Baseball History Basketball History Boxing History U.S. Olympic History

Sports in American History and Culture

Biographical Sketches Example

The Makers on Title IX - volume one

Read carefully and be prepared to discuss the following articles on Title IX for our next class (Friday 5/30/14).

• Title IX - Wikipedia  <-- This article first. Pay particular attention to the following sections

• History

• Applicability and compliance

• Litigation after the Grove City case

• Impact

• Controversy

• Title IX - In your text book pages 296-297 - (Read this article second)

• A Brief History of Title IX - (Read this article third)

Today in Class:

5/9/14

Catching Hell

4/25/14

Please read one of these articles and write a 150-250 word summary via Google Drive. (Please remember that a summary is the main points not details, nor is a summary an opinion piece.  Opinions/editorials would be a piece that you would share in your blog, or on the discussion board.)

• Northwestern Players Take A Historic Vote

• Northwestern University football players to vote on union amid debate over labor rights

• Northwestern Football Players to Cast Union Vote

3/27/14

Please read and consider participating in a discussion posted on My Big Campus on the following articles.

• Labor Board: Northwestern University football players can unionize

• Unionizing college sports will change everything and nothing at all

3/9/14

• National Spotlight Shines on Northview

• Game With No Winner Ends In Shared Title

* For Next Class:  Read carefully and take notes** on the following Article:  Basketball - wikipedia

**Notes are required on the following section of the article: History, Rules and Regulations, Height, and Social Forms

Extremely Important Information!!!

• •Book Report Due – Friday 3/7

• •Blog – Friday (Should be #8) 3/7

• •Two Discussion posts – Friday 3/7

• •Test – Thursday - 3/6 – 40 questions and an essay

• •Frazier – Ali Fight – prior to test on Thursday- 3/6

• •Remainder of time after the test to be spent on book report, blog, or discussion posts.  - 3/6

• •There is no biography for class on Thursday. 3/6

For Current Events: The Sporting News

Tips for beginning bloggers

Ty Cobb Rare Photos

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/reform-movements/essays/why-sports-history-american-history

http://www.slideserve.com/wray/sports-in-colonial-america

http://lahistoryarchive.org/resources/Sports_Timeline/index.html

Sports Illustrated Vault : Your Link to Sports History

New York Public Library Digital Collection

Library of Congress Photo Archives

The Rucker Archive

The Chicago History Museum

The Detroit News Archive

Leland's Auction Service

Associated Press Images

The Conlon Collection

You Tube: Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports 1