Timothy Braatz
CONTACT: tbraatz@saddleback.edu
LECTURES (with slideshow) by TIMOTHY BRAATZ
Standing with Standing Rock (April 2017)
A Special Kind of Patriotism (October 2017)
Big Walls (April 2018)
Blackface, White Supremacy (November 2019)
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY LECTURES--suitable for public school classrooms
Martin Luther King and the Letter from a Birmingham Jail (MLK Day slideshow for classroom use, with accompanying script)
Racism in the USA, Then and Now: The Legacy of Slavery (MLK Day slideshow and lecture)
BOOKS by TIMOTHY BRAATZ
How Sleepy Joe Biden Stole Arizona (and the White House)
Two Buttes and a Flute (a novel)
Nonviolence for Geniuses (Like You) (work in progress, free access)
Peace Lessons
Reviews of Peace Lessons:
Robert Burrows
Dave Swanson
Maitlyn Flutters (a novel)
Grisham's Juror (a novel)
From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir of Privilege and Luck (with Anatol Chari)
Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples
Reviews of Surviving Conquest
Frederick Hoxie
RECENT ARTICLES by TIMOTHY BRAATZ
Nonviolent Intervention and George Floyd
Operation Eagle Claw: An Imperial Sacrifice
Imagining a Peaceful Peace in the Pacific, 1945
Atomic Bombs Are Not Lifesavers
Teaching Peace, Not War, to U.S. History Students
The Bear Clan Patrol and Community Protection
Decline of Parties, Rise of Hucksterism (and Trump)
The Quarterback and the Propaganda
Presidential Elections Need Not Matter So Much
Trump Apologizes, Wins Over Critics (A Parody)
Micah Johnson and a Culture of Violent Solutions
Put Restorative Justice on the Democratic Platform
The Confessions of Brock Turner and a Culture of Punishment
The Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence
The Satyagraha of John Brown
Selma: A Gandhian Critique
Speaking of War
Confronting Violence at the Little Bighorn
Clash of Cultures as Euphemism: Avoiding History at the Little Bighorn
ABOUT TIMOTHY BRAATZ
Formal Education: PhD, Arizona State University (US, Native American, Latin American history); MA, University of California, Santa Barbara (Latin American Studies); BA, California Lutheran University (Religion and Philosophy)
Courses Taught: US history, Peace Studies, Humanities, US West history, Latin American history, Native American history
Teaching Career: Saddleback College (1999-present), Southern Utah University (1998-99), Arizona State University (1993-1997)
FOR ONLINE STUDENTS
Considering an online course? Start here: http://www.saddleback.edu/oe/getting-started-online-courses
For assistance with technical questions, look here: http://www.saddleback.edu/oe/student-technical-support
All online students taking Hist 22 and Hist 17 with Prof. Braatz will need the following REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: A People’s History of the United State: 1492- Present, by Howard Zinn. It is available at the campus bookstore or can be purchased online. Also, this book can be read for free at: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html.
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