Teaching History Online
Number 8: July, 2001
Contents
Introduction
1. The
Home Front
2. TVS
History Department
3. PBS
History
4. Victoria
Cross Website
5. Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
6. National
Italian American Foundation
7. BUBL
History Reference Library
8. Germany
1900-1945
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
The
Home Front
The multiple award winning Learning
Curve has launched its latest piece of content. The Home Front:
1939-45 is designed to complement fully the History National Curriculum
(Key Stages 2-4). Students can take a multimedia journey through seven
different aspects the Second World War and make up their own mind
as to why it occurred and how it was fought. Along every step of the
way the student has unrivalled access to the original documentation,
gaining a real experience of 'making history'.
History
Department of the Teachers' Virtual School
The TVS
History Department has been re-launched. As well as online lessons
it includes a large collection of Resources, History Worksheets and
History Quizzes. Other subject departments now available include English,
Mathematics, Science, Design & Technology, Modern Languages, Geography,
ITC, Music, Religious Studies, Politics and Sociology.
PBS
History
PBS is a non-profit media enterprise
owned and operated by 347 public television stations in the United
States. It also has one of the best educational websites on the Internet.
So far the PBS has produced more than 135,000 pages of content. One
of the joys of this website is that it is willing to provide in-depth
material on people in history who are not as well known as they should
be. This includes Joe Hill, A. Philip Randolph, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Marcus Garvey, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Richard
Wright. Other topic covered include America and the Holocaust, The
Donner Party, John Brown's Holy War, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
and Surviving the Dustbowl.
Victoria
Cross Website
Created by Mike Chapman, the Victoria
Cross website is dedicated to the 1354 people who have been awarded
this medal since 1856. There are sections on all the
military campaigns since the Crimean War. The section on the First
World War is particularly impressive and visitors can access information
about the 624 men who won the Victoria Cross between 1914-18. This
includes details of the deed and location of the medal. Entries are
also listed by regiment, rank, campaign and nationality.
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth
War Graves Commission (CWGC) was
established in 1917. Its duties involve marking and maintaining the
graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed
in the two World Wars. The CWGC is also responsible for keeping records
of those who lost their lives and over the years has become an important
source of information for those carrying
out historical research. Earlier this year, the CWGC began to make
this material available on the Internet. It is now possible to obtain
details of the rank, regiment, date and burial of all members of the
armed forces killed in the First
World War. With over 600,000 visitors
a week, the CWGC search engine sometimes takes a while to respond
to queries.
National Italian
American Foundation
Italian Americans are the fifth largest ethnic group
in the United States. There are nearly 15 million people who have
identified themselves as Italian Americans and the Census Bureau estimates
that one in ten people in the country have some Italian blood. The
National Italian American Foundation
website provides information on the large number of
Italian Americans who have made significant contributions to United
States history. Factsheets available on the NIAF website includes
Women Trial Blazers, Military History, Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs,
Education and Italian Influences in Washington.
BUBL
History Reference Library
BUBL Information Service, based
at Strathclyde University Library, is a searchable database of Internet
resources of academic relevance. The websites are organised by Dewey
Decimal Classification and can be searched by subject or class number.
The history main page has fourteen main categories that include: History
Journals, World History, Biography, Genealogy, History of the Ancient
World, History of the British Isles, History of Europe, History of
Asia, History of Africa, History of North America and History of South
America. These provide links to further categories. For example, the
History of the British Isles, is broken down into websites on Scotland,
Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales. Each website listed
has a brief review with information on the people and organisations
that have created the website.
Germany
1900-1945
Germany 1900-1945 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.
Weimar Republic:
Treaty of Versailles, Spartakist Rising, German Revolution, Bavarian
Republic, Ruhr Occupation, Freikorps, Inflation, Unemployment, Dawes
Plan, Reparations, Beer Hall Putsch, Kapp Putsch, Treaty of Rapallo,
Young Plan, Locarno Treaty and League of Nations (16)
German Political Parties:
Social Democratic Party, Spartacus League, German Worker's Party,
German Communist Party, Nationalist Party, Catholic Centre Party,
Independent Socialist Party and Nazi Party (8)
Foreign Policy: 1932-40:
Appeasement, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Anti-Comintern Pact, Poland,
Rhineland, Anschluss, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, German-Japanese
Pact, Invasion of Finland and Invasion of France (12)
Nazi Germany: 1932-45:
Sturm Abteilung (SA), Schutz Staffeinel (SS), Nazi Party, Jews in
Germany, Mein Kampf, Women in Nazi Germany, Gestapo, Reichstag Fire,
1933 General Election, Concentration Camps, Enabling Bill, Trade Unions,
German Army, Education, Luftwaffe, Abwehr, Hitler Youth, German Girls'
League, Christianity, Night of the Long Knives, German Fascism, Anti-Semitism,
German Labour Front, Strength through Joy, Nuremberg Laws, Crystal
Night, German Labour Service, White Rose Group, Wannsee Conference,
Extermination Camps, Waffen SS, Death's Head Units, Final Solution
and Nuremberg War Trials (34)
Political Figures in Nazi Germany:
Otto Abetz, Max Amann, Artur Axmann, Klaus Barbie, Martin Bormann,
Kurt Daluege, Theodor Dannecker, Richard Darré, Sepp Dietrich,
Rudolf Diels, Karl Doenitz, Anton Drexler, Adolf Eichmann, Theodor
Eicke, Franz Epp, Gottfried Feder, Eugen Fischer, Hans Frank, Wilhelm
Frick, Friedrich Flick, Hans Fritzsche, Roland Friesler, Walther Funk,
Irma Grese, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Walter Gross, Ernst
Hanfstaengel, Veit Harlan, Rudolf Hess, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich
Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Hoffmann, Rudolf Höss, Ernst
Jünger, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang Kapp, Emile Kirdorf, Erich
Koch, Ilse Koch, Karl Koch, Josef Kramer, Gustav Krupp, Alfried Krupp,
Robert Ley, Victor Lutze, Eric Ludendorff, Franz von Pfeffer, Heinrich
Mueller, Ludwig Muller, Arthur Nebe, Joachim von
