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JOIN, OR DIE: Political and Religious Controversy Over Franklin's Snake Cartoon - Journ... - 0 views

  • May 9, 1754, Franklin published a political cartoon depicting a rattlesnake with the admonishing title, “JOIN, or DIE.”
  • To Loyalists, the serpent represented Satan, deception, and the spiritual fall of man, proving the treachery of revolutionary thought. To Patriots however, the snake depicted wisdom, vigor, and cohesiveness, especially when the colonies united for a common purpose
  • . Franklin’s cartoon was resurrected as a potent call for colonial unity against Great Britain, ultimately giving momentum to the religious controversy that would soon follow when Loyalists and Patriots began writing their opinions on what the snake symbolized.
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    An article for history nerds and interested teachers who want to dig deeper into the materials they use in class. Many, many teachers use this cartoon as the basis for a full lesson or include it in the presentation of content. Teachers should read or even just skim through this article to recognize the vast depth of historical inquiry that lies beneath even the most commonplace elements of their instruction.
caseymoriart

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series - 2 views

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    This source has a ton of resources, primary resources and secondary resources on the Great Migration. I want to have this on hand for when I need to teach this someday.
Mr Maher

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Google Books - 1 views

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    Almost every US History teacher tells students about Manifest Destiny, boiling down an explanation of the term to about eight words in a bullet point of a 18 slides presentation that students dutifully copy and recognize out of four other distractors in a multiple choice question. This is the article the phrase comes from - teachers should be forced to read it and explain why they think their teaching of the phrase does any justice to history at all
Javier E

Blame game erupts over Trump's decline in youth vote - POLITICO - 1 views

  • For instance, a post-election study by the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University showed that 60 percent of Trump voters between the ages of 18 and 29 believe racism is a “somewhat or very serious issue,” compared to 52 percent of Trump voters above 45 years old. Similar gaps emerged when young Trump voters were asked about the importance of climate change (52 percent said they were “concerned” versus 40 percent of older Trump voters) and their self-proclaimed identity (61 percent identify as conservative versus 74 percent of older Trump voters).
David Korfhage

The American Yawp - 2 views

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    A good collection of primary sources in US history
Javier E

China Razed Thousands of Xinjiang Mosques in Assimilation Push, Report Says - WSJ - 0 views

  • New research shows Chinese authorities have razed or damaged two-thirds of the mosques in China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang, further illuminating the scope of a forced cultural-assimilation campaign targeting millions of Uighur Muslims.
  • the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said satellite imagery showed that roughly 8,500 mosques, close to a third of the region’s total, have been demolished since 2017. Another 7,500 have sustained damage
  • Important Islamic sacred sites, including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes, were also demolished, damaged or altered, the study found.
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  • “The Chinese government’s destruction of cultural heritage aims to erase, replace and rewrite what it means to be Uyghur,”
  • China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday repeated its claims that Xinjiang has around 24,000 mosques and that the number of them per capita among Muslims in Xinjiang is higher than in many Muslim countries. It said that China fully protects the human and religious rights of all ethnic minorities and described the ASPI report as “smear and rumor.” It denied the existence of detention camps in Xinjiang.
  • ASPI estimated that around half of important Islamic sacred sites—many of which are supposed to be protected under Chinese law—have been damaged or altered since 2017.
  • The report estimated there are fewer than 15,500 mosques left intact in Xinjiang, the lowest number since the 1980s, when Uighurs had just begun rebuilding mosques destroyed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Most of the land where mosques were razed remained vacant, it said.
  • The campaign is part of a longer-term trend to transform communities in the name of public safety. The strategy has gained pace under President Xi Jinping who has called for the “Sinicization” of religion
  • During a visit the following month, the Journal found that some facilities had indeed been closed, with former detainees sometimes sent away to work in factories. One facility had been converted into a prison after being previously described as a school.
  • Of the dozens of facilities ASPI identified as recently under construction, roughly half were higher-security facilities. The most-secure facilities had high walls, multiple layers of perimeter barriers, watchtowers and dozens of cell blocks with no apparent outside exercise yard for detainees
  • Authorities are likely singling out people who they have lost hope of re-educating and putting them into long periods of incarceration, said Mr. Leibold. It is “the only way to really explain their pretty remarkable expansion,”
  • One challenge in pressuring China’s government over its Xinjiang policies is the relative silence of Muslim-majority countries. ASPI made its work available in 10 different languages to try to raise awareness beyond the English-speaking world
Eric Beckman

Globalization really started 1,000 years ago - 3 views

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    Valerie Hansen article on global connections in the Middle Ages
David Korfhage

The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire - 2 views

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    An online exhibition from the Museum of the American Indian about the Great Inka Road, using it to examine the history of the Inka empire
Javier E

Crash Course Notes - 6 views

Thank you very much! A very useful tool to complement another very useful tool! However, when I tried to open the WH II file I received the error message that I did not have viewing access.

caseymoriart

European History Crash Course Notes - 3 views

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1taps7Fy94O-6dQC4gLMdunddxsyTHxlI2bqo3tBXe-4/edit?usp=sharing

started by caseymoriart on 14 Apr 20 no follow-up yet
David Korfhage

The Conquest of Mexico | AHA - 4 views

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    A collection of sources for students to answer the question, "Why were the Spaniards able to conquer the Mexica?"
David Korfhage

Muslim Heritage - - 0 views

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    Website on medieval Muslim intellectual history
Bob Maloy

Susan B. Anthony's 200th Birthday - 0 views

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    Susan B. Anthony's 200th Birthday! #GoogleDoodle
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    Susan B. Anthony's 200th Birthday! #GoogleDoodle
Bob Maloy

5 ways women influenced politics before they got to vote | National Museum of American ... - 2 views

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    Women did the following: 1) persuade male voters; 2) crusades against social evils; 3) compelling narratives; 4) political organizing; and 5) transforming everyday objects in political vehicles
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    Women did the following: 1) persuade male voters; 2) crusades against social evils; 3) compelling narratives; 4) political organizing; and 5) transforming everyday objects in political vehicles
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