Teaching
History Online
Number
99: 17th August, 2003
Introduction
1.
First
World War Encyclopaedia
2.
History
Matters
3.
Digital
History
4.
American
Women
5.
First
Nations Histories
6.
Mountain
Men and the Fur Trade
7. Wild
Bill Hickok
8. NativeWeb
9. Martime
Power
Introduction
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First
World War Encyclopedia:
A comprehensive encyclopedia of the First World War. 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. So far there are sections on: Chronology,
Outbreak of War, Allied Armed Forces, Central Powers, Important Battles,
Technology, Political Leaders, British Home Front, Military Leaders,
Trench War, The Soldiers, Major Offensives, War at Sea, War in the
Air, War Artists, War Literature, War Heroes, Women at War, Organisations,
Strategies & Tactics, Weapons & Machines, Inventors and the
War, Theatres of War and War Statistics.
History
Matters: Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S.
History courses. This site serves as a gateway to web resources and
offers useful materials for teaching US history. The website includes
Many Pasts (primary documents): Making Sense of Evidence (guides for
analyzing primary sources); Past Meets Present (articles and resources
that link the past with current ideas and events); Reference Desk
(links to resources); Digital Blackboard (teaching assignments using
web resources): Students as Historians (examples of student work on
the web) and Secrets of Great Historians (distinguished teachers share
their strategies and techniques).
Digital
History: This website was designed and developed to support the
teaching of American History in schools and colleges and is supported
by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University
of Houston. The materials on this website include a US history textbook;
over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on
deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources
on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and US political,
social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film,
ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and
reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated
links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive
including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive
with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian
feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.
American
Women: Unlike most American Memory presentations, American Women
is not a collection of digital items. It is a gateway - a first stop
for Library of Congress researchers working in the field of American
women's history. The site contains a expanded and fully searchable
version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress
Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.
The guide has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations
and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library
of Congress website. These materials are supplemented by a small number
of newly digitized items that provide a sample of the many relevant
types of materials available in Library of Congress holdings.
First
Nations Histories: Brief descriptions of different Native American
groups. This includes the following: Abenaki, Acolapissa, Algonkin,
Bayougoula, Beothuk, Catawba, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chitimacha, Comanche,
Delaware, Houma, Huron, Illinois, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Mahican, Mascouten,
Massachusett, Mattabesic, Menominee, Metoac, Miami, Micmac, Mohegan,
Montagnais, Narragansett, Nauset, Neutrals, Niantic, Nipissing, Nipmuc,
Ojibwe, Ottawa, Pennacook, Pequot, Pocumtuc, Potawatomi, Sauk and
Fox, Shawnee, Susquehannock, Tionontati, Tsalagi, Wampanoag, Wappinger
and Winnebago.
Mountain
Men and the Fur Trade: The primary purpose this website is to
provide a virtual research center for Western Fur Trade History. The
emphasis is on the Mountain Men in the United States Rocky Mountain
region in the period from 1800-50. The first priority has been to
provide an e-text collection of the most important historical source
materials available. This includes the writings of William Ashley,
Thomas Beall, William Becknell, Henry Brackenridge, George Catlin,
James Clyman, Anthony Dudgeon, Warren Ferris, Washington Irving, Zenas
Leonard, Stephen Meek, Robert Newell, Peter Ogden, Daniel Potts, Eliza
Spalding and Nathaniel Wyeth.
Wild
Bill Hickok: By the 1860s Wild Bill Hickok had developed a reputation
as a cold-blooded killer. Apparently, he became concerned that these
stories would get back to his mother in Illinois. He therefore persuaded
a journalist, George Ward Nichols, to write an article about him.
The article appeared in the February, 1867, edition of Harper's New
Monthly Magazine. Newspapers such as the Leavenworth Daily Conservative,
Kansas Daily Commonwealth, Springfield Patriot and the Atchison Daily
Champion quickly pointed out that the article was full of inaccuracies
and that Hickok was lying when he claimed he had killed "hundreds
of men". This website includes extracts from these articles and
might make a good case-study on the creation of a myth in history.
NativeWeb
is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated
to using telecommunications including computer technology and the
Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations,
peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication
between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving
indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide
resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples'
use of this technology. NativeWeb is concerned with indigenous literature
and art, legal and economic issues, land claims and new ventures in
self-determination.
Book
Section
Martime
Power: Of all
naval actions in history, none are so glorious as those of the Nelson
era. But they are not only
stirring; they are fascinating too in revealing a hidden constant
of history - the inherent advantage whereby sea powers have, throughout
the modern era, always prevailed over land based empires. Peter Padfield
skilfully combines the drama of battle with the deep causes of victory.
He also contrasts British power, based on trade and attuned to the
needs of trade - individual initiative, freedom of information, and
sound credit - with French power, based on conquest and centralised
authority. (Peter Padfield, Martime Power, John Murray, ISBN 0 7195
5665 1, £25.00)
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