Teaching
History Online
Number
62: Ist December, 2002
Introduction
1.
Greenfield
Modern World History
2.
Turning
the Pages
3.
Women
and Social Movements
4.
Pilgrims
in American Culture
5.
Nazi
Persecution of Homosexuals
6.
History
20
7. Wales
1700-1960
8. Paul
Robeson in Wales
9. Life
in the Whitehouse
10. Leadership
and Command
Introduction
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Greenfield
Modern World History: John D. Clare's website includes topic mini-books:
'basics-only' texts on Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, Road
to WWII, Cold War, Russia 1917-41 and Britain and World War II, with
links to allow deeper research. The website also contains coursework
materials on Haig and Votes for Women. The texts are available as
Microsoft Word files, for users to download and print as they want.
The website also features Revision Sheets (summaries of 'key facts
and ideas to remember' from the mini-books) and Exemplar Essays on
some 30 topics, each starting with a 150-word summary, and then offering
an 'unpacked' version of around 400 words.
Turning
the Pages is an award-winning interactive display system developed
by The British Library to increase public access and enjoyment of
some of its most valuable treasures. Visitors are able to virtually
"turn" the pages of manuscripts in an incredibly realistic
way, using touch-screen technology and animation. They can zoom in
on the high quality digitized images and read or listen to notes explaining
the beauty and significance of each page. There are other features
specific to the individual manuscripts - in the Leonardo notebook,
for example, a mirror button turns the text round so visitors can
try to read his famous mirror handwriting. There are currently nine
treasures on display in Turning the Pages; the Lindisfarne Gospels,
the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo Notebook, the Golden
Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, the Sherborne
Missal and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an.
Women
and Social Movements: This 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 41 mini-monographs
that interpret documents. Each mini-monograph poses an interpretive
question and provides a collection of documents that address the question.
Altogether the site includes almost 900 documents, nearly 400 images,
and 350 links to other websites. There are currently twenty comprehensive
lesson plans with over a hundred lesson ideas mounted in the Teacher's
Corner.
Pilgrims
in American Culture: Each fall, Plimoth Plantation’s Research,
Education and Public Relations departments receive thousands of telephone
calls and letters, all asking the same question: "What was the
‘First Thanksgiving’ really like?" The answer is more
complicated than you might first think. Most of what we know about
the 1621 event comes from the first-hand accounts of Governor William
Bradford and Master Edward Winslow, leaders of the young colony. Other
facts can be gleaned by studying English harvest home traditions,
available foodstuffs and cooking techniques, Separatist religious
practices and 17th-Century English social patterns and customs. Here
is a collection of information on all these subjects, prepared by
Plimoth Plantation museum staff to answer the questions of students,
teachers, religious organizations and community groups. It responds
to the most frequently asked questions about the First Thanksgiving
and is intended to serve as your guide to re-creating the original
17th-Century event.
Nazi
Persecution of Homosexuals: Between 1933 and 1945, Germany's National
Socialist (Nazi) government under Adolf Hitler used its monopoly of
authority to attempt to rid German territory of people who did not
fit its vision of a "master Aryan race." Foremost among
the so - called racial enemies, according to the Nazis' antisemitic
ideology, were the Jews. Many other groups were targets of persecution
and even murder under the Nazis’ ideology, including Germans
with mental and physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah’s
Witnesses, Gypsies, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. This United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum online exhibition examines the campaign
of persecution and violence against the homosexuals of Germany.
History
20: This website has been produced to support the Saskatchewan
Social Studies Curriculum. Each page has been developed to act as
a "resource hot sheet" dealing with topics identified in
the History 20 curriculum. The resource hot sheets can act as a primary
or secondary reading, or to assist in classroom discussions of a variety
of topics. Each page has been supported with appropriate visual images,
and where possible, first person accounts by individuals who were
present during the event. In addition, a number of multimedia-learning
objects have been place including sound bites, mini - movies and flash
items.
Wales
1700-1960: Biographies of people from Wales. People featured include
Clifford Allen, William Berry, Aneurin Bevan, Clement Davies, Violet
Douglas-Pennant, John Frost, Vernon Hartshorn, David Lloyd George,
Josiah Guest, Leslie Illingworth, Augustus John, Gwen John, Samuel
Jones, Robert Owen, Richard Price, Sarah Siddons, Thora Silverthorne,
Howard Spring, Bert Thomas, David Albert Thomas, Edward Thomas, Jimmy
Thomas, Margaret Haig Thomas and Gerald of Wales.
Paul
Robeson in Wales: This short movie, produced by Worldwidewales,
features Paul Robeson. His best-known roles were in “Showboat”
and as Shakespeare’s Othello. “Proud Valley” conveyed
his politics in his acting, cementing his relationship with Wales.
During the Depression, he joined a group of miners singing for money,
donated concert proceeds to their Relief Fund and visited the Rhondda
Valley to sing for the mining communities. During
the Second World War he returned to America becoming a prominent voice
for democracy. In 1950 however, suspected of being a Communist, his
passport was removed. However, in 1957 he sang over the phone to the
Miners’ Eisteddfod in Wales.
Book
Section
Leadership
and Command: It may be the standard foot soldier or individual
pilot who fights a war, but the success or failure of a battle or
campaign usually hinges on the quality of the command and leadership
at the top. Without efficient strategy and planning, effective decision-making,
and determined control by the most senior staff, military action is
destined to fail. This book features the work of twelve leading historians
and their articles cover the First and Second World Wars, American
Civil War, Colonial Wars and the Gulf War.
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