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US - English Research and Composition: Politcal Speech and Propaganda

Unit support for AP Seminar at ZIS

Driving Question

How can we define the line between civil political speech and propaganda?

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Political Speeches

Stimulus Materials for Cornerstone 2

Stafford, Tom. "How Liars Create the 'illusion of Truth'" BBC - Future. British Broadcasting Company,

26 Oct. 2016. Web. 15 Nov. 2016.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161026-how-liars-create-the-illusion-of-truth

 

De Goya, Francisco. The Executions of the Third of May, 1808. 1814. Oil. Museo Del Prado, Madrid.

http://www.artmuseums.com/goya.htm

 

Wilson, Woodrow. War Messages, 65th Cong., 1st Sess. Senate Doc. No. 5, Serial No. 7264,

Washington, D.C., 1917; pp. 3-8, passim.

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Wilson's_War_Message_to_Congress

Web Resources

Example primary sources sets from the DPLA include 

  • Abbott, Franky. “Japanese American Internment During World War II: Primary Source Sets”

  • Barnette, Adena. “Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age: Primary Source Sets”

 
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