ProQuest Platinum
A Safer America?
What evidence is there that gun control laws work? Who supports gun control laws and what are their major arguments? What impact will this summer's Supreme Court decision have on gun safety in America? Use ProQuest Platinum to help students answer these essential questions, and more.

SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
8.8.08 -- it's the day the Summer Olympic Games begin in Beijing! The city will combine traditional Chinese cultural performances with long-established Olympic sporting events.

The winning Olympic medal features what unique element that's associated with China? Go for the gold with our
SIRS Challenge Quests.

What do microwaves, popsicles, Teflon, telescopes, and sticky notes have in common? They're all inventions.

SIRS shines a Spotlight on this topic in August.

CultureGrams
Cultural Sensitivity Training
Do our athletes need to be able to do more than compete in their events in order for them to be successful in the Olympic Games? To answer, students assume the role of cultural trainers whose responsibility it is to prepare U.S. athletes for the Summer Games in Beijing. (Watch our new CultureGrams training video.)


World Conflicts Today
Olympic Boycotts
After the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, U.S. president Jimmy Carter ordered American athletes to stay away from the 1980 Moscow games.

In ordering the boycott, Carter sought to call attention to Soviet actions in Afghanistan--hoping all the while that U.S. actions in Afghanistan would remain secret. American moral authority would have been severely undermined if the world had known that America had goaded the Soviets into invading.

Explore additional history-related themes inside History Happenings, our hands-on social sciences enewsletter.

Historical Newspapers
Lincoln-Douglas Debates:
McCain vs. Obama?
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were a series of seven formal meetings during the Illinois senatorial campaign of 1858, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln argued the issue of slavery with the Democratic incumbent,
Stephen A. Douglas.

How do the issues of the Lincoln-Douglas debates compare to the major issues that will likely be discussed by John McCain and Barack Obama? How do the arguments presented by Lincoln and Douglas on slavery compare with the philosophy of the arguments of Obama and McCain on any similar issue?

Let ProQuest Historical Newspapers power research on these topics in August and all year long.

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