Teaching History Online
Number 5: April, 2001
Contents
Introduction
School
History
Anne
Frank
Art
and the First World War
Learning
Curve
The
Britannia Lexicon
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
Designing
Websites
Josh
White
McCarthyism
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 editions
of Teaching
History Online. In this way we hope create
a community of people involved in using the internet to teach history.
John Simkin
spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
School History
Schools History has recently been re-launched.
The site now offers a range of online
lessons, quizzes
and a new revision
guide covering a variety of subjects. Additions have been made
to many of the sections, including content in the Weimar
Germany unit, activities and content to the Second
World War section and a number of activities throughout various
parts of the Medicine
Through Time section. The First
World War section has been expanded and now boasts a picture gallery,
pages on war poetry, technological advances and Life in the Trenches
along with a number of accompanying worksheets. The site has also
launched a Pictorial Resource
section that currently offers pictures related to the Tudors, Weimar
and Nazi Germany, Castles and the D Day landing beaches amongst others.
Anne
Frank
Andrew Moore is in the process of creating a website on the resources
available for the study of Anne Frank and the Holocaust. It has been
written to coincide with the History for
Today Anne Frank exhibition which is currently touring
the UK. The site will provide teaching resources, related to Anne
Frank and the Holocaust, for a wide range of subjects. Teachers and
educators are invited to send in materials that they would like to
see added to this large database of resources on Anne Frank.
Art
and the First World War
This
is an excellent website devoted to the art produced during the First
World War. Created to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Armistice,
the database includes 54 artists and images of 100 pictures from museums
in London, Paris, Berlin, Bonn, Vienna, Caen and Verdun. All the exhibits
includes background details of the work and a brief biography of the
artist. The paintings are listed under seven different categories:
War Declared, Fighting Men, Age of Artillery, The Battlefield, Total
War, Suffering and Death.
Learning
Curve
The Public Record Office's award winning
Learning Curve website
has undergone a re-design to speed up access to its growing resources.
There is now also a full index of the site. Also new this month is
a new set of 11 Snapshots
written by Chris Culpin including subject ranging form Henry VIII
to the Holocaust.
The
Britannia Lexicon
The Britannia Lexicon is an on-line glossary of keywords used during
the Middle Ages. Organised like a dictionary, the user can discover
the meaning of legal, feudal, chivalric, monastic, military and architectural
terms associated with the Medieval period. This is an open-ended project
and Britannia intends to add lengthier entries on particular events,
wars, movements and organisations that will give a more in-depth view
of the period.
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
Paul Halsall has created a marvellous resource
for all historians on the Internet. This website contains links to
thousands of documents on the Medieval period. For students the best
starting point is 'Selected Sources' or 'Search the Sourcebook'. Other
sections include 'Maps and Images' and ''Medieval Films'.
Designing
Websites
A growing number of history teachers
are becoming interested in creating websites for their students. This
month Teaching History Online has commissioned Andrew
Moore to write and article on web design. It contains sections
on: What are you trying to do?, Who is the audience?, Learning how
HTML works, Text editors and WYSIWYG HTML editors, What equipment
is your audience using?, Text and images, Frames and tables, Site
structure, Hyperlinks, redundancy and the three-clicks rule, Use of
colour and background images and style sheets. The full article can
be found at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history5a.htm.
Josh
White
Elijah
Wald has written a fascinating biography of Josh
White, the blues and folk singer. Wald explores the complexities
of White's music, his stereotypes, his political involvements and
the persecution he suffered during the McCarthy era. Ward has also
created a website on the book where he includes extra photographs
and information on Josh White.
McCarthyism
McCarthyism 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.
Events, Issues & Organizations:
Espionage Act, Sedition Act, The Red Scare (1919-20), Federal Bureau
of Investigations, American Communist Party, Art Students League,
Sacco-Vanzetti Case, Group Theatre, Federal Writers Project, WPA Federal
Art Project, Federal Theatre Project, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan,
NATO, Alien Registration Act, House of Un-American Activities, McCarthyism,
Internal Security Act, Red Spy Queen, Red Channels, Eugene Dennis
Case, Rosenberg Case, McCarran-Walter Act, Hollywood Ten (24).
Communist Spies:
Elizabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David
Greenglass, Alger Hiss, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg (8)
The Investigators:
Roy Cohn, Martin Dies, Edward J. Hart, J. Edgar Hoover, Patrick McCarran,
Joseph McCarthy, Karl Mundt, Richard Nixon, A. M. Palmer, John Rankin,
David Schine, J. Parnell Thomas, Clyde Tolson, Harold Velde, Francis
E. Walter, John Wood (16)
The Informers:
Louis Budenz, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Collins, Edward Dmytryk, Max Eastman,
Michael Gordon, Roy Huggins, Burl Ives, Elia Kazan, Isobel Lennart,
Larry Parks, Robert Rossen, Budd Schulberg, Robert Taylor, Leo Townsend,
Josh White (16)
Blacklisted:
Larry Adler, Luther Adler, Stella Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Alvah
Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Bromberg, Alan Campbell,
Charlie Chaplin, Lester Cole, Aaron Copland, Jeff Corey, Howard Da
Silvia, Hanns Eisler, Carl Foreman, John Garfield, Will Geer, Paul
Green, Dashiell Hammett, Yip Harburg, Lillian Hellman, Marsha Hunt,
Paul Jarrico, Sidney Kingsley, Ring Lardner Jr., John H. Lawson, Canada
Lee, Philip Loeb, Joseph Losey, Albert Maltz, Arthur Miller, Zero
Mostel, Samuel Ornitz, Dorothy Parker, Abraham Polonsky, John Randolph,
Anne Revere, Paul Robeson, Adrian Scott, Pete Seeger, David Ogden
Stewart, Gale Sondergaard, Dalton Trumbo, Louis Untermeyer, Orson
Welles, Michael Wilson, Richard Wright (48)
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