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100,000,000 Guinea Pigs : The Dangers of Consumption

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: In 1927, responding to the seemingly overpowering claims of advertisers and mass marketers, engineer Frederick Schlink and economist Stuart Chase published Your Money's Worth , which argued for an "extension of the principle of buying goods according to impartial scientific tests rather than according ... More »

"1500 Doomed": People's Press Reports on the Gauley Bridge Disaster

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: The deadly lung disease silicosis is caused when miners, sandblasters, and foundry and tunnel workers inhale fine particles of silica dust--a mineral found in sand, quartz, and granite. In 1935, approximately 1,500 workers--largely African Americans who had come north to find work--were killed by exposure ... More »

1968 1978, Where Do We Go From Here?

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences, Business
Collection: WGBH Open Vault

Abstract: David O. Ives discusses the origin of Say Brother on WGBH TelevisionSay Brother celebrates its tenth anniversary with a look at Boston and its African American community over the past decade -particularly changes in politics, social service agencies, employment rates, the educational system, and minority ... More »

2006 Computer Science Commencement Ceremony

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: Webcast UC Berkeley Events
Grade Level: Post-secondary

Abstract: The 2006 Computer Science Commencement Ceremony was held Sunday, May 21, 2006, at 2:00 pm in Zellerbach Auditorium. The Commencement address was delivered by Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, Inc.

2006 Technology Breakthrough Competition and Award Ceremony

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: Webcast UC Berkeley Events
Grade Level: Post-secondary

Abstract: In the Tradition of Innovation at Berkeley Engineering... The College of Engineering is hosting the 3rd Annual Technology Breakthrough Competition to recognize the University's technology and scientific research that could make the world a substantially better place. PROGRAM: Dean Richard Newton ... More »

3D FractaL-Tree

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: BioQUEST Library OnLine
Grade Level: Post-secondary

Abstract: This interactive L-system simulation produces visualizations of tree forms based on data from specimens in the field or laboratory.

"80 Rounds in Our Pants Pockets": Orville Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, stunned virtually everyone in the U.S. military: Japan's carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. In this 1991 interview, conducted by John Terreo for the Montana Historical Society, serviceman Orville Quick, who was assigned to build ... More »

9 Variations on a Dance Theme

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Subject: Arts
Collection: WGBH Open Vault
Grade Level: Primary, Secondary

Abstract: A female dancer repeats a short dance theme nine times to a soundtrack of piano and flute. As she performs the theme, the dancer is shot from different angles to yield nine variations. The first variations are composed of longer shots that capture the body and movements of the dancer in full. These variations ... More »

9th Annual International Health Conference: War, Poverty and Population

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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Collection: Webcast UC Berkeley Events
Grade Level: Post-secondary

Abstract: The Relationship between Population Growth and Poverty Robert Engelman , Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC. Numbers: Mind the Gap Theogene Rudasingwa ,, Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States. The Return of the Population Factor Martha Campbell ... More »

A.B. Spellman comments on the pardon granted to President Richard Nixon

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: WGBH Open Vault

Abstract: 'The Word' with commentary by professor and historian A.B. Spellman focuses on the pardon and immunity granted to President Richard M. Nixon, based on a plea of depression. Spellman compares this to the treatment given to African Americans facing time in jail.

"A Bill of Rights for the Indians": John Collier Envisions an Indian New Deal

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: John Collier's appointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 marked a radical reversal--in intention if not always in effect--in U.S. government policies toward American Indians that dated back to the 1887 Dawes Act. An idealistic social worker, Collier first encountered ... More »

"A Black Joke."

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: Free African Americans living in the North before the Civil War suffered enormous disadvantages and discriminations. Forced to sit in separate and inferior sections in theaters, public transit, and churches, free blacks were also barred from all but the most menial jobs and denied entrance to white trade ... More »

A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect

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Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: LEARN NC Articles & More
Grade Level: Secondary

Abstract: A "virtual field trip" up the White Oak River in southeastern North Carolina, with discussion of how local ecology changes along the way due to decreasing salinity.

"A Bold Stroke for Freedom."

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: On Christmas Eve, 1855, patrollers finally caught up with a group of teenaged slaves who had escaped by wagon from Loudon County, Virginia. But the posse was driven off when Ann Wood, leader of the group, brandished weapons and dared the pursuers to fire. The fugitives continued on to Philadelphia. Although ... More »

A Call to Arms: McNeill's Unshakable Faith in Labor's Future

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: As the 19th century drew to a close, labor activists were forced to confront the implications of a long string of defeats suffered by their movement in recent years. One of the most venerable of labor editors, George McNeill, writing in the official journal of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in ... More »

A Case of Black and White: White Women Protest the Hiring of Black "Wage-Slaves"

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: Before the Civil War, some enslaved African Americans labored in Southern textile mills, especially in the spinning and weaving rooms. But with the jump in the price of slaves in the 1850s, manufacturers decided that poor white farmers provided a cheaper labor force. After the Civil War, the textile ... More »

A case study of "A Civil Action"

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Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: LEARN NC Articles & More
Grade Level: Secondary

Abstract: This is a short, culminating activity that can be used to assess your students' understanding of the steps needed to determine if a water source is contaminated and how it got that way, and to suggest possible methods of cleanup or remediation. Students review a portion of the film "A Civil Action" and ... More »

A Chinese Immigrant Makes His Home in Turn-of-the-Century America

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: In this autobiographical sketch published in 1903 in the Independent magazine (which ran a series of about eighty short autobiographical "lifelets" of "undistinguished Americans" between 1902 and 1906), Chinese immigrant Lee Chew looked back on his passage to America, and his years as a launderer and ... More »

A Christ-like Character: A Catholic Priest Champions Henry George

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: In the late 19th century, Irish-Catholic immigrants and their children were a bulwark of the New York Democratic Party and especially the machine politicians of Tammany Hall. In the mayoral election of 1886, Tammany fought hard to retain the support of these Irish-Catholic voters in the race between ... More »

A Clear and Present Danger: The Chinese Exclusion Act

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Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: The San Francisco Building Trades Council (BTC), organized in 1898, actively participated in the anti-Asian agitation that characterized California politics, particularly labor politics, in the late-19th century. The BTC, like the national American Federation of Labor (AFL), argued that the very presence ... More »