There are probably very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars.
As we commemorate the forty-year anniversary of the culmination of the Watergate saga and, ironically, find ourselves in another season of scandal, it seems appropriate to reconsider "All the President’s Men."
Despite two decades of prophecies about an imminent revolution in the adoption of new media, and recurring job crises for humanities PhDs that call into question the behavior of the discipline, there is relatively little change to show for it.
The goal in developing the course, Global Issues Since the Fall of the Wall, is to create an interdisciplinary, common core based course that can be a model for high school teachers to adopt in its entirety or adapt to fit their own curriculum.
Today, as conflicts and bloodshed occur in Ukraine (and Gaza, Syria, and elsewhere), we wonder why in the past century we have advanced so little in our ability to prevent such senseless wars.
