/19 it is on Amazon Prime Video, too

2. 1934 film, Tomorrow's Children (52 min) - about forced sterilization

Black Poets of 1920's / Harlem Renaissance

1. poet Tim Seibles discusses Countee Cullen and reads Cullen's poetry at Library of Congress event (2014)

Blues

1. companion website for Scorsese's Feel Like Going Home

1930's The Plow that Broke the Plains:

Misc

1. Vsauce video on nostalgia15 minutes

2. Hidden Brain Podcast

3. sample readers theater

Bambara - The Lesson

1) Code Switch radio commentary on voice ... 5 minutes

2)

Interesting videos on wealth and mobility

1. Wealth Inequality in America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

2. Are the poor getting poorer? (income mobility) Steve Horwitz (St. Lawrence Univ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDhcqua3_W8&list=TLUrTuY0qtp4euMrbscEgGjxrCVDeKEp6L

3. Income mobility - interview with Brad Schiller (U. of Nevada - Reno)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkyy3TzET8

4. Income mobility (Brookings researcher Scott Winship.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1EGOnbaTUs

5. Income mobility (Sean Mulholland Stonehill College)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbueX92CKPk

6. Obama's speech on income inequality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXFBW4ObxWE

7. People Like Us (on class in America, not Kelly Clarkson)

a. the documentary (in several parts) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE277906A65CFBA1F

b. follow up "Tammy's story" a decade later:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqs4_Zs2GvI&safe=active

8. NY Times Feature on Class in America

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/index.html

9. Slate.com article on research about the attitudes of the wealthy

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/social_darwinism_and_class_essentialism_the_rich_think_they_are_superior.html

10. NPR piece on wages at fast food restaurant (listen and read)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/04/368442087/a-burger-joint-pays-15-an-hour-and-yes-its-making-money?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202605

11. Link to TED Talk Show on "success"

Miscellaneous

1. Montgomery Ward Catalog - 1875

2. The Century video (45 min) "Shell Shock" on WWI