Peace Revolution Episode 41: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto Hour 1 with Commentary

Peace Revolution Episode 41: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto Hour 1 with Commentary

**Notes, References, and Links for further study:**

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search history)
#. `StartPage search engine Firefox
add-on <http://www.startpage.com/eng/download-startpage-plugin.html>`__
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#. **Ultimate History Lesson Hour 1, minutes 1 -15 (approx.):**
#. `Shield of the
Trinity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_of_the_Trinity>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Classical Trivium + 7 Liberal
Arts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `George Orwell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“Nineteen
Eighty-Four” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four>`__
by George Orwell (1984) (on Wikipedia)
#. `Newspeak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `Walter Lippmann <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“Public Opinion” <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6456>`__ by
Walter Lippmann (1922)
#. `Aristotle’s Logic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Aristotle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `Dialectic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `Five W’s (+ How) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Document) `Abraham Lincoln’s Speech Before the Wisconsin State
Agricultural
Society <http://riley.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=8&tax_level=...`__
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859
#. `Mudsill Theory <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudsill_theory>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. British Class Structure / `Social Structure of the United
Kingdom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United_Kingdom>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Vernon Louis
Parrington <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Louis_Parrington>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“Main Currents in American
Thought” <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/Parrington/vol1/header1.html>`__
(Vol. I-III) by Vernon Louis Parrington (1927)
#. `Emancipation Reform in Russia
(1861) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `British Empire Slavery Abolition Act
1833 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. **Roundtable Discussion of minutes 1-15:**
#. (Book) `“Social Science for
Teachers” <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00085JUAS>`__ (Riverside
textbooks in education, edited by E. P. Cubberley ... Division on
secondary education under the editorial direction of A. Inglis);
"Education a process of adjustment."
#. `Definition of
Psittacism <http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/psittacismterm.htm>`__
#. `Definition of
Mettle <http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-mettle.html>`__
#. **Hour 1, minutes 15 -30 (approx.)**
#. `Wage Slave <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Video) `Noam Chomsky on Wage
Slavery <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oztdRo9GLLk>`__ (on YouTube)
#. `Welfare <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `Definition of
Deadwood <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deadwood>`__
#. `Simon Legree <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin>`__
(character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe in1852) (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Harriet Beecher
Stowe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Count Leo Tolstoy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Chautauqua Movement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `William Rainey
Harper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rainey_Harper>`__ &
Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)
#. `Lewis Lapham <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham>`__ &
Harper Magazine (on Wikipedia)
#. (Film) `“The American Ruling
Class” <http://www.theamericanrulingclass.org/home/>`__ (2005)
#. (Video) `“The American Ruling Class”
trailer <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCc6qOsmxW4>`__ (onYouTube)
#. `Carnegie + Homestead
Strike <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike>`__ (1892) (on
Wikipedia)
#. `PBS special Homestead
Strike <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html>`__
#. `John D.
Rockefeller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Rockefeller  + Ludlow
Massacre <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre>`__ (1914) (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Horatio Alger <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger,_Jr.>`__
(on Wikipedia)  
#. `Charles Loring
Brace <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Loring_Brace>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“The Dangerous Classes of New York: And Twenty Years’ Work
Among Them” <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33431>`__ by Charles
Loring Brace (1872):
#. `Orphan Train <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Adoption <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `Indentured
Servant <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `The Adoption History
Project <http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/index.html>`__ (University
of Oregon Archive)
#. (Document) `“Orphan Train Myths and Legal
Reality” <http://www.wcl.american.edu/modernamerican/documents/Trammell.pdf>`__
by Rebecca Trammell (pdf)
#. **Minutes 15 -30 / roundtable discussion references:**
#. `Definition of Rhetoric <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Definition of
Leverage <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/leverage.html>`__
#. (Book) `“The Human Use of Human
Beings” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings>`__
by Norbert Wiener (1950)
#. (Book) `“The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American
Dream” <http://books.google.com/books/about/The_force_of_fantasy.html?id=DM_ucVv...`__
by Ernest Bormann (1985)
#. (Book) `“Foundations: Their Power and
Influence” <http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-their-influence-Albert-Wormser/dp/B000...`__
by Rene Wormser (1958)
#. (Book) `“The Babylonian
Woe” <http://www.archive.org/details/TheBabylonianWoe>`__ by David
Astle (1975)
#. `Thomas Jefferson / Sally
Hemings <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/>`__
(PBS “Jefferson-Hemings Story&rdquo
#. (Book) `“Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our
Time” <http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf>`__ by
Carroll Quigley (1966) (PDF file)
#. `W. Cleon Skousen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon_Skousen>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“The Naked
Capitalist” <http://www.scribd.com/doc/46768390/The-Naked-Capitalist>`__
by W. Cleon Skousen (1970)
#. **Hour 1, minutes 30 -45 (approx.):**
#. (Document) `“Frustration and
Aggression” <http://www.amazon.com/Frustration-Aggression-John-Dollard/dp/0300004281>`__
by John Dollard (Yale University Press, 1939)
#. `Adam
Robinson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Robinson_%28author%29>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `The Princeton
Review <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princeton_Review>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“What Smart Students
Know” <http://www.randomhouse.com/book/156087/what-smart-students-know-by-adam-...`__
by Adam Robinson (1993)
#. `George W.
Bush <file:///\\localhost\)%20%20http\::en.wikipedia.org:wiki:George_W._Bush>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `John Forbes Kerry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_kerry>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Bush, Kerry, C-Average at
Yale <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-06-07/news/0506070195_1_bush-and...`__
(The Chicago Tribune)
#. `Bush, Kerry, Yale, Skull &
Bones <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml>`__
(CBS News)
#. (Book) `“How The Order Controls
Education” <http://books.google.com/books/about/How_the_Order_controls_education.htm...`__
by Antony Sutton (1985)
#. (Book) `“America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order
of Skull &
Bones” <http://www.scribd.com/doc/4219811/Americas-Secret-Establishment-An-Intro...`__
by Antony Sutton (1986)
#. `Citibank of New York Corporate
History <http://www.citibank.com/citi/corporate/history/citibank.htm>`__
#. `Citigroup <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. **Minutes 30-45 / roundtable discussion references:**
#. (Document) `“Frustration and
Aggression” <http://www.amazon.com/Frustration-Aggression-John-Dollard/dp/0300004281>`__
by John Dollard (Yale University Press, 1939)
#. (Document) `“The Great American Bubble
Machine” <http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-mach...`__
by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone)
#. (Book) `“The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own
One” <http://books.google.com/books/about/The_best_way_to_rob_a_bank_is_to_own...`__
by William K. Black (2005)
#. (Book) `“Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a
New Mandarin
Order” <http://books.google.com/books?id=_zg0WDRuLrIC&dq=degree&ie=ISO-8859-1&so...`__
by Charles Derber, William A. Schwartz, Yale R. Magrass (Oxford
University Press, 1990)
#. (Book) `“Politics and Progress: The Emergence of American Political
Science” <http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Progress-Emergence-American-Political/dp/...`__
by Dennis Mahoney (2004)
#. `Woodrow Wilson PhD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and
the
Machine” <http://books.google.com/books?id=iyZIcAAACAAJ&dq=norbert+wiener+cybernet...`__
by Norbert Wiener (1948)
#. `Thorstein Veblen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Conspicuous
Consumption <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Andrew J.
Galambos <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Joseph_Galambos>`__ (In
“Sic Itur Ad Astra”, Galambos defines “Profit” as any increase in
wealth or happiness which is achieved without violating the volition
of another human being)
#. `Sic Itur Ad Astra: The Theory of
Volition <http://www.amazon.com/Sic-Itur-Ad-Astra-Volition/dp/0880780045>`__
(Volume I) by Andrew J. Galambos
#. `Definition of
Volition <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/volition>`__
#. (Video) `Tim Russert /Bush /Kerry /Skull &
Bones <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwJDs1cg9Eo>`__ (on YouTube)
#. Yale Troika
#. (Video) `Trader Alessio Rastani on
BBC <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-MQhssCqI>`__ (Youtube)
#. **Hour 1, minutes 45 –end:**
#. `Outcome-Based
Education <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-based_education>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Prussian Education
System <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Robber
Barons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_%28industrialist%29>`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. `Johann
Fichte <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“Addresses to The German
Nation” <http://books.google.com/books/about/Addresses_to_the_German_nation.html?...`__
by Johann Fichte (1806); trans. R. F. Jones & G. H. Turnbull
(University of Chicago Press, 1922)
#. `The Battle of
Jena <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jena-Auerstedt>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Baruch Spinoza <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
(Book) `“Tractatus
Theologico-Politicus” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Theologico-Politicus>`__
(or) “Theologico-Political Treatise” by Baruch Spinoza (1670)
`John Calvin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `"Institutes of the Christian
Religion" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutes_of_the_Christian_Religion>`__
by John Calvin (1536)
#. `“Justified Sinners”/
Calvinism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. `“The Elect” / Calvinism /
Predestination <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_elect>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. **Final roundtable discussion (min 45 –end) references:**
#. (Book) `“War is a
Racket” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket>`__ by Maj.
General Smedley Butler (1933)
#. (Video) `“20/20 Hindsight: Censorship on the
Frontline” <http://www.youtube.com/user/huskavarna#grid/user/61BEE4D596AF34B7>`__
Divergent Films (2010 /YouTube)
#. `Immanuel Kant <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“Vom Kriege” (or) “On
War” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_War>`__ by Carl von Clausewitz
(1832)
#. `Carl von
Clausewitz <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz>`__ (on
Wikipedia)
#. `Eugenics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics>`__ (on Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `“War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to
Create a Master Race” <http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/>`__ by Edwin
Black (2003)
#. (Video) `Maafa 21: The History of Eugenics and
Slavery <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrFufnMNDg&feature=player_embedded>`__
(Youtube)
#. `Johann
Pestalozzi <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Pestaloz...`__
(on Wikipedia)
#. (Book) `"Godwin's letter to Olgilve, Friend of Jefferson, and the
Federalist <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2708629>`__
`Propaganda" <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2708629>`__ by Burton R.
Pollin (source of Jefferson receiving a Pestalozzi book)
#. (Book) `"War and
Education" <http://www.archive.org/details/warandeducation009032mbp>`__
by Porter Sargent (1943)
#. (Book) `“Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with
the Intelligence Community, 1945 –
1955” <http://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Campus-Collaboration-Universities-Inte...`__
by Sigmund Diamond (1992)
#. (Book) `“Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social
Sciences During the Cold
War” <http://www.amazon.com/Universities-Empire-Politics-Social-Sciences/dp/15...`__
edited by Christopher Simpson (1999)
#. (Book) `“The Impact of Science on
Society” <http://www.scribd.com/doc/37599072/Bertrand-Russel-the-Impact-of-Science...`__
by Bertrand Russell (1952): (Fichte quote; page 51 -52)
#. (Book) `“The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic
Imperatives” <http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives...`__
by Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998)
#. (Video) Comedian Lee Camp `“Evil People Have
Plans” <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czq4E2HcrUg&feature=player_embedded>`__
(on YouTube)

**End of Hour 1**

Stay tuned for Peace Revolution Episode 042: The Ultimate History Lesson
with John Taylor Gatto / Hour 2 + Commentary