Teaching
History Online
Number
43: 30th June, 2002
Introduction
1.
The
American Revolution
2.
Political
Cartoonists
3.
American
Civil War Women
4.
Red
Gold
5.
Historia
de España
6.
The
Napoleonic Guide
7.
Watergate
8.
Joseph
Lesage and the First World War
9.
Between
Silk and Cyanide
Introduction
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The
American Revolution: Rick Brainard is an independent scholar and
a member of the American Historical Association. His main historical
area of interest is 18th century history with a special emphasis on
Colonial America. Brainard's The American Revolution: The Struggle
for Independence website directory provides
internet resources, original essays, documents and more information
about the topic.
Political
Cartoonists: A website that contains the biographies and work
of 152 cartoonists who have commented on important political and social
issues over the last 300 years. Artists featured include Cornelia
Barnes, George Cruikshank, Victor Deni, Will Dyson, Daniel Fitzpatrick,
James Gillray, Olaf Gulbransson, Thomas Heine, Joseph Keppler, Rollin
Kirby, John Leech, Robert Minor, Thomas Nast, Louis Raemaekers, Boardman
Robinson, John Tenniel, Eduard Thony, F. W. Townsend, Boris Yefimov
and Philip Zec.
American
Civil War Women: Ginny Daley has produced a directory website
on the lives and experiences of women during the American Civil War.
This includes diaries, letters, documents, photographs and prints
and features the writings of Alice Williamson, Rose O'Neal Greenhow,
Rachael Cormany, Carrie Berry, Catharine Hunsecker, Alansa Rounds
Sterrett and Nancy Emerson.
Red
Gold: A companion website to the new four-part PBS mini series
Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood looks at
the facts and myths about blood and its impact on everything from
religion and medicine to commerce and popular culture throughout history.
An interactive timeline charts major moments in the history of blood,
including the first blood transfusion, conducted by the French doctor
Jean- Baptiste Denis in 1667; the discovery of blood types; the Spanish
Civil War, when blood was first collected, refrigerated and carried
into battle; the story of Charles Drew, the American in charge of
the World War II Plasma for Britain campaign who was barred by the
U.S. Army from donating his own blood because he was black; and the
emergence of AIDS and mad cow disease.
Historia
de España: This web site has been created and maintained
by Juan Carlos Ocaña, history teacher in a High School in Madrid.
It has been produced so that students, teachers and everybody else
interested in 20th century history can have access to several sorts
of resources. There are online lessons on First World War and the
Treaties of Peace, International Relations during the Interwar Period,
European Integration Process and European Citizenship and Women's
Suffrage Movement and Feminism, 1789-1945. The online lessons provide
historical texts, chronologies, glossaries, biographies, collections
of selected links and different activities on texts, maps, statistics
and images. The online lessons and the rest of the contents are in
Spanish, although an English and Portuguese version of the European
Integration Process and European Citizenship lessons are available.
The
Napoleonic Guide is the
ultimate online reference source for people wanting to know more about
the life and era of Napoleon Bonaparte. The website contains details
of almost every aspect of the Napoleonic Era from Bonaparte's career,
family and lovers, to his campaigns, battles and conquests. In addition,
The Napoleonic Guide has timelines, maps, quotes, political cartoons,
caricatures, art, the entire Goya's Disasters of War series, uniform
details and images, glossaries, book reviews, lyrics from military
songs and a section on the naval struggle in the French Revolution
and times of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Watergate:
This amazing website is the work of Malcolm Farnsworth, a secondary
school teacher from Loreto Mandeville Hall in Melbourne, Australia.
It covers in great detail the complex web of political scandals in
the United States between 1972 and 1974. The material is organised
under the headings: Chronology, Richard Nixon, The Tapes, Impeachment,
Gerald Ford, Aftermath, Writings on Watergate, Watergate Links and
Watergate News.
Joseph
Lesage and the First World War: This website contains the drawings,
history and letters of Joseph Lesage, a First World War telegrapher.
Together witch two comrades he started in 1915 a soldier -paper for
his division. Joseph went through all of it: the first German attacks
near Nancy in 1914, the battle of Verdun in 1916 and the offensives
at the rivers Aisne and Marne in 1917 and 1918.
Book
Section
Between
Silk and Cyanide: In 1942 Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop,
84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptographer
of genius. In his book Between Silk and Cyanide, Marks tells
how he revolutionized the code-making techniques of the Allies, trained
some of the most famous agents dropped into France, and why he wrote
haunting verse including the famous The Life that I Have poem.
He reveals the disastrous dimensions of the code war between SOE and
the Germans in Holland; how the Germans were fooled into thinking
a Secret Army was operating in the Fatherland; and how and why he
broke General de Gaulle's secret code. (Leo Marks, Harper Collins,
ISBN 0 75380 147 7)
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