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fandomhigh2016-01-15 04:41 pm
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20th Century American History, Friday, January 15, 2016
"Today we're going to start in the 20th Century, and we're going to start in the 1900s," Steve said. "I wasn't alive for those--I'm not that old--but I knew people who were. And since it's been over a hundred years, it's pretty easy to figure out the important events from the day to day stuff." He smiled. "It's a lot harder to tell what's going to be remembered when you're living through it."
He handed out a small stack of papers. "I picked three events from 1900 to 1910 that still reverberate today: the first World Series baseball game, the Wright brothers' first flight in North Carolina, and Teddy Roosevelt's new foreign policy doctrines: Big Stick Diplomacy and the Roosevelt Corolllary to the Monroe Doctrine."
Steve then spent half of the class talking about the airplane's link to technology and warfare, how the Roosevelt foreign policies started manuevering the United States as a global power and began interfering in Central and South America, and how baseball was really swell.
And yes, he actually used the word "swell." Repeatedly. Sorry.
He brought a computer screen to life, linked to Wikipedia's summary of history from 1900 until 1929 and projected it onto the wall. "But I'm still pretty new to this time, and while I did a lot of reading this week, there might be an event mentioned in the first ten years of the century that you think we should talk about instead. Anything catch your eye? What event from 1900 to 1910 do you think has had the longest lasting impact?"
He handed out a small stack of papers. "I picked three events from 1900 to 1910 that still reverberate today: the first World Series baseball game, the Wright brothers' first flight in North Carolina, and Teddy Roosevelt's new foreign policy doctrines: Big Stick Diplomacy and the Roosevelt Corolllary to the Monroe Doctrine."
Steve then spent half of the class talking about the airplane's link to technology and warfare, how the Roosevelt foreign policies started manuevering the United States as a global power and began interfering in Central and South America, and how baseball was really swell.
And yes, he actually used the word "swell." Repeatedly. Sorry.
He brought a computer screen to life, linked to Wikipedia's summary of history from 1900 until 1929 and projected it onto the wall. "But I'm still pretty new to this time, and while I did a lot of reading this week, there might be an event mentioned in the first ten years of the century that you think we should talk about instead. Anything catch your eye? What event from 1900 to 1910 do you think has had the longest lasting impact?"
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