Interpreting Political Cartoons (ged.com)
Exploration of Americas, Triangle Trade, Columbian Exchange, Old World vs. New World
Spanish Colonization (khanacademy.org)
The Columbian Exchange (khanacademy.org)
Age of Exploration Economics (Craig Brown)
Migration, Immigration, emigration, and diaspora
Migration (wikipedia.com)
Immigration (wikipedia.com)
Emigration (wikipedia.com)
Diaspora (wikipedia.com)
British Diaspora: "And Don't Come Back" (the Economist)
Culture, cultural diffusion and assimilation
Culture (wikipedia.com)
Cultural Hearths and Culture Diffusion (thoughtco.com)
Modern Cultural Diffusion (weebly.com)
Cultural Assimilation (wikipedia.com)
Asian Assimilation and Ethnic Identity (asian-nation.org)
Anglo Normans (wikipedia.org)
Population trends and issues
Worldometer: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Overpopulation -- The Human Explosion Explained (kurzgesagt -- In a Nutshell)
United Nations Web: http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/population/
China’s One-Child Policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
Rural and urban settlement
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-urbanization-prospects-2014.html
NEW!!! Why cultural diversity matters | Michael Gavin | TEDxCSU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_border
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/border/?ar_a=1
Concepts of region and place
Five Themes of Geography (thoughtco.com)
World Geography: Geographic Location Tools (Paul Samson on youtube.com)
Natural/Biological Diversity (wikipedia.com)
Cultural Diversity (wikipedia.com)
Video on cultural identity: What kind of Asian are you? Ken Tanaka
Geographic Quiz Cards (quizlet.com)
Mr. Fox Latitude and Longitude (youtube)
Latitude and Longitude (youtube.com Andy Jensen)
Latitude and Longitude Worksheet (see me for key)
Latitude and Longitude game (mrnussbaum.com)
Why All World Maps Are Wrong (vox)
Direct Democracy (wikipedia.com)
Swiss Direct Democracy (swissinfo.ch)
Constitutional Principles: Representative Government (Bill of Rights Institute)
Parliamentary Democracy
An Introduction to Parliament (UK Parliament)
Parliamentary Democracy (parkerpedia.com)
Presidential Democracy:
Parliamentary vs. Presidential Democracy (AmandaFoxFlipped on youtube.com)
Parliamentary vs. Presidential (obertopia on youtube.com)
Parliamentary vs. Presidential Democracy (political animals youtube.com)
Extras:
Absoulutism (Yale Courses)
What Was Absolutism? (Paul Sargent)
Monarchy (Wikipedia)
Rome (SeattlePi)
Greece (MrDonn.org)
Civilization (MrDonn.org)
John Locke Video (NBC)
Natural Rights (infoplease.com)
Constitutionalism (plato.stanford.edu)
Song Video with History of Constitutionalism (Ignore 1st Part)
Constitutionalism on Wikipedia
Majority Rule with Minority Rights
What are contemporary issues regarding majority rule and minority rights?
FIRE Starters: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
The Rule of Law (uscourts.gov)
Constitutional Principles: The Rule of Law (Bill of Rights Institute)
The Rule of Law (LearnLiberty)
What are the Individual Rights? (Study.com)
The Bill of Rights (USHistory.org)
Women’s suffrage (Crash Course on YouTube)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists (Mineola Creative Content on YouTube)
What is Federalism? (USLawEssentials)
Federalism in the United States (Wikipedia.org)
Unit on Inferencing in Social Studies
Long, but nice, Wikipedia Version
How America Became a Super Power (Vox.com)
Quizlet Flashcards on Economic Events Shaping American Government
Structure of US Government (video)
3 Branches of Gov’t: How They Function
A Short Primer on the Structure of the U.S. Gov’t
Structure of Gov’t, also Federalism vs. Unitary, Branches
Wikipedia: Federal Gov’t of U.S. (see diagram of government, in particular)
How Is Power Divided in the United States Government -- Belinda Stutzman (TedEd)
Separation of Powers under the United States Constitution (wikipedia.org)
Shared powers Video (superheroes)
Quick View of Shared and Separate Federal, State, and Local Powers
Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances (Discovery Education)
Mayflower Compact (worldhistory.org)
Declaration of Independence (archives.gov)
Bill of Rights (brief version)
Letter from Birmingham Jail (wikipedia)
Video About Movement and Dr. King’s Letter
List of Landmark Court Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (wikipedia)
Wikipedia on Revolutionary War
History.com on Revolutionary War
Crash Course on Revolutionary War
War of 1812 (CrashCourse on YouTube)
First about.com on the U.S. Indian Policy
Wikipedia on the U.S. Indian Policy
Indian Removal Act (Hip Hughes, YouTube.com)
US History #12: Western Expansion Part 2 - Indian Wars and US Native American Policy (Library of Alexandria)
Humans and the Environment (hot mess/pbs.org)
This webpage ALSO gives an overview.
Nationhood and statehood (see week 2c)
Sustainable Development (Wikipedia)
Sustainable Development (UN.org)
10 Ways Humans Impact the Environment (InterestingEngineering.com)
environmental sociology wikipedia
Political parties
The evolution of American political parties
Interest groups (KhanAcademy.org)
New How Does Lobbying REALLY Work?(AboveTheNoise youtube)
U.S. Elections Explained: Lobbying (youtube)
Do Lobbyists Have Too Much Influence? (deutschewelle)
Political campaigns, elections and the electoral process
The Electoral College Explained (video) (NYTimes.com)
Electoral College, Explained (video) (Vox.com youtube.com)
Public Policy (KhanAcademy.org)
More (Angelo.edu)
Fiscal and monetary policy
Regulation and costs of government policies
Investment
Government and market failures
Market Failures, Taxes, and Subsidies (Crash Course)
Inflation and deflation
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Unemployment
Tariffs
Reconstruction (Mineola Creative Content)
Slavery and Suffering (Zeinab Badawi BBC)
Map of Modern Slavery (A modern perspective from Washington Post)
Free the slaves.net (Again, another modern perspective on this)
Jim Crow laws
The History of Jim Crow Laws Part 1 (youtube.com)
The History of Jim Crow Laws Part 2 (youtube.com)
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights and the 1950s (crash course on youtube.com)
Plessy vs. Ferguson (vision chasers on youtube.com)
Plessy v. Ferguson (wikipedia)
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Warren Court (youtube.com)
The Warren Court (wikipedia.com)
Tragedy of the Commons (TedEd (ed.ted.com))
Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics: What's the Difference?
Supply and Demand 1 grannies
What Is Inflation? (The School of Life)
Monopoly and competition
Perfect Competition (mjmfoodie)
Monopoly (mjmfoodie)
Perfect Competition 2 (khanacademy)
Monopolies vs. Perfect Competition (khanacademy)
Land, Labor, and Capital
Opportunity Cost (Video 2 – Khan Academy)
Comparative advantage Investopedia Video
Supply & Demand, Shortage & Surplus
World War I Video (1 hour on youtube.com)
Boundaries of WWI (khanacademy.org)
International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Six Causes of World War I (online.norwich.edu)
Imperialism as a Cause of WWI (alphahistory.com)
What Caused the Age of Imperialism (youtube.com)
WWI: The Zimmermann Telegram (bbcnews.com)
Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
The Great Depression (crash course on youtube.com)
What Was the Great Depression? (investopedia.com)
The Great Depression: Causes and Repercussions (Learn Liberty on youtube.com)
The Okies (ca.pbslearningmedia.org)
History Brief: Dust Bowl Pests (reading through history on youtube.com)
Don't Be a Sucker (how WWII started)
Allied and Axis Powers
Fascism
Nazism
Totalitarianism
Communism & Fascism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUuJG9MJRJY
FDR's Speech Declaring War on Japan (youtube.com, British Pathe, War Archives)
The Holocaust (note: some images are graphic in this film)
Japanese-American Internment During World War II (history.com)
Decolonization
GI Bill
Communism and capitalism
Communist Bloc
Division of Germany, Berlin Blockade and Airlift
NATO and the Warsaw Pact (digg.com)
U.S. maturation as an international power
What is McCarthyism (ted-ed)
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal
Collapse of U.S.S.R. and democratization of Eastern Europe
The Fall of the Soviet Union (Now This World)
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (simple history channel on youtube.com)
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (the Operations Room on youtube.com)