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cbm989
20th April 2006, 00:15
Hi my history final is a project about how the U.S. has changed in the area of big business regulation and how big corporations affect the U.S. economy and government policies SINCE the end of World War II. So i need some good resources for research and everything you have would be greatly appreciated. :)


EDIT: ...this includes some WTO and NAFTA information too. So whatever you have on that i can use as well.
anomaly
20th April 2006, 01:55
Whenever I have to do a project about US history, the first place I look is Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. It's a classic.

You can buy it at any bookstore, as far as I know (Barnes and Noble for sure), and I'm sure any library has it.
More Fire for the People
20th April 2006, 03:27
I'd be careful about using progressive and leftists resources. They bourgeoise blowhards want 'scientifc' and 'valid' sources, i.e. capitalistc ones. I suggest you find the least biased sources and go from there. You may be able to get away with use A People's History if your history teacher is a progressive, which may be the case [FHS seems like that kind of place].
BattleOfTheCowshed
29th April 2006, 06:24
Wikipedia is always a great place to start for research even if you probably shouldnt use it as a source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO
VermontLeft
29th April 2006, 08:53
yeah, i agree with hoppy there. school (high school? :huh:) probly isnt the place to do leftist politics. your unlikely to have a teacher who agrees with you and the only person on the line is you :o

better to just write what they fucking want you to write so that you can get through the fucking thing :angry:

Real leftist politics are in the real world anyways... :ph34r:
Janus
30th April 2006, 03:48
Unless your teacher is extremely open minded, don't present an extremely radical viewpoint if you want to get a good grade.

Let's see, the current president is extremely friendly towards big business as was Ronald Reagan (tricke-down policy) and as far as influence goes, who do you think contributes to election campaigns and does lobbying?