The Start of the Financial Crisis
Did you know that on this day in 1999, President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products? [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/]
Why is this important? This is really good debate information and connects the Great Depression with our current financial situation. For more information, see these sites:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877322,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877320,00.html
http://www.rd.com/advice-and-know-how/the-financial-crisis-of-2008/article104369.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/regulation-crook
Favorite History Books
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
- American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
- American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
- Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
- Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
- From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
- Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
- Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
- Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
- Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
- Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
- The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
- The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
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