i've just been watching the trailer for "sir, no sir"-- a film about the resistance movement inside the military that grew up during the vietnam war. its not a new film-- it was produced a few years ago. but its still important (and its not a bore to watch!) and, because i'm thinking a lot these days about the "lessons of vietnam," i'm going to link to it here.
oh and Lisa Guido reminded me that i should mention contemporary parallels (instead of just suggesting them): see, for instance, the film project Soldiers Speak Out, here.
critically important. now that we have a 2nd winter soldier, i want a 2nd coffeehouse movement!
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My other new book, Teaching U.S. History: Dialogues Among Social Studies Teachers and Historians (Routledge, 2010). Click on the picture above to find out more.
My new book! :: "An absolutely stunning volume. This rich collection is indispensable to any teacher who wants to bring vitality and energy to the history classroom." --Sam Wineburg, Professor of Education and History, Stanford University::
About Me
- ::rachel mattson::
- Rachel Mattson is a historian, teacher educator, artist, & writer. She received a PhD in US and Public History from New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of many publications about U.S. history, and history education, including the book History As Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education (co-written with Dipti Desai and Jessica Hamlin) (Routledge, 2009). More generally, she believes in the importance of both ambivalence AND decisiveness; and in multilateral solutions, the estate tax, and music. Also no war no war no war. She is perpetually interested in how history feels, and is busy trying to figure out what that means.
Links
- "Integrated in All Respects," a site about a 1957 Segregationist film about the Highlander Folk School
- a PBS site on the history of public education
- becoming historians, a website about teaching history especially for elementary educators
- Belog: Iran and History
- Chapati Mystery
- Circus Amok
- Community Arts Network
- Earsay, documentary and oral history education and arts projects
- Great Small Works, spectacle art and social education of the highest order
- Historians Against the War
- Historical Thinking Matters, a very good site on teaching history in a smart way. lots of useable resources!
- History Matters, a great history education & primary document resource.
- http://historyteachermom.blogspot.com/
- International Association for Media and History
- Kerblog, the blog of a fantastic Lebanese artist
- Middle East Research and Education Project
- NPR's "Speaking of Faith" on gender, the Veil, and Islam
- Preserving the Past Blog
- Public Eye. a magazine that tracks the far right
- School Race Talk
- Submedia
- Teacher Mom. The blog of a new teacher, a student of mine.
- Teaching with Oral History: Resources
- The Bronx African American History Project
- The Civil Rights Digital Library
- The Education Arcade
- The Legal History Blog (Mary Dudziak's Blog)
- The Mammy Project, history and art and smart politics all in one
- The Museum of the Chinese in the Americas
- The New York Collective of Radical Educators
- The Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History
- The Other Eye (Theres Quinn's Blog, with lots of good stuff about Chicago public schools and LGBTQ youth stuff)
- The Sikh Next Door
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, which includes lesson ideas and good good good resources.
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2 comments:
Have you been watching any of the PBS series "American Experience"? I saw one recently that focused on LBJ's Presidency at the intensifying of the Vietnam war in the mid-60's, a time I clearly remember being terrified by. The parallels between then and now are astonishing, as others have been saying, but our reactions today are so much more tame. Is it a 9/11 mindset; has our saturation point been reached; or does our preoccupation with computers and technology keep us inside instead of out on the sidewalks and in the streets? Have our marches and protests turned into blogs?
I was talking to a guy in a bar . . . he reminisced about the Vietnam era Winter Soldier hearings, without knowing about the contemporary Winter Soldier, IVAW.org et al
Here's a newish project along those lines
Soldiers Speak Out
http://www.empowermentproject.org/sso.html
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