Teaching History Online
Number 1: December, 2000
Contents
Versailles Peace Treaty Project
European Virtual School History Department
European Emigration to the USA
Teaching History With Technology
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
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
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 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.
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.