Teaching History Online
Number 9: August, 2001
Contents
Introduction
1. Museum
of Tolerance
2. Famous
Trials
3. Schools
History
4. Britannica
Guide to Black History
5. Civil
War Photographs
6. Encyclopedia
of the Second World War
7. Anti-Slavery
Introduction
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Museum
of Tolerance
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.
Famous
Trials
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.
Schools
History
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.
Civil
War Photographs
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)
Anti-Slavery
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.
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