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Online Civic Participation
Share with students political theorist Danielle Allen's ten questions to ask before choosing to take action online.
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Op-Ed: Denver City Council Should Ban Smoking on 16th Street Mall
Read a perspective in favor of an ordinance that bans smoking in a Denver public space.
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Op-Ed: Denver’s Proposed Smoking Ban a Means to Discriminate
Help students understand two sides of debate with this article in opposition to a smoking ban in a Denver public space.
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Overcoming the Past and Becoming a Single Nation
South African writer and poet Antjie Krog explores democracy and change through a narrative about a common sporting event that gives voice to both white and black South Africans.
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Global Immigration
Overview: What Are Borders?
Consider important questions about borders in the modern world with this article from National Geographic.
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Personal Accounts of the Inflation Years (1919-1924)
Read a selection of firsthand accounts describing the catastrophic period of inflation the Weimar Germany experienced after World War I.
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Police Press Conference in Ferguson
Read a transcript of the press conference that took place ten days after Michael Brown’s death and several days after responsibility for security in Ferguson was transferred from local police to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Putting the Past Behind Us
Read about Europe’s “collective amnesia” at the end of World War II and consider the role that forgetting plays in the process of coming to terms with the past.
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Responses to Antisemitism Online
Read about a British university student who used social media to speak up about an antisemitic incident on her campus.
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Revising the Test
Investigate how Lewis Terman, a professor of education at Stanford University, created a test in 1917 that measured the mental abilities of large groups of people.
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Riding for Change: Nonviolence
Explore the motivations for the nonviolent actions and protests of the civil rights movement.
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