The History of Domestic Violence
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Black Power and Its Critics
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Professor Diana Schaub compares and contrasts the writings and views of a number of civil rights and race relations writers and activists, including Stokely Carmichael (19411998), Charles V. Hamilton, Bell Hooks (1952), Shelby Steele (1946), and Ralph Ellison (19131994).
The Founders on Freedom and Slavery
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Professors Lucas E. Morel and Diana Schaub discuss the Founding Fathers' intentions in drafting the founding documents of the United States and the views of slavery, freedom, and equality that may be taken from these documents.
Mark Twain and the American Character, Part Two
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Professor David Foster analyzes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, looking at what the novel, its characters, and the life of its author reveal about the "American character" and views of American ideals and life at the time of its writing. This lecture continues from the lecture "Mark Twain and the American Character, Part One."
Mark Twain and the American Character, Part One
Description
Professor David Foster analyzes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, looking at what the novel, its characters, and the life of its author reveal about the "American character" and views of American ideals and life at the time of its writing.
Moving America Left and Right: 1945-1990
Description
From the National Humanities Center website:
"This seminar will approach American history after World War II as a history of social movements. The first session will explore the black freedom movement with an eye to new scholarly interpretations of a 'long civil rights movement' reaching back to the New Deal and beyond the 1970s and including the North and West as well as the South. The second session will examine the women's movement and the conservative movement for insight into the relationships among various movements. It will conclude with a discussion of how viewing the era from 1945 to 1990 as an era of social movements can bring new coherence to the recent past."
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
North Carolina high school U.S. history and American literature educators
Start Date
Cost
Free; $100 stipend
Course Credit
"Each seminar may yield one CEU credit. Because the seminars are conducted online, they may qualify for technology credit in districts that award it. The Center will supply documentation of participation."
Duration
Six hours
AIDS: 25 Years Later
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Thu, 10/23/2008 - 16:19
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NBC's Robert Bazells reports on AIDS, 25 years after the Centers for Disease Control first issued a report on what was then a new mystery illness. Since that day, the virus has infected 65 million people, and killed 25 million.
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Women in the Civil War
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Professor Esther Katz of New York University talks about the role of women during the Civil War.
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Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Crisis
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This iCue Mini Documentary introduces Anne Hutchinson, an extreme Separatist who threatened to split the Puritan community in Massachusetts by preaching that some people are preordained. She was eventually driven out of Massachusetts to Rhode Island.
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The Impulse for Reform
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the wave of reform movements in U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s. Some campaigned for better conditions in prisons and asylums, while others formed utopian communities or discovered fad diets.