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Chapter 8: Trying on the Shoes of Historical Actors, Teaching Empathy

Chapter 8: Trying on the Shoes of Historical Actors, Teaching Empathy. Project Clio PD March 28 th , 2012. What is historical empathy?.

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Chapter 8: Trying on the Shoes of Historical Actors, Teaching Empathy

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  1. Chapter 8: Trying on the Shoes of Historical Actors, Teaching Empathy Project Clio PD March 28th, 2012

  2. What is historical empathy? “Historical empathy is the understanding of past institutions, historical practices, or actions as making sense in light of the way people saw things…[It] is just not having the inert knowledge that people saw things in the way they did, but also being able to use that knowledge to make sense of what was done.”(Lee 2005, 46)

  3. Historical empathy asks, “Why did an individual or group of people, given a set of circumstances, act in a certain way?” (Yeager and Foster, 2001, p.14) [It encourages students] to judge past actors in their own historically situated context and on its terms.” (Levesque, 2008, p. 167)

  4. …. “Students must listen to the voices of the past without preconceptions. They must let people of the past begin and end their own sentences.” (Mandell and Malone, 2007, p. 22)

  5. Thirteen Days: October 16th –October 28th1962

  6. “Thirteen Days” (2000) http://www.tubechop.com/watch/312236

  7. EX COMM Dillon LBJ RFK Bundy Dillon McNamara Taylor

  8. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

  9. Attorney General Robert Kennedy Vice President Lyndon Johnson US Ambassador to the USSR- Tommy Thompson

  10. Special Counsel to the President Ted Sorensen Sec. of Treasury Douglas Dillon

  11. Secretary of State Dean Rusk

  12. National Security Advisor MacGeorge Bundy

  13. Your Task: Each table will put themselves in the shoes of a different EX COMM advisor. Read the quotations from your advisor. Prepare a brief report to the president summarizing your position. Identify which of the 5 options your advisor would most likely support. Choose a spokesperson to represent your advisor

  14. Debrief President Kennedy • What is the advice of each EX COMM advisor? • Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon • Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy • Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone • National Security Advisor MacGeorge Bundy • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell Taylor • Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara • Secretary of State Dean Rusk

  15. What were the EX COMM advisors’ actual positions?

  16. Kennedy’s Decision:

  17. Your Task: You have been hired as President Kennedy’s press secretary and asked to write a press release describing the outcome of the debate on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Your press release should address the situation in Cuba and the outcome of the decision to blockade Cuba from the perspective of President Kennedy. A press release is very formal, very concise, and very precise in its writing. When crafting your press release be sure to address these elements: * The causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis * President Kennedy’s options * The choice President Kennedy made and why he made it.

  18. Share Out: Read your group’s press statement

  19. The Crisis in Perspective: Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara http://www.tubechop.com/watch/312085

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