Documents Podcasts

Socio-cultural sports research. A series of episodes with guests, calls to participate in socio-cultural sports research, reviews of publications, exploring of seminal social theories to discuss a range of issues introducing a social analysis of contemporary issues in sport and physical education: whiteness, maleness, gender issues and social justice.

A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world. Telling the stories of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.

The Founding Documents Podcast is a periodic showcase peresented by LearnOutLoud.com of Early American historical documents in audio format. Here you will be able to listen to the declarations, speeches and essays that form the core principles of U.S. Government. For more educational audio and video, please visit www.learnoutloud.com.

This podcast was developed as part of an elementary-level Clark County School District Teaching American History Grant. The three-year grant will fund six modules per year with each module focusing on a different era of American history and a different pedagogical theme. This podcast focuses on the American Revolution and Primary Source Documents in Elementary Schools. Participants in the grant are third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers in Clark County (the greater Las Vegas area), Nevada. ...

The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, though not yet ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Ratification of the Articles took place almost three and a half years later on March 1st, 1781. The purpose of the articles was to create a confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government; thus allowing state governments to wield most of the power. It wasn’t long before the need for ...

The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, though not yet ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Ratification of the Articles took place almost three and a half years later on March 1st, 1781. The purpose of the articles was to create a confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government; thus allowing state governments to wield most of the power. It wasn’t long before the need for ...