Ferguson - linking history and current events

Last week's events in Ferguson, Missouri raised a wide range of questions as well as links to historical events.  We'll start today by looking at some articles published over the weekend, and then ask our own questions about what else we need to know to fully understand them.

Here is a link to the handout of excerpts we used in class.

Here are some links to some other articles that might be helpful:

• "What Happened in Ferguson?" - New York Times
• "Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid" - The Atlantic

Here are the questions we generated in response to the articles we read

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During the second part of class today we were in the computer lab, catching up with the historical chronology by looking at the era of Reconstruction in the years after the Civil War.

Here is a link to the chart you'll use for your work

Here is a link to the website we'll use