Teaching
History Online
Number
21: 7th December, 2001
Introduction
1.
ANA
Hall of Fame
2.
Elizabeth
Robins
3.
Hull-House
Museum
4.
British
Trade Unions
5.
Cold
War
6.
Women
in World War One
7.
Godfrey
Chavasse
8.
Holocaust
Exhibition
9.
Viet
Quoc
Introduction
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ANA
Hall of Fame: In 1974 the American Nurses Association (ANA) decided
that those nurses whose dedication and achievements have significantly
affected the nursing profession should be honored for their contributions
to society. Therefore the ANA established its Hall of Fame as a lasting
tribute to nurses. This website contains biographies and photographs
of the 65 women honored by the ANA, including figures such as Mary
Breckinridge, Dorothea Dix, Mary Mahoney, Sara Parsons, Margaret Sanger
and Lillian D. Ward.
Elizabeth
Robins: This website is devoted to the life and works of the American
novelist, actress, suffrage campaigner and feminist activist. Elizabeth
Robins was an early member of the Women's Social and Political Union
and after women got the vote she spent her last years fighting for
the reform of the House of Lords and an improvement in the health
care for women in Britain. As well as a chronology of her life, the
website includes online editions of her major novels and Way Stations,
a collection of speeches and articles dealing with women's suffrage.
Hull-House
Museum: Politicians now involved in the drafting of legislation
concerning the integration of immigrants into society would be well
advised to explore the history of the Hull-House Social Settlement,
established by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889. Over the next few years
Hull-House was the base of a group of amazing group of people that
included Ellen
Gates Starr, Florence Kelley, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Alice Hamilton,
Charlotte
Perkins,
William Walling, Charles Beard, Mary McDowell, Mary Kenney, Alzina
Stevens and Sophonisba Breckinridge. Hull-House is
now owned and operated by the University of Illinois and this website
provides information on the achievements of these early pioneers in
social work.
British
Trade Unions: An encyclopedia of the British Trade Union movement
in Britain between 1700 and 1945. The website includes entries on
important events and issues (8), labour journals and newspapers (16),
major trade unions (8), trade union legislation (12) and biographies
of trade union leaders (42). The text within each entry is linked
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 hyper-linked so the student is able to find out about the
writer, artist, newspaper and organization that produced the material.
Cold
War: To complement CNN's Cold War documentary series, CNN Interactive,
has created this outstanding website on the subject. Created by a
team of more than a dozen editors, writers and producers, the Cold
War website includes interactive maps, rare archival footage online,
biographies of key figures and recently declassified documents. An
added attraction is the facility for visitors to tour Cold War capitals
through 3-D images.
Women
in World War One: It was not until the United States got involved
in the World War One that some parts of the government got serious
about using women power. During the conflict nearly 13,000 women enlisted
in the Navy and the Marine Corps. This website, produced by Barbara
Wilson, a former captain in the USAF, contains information of these
women and the large number of nurses who served in Europe during the
conflict.
Godfrey
Chavasse: Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse was Britain's most highly
decorated serviceman in World War One. He was not however a soldier,
being Medical Officer to the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion.
When the Great War started, Noel went with his battalion to France,
arriving there in November 1914. Noel won his first medal (a Military
Cross) at the Battle of Hooge in June 1915. Noel's first Victoria
Cross was gained at Guillemont on 8th August 1916 during the Battle
of the Somme. When the Third Battle of Ypres started on 31st July
1917 Noel was in the front line with his men. For nearly two days
he went out into the battlefield rescuing and treating wounded soldiers.
It was during this period Noel performed the deeds that gained him
his second VC. Unfortunately he was never to know about the award
as he was killed in his aid station when a shell came through the
door and exploded.
Holocaust
Exhibition: Four years in the making, the Imperial War Museum's
Holocaust Exhibition uses historical material to tell the story of
the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and other groups before and during
the Second World War. The 1200 square metre historical display covers
two floors and brings to Britain for the first time rare and important
objects, some of them from former concentration and extermination
camp museums in Germany, Poland and the Ukraine. If you cannot get
to the exhibition in London some of the material is now available
from the Imperial War Museum website.
Viet
Quoc is the website of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party. The party
has been involved in the struggle "for independence, freedom
and prosperity of Vietnam since 1927". The website includes a
whole range of articles on the Vietnam War including: 'The 1968 Tet
offensive', 'The Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces', 'The Forgotten
Victims in Vietnam', 'Vietnamese Independence and Ho Chi Minh', 'Unmasking
Ho Chi Minh', 'Twenty-Two Years Under Communism' and 'South Vietnamese
Disabled Veterans'.
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