Teaching
History Online
Number
66: 29th December, 2002
Introduction
1.
The
War to End All Wars
2.
Kings
and Queens
3.
History of the Cherokee
4.
Jamestown
and the Virginia Experiment
5.
Archiving
Early America
6.
Slavery
7. Hostetler's
Social Studies Website
8. The
Roman Empire
Introduction
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The
War to End All Wars: The First World War was fought between 1914
and 1918. Even before it had finished people were saying that it must
be "The war to end wars". They meant that the war was so
awful that nothing like it must ever be allowed to happen again. The
seven main galleries in this exhibition will help students to understand
why so many people felt like this after the First World War.
Kings
and Queens: Explore the kings and queens of England and later
the United Kingdom through time, illustrated with contemporary portraits
and key events from each period. Then see if you can remember who
reigned when in the game. There are four periods to explore in this
BBC website. The Plantagenets and the Houses of Lancaster and York
are featured in the first period, the Tudors and Stuarts in the second
and the House of Hanover in the third. The timeline concludes with
the Windsors.
History
of the Cherokee: This outstanding website has been created by
Ken Martin, a Cherokee of mixed-blood and a tribal member of the Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma. There are sections on: Before the Europeans (In
the Beginning, The Legend of the Keetoowahs, A View of Traditional
Cherokee Law); First Contacts with Europeans (Fire in the Mountains,
First European Contact, Initial Contacts with English Colonists, 1700
through the Revolutionary War); The New United States (The Chickamauga,
The Arkansas Cherokee, Pictures of Our Nobler Selves) The Removal
(The Trail of Tears); Between Two Fires (From Neutrality to the Alliance
with the Confederate States of America, Physical Appearance, Medical
Personnel for Cherokee Troops, The Thomas Legion of North Carolina).
Jamestown
and the Virginia Experiment: The Virtual Jamestown Archive is
a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the
legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."
Jamestown Interactive highlights some of the newest project development
at Virtual Jamestown. For example, using John Smith's maps and records
as a guide, they have put together Flash maps of the Chesapeake area,
allowing users to interact with Smith's voyages in a new way.
Archiving
Early America: The main focus at Archiving Early America is primary
source material from 18th Century America - all displayed digitally.
Using original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings, the website
covers subjects the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill
of Rights, Famous Obituaries, The Lives of Early Americans, Portraits
and Notable Women Of Early America.
Slavery:
As soon as Europeans began to settle in America, in the early 16th
century, they imported black slaves from Africa to work for them.
As European settlement grew, so did the demand for slaves. Over the
next 300 years more than 11 million slaves were transported across
the Atlantic from Africa to America. Britain was heavily involved
from the mid-17th century onwards. Ports such as Bristol, Liverpool
and Glasgow sent out many slaving ships each year, bringing great
prosperity to their owners. This Public Record Office website provides
information on how the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833 affected slavery.
Hostetler's
Social Studies Website: After
23 years of teaching social studies at the 8th grade level, Ned Hostetler
is now in his third year of teaching senior Government at Orrville
High School in Ohio. His website was created to help his students
find information. The site is divided into the following categories:
Current Events, Government, General References, Military History (French
and Indian War, Revolutionary War and War of 1812), Ohio Frontiersmen
and Indians, Colonial Times and Museums.
Book
Section
The
Roman Empire: John Clare's book is an essential and unique resource
for teaching and learning about the issues and events that characterize
the history of the Roman peoples and their world. It never lets go
of the period's story, providing innovative and exciting opportunities
to examine the subject and investigate particular topics.
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