February 2011
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Explaining the Egyptian Revolution to Americans
Yet another wonderful example of how to re-purpose content to serve historio-narrative information.
January 2011
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American Technologies vs. the Egyptian People
Good Magazine on the Two American Companies Helping Egypt Restrict Its People:
A less visible but possibly more important American-Egyptian partnership is that between the tech company Narus and the Mubarak autocracy. A subsidiary of Boeing, Narus sells hyper-complex, slightly creepy mass surveillance equipment. Its most famous creation is Narus Insight, “a supercomputer system which is...
“I grew up in Egypt. I spent half my life here. But Saturday, when my plane from...”
– Sharif Kouddous in The Nation, “Live From the Egyptian Revolution”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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Challenge vs. Skill in the History Classroom
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I’ve had this image sitting in my drafts for a month or more. I just finished grading my finals for the semester and I thought of it again.
Understanding history depends on understanding the way the world works, and being able to couple that with new information in a fluid manner. It requires being able to draw conclusions from limited data sets, and revise those...
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WatchThe Thomas Beale Cipher (by Andrew S Allen)
Beautiful.
“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...”
– Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon “moderation” in...”
– Dwight David Eisenhower to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 8 November 1954, Presidents Papers, personal and confidential.
“This is America, a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way...”
– Mark Shields, PBS
