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Eric Beckman

HUMANITIES Magazine: The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy - 1 views

  • In the year 900, by far the most robust and impressive philosophical tradition was found not in Europe, but in the Middle East. Islamic scholars there had embarked on a wholesale program to recover the traditions of Greek philosophy (particularly the works of Aristotle), translate them into Arabic, and rethink their message in light of the newly revealed teachings of the Qur’an.
  • Eventually, however, the center shifted—first to the western part of the Islamic world in northern Africa and southern Spain, and then north to Christian Europe. What we call the Middle Ages was, in Islam, the great classical era of philosophy and science. After several centuries of flourishing, however, the study of philosophy and science faded in Muslim countries, even while it was being pursued with increasing vigor in the Latin West.
  • Averroës devoted much of his scholarly efforts to a series of commentaries on Aristotle, producing both brief epitomes and exhaustive, line-by-line studies.
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  • Many of his works no longer survive in Arabic at all, but only in Latin or Hebrew
  • like all the great philosophers, Averroës arrived at his share of heterodox views.
  • despite the brilliant development of philosophical thought in the early days of the Islamic caliphate, by the later Middle Ages it and other fields of secular learning were regarded with deep suspicion and given almost no institutional support.
  • By the middle of the thirteenth century, that philosophical curriculum had become thoroughly Aristotelian, and the great guide to Aristotle was none other than Averroës, who became known in the Latin West as simply “the Commentator.”
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    Article by a philosophy professor on the Islamic medieval scholar Averroes. Studied by Thomas Aquinas and others.
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    Amazing how history has been rewritten, in the past and present, and then when old truths are unearthed, people are so reluctant to believe them. The power of the written word!
Eric Beckman

Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine by Timothy Snyder | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

  • On January 16, the Ukrainian government, headed by President Yanukovych, tried to put an end to Ukrainian civil societ
  • But a maidan now means in Ukrainian what the Greek word agora means in English: not just a marketplace where people happen to meet, but a place where they deliberately meet, precisely in order to deliberate, to speak, and to create a political society
  • protests, until then entirely peaceful, became violent. Yanukovych lost support
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  • Yanukovych rescinded most of the dictatorship laws, lawless violence by the regime, which started in November, continued into February
  • h the hope that Ukraine could one day join the European Union, an aspiration that for many Ukrainians means something like the rule of law, the absence of fear, the end of corruption, the social welfare state, and free markets without intimidatio
  • a rival project, based in Moscow, called the Eurasian Union.
  • Putin wants Ukraine in his Eurasian Union, which means that Ukraine must be authoritarian, which means that the Maidan must be crushed.
  • dictatorship laws of January 16 were obviously based on Russian models
  • The Eurasian Union is the enemy of the European Union, not just in strategy but in ideology.
  • Rather than rejecting totalitarian ideologies, Eurasianism calls upon politicians of the twenty-first century to draw what is useful from both fascism and Stalinism.
  • taken Putin’s campaign against gay rights and transformed it into a weapon against European integration
  • Apart from the Jews, whose suffering was by far the worst, the main victims of Nazi policies were not Russians but Ukrainians and Belarusians.
  • After Stalin’s death communism took on a more and more ethnic coloration, with people who wished to revive its glories claiming that its problem was that it had been spoiled by Jews. The ethnic purification of the communist legacy is precisely the logic of National Bolshevism, which is the foundational ideology of Eurasianism today.
  • Ukraine is not a theater for the historical propaganda of others or a puzzle from which pieces can be removed. It is a major European country whose citizens have important cultural and economic ties with both the European Union and Russia. To set its own course, Ukraine needs normal public debate, the restoration of parliamentary democracy, and workable relations with all of its neighbors.
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    Written just before the crisis in Ukraine really blew up, this article by a leading academic 
Andy Beede

WWII in HD - Women in the Cockpit - History.com Videos - 0 views

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    Primary source footage in color. Also introduces the WASP museum in Texas (3:52).
Eric Beckman

The Story of India | PBS - 0 views

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    In The Story of India, a landmark six-part series airing in January 2009 on PBS, Michael Wood will embark on a dazzling and exciting journey through today's India, seeking in the present for clues to her past, and in the past for clues to her future. Website includes lots of video clips, images, and timelines
Eric Beckman

Cult of Confucius and the Temple of Culture - 0 views

  • most Chinese in the late imperial era (960-1911)--and all classically educated males--encountered him in the Confucius Temple. To understand why the court expended such great care in venerating the cultic Confucius, it is important to consider how this ceremony fits into the larger pantheon of gods and spirits venerated by court authorities in thousands of temples and shrines throughout the capital, across the empire and beyond. Civil officials in late imperial times drew upon the Classics to compose the rites celebrated at these temples.
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    Page created by a Professor of History at Hamilton College (NY).  Includes like to short video of a Confucian temple ritual in Taiwan
Eric Beckman

FDR Third Inaugural Jan 20 1941 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Around the 2:50 mark in this home movie clip, FDR, in top hat, begins walking, with difficult to perceive assistance, toward the podium to take the oath of office. Just a minute or so of footage shows how FDR overcome his disability in part.
Andy Beede

Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31 - 0 views

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    Clocking in at 13:43, John Green explains the social hierarchy (i.e. social structure/race) in Latin America as well as revolutions in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. I would just use from minute 8 through the end because it's less confusing and focuses on less material.
Andy Beede

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    "Frozen" goes global! The song "Let It Go" is sung in numerous languages (none in African, though, I noticed). You see the singers with a little window showing the scene in the movie.
Andy Beede

Passover Seder in 3 Minutes from OurJewishCommunity.org - YouTube - 0 views

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    A friendly rabbi explains the seder meal in simple language--in 3 minutes.
Andy Beede

TeacherTube Videos - Electing a US president in plain English - 0 views

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    The electoral college process is explained in in a clear way with simple graphicss (3:42).
Eric Beckman

Latino in America - CNN.com - 0 views

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      Check out the map!
  • Map: Tracing Hispanic population growth in U.S.
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    Current news articles and information on Latino/as in the US
Eric Beckman

Chicago Racial Succession Maps, one at a time - 0 views

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    This is a frame by frame look at the maps in the Chicago Racial Segregation .gif.  Information in the maps from the Chicago Area Geographic Information Study
Eric Beckman

Cold War Revolutions - YouTube - 0 views

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    Student video explaining the rise and fall of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe in seven and a half minutes.
Eric Beckman

After 150 years, a dark chapter of Gainesville's past still stirs passions | State | Ne... - 0 views

  • Rand McNally recently named this North Texas town America's Most Patriotic City, but that red, white and blue slogan has collided with a grisly episode from 150 years ago: the Great Hanging of 1862, when vigilantes hanged 40 Union sympathizers and shot two more who tried to escape.
  • Rand McNally recently named this North Texas town America's Most Patriotic City, but that red, white
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    Newspaper article. Story of another mass hanging episode, this one in Texas, shows multiple perspectives on the past and how the Civil War lives in American memory.
Eric Beckman

Unforgotten War - 0 views

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    World War II in memory in Japan and China. 10 minutes
Andy Beede

WWII in HD - Battle of Stalingrad - History.com Videos - 0 views

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    Amazing primary source footage in color and only 2:21 minutes long.
Eric Beckman

Islam Spain and the history of technology - 0 views

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    Information on contributions of the Islamic world to science and technology. An important piece of the Renaissance and the scientific revolution in Europe, and, of course, important in its own right.
Andy Beede

Qatar: A tiny country asserts powerful influence - 60 Minutes - CBS News - 0 views

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    This 13:16 segment from 60 Minutes is interesting in light of the Arab spring. Qatar is the richest country in the world, the people pay no taxes, and there is no democracy.
Eric Beckman

Voter ID laws in all 50 states - in 1 map - 0 views

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    Map shows the state of voters ID laws across the states with links to a larger version of the map and two different briefings on the issue
Eric Beckman

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit - 0 views

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    Lots of images of urban decay in Detroit. Fabulous archicture in ruins. Views can take virtual tours of Detroit. Striking photos.
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