Posts Tagged ‘history’
How well did you listen to your history teacher in grade school? Well for just $9.99, Republican pundit Mike Huckabee can clue you in on some unsung and misrepresented periods of our past.
Like the rise of President and mythical American super duper hero Ronald Reagan…
In his new animated series Huckabee boldly gives us his version of the truth we never got in school.
“What we see and hear isn’t always the same as what we read in books, or see on TV,” says one female character in the episode The Origins Of WW II.
This does make you stop and think about history… and who writes it.
We’re not particularly partial to Mr Huckabee’s spin on the past.
But it is worth asking… is it really possible to write a non-revisionist ( ie. objective) view of history?
Today, the Hip Hop movement has had a huge impact on worldwide youth culture.
But back in 1920s New York, another cultural phenomenon had a similarly large impact on our nation’s culture.
It was called the Harlem Renaissance and it was an exciting time of literary, artistic, musical, and cultural happenings. We have found some cool clips that show a few notable developments of that movement.
The clip above is extremely fun to watch and depicts the Lindy Hop dance craze. The clip comes from the 1941 film Hellzapoppin’.
A few venues in the region served as major cultural centers and helped artists like Billie Holiday, featured in the above clip with Louis Armstrong, find their way to a larger audience. …read more.
We at US Democrazy love freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to sleep until noon… you know, all the important stuff.
We also love to hear folks give rousing speeches about freedom.
In this week’s Film Festival series, we have assembled some clips from famous American speeches. The speeches use rhetorical flourishes to address important American issues particularly freedom.
