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A primary resource featured in Norton’s Western Civilizations textbook, authored by Joshua Cole and Carol Stymes.
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The Port Huron Statement, written primarily by Tom Hayden, was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and was completed at a meeting of the SDS on June 15, 1962, in Port Huron, Michigan. The statement became the voice of student activism in the 1960s and made popular the notion of direct or participatory democracy. The hope if not the vision of the Port Huron Statement was to create a better world that the community itself had created.
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The United States has seen many presidents throughout its existence – from Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush to Barack Obama. Throughout the different periods of leadership, each president boasted distinct strengths and weaknesses – leaving behind a trail of primary resources such as speeches, proclamations, remarks upon signing a new bill or law, and more.
Here, our History Genius editors provide you with the full list of U.S. presidents, along with links to their best material on the site.
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The first of a two part segment, OTL: The Best Of takes you through OTL’s cast of characters – touching down on its most memorable moments and soundbites.
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Michael, as played by Al Pacino, tells his girlfriend Kay about his father’s (the Don) influence in the community – he helped Johnny, the Don’s godson, out of a band contract when he wanted to go solo. The method he used? Having his enforcer, Luca Brasi, hold a gun to the band leader’s head and threaten that it would “either his brains – or his signature – would be on the contract”.
Earlier in a scene with Johnny and the Don (in which Michael is not pictured), the Don himself plans to make another offer for Johnny, using the exact same phrasing:
I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.
That offer (read: threat) will turn into one of the most famous scenes in the Godfather, in which an important movie studio president, Jack Woltz, wakes up with the severed head of his prize horse in his bed – all because Woltz would not give Johnny a coveted movie role.
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