Teaching History Online
Number 129: 21st March, 2004
3. JFK Research
5. Gunpowder, Plot and Treason
6. Glorious Revolution of 1688
Introduction
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John Simkin
Teaching History in France: Daniel Letouzey teaches history in a French Lycee, in Vire, a quiet small town in Normandy. He is also the man behind the Internet Chronicle, a website published since 1997 by Historiens & Géographes, a professional magazine for history teachers. In this seminar he is discussing the French curriculum, the exam system, history textbooks, history and ICT in France, historiography and Anglo-French history? If you have views on this subject, register with the History Forum and join the debate.
The War to End Wars: The first world war was fought between 1914 and 1918. Even before it had finished people were saying that it must be the "war to end wars". They meant that the war was so awful that nothing like it must ever be allowed to happen again. The seven main galleries in this exhibition (Causes, Killing Machines, Over the Top, the Trench Experience, etc.) will help the students to understand why so many people felt like this.
JFK Research is a not-for-profit organization providing resources for serious researchers into the JFK assassination. It is dedicated to the life and death, and the lasting memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Members include Jack White, Jim Fetzer and John Costella. The Forum includes sections on General Information, Photographic Evidence, Documents, Disinformation, Books, Medical Evidence and Audio/Video Clips.
The Men on the Sixth Floor: In 1961, Henry Marshall was found shot to death on his remote Texas farm. He had been shot five times with a.22 caliber rifle. There appeared to be no good reason for Marshall, a successful farmer, with money in the bank and a solid record with his employer, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to have committed suicide. But despite the strange appearance of things, the cause of death was officially listed as suicide by gunshot. Glen Sample, the man behind this website believes the man who murdered Marshall was also involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Gunpowder, Plot and Treason: Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern and film director Gillies MacKinnon bring the story behind the Gunpowder Plot to BBC in two original films exploring the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and her son James I. The website provides teaching materials that relate to this subject matter. This includes biographies of Mary and James, a timeline and a quiz on the Gunpowder Plot. There is also an article by Ronald Hutton who speculates what might have happened if the Gunpowder Plot had gone according to plan.
Glorious Revolution of 1688: This site is an ever-growing compendium of information related to the events and people of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The encyclopedia is an alphabetical listing of entries relating to the Revolution. You can also want to view the events in chronological order. There is also a collection of quotations that relate to the subject of the Glorious Revolution.
General Strike: The documents, reports, cartoons and photographs on this website are a selection taken from the General Strike Collection in the TUC Library Collections held at the London Metropolitan University. Although some 2000 images are available here, the whole Collection is much larger and researchers may contact the Library for more details. The General Strike Collection comprises material collected by library staff in 1926 and includes TUC documents and bulletins, printed publications and newspapers from Britain and overseas. Other records, such as bulletins produced by local trades councils and strike committees, dispatch riders' reports, photographs etc., were passed to the Library from other TUC Departments.
Knowing British History: Les Case was Head of History at Stokesley Grammar Modern School in North Yorkshire. He had found that there was really nothing available for the less academic children, between the ages of 9 and 14, to help them enjoy and learn history. So, he produced his own worksheets which drew the attention of a representative from Evans Brothers Ltd. Case felt that these could be usefully produced in book format but publishers could then only conceive of the traditional hard back text book and the market seemed uncertain. The first of this Knowing series was published in 1972. The last was published just after his death in 1981. These books were in print for over twenty years and are still to be found in the classroom and school library.
Book Section
Blood, Money & Power: The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings. Now, after forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and LBJ's succession as President. In this book, McClellan, a lawyer who represented Lyndon Johnson from 1966 to 1971, uses inside information and recently released documents to shed new light on one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries. (Barr McClellan, Hannover House, ISBN 0 9637846 25, £12.30)
