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15-minutes spent practicing with these newsy topics and authoritative databases will be sure to hone your research skills.
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Man-made Disasters
Labor Unions Bargaining Rights
Hate Crimes
Violence and Mass Media
Climate Change
Frankenfood

Make Joseph Kony Famous

Focus: Lords Resistance Army and Joseph Kony

Protest Movements

Focus: Time Magazine's 2011 Person of the Year: The Protester and past American protest movements.

Marriage Equity

Focus: Major legal issues surrounding same-sex marriage, domestic partners, and civil unions.

Famine in Historic Context

Focus: Locating primary documents that report on famine, food security, and humanitarian aid.  No snacks will be provided for this workshop.

There Be Pirates!: piracy past and present

Focus:  Contrasting methods of reporting news of Priacy from 1790 to present day.

Teatotalers and Bootleggers: the 100 year path to the 18th/21st Amendments

Focus: Primary resources documenting the Temperance Movement, the passage of Prohibition and its repeal.

Looking for Lucretia, Elizabeth, and Susan B.

Focus: Searching for women who put the "Rage" in suffrage!

Underage Drinking

Focus: 1) Iowa City 21-only ordinance 2) underage drinking on campuses nationwide

The Life and Times of Khaddafi

Focus: Foreign media coverage of Libyan leader, Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, for past and present events.

College Sports as Business

Focus:  Under Construction

      

    Witchcraft

    Focus: Under Construction

        

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