History 101

    • Robert Johnson and the Origins of the Blues

    • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    • Battle of Hue

    • Tet Offensive

    • General Giap and Ho Chi Minh

    • Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

    • The Church Commission Findings

    • The "Vietnam Syndrome"

    • Grenada Invasion and aftermath

    • MKULTRA

    • COINTELPRO

    • Operation Paperclip

    • Operation Mockingbird

    • Whirlitzer Operation

    • “Silent Spring” and the US environmental movement

    • Video online "The (Torture) Report"

    • Watergate

    • Students for a Democratic Society

    • The Bracero Program

    • Great Depression causes and aftermath (1929)

    • The Magnon Brothers and the attempted Revolution in Mexico

    • Iran Revolution 1979

    • Ali Soufan and or Scott Anderson on CSPAN on the Middle East current crises

    • January 6th 2021 Coup attempt.

    • Any history class (after 1877) at the Gilder-Lehrman Institutes-self paced courses

    • Palmer Raids

    • Malcolm X

    • W.E.B. Dubois

    • U.S. Labor History (see me)

    • Eugene Debs

    • Lucy Parsons

    • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

    • Mother Jones

    • Rosa Parks

    • Ida B. Wells

    • Harriet Tubman

    • Industrial Workers of the World

    • Black Panther Party

    • Joe HIll

    • Paul Robeson

    • Examine the criticism of the NYTimes "1619 Project." See me on this one.

    • The Great Flint Sit Down Strike vs GM, 1937(Flims, With Babies and Banners; and BBC on the Sitdown)

    • Curt Flood or Jackie Robinson (men who changed baseball)

    • John Reed and the Revolutions in Mexico and the USSR (film: Reds)

    • The Long March in China

    • Mao Tse Tung, the Chinese Revolution or/and on Guerrilla Warfare

    • Watch the video American Factory (about an Ohio GM plant that closed and was purchased by a foreign company) and comment on how things went for the US workers, the owner, and the Asian workers.

    • Kim Philby and the Cambridge Spies

    • Key Battles of WW I or WWII (or any single one)

    • Industrial Workers of the World in San Diego

    • 1968

    • Zoot Suit Riots

    • Watch "The Report" on line--it is the US Senate Torture Report

    • C. Wright Mills on the nature of union leadership in "The New Men of Power."

    • Compare the changing nature of women's wages to mens over the last, say, fifty years.

    • What caused the massive entrance of women into the world of work? What changed when they arrived? When?

    • Chalmers Johnson's "Nemesis " trilogy (much of Johnson is on youtube)

    • William Appleman Williams' "Empire as a Way of Life"

    • 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago

    • Ho Chi Minh and General Giap of Vietnam

    • “The Spitting Image” (false accusation of mistreatment of Vietnam Vets)

    • The veterans Bonus March After WWI

    • The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Projects Administration which put people to work during the Great Depression

    • Gulf War One

    • Gulf War Two (in each case, please examine the reasons for invasion)

    • Presidential Doctrines from Monroe Forward

    • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    • Watch "The Big Short" and or "Too Big To Fail" and explain the 2008 US financial crisis

    • The American Federation of Laborand or CIO

    • The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its relation to the Communist Party USA.

    • Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) strike and President Reagan.

    • The Huks of the Philippines.

    • How the US got Guantanamo in Cuba and what/why it is used for now

    • 1968 Olympics in Mexico

    • Quanah Parker

    • Cynthia Parker

    • Novels: The Iron Heel, The Heart of Darkness, The Jungle, Fast Food Nation, In Cold Blood, Waiting for Lefty, The Company and the Union (UAW non fiction), Anything by James Baldwin, Farenheit 451, 1984, and more if you ask.

    • Railroad Strike of 1877

    • 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention

    • 2008/09 Financial Collapse

    • Enron collapse

    • Climate Crises

    • What is the "Rule of Law?"

    • The Old and New Jim Crow, (or one of them)

    • Lawrence Mass. "Bread and Roses" Strike

    • The draft during the Vietnam War

    • The Great Migration

    • Murder of Emmitt Till and the Aftermath

    • History of the Birth Control Pill

    • March on the Pentagon 1967

    • Children's March Birmingham Ala 1963

    • Afghan invasion and aftermath

    • Taliban, ISIS, and or Al Quada

    • Alcratraz Occupied

    • Wounded Knee Massacre (and later events if you choose)

    • California Prop 13

    • Embassy Seizure in Iran (1979)

    • Americans With Disabilities Act

    • Railroad Strike 1886

    • KKK

    • Coal Strike 1902

    • Steel Strike 1919

    • Textile Workers Strike 1934

    • 1970 Postal Strike

    • 1892 Homestead Strike

    • Ludlow Massacre

    • Minnesota Teamsters Strike

    • The Redstockings Collective (Feminist Movement)

    • Work in the Central and, or, Imperial Valley in Ca. (see "Factories in the Fields," or "Trampling Out the Vintage" on Chavez)

    • The impact of a Consumerist Economy (and/or de-industrialization)

    • Film: "Spotlight" and the Boston Globe's work on priest abuse

    • Compare and contrast wage slavery and slavery

    • Racism and Segregation since the Supreme Court "Brown vs Board of Education of 1954"

    • Women's Suffrage Movement

    • Korean War

    • House Un-American Activities Committee

    • Outline varieties of socialism and distinguish from communism (see me on this one)

    • Patriot Act

    • Edward Snowden and or Bradley Manning

    • FISA courts

    • The Reagan "revolution"

    • Examine the Presidency of Anyone Since 1877

    • Republicans become party of the South

    • Newt Gingrich

    • William Buckley

    • NATO

    • Joe McCarthy

    • The career of Sy Hersh

    • "Middletown" by the Lynds (the impact of industrialization on a small town)

    • Any other work or film by Howard Zinn

    • Any other work or film by Eric Foner

    • Philliip Foner (Eric's uncle) on US Labor

    • Too Big to Fail (financial crisis of 2008 film and book)

    • Examine the role of race in Gone With the Wind and or Birth of a Nation

    • Guantanamo--past and present

    • CIA renditions and torture in the film "The Report"

    • Stonewall Rebellion

    • Rodney King Rebellion

    • Detroit Rebellion 1967

    • Review the History of any major union in the USA (see me for help)

    • Drone Warfare

    • National Defense Authorization Act

    • Current uses of the Espionage Act

    • Famous Whistleblowers

    • Apply the advice of Sun Tzu to today's Counterinsurgency Warfare