Unlike their working-class counterparts, who were seen as unwanted labor competition and incapable of sharing American democratic values, Chinese intellectuals were seen as members of China’s leadership class and culturally compatible. Educating them in the United States was a friendly, inexpensive, yet effective means of extending American influence over China.
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Jim Crow: A Reading List
In the late nineteenth century, white Southerners imposed a system of constraints on African Americans, denying blacks their Constitutional rights, and, indeed, their human rights. This system—often violently enforced—was called “Jim Crow,” named after a minstrel song that stereotyped blacks. It included the disfranchisement of black men, the forcible segregation of blacks from whites in public spaces, and forms of state-sanctioned terrorism such as lynching, which included hanging, mutilating, and burning victims alive.
Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)
By Tatjana Lichtenstein and Jonathan Parker This first section of this post is by Tatjana Lichtenstein Wedged between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Empire, Eastern Europe was the site of unprecedented human and material destruction in the years between 1938 and 1948. As the staging ground for Hitler’s vision for a new racial order in […]
Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life
Magnum Photos was formed in 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, by four photographers seeking to retain the rights to their images while working on projects that aligned with their own interests rather than solely responding to commissions from magazines and newspapers. Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, George Rodger, and Robert Capa created a business model that fundamentally changed the practices of photojournalism
Historical Perspectives on Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013)
Student Showcase – An Orwellian Interpretation of Stalin’s Responsibilities to Restrict Russian Rights
Marcus Castillo, Viviana Lozano, Juan Martinez, Gissell Perez, Marla Zarate Veterans Memorial High School Group Performance Senior Division Read the Group’s Process Paper There is a saying that fact is stranger than fiction. So when a group of students from Veterans Memorial High School wanted to do a Texas History Day project on the horrors […]
Student Showcase – Satyagraha: The Right to Protest, The Responsibility to Resist Violence
Utkarsh Sharma Goose Creek Memorial High School Senior Division Individual Interpretive Web Site How did a unique Hindu philosophy come to influence protest movements across the world? Utkarsh Sharma of Goose Creek Memorial High School created a website exploring the history of Satyagraha, Mahatma Gandhi’s unique ideology of non-violent protest. Through Gandhi’s heroic efforts, Utkarsh […]
Student Showcase – The Texas City Disaster: The Worst Industrial Accident in U.S. History
Evan Knapp Rockport-Fulton Middle School Junior Division Individual Exhibit Read Evan’s Process Paper On April 16, 1947 a fertilizer and oil fire triggered a massive explosion in the Port of Texas City, killing 581 people. Later dubbed the Texas City Disaster, this event remains the worst industrial accident in American history. Rockport-Fulton Middle School student […]
Student Showcase – “America’s Dirty Little Secret”: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Harshika Avula, Lekhya Kintada, Daniel Noorily, Bharath Ram, Kevin Zhang Health Careers High School Senior Division Group Website Between 1932 and 1972, doctors from the United States Public Health Service undertook a project in rural Alabama to allegedly treat “bad blood” and other illnesses among local African-Americans. But these doctors’ real agenda was to observe […]