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Japanese Internment Inquiry - 0 views

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    Mankato West US history teacher's lesson. Primary source inquiry.
Eric Beckman

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    Chicago Racial Demographics changing over time.  This animated .gif shows the growth and expansion of Chicago's segregated black ghettoes on the south and west sides.  Very dramatic. Uses census data, 1910-200
Eric Beckman

HUMANITIES Magazine: The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy - 1 views

  • In the year 900, by far the most robust and impressive philosophical tradition was found not in Europe, but in the Middle East. Islamic scholars there had embarked on a wholesale program to recover the traditions of Greek philosophy (particularly the works of Aristotle), translate them into Arabic, and rethink their message in light of the newly revealed teachings of the Qur’an.
  • Eventually, however, the center shifted—first to the western part of the Islamic world in northern Africa and southern Spain, and then north to Christian Europe. What we call the Middle Ages was, in Islam, the great classical era of philosophy and science. After several centuries of flourishing, however, the study of philosophy and science faded in Muslim countries, even while it was being pursued with increasing vigor in the Latin West.
  • Averroës devoted much of his scholarly efforts to a series of commentaries on Aristotle, producing both brief epitomes and exhaustive, line-by-line studies.
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  • Many of his works no longer survive in Arabic at all, but only in Latin or Hebrew
  • like all the great philosophers, Averroës arrived at his share of heterodox views.
  • despite the brilliant development of philosophical thought in the early days of the Islamic caliphate, by the later Middle Ages it and other fields of secular learning were regarded with deep suspicion and given almost no institutional support.
  • By the middle of the thirteenth century, that philosophical curriculum had become thoroughly Aristotelian, and the great guide to Aristotle was none other than Averroës, who became known in the Latin West as simply “the Commentator.”
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    Article by a philosophy professor on the Islamic medieval scholar Averroes. Studied by Thomas Aquinas and others.
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    Amazing how history has been rewritten, in the past and present, and then when old truths are unearthed, people are so reluctant to believe them. The power of the written word!
Eric Beckman

North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers - 0 views

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    Profiles on 13 Black Minnesotas. #4 Fearless from the West, on Lena Smith, MN's first African American woman lawyer, includes discussion of mob violence directed at the African American Lee family. The Lee Family integrated a previously all-white South Minneapolis neighborhood.
Eric Beckman

Flyers distributed by Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte Miners' Union in s... - 0 views

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    Primary source from the National Archives
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