Click here for the full video page. MIKE THOMAS (TEACHER): I wouldn’t say I’m creating patriots or revolutionaries. I just want to create better citizens. But when it comes to this competition, everybody wants to win. And that’s just the way it is. TEXT ON SCREEN: Each year, high schools across America compete in a […]
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Politicking: A 19th Century Campaign Series
In Politicking: A 19th Century Campaign Series, we travel back to some of America’s earliest presidential contests to illustrate how the country’s electoral politics today continue to be reflections of its nascent attempts at democracy. Each of the five videos is accompanied by a lesson plan and activity. Mud-Slinging and Deadly Duels: How Negative Campaigning Evolved […]
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Transcript: The Culture Question: How Hot-Button Issues Divide Us
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (FOX NEWS, 9-11-23):MAN: It’s absurd and immoral for teachers to call boys girls and girls boys. ARCHIVAL (FOX NEWS, 6-23-21):CHANTING: Do your job! Do your job! STEVE INSKEEP (NPR HOST AND AUTHOR, “IMPERFECT UNION”): A culture war is a battle over how we live. […]
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Transcript: Campaign Missteps: Gaffes on the Trail
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TROY SENIK (AUTHOR, “A MAN OF IRON”): A gaffe is quite simply a blunder, when a person says something they are not supposed to. In 2012, you’ve got Barack Obama getting raked over the coals for . . . ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, 7-13-12):BARACK OBAMA: If you’ve […]
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Retro Report Wins the Insight Award for Visual Journalism
“Generations Stolen,” which explores government policies that for decades separated Native children from their families, has won a Nonprofit News Award for its visual journalism. The Insight Award for Visual Journalism honors stories that use photography and/or other visual media to more accurately portray a community that has traditionally been underrepresented or misrepresented in news […]
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Transcript: Silence in Sikeston
NARRATION: In Sikeston, Missouri, 1942, a 26-year-old Black man was lynched by a white mob. PERSHARD OWENS: The fact remains that this African American man was burned in front of a church and we don’t talk about it. MIKE JENSEN: It was a brutal, morbid spectacle. CAROL ANDERSON: People are running into the church going, […]
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Transcript: Charm Offensive: Why Politicians Reach for ‘Relatable’
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL KCCI, (8-16-15):HILLARY CLINTON: How are you?WOMAN: I’m good!FOOD VENDOR: Hillary! Come and get a corn dog! MARK CHEATHEM (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY): When you think about how the United States was founded. . . ARCHIVAL (8-17-15):JEB BUSH: One more bite. MARK CHEATHEM:. . […]
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Transcript: Picking a Partner: The V.P. Relationship
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (1-17-18):VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE: Someone far more important than me: President Donald Trump. BOB ELDER (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY): Typically we think of presidents and vice presidents going together into the second term. That doesn’t always happen. ARCHIVAL (MSNBC,2-7-22 ):NEWS ANCHOR: Vice […]
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Retro Report Wins the New America Award
“Generations Stolen,” on the history of Indigenous child removal and forced adoptions, was recognized with a New America Award by the Society of Professional Journalists. The film was released with @WorldChannel. You can watch it here.
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Transcript: Mud-Slinging and Deadly Duels: How Negative Campaigning Evolved
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (2012):NEWS REPORT: We have a new study that’s out, and it says this is the most negative campaign in history. ARCHIVAL (2016):NEWS REPORT: This is undoubtedly going to be the most negative, nasty, divisive campaign in history. ED LARSON (UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PEPPERDINE): […]
