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Eric Beckman

Liu Xiaobo - Statement: I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement - 0 views

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    Nobel Lecture in absentia
Eric Beckman

Unforgotten War - 0 views

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    World War II in memory in Japan and China. 10 minutes
Eric Beckman

Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States
    • Mary JO Merrick-Lockett
       
      Very cool. Now will I be able to find it next fall. I know.... it is all safe on diggo! MJ
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    Pop up menu lets viewer see changes across time and between country of origin.  Lots of fun.  Check out Norway to watch Minnesota bloom.
Eric Beckman

Teaching American History Grant Modules - 1 views

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    Inquiry and Primary source based lessons for US History.
Eric Beckman

Unpredictable Uprisings - Slide Show - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    12 Slide show tracing mass revolution from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring. Asks the question: what next after successful revolution?
Eric Beckman

Syria Undercover | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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    Nov., 2011 coverage of crisis in Syria. 20 minute video
Eric Beckman

BBC - History - WW2 Movies: The Bombers and the Bombed - 0 views

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    Short video on the destruction by bombing of Lubeck, German and Coventry, England. Primary source words and images.
Eric Beckman

Electoral Maps - 0 views

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    Maps for all presidential elections
Eric Beckman

HHH 1948 Convention Speech - 0 views

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    Full text and link to audio
Eric Beckman

American Experience . Zoot Suit Riots | PBS - 0 views

    • Eric Beckman
       
      Primary sources linked under the "The Film and More"
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    Website that goes with the PBS documentary. Contains links to primary sources
Eric Beckman

African American Migration Experience - 1 views

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    Maps, and more, African American migrations from the Middle Passage to immigration from Africa since 1970.
Eric Beckman

FDR Third Inaugural Jan 20 1941 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Around the 2:50 mark in this home movie clip, FDR, in top hat, begins walking, with difficult to perceive assistance, toward the podium to take the oath of office. Just a minute or so of footage shows how FDR overcome his disability in part.
Eric Beckman

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Second Fireside Chat. - 0 views

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    Text of the fireside chat where FDR announced New Deal legislation and leaving the Gold Standard 
Eric Beckman

Audio: Fireside Chats with Franklin D. Roosevelt - Economy Watch: Special Coverage of t... - 1 views

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    Audio files include excerpts from fireside chats and other economic speeches. Most are three or four minutes, and a few are shorter.  2nd fireside chat announces the New Deal.
Eric Beckman

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Talent)... - 0 views

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    Recent performance on Ukrainian television demonstrates the continuing resonance of WWII there. Powerful, and only eight minutes.
Eric Beckman

The Great Depression - 0 views

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    The curriculum begins with a message from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and an introductory essay, "The Great Depression: An Overview," written by David C. Wheelock, a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and an expert on the Great Depression.
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    Some great lessons. I personally will be using some form of Lesson 2 - What Do People Say? (work with 6 letters written from various people in the 20s of the causes of the G.D.) and Lesson 3.What Really Caused the Great Depression? (create a budget sheet before and after the G.D. and identify tradeoffs made. They have pdf.s available as well as smartboard material.
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    Economics focused lessons on the Great Depression. Some use primary source data. Some sources are fictionalized letters.
Eric Beckman

Al Jolson - Brother can you spare a Dime - YouTube - 1 views

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    Jolson's version of the classic song with primary source images illustrating the words. Jolson's rendition has a little more bite, a little less pathos than Bing Crosby's
Eric Beckman

New Show Celebrates Opening of A.P. Pyongyang News Bureau - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    20 photographs from a show of photos of North Korea.
Eric Beckman

Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage - 0 views

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    Parody of the Lady Gaga song paying homage to Alice Paul and the success of the suffrage movement
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