Teaching
History Online
Number
71: 2nd February, 2003
Introduction
1.
Health
and Medicine in Kent
2.
Children
of the Warsaw Ghetto
3.
School
History Diagrams
4.
Vietnam
Veterans Memorial
5.
Pioneer
American Women
6.
Native
American Rhymes
7. Revolution
to Reconstruction
8. Connecticut
Historical Society
Introduction
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Health
and Medicine in Kent: Written by Ian Coulson to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the NHS this excellent website includes material
on prehistoric medicine, Roman medicine, health in the Middle Ages,
John Esson, the Black Death, William Harvey, cholera, secret remedies,
early hospitals and Bevan's NHS. Although the focus is on Kent the
material could be used by any secondary school student studying the
history of medicine.
Children
of the Warsaw Ghetto: The theme for the Holocaust Memorial Day
this year is ‘Children’ and the Holocaust. One and a half
million Jewish children were victims of Nazism and hundreds of thousands
of other children were also victims, including the Romani’s (Gypsies),
black children, Slavs, Jehovah Witnesses and the disabled. To try
and address that wide group whilst not spreading too thinly the education
resources have focused further again, so that they predominantly cover
children in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto. The main body of the resources
take the form of assemblies lasting for approximately 15 minutes each.
However as well as being used in an assembly they can also be used
in the history classroom.
School
History Diagrams: This is something entirely different. With an
interactive diagram from School History a student can create their
own revision, recap or summary diagram on a particular topic. The
simple structure helps a student plan their thoughts and ideas in
a spider diagram format. If help is needed, a student simply needs
to hover over the help button for suggestions and assistance to instantly
appear. Recently redesigned and improved the diagrams now offer the
facility to save your work and still print out perfectly to fill a
standard piece of paper.
Vietnam
Veterans Memorial: The Virtual Wall is an on-line version of the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, USA and has thousands
of personalized tributes to the men and women who died in the war.
Remembrances contain photographs, letters, poems, military citations,
and personal accounts.
Pioneer
American Women: This photo-essay gallery from Time Life explores
the lives of 11 noteworthy American women from the late 19th century
and early 20th century. This includes Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Blackwell, Margaret Sanger, Belva Lockwood, Jeannette Rankin, Frances
Perkins, Clare Booth Luce, Rosa Parks and Clara Barton, who made an
impact in such male-dominated fields as medicine and government.
Native
American Rhymes: The main motivation behind this website is to
promote a series of books about Native Americans by Sam Rhodes. However
the website also includes sections on Native American Regions and
the Great Chiefs. Native American Fun is a collection of games, crossword
and word search puzzles that can be used in the classroom.
Revolution
to Reconstruction: This website, produced by the Department of
Humanities Computing at the University of Groningen, covers American
history from the colonial period until the 20th century. The main
body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes from
four books: An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American
Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American
Literature. The text of these books have not been changed, but they
have been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original
essays and other Internet sites.
Connecticut
Historical Society: On this Connecticut Historical Society website
there is a series of online exhibits dealing with a variety of different
topics. This includes Costumes & Textiles, Connecticut in 1836,
Hartford in the 1850s, Civil War Treasures, Connecticut in the Jazz
Age, Hartford Heroes, Early American Tavern & Inn Signs, and Augustus
Washington. The website also contains sections dealing with the Connecticut
Historical Society's resources on African Americans and the Civil
War.
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