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Greetings, this website is intended as a valuable resource for my students. You can find most class materials under each classes tab as well as supplemental material. Below you will find various links to videos or readings that I have collected to give you perspective and guidance as lifelong learners. These resources are to be considered general guidance and completely voluntary for anyone to partake in as they wish. Each of my courses also has a specific reading list that is suggested reading for students taking those courses. I have hard copies of many of these titles in my classroom library, that I will gladly lend you, if any of you are old fashioned and prefer the real thing in your hands as you read.
Recommended Reading
Great Documentaries
Why We Fight
Freakonomics
Food Inc.
Living on a Dollar
Most Likely to Succeed
A Place at the Table
He Named Me Malala
Restrepo
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Kornegal
FRANKLIN'S THIRTEEN VIRTUES
Benjamin Franklin espoused these thirteen virtues, and made a weekly planner to keep track of how well he did each day of living a virtuous life. Franklin believed that everyone could practice each and every virtue every day. Try keeping a weekly planner and check off that you have practiced each virtue as you go about your daily activities.
Temperance. Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation.
Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or your self. Avoiding trifling conversation
Order. Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.
Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or your self. Waste nothing.
Industry. Lose no time. Be always employ’d in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.
Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly. Speak accordingly.
Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Moderation. Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring; never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
THEMES OF HISTORY
Tipping Points
Morality and Justification
Nationalism and Sectionalism
American Exceptionalism
Conflict and Compromise
Technology and Progress
Incentives and Determent
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