Sandra McDaniel

Mar 14, 2024 | retroreport.org | Matthew Spolar |Victor Couto |Amy Lee Hochman |Sandra McDaniel

Political conventions are designed to choose presidential candidates, but underneath all the noise they can reveal profound truths about America. That was the case at the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York City, where the party split. New York Governor Alfred E. Smith led a faction of urban Democrats who supported a vision of a nation built on manufacturing, immigrants who provided cheap labor, and sprawling urban centers full of opportunity.

Mar 13, 2024 | retroreport.org | Matthew Spolar |Brian Kamerzel |Victor Couto |Sandra McDaniel

Introduction This five-minute video introduces students to the “civil war” between the Republican Party’s moderates and conservatives that led to one of the most raucous conventions in American political history. After disciplined and combative conservative forces successfully nominated Senator Barry Goldwater, the party’s moderates sabotaged their own nominee at the convention, virtually ensuring President Lyndon Johnson’s landslide victory in November.

Jan 18, 2024 | retroreport.org | Joshua Fisher |John MacGibbon |Sandra McDaniel |Sianne Garlick

Introduction The question of whether ideas expressed in popular culture can be harmful to children has a history stretching back to Plato and Aristotle. In the 1950s, concern about crime, sex and horror in comic books led to strict limits under the Comics Code Authority. Then in the 1980s, a well-connected group of parents raised alarms over sex, drugs and violence in rock lyrics, and the music industry responded with warning labels.

Jun 22, 2023 | retroreport.org | Kit R. Roane |Brian Kamerzel |Sandra McDaniel |Sianne Garlick

The 1954 U.S Supreme Court’s historic decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, but the court failed to provide a remedy to achieve educational equality. Seventeen years later, the Court had an answer when it affirmed the principle of busing school children to desegregate schools. That decision placed Charlotte, N.C., in the spotlight. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg district was already under federal orders to desegregate its schools.

May 29, 2023 | retroreport.org | Anne Checler |Heru Muharrar |Sandra McDaniel |Sianne Garlick

More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion. Today, ​lawmakers across the country have introduced anti-trans legislation, seeking to bar transgender students from participating in sports and limiting access by minors to gender-affirming medical care. The movement that began nearly half a century ago still faces many obstacles. Stay up to date. Subscribe to our newsletters.