Teaching History Online
Number 1: December, 2000
Contents
Introduction
Versailles Peace
Treaty Project
European
Virtual School History Department
European
Emigration to the USA
The
American Civil War
Teaching
History With Technology
Abraham Lincoln's
Assassination
Child Labour
Simulation
Introduction
Spartacus
Educational will be publishing Teaching
History Online every month.
The newsletter will include news, reviews of websites and articles
on using ICT in the history classroom. Members of the mailing list
are invited to submit information for inclusion in future newsletters.
In this way we hope create a community of people involved in using
the internet to teach history.
John Simkin
spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
Treaty of Versailles: Interactive Net Experience
The
Guardian's new educational website, Learn,
will be hosting an online re-creation of the Treaty of Versailles
between 6th and 17th November, 2000. Students will have access to
a wide variety of materials related to the First World War including
extracts from the Manchester
Guardian in 1919, a photographic
gallery and links to other sites including the First
World War Encyclopaedia, Trenches
on the Web and World
War One Document Archive.
European
Virtual School History Department
The European Virtual
School has an editorial staff of more than 110 teachers from 13
countries. The History Department includes Dalibor
Svoboba (Sweden), Marco
Koene (Netherlands), Uta
Hartwig (Germany), Ana
Paula Carlos (Portugal), Vesta
Viherva (Finland), Barbara
Dmytrasz (Austria), Julio
Ponce Alberca (Spain), Richard
Jones-Nerzic (France) and John
Simkin (England). The group is involved in developing several
projects including Peace
in Europe and Anne
Frank.
European
Emigration to the USA Project
European
Emigration to the USA is a project being produced by the history
department of the European
Virtual School. The material is divided into nineteen sections
including: Periods of European Emigration; European Emigration Statistics;
Emigrants:
Countries of Origin; The Journey; Immigration
Acts; Biographies
of Immigrants and Events, Issues &
Immigration. There is also a collection of online
lessons that enables you to use the material in the classroom.
The
American Civil War
The
American
Civil War is the latest of the Spartacus
Educational Encyclopaedias. Each entry contains a narrative, illustrations
and primary sources. The text within each entry is hypertexted to
other relevant pages in the encyclopedia. In this way it is possible
to research individual people and events in great detail. The sources
are also hypertexted so the student
is able to find out about the
writer, artist, newspaper, organization, etc., that produced the material.
Civil
War Chronology: Civil War: 1861-65,
Civil War: 1861, Civil War: 1862, Civil War: 1863, Civil War: 1864,
Civil War: 1865 (6)
Famous Battles:
Fort Sumter (April, 1861), Bull Run (July, 1861), Shiloh (April, 1862),
Gaines Mill (June, 1862), Bull Run (August, 1862), Antietam (September,
1862), Perryville (October, 1862), Fredericksburg (December, 1862),
Murfreesboro (January, 1863), Chancellorsville (May, 1863), Vicksburg
(July, 1863), Gettysburg (July, 1863), Chickamuga (September, 1863),
Wilderness (June, 1864), Atlanta (September, 1864), Fair Oaks (October,
1864), Petersburg (April, 1865), Five Forks (April, 1865) (18)
Political Figures:
John Andrew, Edward Bates, John Bell, James Birney, Montgomery Blair,
George Boutwell, John Breckenridge, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Butler,
Simon Cameron, Lewis Cass, Zachariah Chandler, Salmon P. Chase, Schuyler
Colfax, John Covode, Henry Winter Davis, Jefferson Davis, William
Dennison, Stephen Douglas, William Fessenden, Hamilton Fish, John
C. Fremont, Timothy Fuller, Joshua Giddings, Horace Greeley, James
Grimes, Hannibal Hamlin, Timothy Howe, Andrew Johnson, George W. Julian,
William Kelley, John M. Langston, William Lathrop, Abraham Lincoln,
Benjamin Loan, John Logan, Oliver Morton, Wendell Phillips, James
Seddon, William Seward, Horatio Seymour, John Sherman, Caleb Smith,
Gerrit Smith, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry G. Stebbins, Alexander
Stephens, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Samuel Tilden, Lyman Trumbull,
John Usher, Clement Vallandigham, Benjamin Wade, Elihu Washburne,
Gideon Welles, George H. Williams, Thomas Williams, Henry Wilson,
James F. Wilson, Fernando Wood (62)
Military Leaders:
Robert Anderson, Nathaniel Banks, Pierre T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg,
Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Butler, Edward Canby,
George A. Custer, John A. Dix, Jubal A. Early, Arnold Elzey, Richard
Ewell, David Farragut, Nathan B. Forrest, William Franklin, John Gibbon,
Ulysses Grant, Henry W. Halleck, Winfield S. Hancock, Ethan A. Hitchcock,
Thomas Harris, Samuel Heintzelman, Ambrose P. Hill, Daniel Hill, John
B. Hood, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Howard, Albion Howe, Benjamin Huger,
David Hunter, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Albert S. Johnson, Ole Johnson,
Joseph E. Johnson, Hugh Kilpatrick, Edmund Kirby-Smith, Robert E.
Lee, John Logan, James Longstreet, William Mahone, Irvin McDowell,
George McClellan, James McPherson, George Meade, Thomas Meagher, Montgomery
Meigs, Edward Ord, Joseph Osterhaus, John Pemberton, George Pickett,
Leonidas Polk, John Pope, David Porter, Beverly Robertson, William
Rosecrans, John Schofield, Carl Schurz, Winfield Scott, Raphael Semmes,
Philip H. Sheridan, William Sherman, Daniel Sickles, Franz Sigel,
George Stoneman, James Jeb Stuart, Edwin Sumner, Lorenzo Thomas, George
H. Thomas, Emory Upton, James Wadsworth, John H. Winder, Lewis Wallace
(74)
Organizations, Events and Issues:
Union Army, Confederate Army, Anaconda Plan, European Recruits, Enrollment
Act, Conscription Act, Black Regiments, Draft Riots, Emancipation
Proclamation, Copperheads, Shenandoah Valley, Andersonville, War Casualties,
Medical Treatment, Prisoner ExchangeThanks of Congress, Fort Pillow
Massacre, Lincoln Conspiracy Trial (18)
Soldiers:
Orville Babcock, Sullivan Ballou, William Belknap, Kit Carson, Martin
R. Delany, Arthur Ducat, Elmer Ellsworth, Robert Foster, James Garfield,
Herman Haupt, Hans C. Heg, August
Kautz, James Kempler, Evander Law, Robert Lincoln, Christian Morbeck,
John S. Mosby, Amund Olsen, John Ransom, Robert Shaw, Ole Steensland,
Jugen Wilson (22)
Women & the Civil War:
Louisa May Alcott, Susan Anthony, Clara Barton, Mary A. Bickerdyke,
Elizabeth Blackwell, Belle Boyd, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Frances Clalin,
Pauline Cushman, Dorothea Dix, Sarah Edmunds, Rose O'Neal Greenhow,
Mary Livermore, Mary J. Stafford, Elizabeth Van Lew, Mary Walker (16)
Writers, Artists and Photographers:
George Barnard, Ambrose Bierce, Mathew Brady, William Browne, Edwin
Forbes, Alexander Gardner, James Garner, Winslow Homer, William Dean
Howells, Joseph Medill, Thomas Nast, William Pywell, Timothy O'Sullivan,
Henry J. Raymond, Henry Villard, Alfred Waud, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf
Whittier (18)
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
Samuel Arnold, James Ashby, George Atzerodt, Lafayette Baker, John
Bingham, John W. Booth, George Boutwell, Boston Corbett, Thomas Eckert,
Otto Eisenchiml, Robert Foster, Clara Harris, Thomas Harris, David
Herold, Joseph Holt, Albion Howe, David Hunter, August Kautz, Michael
O'Laughlin, Mary Lincoln, John M. Lloyd, Benjamin Loan, John Parker,
Lewis Powell, Samuel Mudd, Henry Rathbone, Andrew J. Rogers, Edman
Spangler, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, John Surratt, Mary Surratt,
Lewis Wallace, Louis Weichmann (34)
Teaching
History With Technology
Teaching
History With Technology
is a free, biannual online journal designed to help history teachers
integrate technology into their classrooms. Hosted and sponsored by
the Cary Academy in North Carolina, each issue will feature three
or four articles by teachers. The first issue includes Constructing
an Online Museum, Planning a Virtual Field Trip, Using the Internet
to Explore the Developing World and Creating
a Virtual Classroom.
Abraham
Lincoln's Assassination
This excellent website provides
a detailed account of Lincoln's assassination. Sections include Lincoln's
Assassin, Eyewitness to History, Conspiracy Theories, The Military
Commission and Picture Gallery. Produced by Roger Norton, a teacher
of American history for 28 years, the website also includes a generous
collection of links to other sources of information on this important
event.
Child
Labour Simulation
A historical simulation on
child labour. Each student is given the name of
a person involved in the debate over the issue of children working
in textile factories in the early part of the 19th century. The characters
are divided into eight different categories: Factory Owners: Supporting
Child Labour, Factory Owners Opposing Child Labour, Campaigners Against
Child Labour, Supporters of Child Labour, Doctors Opposing Child Labour,
Doctors Supporting Child Labour, Child Workers: Girls and Child Workers:
Boys.
Each student then used the Internet to discover details of their character
and their views on child labour. Each student writes a brief biography
of their character and prepares a speech for a debate entitled: "Parliament
should pass legislation making it illegal for children under the age
of twelve to work in textile factories."
See the article, Child
Labour in the 19th Century, for
an account of how the simulation works in the classroom.
Please email John Simkin at spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
if you have information you want included in next month's edition
of Teaching
History Online.
