Challenges in Changing the Face of a City
This lesson is designed to explore the complex challenges Oakland's Mayor Jerry Brown faces as he attempts to bring change to the city of Oakland. Key issues include housing, poverty, gentrification, politics and business development.
Roadside Attractions
A lesson in which students examine five examples of roadside architecture built in the 1920s and 30s to catch the eye of passing motorists. They include the Teapot Dome Service Station, the Big Duck poultry store, and the Benewah Milk Bottle.
International Relations in a Post-Hegemonic Age
The academic study of International Relations has, since since its emergence after World War I, sought to combine the development of theoretical frameworks with an engagement, of greater or lesser immediacy, with the changing course of international events. Empire, World War, Cold War and post-1991 US hegemony have all been objects of its concern. Today, oscillating at times uneasily between the enticements of abstraction, and the rush of actuality, the discipline faces a major opportunity, to p
Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Volume IV, Issue 4
CONTENTS: Calendar of Events, Exhibit Schedule, Cover Illustration Description, Inaugural Meeting of Philo Research Team, Australian Scholar's Research at Institute, Ancient Near East Tour Reminder, San Franciso Hosts Institute Events, Personalia, Tutankhamun Courses
Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Volume XXII, Issue 4
CONTENTS:
Cover Illustration Description,
Calendar of Events,
Nag Hammadi for Fifty Years,
The lAC Spring Public Lecture Series 1996: "New Light on the Early Egyptian Presence in Canaan: Recent Excavations in the Negev Desert, Israel," "Tel Safi Excavations: Old and New," "Who Wrote the New Testament: The Making of the Christian Myth," "Can God be Singular if the Scriptures are Plural?" and "The Education of Aristocratic Children in the Fourth Century Roman Empire: Whose Responsibility Was It?"
FatWorld
FATWORLD is a video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S. The game's goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition and factors like budgets, the physical world, subsidies, and regulations.
The Cryosphere : Greenland Virtual Field Trip
This section part of the Virtual Fieldclass provides an overview of Greenland from a social sciences and humanities perspective. The VFT is built around a downloadable PowerPoint presentation and bibliography supported by maps, photos and video.
20th Century Americanism
Popular Front;Daily Worker; Sunday Worker;Flyer drawing parallels between a socialist society and what the Constitution intended
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Recognition of the Soviet Union; Pittsburgh Politics;Soviet Union;Leaflet advertising Joseph Filner's run congress, along with an appeal to avoid war fought among "The Money Kings."
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Recognition of the Soviet Union; Pittsburgh Politics;Joe Stalin; Franklin Roosevelt; Soviet-German Pact; Soviet Union;McKeesport flyer justifying the Soviet Union's change in policy following the Non-Aggression Pact.
Nineteenth Century America in Art and Literature
In the United States, the nineteenth century was a time of tremendous growth and change. The new nation experienced a shift from a farming economy to an industrial one, major westward expansion, displacement of native peoples, rapid advances in technology and transportation, and a civil war. In this lesson, works of art from the nineteenth century are paired with written documents, including literary selections, a letter, and a speech. As budding historians, students can use these primary source
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Labor Issues; Pittsburgh Politics;Steel Industry; Company Unions; U.S. Steel; Steel Workers Organizing Committee; CIO;Leaflet recruiting Pittsburgh steelworkers to join the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America and describing the injustices of current wages and working conditions.
Come to the Veterans' Mass Memorial announcement
Popular Front;William Huska; Eric Carlson; Bonus Forces;Advertisement promoting a memorial mass for two veterans who were murdered near the Nation's capital for insisting on justice for Veterans.
Peace Day rally announcement
Popular Front;Westinghouse;Announcement promoting a Peace Day rally broadcasted on radio station KQV, featuring John A. Metcalfe.
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Pittsburgh Politics;Elections; Pennsylvania;Pro-Communist political advertisement arguing against Governor James' support of bankers and the GOP's record.
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Pittsburgh Politics;Elections; Pennsylvania;Pro-Communist political advertisement arguing against Governor James' support of bankers and the GOP's record.
Communist Mass Election Rally announcement
Recognition of the Soviet Union; Pittsburgh Politics;Jack Johnstone; Ben Careathers; Max Jenkins; Tom Meyerscough; Communist Party Election Campaign Committee; Soviet Union;Announcement of a rally for workers featuring Communist candidate speakers.
Foundations of Leninism book advertisement
Pittsburgh Workers School;Lenin; Stalin; Soviet Union;Advertisement for the book Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin.
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Labor Issues; Pittsburgh Politics;Announcement of a meeting to discuss an alleged frame-up of Local 325, Canning and Pickle Workers Union, by the H.J. Heinz Company.
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Labor Issues; Pittsburgh Politics;Announcement of a meeting to discuss an alleged frame-up of Local 325, Canning and Pickle Workers Union, by the H.J. Heinz Company.
