In which John Green teaches you about recent history. By which we mean VERY recent history. John covers the end of George W. Bush's administration presidency of Barack Obama (so far). Some people would say, "It's too soon to try to interpret the historical importance of such recent events!" To those people, we answer, "You're right." Nonetheless, it's worthwhile to take a look at the America we live in right now as a way of looking back at how far we've come. Anyway, John will teach you about Obama's election, some of his policies like the Affordable Care Act, the 2009 stimulus, and the continuation of the war on terror. If you still can't reconcile a history course teaching such recent stuff, just think of this one as a current events episode.

Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. President Barack Obama leaned into discussions on race in his 2013 remarks on the Trayvon Martin ruling: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/presi...
President Obama responded to economic inequality and partisanship in his 2015 State of the Union Address: https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/pr...

Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
The 2008 Financial Crash 0:42
The Housing Bubble 1:37
The Stock Market Crash 3:30
Rising Unemployment 3:50
Big Bank Bailouts 4:21
The End of the Bush Years 5:09
Barack Obama 5:28
Mystery Document 6:22
Obama's Campaign Promises 7:38
Economic Recovery 9:36
The Affordable Care Act/"Obamacare" 10:38
Backlash Against Obama & The Tea Party 11:47
Obama's Second Term 12:50
Ideological Questions 13:27
Credits 14:51

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