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Young Readers Program with Dr. Allida Black

May 15, 2018 at 10:00am

Dr. Allida Black, research professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and the founding editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is the 2018 Young Readers Program speaker.

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The Flag Salute Case: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

These three 45-minute lessons for grade 11 United States History and Government focus on student analysis of a landmark Supreme Court decision that continues to set a precedent for the Court today.

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“If There Is Any Fixed Star,” Jackson on Barnette

Cass Sunstein, writing for Bloomberg View, June 1, 2015, stated, "If we had to preserve just one Supreme Court opinion to show some other civilization what American constitutional law is all about, I'd pick Jackson's prose poem in the Barnette Case."

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Perpetrators is an exhibit of lithographs created by artist Sidney Chafetz (1922-2013). The pictures depict the individuals who carried out the policies of the Third Reich during World War II.

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Checks & Balances- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer

Two 40 minute lessons for Grade 11: United States History and Government classes including references to the DVD, Liberty Under Law, The Robert H. Jackson Story, websites, and student readings.

 

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Justice at Nuremberg

Four 40-minute lessons for Grade 11: United States History and Government classes complete with websites, handouts and suggested video clips from the DVD, Liberty Under Law: The Robert H. Jackson Story....

This Day in Nuremberg

Buehler

Dr.Seidl, the attorney for the Defendant Frank called his last witness, Joseph Buehler on April 23, 1946. Buehler had worked for Fank from March 1933 until the German collapse. Seidl read an extract from Frank's diary which mentioned the witness. "My attitude towards the Jews is based on the expectation that they will disappear; they must go away".Buehler, in German, talked about the resettlement policy. Read More

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) at 638