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Eric Beckman

Student walkouts from Soweto to Parkland: Protesting apartheid and school shootings - T... - 0 views

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    Inlcudes 12 minute video on iconic photograph
Eric Beckman

When Japanese Americans were Caged - 0 views

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    NBC News page with short videos including archival footage and links to primary sources on Japanese Internment. Produced for the 75th Anniversary
Eric Beckman

The Lynching of Private James Neely - YouTube - 0 views

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    Three minute video, animated. Details the lynching of a Black Spanish American War veteran and connects this to the broader story of lynching as a tool of White Supremacy
Eric Beckman

Historians Put Immigration Executive Order in Historical Context - 0 views

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    Blog post, Roundtable
Eric Beckman

Poster: Dealers Inspecting A Negro At A Slave Auction - 0 views

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    Enslaver inspects an enslaved person
Eric Beckman

"White Supremacy" drove Segregation in the South - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Article describing the destruction of interracial democracy in post-Reconstruction North Carolina
Eric Beckman

Haiti and the Atlantic World | Sources and Resources for Discussions about Haiti and Ha... - 0 views

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    Blog, Dessalines Reader, Links to Resources
Eric Beckman

Growing Apart - 0 views

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    "A Political History of American Inequality".  Lots of data, graphs,  charts.
Eric Beckman

1914-1918-online - 0 views

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    Encyclopedia
Eric Beckman

Colonial Latin America - 0 views

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    Primary sources and data
Eric Beckman

A Tale of Two Plantations - 0 views

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    Research into the lives of enslaved people in plantations in Jamaica and Virginia
Eric Beckman

Where Slaves Ruled - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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    Profiles current day communities originally founded be escaped slaves in Brazil
Eric Beckman

Myth: General Ulysses S. Grant stopped the prisoner exchange, and is thus responsible f... - 0 views

  • In May of 1863, the Confederate Congress passed a joint resolution that formalized Davis's proclamation that black soldiers taken prisoner would not be subject to the prisoner exchange.
  • On July 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued General Orders 252, which effectively suspended the Dix-Hill Cartel until the Confederate forces agreed to treat black prisoners the same as white prisoners.
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    Article from the National Park Service on the political dispute that ended prisoner exchanges during the Civil War.  The end of these exchanges led to large, dangerous POW camps.  Political dispute was about the Confederate refusal to return black POWs. 
Eric Beckman

KING ASHOKA: His Edicts and His Times - 0 views

  • King Piyadasi of the edicts might be the King Asoka
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    Translations of the Ashoka's pillar edicts
Andy Beede

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown - Season 4 Episode 6 - Iran - YouTube - 0 views

shared by Andy Beede on 30 May 15 - No Cached
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    Less travel and more contemporary Iran than Rick Steves, the only copy I could find of this on Youtube has a distracting fake "theater" around the screen. I plan to show it nevertheless.
Andy Beede

Glasnost and Perestroika: The Failed Reforms that Sparked a Revolution - YouTube - 0 views

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    A History Day project which earned Honorable Mention at the state level in Massachusetts, this 10-minute documentary does a nice job of summarizing the effects of "glasnost" and "perestroika" as well as tracing nationalism and ethnic conflict and how all these things led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Andy Beede

Battle Of Midway - WWII in colour - YouTube - 0 views

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    This 8 minute clip on the Battle of Midway is in color.
Andy Beede

20 Striking Photos of Women at Work in WW1 | DigVentures - 0 views

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    During World War One, more than a million women  went to work in factories, mines, laboratories and offices across the country. So what was it like? Conditions were often poor, the work arduous and they were often paid as little as half the wages of their male counterparts. And, despite their contributions, the 1919 Restoration…
Eric Beckman

The great escape that changed Africa's future | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Future African leaders escaped from Salazar's Portugal.
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