McCarthyism and Pickles - November 14

Learning About Our Briny History

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Today is Pickle Day, Diabetes Day, American Teddy Bear Day, International Girl’s Day, International Selfie Day, and Spicy Guacamole Day.

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Drum Month Resource of the Day - How Black Culture Influenced Drumline

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: McCarthyism and Pickles

ON THIS DATE

• 1886 - Friedrich Soennecken develops the hole puncher.
• 1889 -  Journalist Nellie Bly begins an attempt to travel around the world in under 80 days. She does it in 72.
• 1960 -  Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1771 - French physiologist and father of modern histology Marie François Xavier Bichat
• 1805 - German pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn
• 1840 - French painter Claude Monet
• 1889 - Indian independence leader and prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru
• 1897 - Artist John Steuart Curry
• 1900 - Composer Aaron Copland
• 1907 - Swedish author Astrid Lindgren
• 1907 - Author William Steig
• 1908 - Politician Joseph McCarthy
• 1915 - Black figure skater and coach Mabel Fairbanks
• 1947 - Political satirist, writer, and part-time NH resident P. J. O'Rourke
• 1948 - King Charles III
• 1966 - Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Weavers - If I Had a Hammer - LISTEN
• Arlo Guthrie - Motorcycle Song - LISTEN
  
• Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man - LISTEN
• Fanny Mendelssohn - Notturno in G minor - LISTEN

THEME: MCCARTHYISM

• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans - McCarthyism (7:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - Teach Rock - Artists Protest McCarthyism - LISTEN, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Larry Tye On Parallels Between Trump and Joseph McCarthy (6:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Chapter One (8:50) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthyism: Anatomy of an Investigation (5:50) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Margaret Chase Smith (1:16) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Langston Hughes on Trial (4:39) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Roy Cohn: Chief Counsel for McCarthy (1:04) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - McCarthy - The Speech That Launched the 1950s Red Scare (4:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - McCarthy -The Role of the Press in the Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy (2:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters- McCarthy - HUAC: Backlash and Implications (3:10) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - McCarthy - HUAC and Hollywood (5:54) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: PICKLES

• Grades K-3 - Wimee's Words - Pickles (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 2-4 - Food Corps - Pickle That Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Somewhere South - What a Pickle (3:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Serving Up Science - How Does Pickling Work? (5:16) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Somewhere South - Pickle Game On (2:42) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wide Angle: Window Into World History - Pickle Business (1:39)- VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wide Angle - All Female Enterprise (2:04) - VIEW, READ, DO

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