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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Eric Beckman

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
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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
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Growing Apart - 0 views

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    "A Political History of American Inequality".  Lots of data, graphs,  charts.
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1914-1918-online - 0 views

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    Encyclopedia
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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
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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
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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
  • awned on scholars that th
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    Translations of the Ashoka's pillar edicts
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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18th Century shipping mapped using 21st Century technology | News | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Maps and descriptions
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Late Victorian Holocausts - 0 views

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    Review article of a book on the terrible famines of late Victorian India.  British colonialism played a large role in these famines.
Eric Beckman

Celebrating the Legacy of a Chinese Explorer - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Article about Zheng He's legacy in Malaysia
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