Hist 301, Section 1, Spring 2025, Announcements

1/16    For a link from Lone Star, click here. For a link to a recent "culture war" controversy, click here. For a US Army film on propaganda, click here.

1/21    For today's first projection on basics of argumentation, click here. For a projection regarding Martin Luther King's birthday, click here. For a projection on logical definitions, click here. For a projection on cogent reasoning, click here. For a projection, on deductive and inductive reasoning, click here. For a projection on hidden premises, click here. For a projection, an exercise on recognizing arguments, click here. For a projection, a New York Times article on Russia, click here. For a projection, on recognizing arguments and their components, click here. For an article about Fact-Checking, click here.

1/23     For the first projection, an exercise on argument structure, click here. For fallacy by appeal to authority, also known as fallacy ad vericundiumclick here. For courtroom standards of evidence, click here. For an exercise on valid and invalid appeals to authority, click here. For Smedley Butler's speech on U.S. intervention, click here. For controversies regarding the CIA, click here. For a statement by the Brazilian president, click here. For a link to the 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and Willam F. Buckley, click here. For President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, click here

1/27     For a video on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, click here. For a letter to the Financial Timesclick here. For a speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, click here. For a 1986 debate between Noam Chomsky and John Silber, click here. For a video of an rabbi speaking before the Israeli Knesset, click here.