Website Spotlight: Two Days in October

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

Read all three of these "Primary Sources."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/filmmore/ps.html

Take the online poll: Is it unpatriotic to question government policies during wartime?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/sfeature/sf_poll.html

Read at least 5 of these firsthand accounts.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/stories/index.html

Enlisted Men in Vietnam
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/p_soldiers.html

Viet Cong Fighters
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/p_vietcong.html

Student Protestors
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/p_protest.html

Policing Student Demonstrations
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/p_police.html

Student Antiwar Protests and the Backlash
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/e_antiwar.html

Questioning Authority
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/e_questioning.html

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Vietnam

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT