Teaching
History Online
Number
22: 14th December, 2001
Introduction
1.
Christmas
at the White House
2.
History
of Christmas
3.
Illustrated
History of the Roman Empire
4.
Tudor
History
5.
German-American
History & Heritage
6.
From
Slavery to Freedom
7.
Women
and Social Movements in the United States
8.
UK
Heritage Railways
9.
Palestine
History
Introduction
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Christmas
at the White House: You can currently take a panoramic tour of
the White House Holiday decorations. Other seasonal features include
a historic look at national Christmas trees and a collection of Presidential
holiday cards dating back from the Hoover Administration. The website
also includes biographies of all the Presidents of the United States
and an illustrated guide to the art in the White House.
History
of Christmas: Andrew Field's Santa Penalty Shootout is an excellent
Christmas lesson filler. The game tests the knowledge of Christmas
history and traditions. Gets a question correct and the student can
then try to score a penalty against Santa. However, as many have found
out already though - Santa doesn't give many gifts away in goal.
Illustrated
History of the Roman Empire: This website provides a comprehensive
history of the Roman Empire. The main content is organized under the
headings: The Founding, The Kings, The Republic, Early Emperors, The
Decline, The Collapse, Constantinople, Religion, Society and The Army.
The website also contains interactive maps of Roman Italy, the Roman
Empire and the City of Rome.
Tudor
History: Lara E. Eakins established her detailed website on Tudor
History in 1995. Sections include Who's Who in Tudor History, Life
in Tudor Times, Tudor Architecture, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Six Wives
of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Genealogical
Trees, Topics in Tudor History, Chronologies, Tudor Humour and Tudor
Movies.
German-American
History & Heritage: An impressive collection of resources
to use when studying German immigration to the United States. The
website includes biographies of over 200 German-Americans, online
books and miscellaneous essays relating to German-Americans. The teaching
resources section includes materials on 'German Immigrant Culture
in America', 'Revolutionaries of 1848' and 'German-Americans and their
Contributions to American Mainstream Culture'.
From
Slavery to Freedom: This excellent website produced by the Library
of Congress presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American
authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization,
Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range
from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports
and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick
Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker
T. Washington.
Women
and Social Movements in the United States: The Women and Social
Movements website is a project of the Center for the Historical Study
of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Currently it contains 30 document projects undertaken principally
by Binghamton undergraduate and graduate students and mounted after
revision and editing. Each project poses an interpretive question
and provides a collection of documents that address the question.
Altogether the site includes over 600 documents, more than 150 images,
and 250 links to other websites. These projects offer students an
opportunity to understand historical research and writing as an interpretive
process based on documents. Viewers of the site are encouraged to
participate in that interpretive process.
UK
Heritage Railways: The primary purpose of this website is to provide
a guide to the entire heritage railway scene in the UK, including
details of special events and operating days for all operating steam
railways. However, there is also a comprehensive glossary (over 900
entries) of railway terms, names and abbreviations; pages of diagrams
and explanations of the components of steam locomotives and their
controls; and a Websites Database with links to over 400 railway related
websites (including a category for historical material).
Palestine
History: Esam Shashaa from the United Arab Emirates has produced
this very detailed website on the history of Palestine. Sections include
History (Recent History, Ancient Palestine, Timelines, etc.), Current
Issues (News Headlines, Who Did It?, Al-Aqsa Intifada, Mohammed al-Durah,
etc.), Virtual Tours (Palestine, Holy Sites, Al-Qouds Old City, Al-Aqsa
Mosque, etc.), Palestinian State (West Bank, Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem,
Gaza City, Jericho, etc.), Palestinian Biography and Israeli Biography.
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