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Theme: Famous People
Welcome to ProQuest's History Happenings enewsletter. Below you'll find student activities centered on a broad theme, linked to historical events or premises. These thought-provoking lessons empower learners to think critically about events occurring today and in the past. Connections are provided to relevant content inside our award-winning digital learning titles, including
ProQuest Historical Newspapers,
History Study Center,
SIRS Decades, and CultureGrams' World Conflicts Today.
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How great are "Great Men"?
Theme Overview
Thomas Carlyle, the great 19th-century Scottish historian, once wrote that the "history of the world is but the biography of great men." Karl Marx, the great 19th-century German philosopher, frequently wrote that individuals didn't matter. What did they mean?
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Men at War
World Conflicts Today
With tens of thousands of U.S. troops still occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, questions of how they got there and what they're trying to achieve will likely be taken up in history classes for years to come.
Read this teaching activity from World Conflicts Today and get a head start.
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Iraq, Steamboats & Natural Selection
History Study Center
Many Iraqis have expressed disappointment over the failure of their president, Nuri al-Maliki, to bring Shi‘is, Sunnis, and Kurds together. Many Americans have expressed disappointment over the failure of their president, George W. Bush, to bring Republicans and Democrats together. Why is it that people desperate for Moses figures to lead them to the Promised Land are so often disappointed?
Read how a study of inventions can help answer this question.
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Déjà vu
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
A columnist for the New York Times calls on the president of the United States to resign after he has authorized the use of force against Iraq. The columnist rejects the president's rationale for military action, asserts that military action has made America less safe, and reacts angrily to the suggestion that "when war starts we all must kowtow to the President." You think you know the president's name and the columnist's political leanings? Well, think again.
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Tricky Dick and Slick Willy
SIRS Decades
President Bill Clinton submitted to impeachment hearings in the senate over allegations that he lied about his relationship with a White House intern.
Nearly a quarter of a century earlier, another president, Richard Nixon, had resigned so he wouldn't have to face similar hearings over allegations he had lied about his role in covering up the Watergate break-in.
What can the words and actions of Tricky Dick and Slick Willy teach us about the relationship of individuals to the offices they hold?
Booklist Honors ProQuest Research Solutions
World Conflicts Today & SIRS Decades
ProQuest is proud to announce that SIRS Decades and CultureGrams' World Conflicts Today have been listed among Booklist's "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers."
This year's "Twenty Best" review of SIRS Decades called attention to the multiple ways of accessing the content; indicated that the content was correlated with social studies curriculum standards; and concluded that, "teachers should find the topics and documents useful in their classroom." According to the review, Decades "opens the door" to 20th-century U.S. primary source documents.
World Conflicts Today was honored in the same list, with the review recommending the "well-written" reports to "anyone needing bias-free background information" on some of the most in-the-new wars and conflicts.
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