The mutability of the laws of the States is found to be a serious evil. The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from these sources21 contributed more to that uneasiness which produced the Convention, and prepared the public mind for a general reform, than those which accrued to our national character and interest from the inadequacy of the Confederation to its immediate objects.
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TPS Direct - For Teachers (Library of Congress) - 0 views
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By using TPS Direct PD activities, educators learn how to bring primary sources into the classroom and help students think critically, construct knowledge, and develop the information fluency necessary for success in the 21st century.
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) - 0 views
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A well-maintained and thorough collection provided by the US National Library of Medicine. -
Digital collection of portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. Coverage: 15th to 21st century.
UNICEF - Voices of Youth: Explore - 13 views
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This game created with UNICEF has students in a simulated version living the life of impoverished people. They must make decisions and see if they can survivie and do better. I played it and REALLY like what it make you think about...tough decisions, but realistic. Would be GREAT wehn teaching about 21st or 20th century issues globally!!!
History of Stuff - 17 views
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"This blog is an opportunity to bring the study of history into the 21st century. Out with the old 5 paragraph essay (until the exam) and in with digital speak! Each of us, students and teachers, will have an opportunity to write history. To analyze the "story" in history and question the "his" of the same."
RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment « RSA Comment - 14 views
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Make connections between the Enlightenment and today
21st Century Presentation Literacy: Interactive online presentation tools - 22 views
21st Century Presentation Literacy: Debate Brackets - 12 views
Five Characteristics of an Effective 21st-Century Educator| The Committed Sardine - 19 views
Environmental History Resources - 10 views
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'The environment is one of the most pressing concerns facing society in the 21st century. The environmental debate is hugely complex with cultural, social, economic, moral, political and scientific dimensions all interacting. Key to this debate is Environmental History which provides an valuable long-term perspective on environmental change.'
To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 October 1787 - 1 views
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Those who contend for a simple Democracy, or a pure republic, actuated by the sense of the majority, and operating within narrow limits, assume or suppose a case which is altogether fictitious.
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Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.
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This is James Madison telling Thomas Jefferson, and history teachers in the 21st century what went on in the Constitutional Convention. Notice his statement that it was the fear of popularly elected state legislatures that had more to do with the calling of a Constitutional Convention than the failures of the Articles of Confederation. US History Instructional materials teach the opposite
Jefferson Davis' Speech at Jackson, Miss.December 1862 - 0 views
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ble and clearly defined in the spirit of that declaration which rests the right to govern on the consent of the governed, but because I foresaw that the wickedness of the North would precipitate a war upon us. Those who supposed that the exercise of this right of separation could not produce war, have had cause to be convinced that they had credited their recent associates of the North with a moderation, a sagacity, a morality they did not possess. You have been involved in a war waged for the gratification of the lust of power and of aggrandizement, for your conquest and your subjugation, with a malignant ferocity and with a disregard and a contempt of the usages of civilization, entirely unequalled in history. Such, I have ever warned you, were the characteristics of the Northern people--of those with whom our ancestors entered into a Union of consent, and with whom they formed a constitutional compact. And yet, such was the attachment of our people for that Union, such their devotion to it, that those who desired preparation to be made for the inevitable conflict, were denounced as men who only wished to destroy the Union. After what has happened during the last two years, my only wonder is that we consented to live for so long a time in association with such miscreants, and have loved so much a government rotten to the core. Were it ever to be proposed again to enter into a Union with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than to trust myself in a den of thieves.
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The issue then being: will you be slaves; will you consent to be robbed of your property; to be reduced to provincial dependence; will you renounce the exercise of those rights with which you were born and which were transmitted to you by your fathers?
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How strange is it that Jeff Davis uses the term "slaves" in reference to white southerners under northern oppression. Just what do they think a slave is?
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21st century readers may be surprised to hear Jeff Davis's language when he talks about the north a year and a half into the Civil War.
21st Century Presentation Literacy - 11 views
Excerpt - Hard Power and Soft Power: The Utility of Military Force as an Instrument of ... - 2 views
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This is the 'home' for the latest research and analysis.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Young Minds Force-Fed With Indigestible Texts - The New York Times - 0 views
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As for the teaching of history, Ms. Ravitch argues, the sort of censorship being practiced today by textbook publishers can result in all manner of distortions and simplifications. For instance, to insist that depictions of women as nurses, elementary-school teachers, clerks, secretaries, tellers and librarians perpetuate demeaning stereotypes is to minimize ''the barriers that women faced,'' and to pretend ''that the gender equality of the late 20th and early 21st centuries was a customary condition in the past.''
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I wonder what everyone else thinks of this type of criticism of education today. Are we watering-down the curriculum due to ideological pre-occupations?
The National Security Archive - 1 views
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Will contain some interesting documents relating to events in American history during the 20th and 21st centuries. Definitely one for the conspiracy nuts.
21st Century Presentation Literacy: President Obama's Education Address - 9 views
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Presidents, like everyone else change and adapt over time. Use the Wordles of last years speech and this years to compare the to speeches and make connections to your own life after you have viewed the speech.
Digital History - 11 views
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Has a funky graphic interface connected to different types of resources to do with digital history. From what I can tell this is a bit of a buzzword (term?): 'digital history'. It seems if you're doing anything educational online put 'digital' in front of it and you're in the 21st century. Simple, really...