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