Oct 9, 2011
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Ultimate History Lesson Hour 1, minutes 1 -15 (approx.):
- Shield of the Trinity (on Wikipedia)
- Classical Trivium + 7 Liberal Arts (on Wikipedia)
- George Orwell (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (1984) (on Wikipedia)
- Newspeak (on Wikipedia)
- Walter Lippmann (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “Public Opinion” by Walter Lippmann (1922)
- Aristotle’s Logic (on Wikipedia)
- Aristotle (on Wikipedia)
- Dialectic (on Wikipedia)
- Five W’s (+ How) (on Wikipedia)
- (Document) Abraham Lincoln’s Speech Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859
- Mudsill Theory (on Wikipedia)
- British Class Structure / Social Structure of the United Kingdom (on Wikipedia)
- Vernon Louis Parrington (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “Main Currents in American Thought” (Vol. I-III) by Vernon Louis Parrington (1927)
- Emancipation Reform in Russia (1861) (on Wikipedia)
- British Empire Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (on Wikipedia)
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Roundtable Discussion of minutes 1-15:
- (Book) “Social Science for Teachers” (Riverside textbooks in education, edited by E. P. Cubberley ... Division on secondary education under the editorial direction of A. Inglis); "Education a process of adjustment."
- Definition of Psittacism
- Definition of Mettle
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Hour 1, minutes 15 -30 (approx.)
- Wage Slave (on Wikipedia)
- (Video) Noam Chomsky on Wage Slavery (on YouTube)
- Welfare (on Wikipedia)
- Definition of Deadwood
- Simon Legree (character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe in1852) (on Wikipedia)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (on Wikipedia)
- Count Leo Tolstoy (on Wikipedia)
- Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)
- William Rainey Harper & Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)
- Lewis Lapham & Harper Magazine (on Wikipedia)
- (Film) “The American Ruling Class” (2005)
- (Video) “The American Ruling Class” trailer (onYouTube)
- Carnegie + Homestead Strike (1892) (on Wikipedia)
- PBS special Homestead Strike
- John D. Rockefeller (on Wikipedia)
- Rockefeller + Ludlow Massacre (1914) (on Wikipedia)
- Horatio Alger (on Wikipedia)
- Charles Loring Brace (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “The Dangerous Classes of New York: And Twenty Years’ Work Among Them” by Charles Loring Brace (1872):
- Orphan Train (on Wikipedia)
- Adoption (on Wikipedia)
- Indentured Servant (on Wikipedia)
- The Adoption History Project (University of Oregon Archive)
- (Document) “Orphan Train Myths and Legal Reality” by Rebecca Trammell (pdf)
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Minutes 15 -30 / roundtable discussion references:
- Definition of Rhetoric (on Wikipedia)
- Definition of Leverage
- (Book) “The Human Use of Human Beings” by Norbert Wiener (1950)
- (Book) “The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream” by Ernest Bormann (1985)
- (Book) “Foundations: Their Power and Influence” by Rene Wormser (1958)
- (Book) “The Babylonian Woe” by David Astle (1975)
- Thomas Jefferson / Sally Hemings (PBS “Jefferson-Hemings Story”)
- (Book) “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Carroll Quigley (1966) (PDF file)
- W. Cleon Skousen (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “The Naked Capitalist” by W. Cleon Skousen (1970)
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Hour 1, minutes 30 -45 (approx.):
- (Document) “Frustration and Aggression” by John Dollard (Yale University Press, 1939)
- Adam Robinson (on Wikipedia)
- The Princeton Review (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “What Smart Students Know” by Adam Robinson (1993)
- George W. Bush (on Wikipedia)
- John Forbes Kerry (on Wikipedia)
- Bush, Kerry, C-Average at Yale (The Chicago Tribune)
- Bush, Kerry, Yale, Skull & Bones (CBS News)
- (Book) “How The Order Controls Education” by Antony Sutton (1985)
- (Book) “America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones” by Antony Sutton (1986)
- Citibank of New York Corporate History
- Citigroup (on Wikipedia)
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Minutes 30-45 / roundtable discussion references:
- (Document) “Frustration and Aggression” by John Dollard (Yale University Press, 1939)
- (Document) “The Great American Bubble Machine” by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone)
- (Book) “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” by William K. Black (2005)
- (Book) “Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order” by Charles Derber, William A. Schwartz, Yale R. Magrass (Oxford University Press, 1990)
- (Book) “Politics and Progress: The Emergence of American Political Science” by Dennis Mahoney (2004)
- Woodrow Wilson PhD (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” by Norbert Wiener (1948)
- Thorstein Veblen (on Wikipedia)
- Conspicuous Consumption (on Wikipedia)
- Andrew J. Galambos (In “Sic Itur Ad Astra”, Galambos defines “Profit” as any increase in wealth or happiness which is achieved without violating the volition of another human being)
- Sic Itur Ad Astra: The Theory of Volition (Volume I) by Andrew J. Galambos
- Definition of Volition
- (Video) Tim Russert /Bush /Kerry /Skull & Bones (on YouTube)
- Yale Troika
- (Video) Trader Alessio Rastani on BBC (Youtube)
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Hour 1, minutes 45 –end:
- Outcome-Based Education (on Wikipedia)
- Prussian Education System (on Wikipedia)
- Robber Barons (on Wikipedia)
- Johann Fichte (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “Addresses to The German Nation” by Johann Fichte (1806); trans. R. F. Jones & G. H. Turnbull (University of Chicago Press, 1922)
- The Battle of Jena (on Wikipedia)
- Baruch
Spinoza (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “Tractatus Theologico-Politicus” (or) “Theologico-Political Treatise” by Baruch Spinoza (1670)
John Calvin (on Wikipedia) - (Book) "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin (1536)
- “Justified Sinners”/ Calvinism (on Wikipedia)
- “The Elect” / Calvinism / Predestination (on Wikipedia)
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Final roundtable discussion (min 45 –end) references:
- (Book) “War is a Racket” by Maj. General Smedley Butler (1933)
- (Video) “20/20 Hindsight: Censorship on the Frontline” Divergent Films (2010 /YouTube)
- Immanuel Kant (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “Vom Kriege” (or) “On War” by Carl von Clausewitz (1832)
- Carl von Clausewitz (on Wikipedia)
- Eugenics (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) “War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race” by Edwin Black (2003)
- (Video) Maafa 21: The History of Eugenics and Slavery (Youtube)
- Johann Pestalozzi (on Wikipedia)
- (Book) "Godwin's
letter to Olgilve, Friend of Jefferson, and the Federalist
Propaganda" by Burton R. Pollin (source of Jefferson receiving a Pestalozzi book) - (Book) "War and Education" by Porter Sargent (1943)
- (Book) “Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945 – 1955” by Sigmund Diamond (1992)
- (Book) “Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War” edited by Christopher Simpson (1999)
- (Book) “The Impact of Science on Society” by Bertrand Russell (1952): (Fichte quote; page 51 -52)
- (Book) “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives” by Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998)
- (Video) Comedian Lee Camp “Evil People Have Plans” (on YouTube)
End of Hour 1
Stay tuned for Peace Revolution Episode 042: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto / Hour 2 + Commentary
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"Memories of a Political Prisoner", an interview with Professor Chengiah Ragaven, graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex; AFTER he was a political prisoner, who was exiled from South Africa, during Apartheid. (2011)
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