Teaching
History Online
Number
51: 15th September, 2002
Introduction
1.
Father
Coughlin
2.
Discovering
Lewis and Clark
3.
Mark
Millmore's Ancient Egypt
4.
Ancient
Egyptian Virtual Temple
5.
Questia:
McCarthyism
6.
Stalin
and Hitler
7.
Scholars'
Guide to the WWW
8.
The
Lost King of France
Introduction
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Father
Coughlin: On
11th November, 1934, Father Charles E. Coughlin announced the formation
of the National Union of Social Justice and began his bid to oust
President Franklin D. Roosevelt from power. At this time some observers
claimed that Coughlin was the second most important political figure
in the United States. It was estimated that Coughlin's radio broadcasts
were getting an audience of 30 million people. He was also apparently
receiving 400,000 letters a week from his listeners. According
to Wallace
Stegner "Father Coughlin had a voice of such mellow richness,
such manly, heart-warming,
confidential intimacy, such emotional and ingratiating charm, that
anyone tuning past it on the radio dial almost automatically returned
to hear it again." This
website traces the rise and fall of America's first radio star.
Discovering
Lewis and Clark: The centerpiece of Discovering Lewis and Clark
is a 19-part synopsis of the expedition by Harry Fritz, Professor
of History at the University of Montana, illustrated with selections
from the journals of the expedition, photographs, maps, animated graphics,
moving pictures, and sound files. Clicking on any still image or highlighted
word will lead you to another branch, or level of insight, into the
significance of the Lewis and Clark expedition in American history,
and in contemporary life. You
can also navigate through Discovering Lewis and Clark by using the
"Discovery Paths" or the "Journal Excerpts" menus.
The word-search utility can be used to find references anywhere in
the text.
Mark
Millmore's Ancient Egypt: Ancient Egyptian history covers a continuous
period of over three thousand years. Egyptian culture declined and
disappeared nearly two thousand years ago. The last vestiges of the
living culture ceased to exist in AD 391 when the Byzantine Emperor
Theodosius I closed all pagan temples throughout the Roman Empire.
Mark Millmore's website contains a wealth of information on Ancient
Egypt and is an ideal place to visit if you are studying or teaching
the subject.
Ancient
Egyptian Virtual Temple: This website, produced by Ma'at Publishing,
enables you to move through a computer generated reconstruction of
an Egyptian temple. As well as the temple the website has sections
on Religion & Beliefs, Culture & Daily Life, Trade, Places
& Maps of Egypt, Mummies, Egyptian Calendar, Art, Architecture,
Pyramids, Literature & Wisdom Texts, Music & Dance, Wine &
Winemaking, Hieroglyphs, Egyptian Medicine, Priests & Physicians,
Temple Gardens and Animals of Egypt.
Questia:
McCarthyism: Questia is an online library that provides access
to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles
in the humanities and social sciences. You can read every title cover
to cover. The content - selected by professional collection development
librarians - is not available elsewhere on the Internet. To complement
the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing
tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information
on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly
formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. The section
on McCarthyism includes McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare
McCarthyism, the Fight for America, The Intellectuals and McCarthy,
The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate, Nightmare
in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective, The Great Red Menace and
Cold War Fugitive: A Personal Story of the McCarthy Years.
Stalin
and Hitler: Seumas Milne argues that "it has become almost
received wisdom to bracket Stalin and Hitler as twin monsters of the
past century and commonplace to equate communism and fascism as the
two greatest evils of an unprecedentedly sanguinary era." In
this article Milne looks at the latest evidence for this point of
view and explains why he believes that this battle for history is
never really about the past but the struggle for the future.
Scholars'
Guide to the WWW: A directory website produced by Richard Jensen,
Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Sections include: History: General, History: USA, History Departments,
Ethnic Studies, Demography & Ethnicity, Humanities, Libraries,
Bibliographies, Online Magazines & Books and Online Maps.
Book
Section
The
Lost King of France: In 1793, when Marie Antoinette was beheaded
at the guillotine, she left her adored son Louis Charles, the Dauphin,
imprisoned in the Temple tower. Far from inheriting a throne, the
orphaned prince had to endure the hostility and hatred of a nation.
Two years later, French Revolutionary leaders declared he was dead.
Deborah Cadbury's book is a powerful story of royalty, revolution
and revenge. Interwoven with an account of a tumultuous moment in
France's history is a fascinating and moving detective story involving
pretenders to the crown, royalist plots and legal battles that leads,
for the very first time, to the final horrifying truth about the fate
of the young prince in the tower and the real identity of the Lost
King of France. (Fourth Estate, ISBN 1 84115 588 8, £18.99)
Available from Amazon Books
(order below)
