Teaching History Online
Number 9: August, 2001
Contents
4. Britannica Guide to Black History
6. Encyclopedia of the Second World War
7. Anti-Slavery
Introduction
Spartacus Educational publishes 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 to create a community of people involved in using the Internet to teach history.
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John Simkin
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jewish human rights agency, has recently created an online Museum of Tolerance. This includes 3,000 text files and thousands of photographs on the Holocaust and the Second World War. A Teacher's Resource section provides a glossary, timeline, bibliographies, 36 questions and answers about the Holocaust and curricular resources for teachers. The website also includes 13,785 documents in English, German and Hebrew from the Institute of Documentation in Israel.
Douglas O. Linder, professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, has created an outstanding website on famous trials. Those covered so far include the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692), Amistad Trials (1839-40), Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868), Susan Anthony Trial (1873), Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921), Scopes Monkey Trial (1925), Scottsboro Trials (1931-37), Nuremberg Trials (1945-49), Rosenberg Trial (1951), Mississippi Burning Trial (1967), Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial (1969-70) and the My Lai Court Martial (1970). Most of these include background information on the case, biographies and photographs of trial participants, trial transcript excerpt and articles from newspapers that covered the trial.
Since it's relaunch Schools History has developed a number of further resource areas. Major additions to this site include units on America in the 1920's, the development of castles in post conquest England, a collection of downloadable assessment materials and the first parts of a unit on the British monarchy. The sites message board, run in collaboration with School History has proved instantly successful and teachers will benefit from quick responses to queries and ideas that they have. Over the next few weeks School History promises further additions in the form of additional picture galleries, a major new section on the Industrial Revolution, a detailed online lesson on Julius Caesar and regular additions to the Monarchs section. Teachers are encouraged to submit their own ideas, resources and links to Schools History in particular to increase the number of quality quizzes linked to in the Teachers Virtual School Quiz Directory.
Britannica Guide to Black History
The Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History contains 600 articles that are illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings as well as hundreds of photographs and other images. The material is organized in such a way that enables the visitor to examine five centuries of black heritage through five distinct time periods, from the slave revolts of early America through the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. Each era is further divided by topic, with biographies and photographs of notable people and descriptions and documents of historic events.
The Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. The photographs are by people such as Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, James Gardner, William Pywell, and George Barnard and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.
Encyclopedia of the Second World War
The Second World War is the latest of the Spartacus Educational comprehensive websites. All entries contains a narrative and the majority have 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. The section on biographies include:
British & Commonwealth Military Figures: Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Douglas Bader, Donald Bennett, Thomas Blamey, Harry Broadhurst, Alan Brooke, Maurice Buckmaster, Leonard Cheshire, Peter Churchill, Arthur Coningham, Andrew Cunningham, Miles Dempsey, Alan Deere, John Dill, Eric Dormon-Smith, William Sholto Douglas, Hugh Dowding, Basil Embly, Guy Gibson, John Gort, Colin Gubbins, Arthur Harris, Brian Horrocks, William Ironside, Hastings Ismay, Johnnie Johnson, Edgar J. Kain, James Lacey, Oliver Leese, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Basil Liddel Hart, Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, Herbert Lumsden, Clifford McEwen, Frank Messervy, Bernard Montgomery, Leslie Morshead, Lord Mountbatten, Keith Park, Marmaduke Pattle, Richard Peirse, Arthur Percival, Charles Portal, Bertram Ramsay, Neil Richie, Robert Saunby, John Slessor, William Slim, Arthur Tedder, Archibald Wavell, Jeff West, Orde Wingate
And Edward Yeo-Thomas (54)
United States Military Figures: Henry Arnold, Walter Bedell-Smith, Omar Bradley, Simon Buckner, Daniel Callaghan, Evans Carlson, Mark Clark, Joe L. Collins, Lucius D.Clay, William Donovan, Ira Eaker, Merritt Edson, Robert Eichelberger, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frank Fletcher, Roy Geiger, Oscar Griswold, Leslie Groves, William Halsey, Thomas Hart, Millard Harmon, Courtney Hodges, Ernest King, Thomas Kinkaid, Walter Krueger, William Leahy, Curtis LeMay, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, Frank Merrill, Chester Nimitz, Alexander Patch, George Patton, Lewis Puller, Matthew Ridgway, Holland Smith, Carl Spaatz, Raymond Spruance, Harold Stark, Joseph Stilwell, Paul Tibbets, Richmond Turner, Alexander Vandegrift, Jonathan Wainright, Carleton Wright (46)
German Military Figures: Jurgen von Arnium, Fritz Bayerlein, Ludwig Beck, Hermann Balck, Werner von Blomberg, Fedor von Bock, Heinrich von Brauchitsch, Wilhelm Canaris, Sepp Dietrich, Karl Doenitz, Adolf Eichmann, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Werner von Fitsch, Erich Fromm, Hermann Goering, Wilhelm Groener, Heinz Guderian, Franz Halder, Erich Hartmann, Kurt Hammerstein-Equord, Gotthard Heinrici, Erich Hoepner, Hans Hube, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Albrecht Kesselring, Paul von Kliest, Gunther von Kluge, Erich von Manstein, Erhard Miltch, Walther Model, Oberst Molders, Hans Oster, Gunther Prien, Erich Raeder, Walther von Reichenau, Wolfram von Richthofen, Erwin Rommel, Hans Ulrich Rudel, Gerd von Rundstedt, Friedrich Schorner, Fabin Schlabrendorff, Kurt von Schleicher, Otto Skorzeny, Hans Speidel, Hugo Sperrie, George Stumme, Kurt Student, Carl Stulpnagel, Ritter von Thoma, Henning von Tresckow, Ernst Udet, Walther Warlimont, Karl Wolff, Erwin von Witzleben, Kurt Zeitzler (56)
Japanese Military Figures: Masaki Honda, Janji Ishiwari, Mineichi Koga, Takeo Kurita, Akiro Muto, Chuichi Nagumo, Jisaburo Ozawa, Raizo Tanaka, Hisaichi Terauchi, Semyon Timoshenko, Soemu Toyoda, Mitsuru Ushijima, Isoruku Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Yamashita (14)
Resistance to Fascism in Germany: Karl Barth, Ludwig Beck, Eduard Bernstein, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Klaus Bonhoffer, Rudolf Breitscheid, Wilhelm Canaris, Georgi Dimitrov, Hans Dohnanyi, Hans Gisevius, Carl Goerdeler, Willi Graf, George Grosz, Herschel Grynszpan, Heinrich Gruber, Werner von Haeften, Ulrich von Hassell, John Heartfield, Wolf von Helldorf, Erich Hoepner, Casar von Hofacker, Kurt Huber, Otto John, Jakob Kaiser, Edwald Kleist-Schmenzin, Gunther von Kluge, Kathe Kollwitz, Julius Leber, Marinus van der Lubbe, Helmuth von Moltke, Josef Muller, Willie Munzenberg, Martin Niemöller, Hans Oster, Friedrich Olbricht, Christoph Probst, Adolf Reichwein, Fabian Schlabrendorff, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Inge Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Richard Sorge, Claus von Stauffenberg, Helmuth Stief, Carl Stulpnagel, Ernst Thalmann, Henning von Tresckow, Adam von Trot, Josef Wirmer, Juegen Wittenstein, Erwin von Witzleben, Peter von Wartenburg, Clara Zetkin (54)
French Resistance: Lucie Aubrac, Raymond Aubrac, Emmanuel d'Astier, Simone de Beavoir, Marc Bloch, Georges Bidault, Pierre Brossolette, Albert Camus, Marie Louise Dissard, Jacques Duclos, Marguerite Duras, Charles Delestraint, Andre Dewavrin, Pierre Fabien, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, Henry Frenay, George Groussard, René Hardy, Denise Jacob, Andrée de Jongh, Jean-Pierre Lévy, Rosemary Maeght, Georges Mandel, André Malraux, Francois Mauriac, André Marty, Daniel Mayer, Francois Mitterrand, Jean Moulin, Emmanuel Mounier, Jean Paulhan, Harry Peulevé, Genevieve Soulié, Jules-Gerard Saliege, Jean Paul Sartre, Drue Tartié, Charles Tillon, Germaine Tillion, Maurice Thorez, Helene Viannay, Pierre Villon, Simone Weil (42)
Scientists and Inventors: David Bohm, Nils Bohr, Max Born, Walther Bothe, Felix Bloch, Wernher von Braun, Sydney Camm, James Chadwick, Christopher Cockerell, Walter Dornberger, Albert Einstein, Klaus Fuchs, Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Otto Frisch, Walter Gerlach, Hans Geiger, Otto Hahn, Gustav Hertz, Ernst Heinkel, Werner Heisenberg, R. V. Jones, Pascual Jordan, Max von Laue, Phillipp Lenard, Frederick Lindemann, Salvador Luria, Edward McMillan, Lise Meitner, Reginald J. Mitchell, Rudolf Peierls, Max Planck, Hermann Oberth, Hans von Ohain, Robert Oppenheimer, Glenn Seaborg, Emilio Segre, Alexander de Seversky, Johannes Stark, Fritz Strassmann, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Henry Tizard, Barnes Wallis, Robert Watson-Watt, Carl von Weizsäcker, Frank Whittle, Eugene Wigner, Karl Wirtz, Vadimir Zworykin (50)
The overall aim of the Antislavery organization is to help individuals understand the role of human rights in today's world, as well as the underlying attitudes which lead to the respect, or violation of them. The group's work focuses particularly on examples of contemporary and historical slavery and the international instruments used to protect human rights. As well as photographs and exhibitions the website also includes a section where you can find more information about how you can purchase anti-slavery educational resources.
Please email John Simkin at spartacus@pavilion.co.uk if you have information you want included in next month's edition of Teaching History Online.