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AP Human Geography | AP Practice Exams - 4 views

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    study resources!
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    more AP Human Geography Resources
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    more AP Human Geography Resources
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Modern History | Humanities | Arts and Humanities | Centre for Continuing Education | C... - 4 views

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    Australia and the Vietnam War - Short course at USyd
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Canadian Human Rights Commission :: Home :: Overview :: Expanding Knowledge - 1 views

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    First Nations people are allowed to make complaints under the Canadian Human Rights Act - as of last year.
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Philosophy of History (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 1 views

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    The concept of history plays a fundamental role in human thought. It invokes notions of human agency, change, the role of material circumstances in human affairs, and the putative meaning of historical events. It raises the possibility of "learning from history."
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Human cycles: History as science : Nature News & Comment - 0 views

  • But historians are not so sure.
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    Un interesante artículo sobre la Cliodinámica y su función en iluminar el pasado.
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    What do you think about cliodynamic?
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RSA Animate - 21st Century Enlightenment - YouTube - 0 views

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    A fantastic look at 21st C Enlightenment and the journey of the human condition 
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Colonial Sesne: arly Lighting: The Common Tinder Box - 1 views

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    Here is a little tin box with a finger handle, and with a candle socket soldered upon its lid and a loose lid inside containing a piece of flint, a piece of steel, a scorched rag and several splints of wood tipped with sulphur, which is the apparatus for making fire used in our colonial ancestors in Bucks county and from time immemorial by all the so-called civilized people of the work. To make fire thus, four operations are necessary. You must make the spark, retain the spark, then produce the flame and retain the flame. Holding the circlet of steel vertically in your left hand you strike diagonally downward upon its outer edge with the flint so that a spark of percussion flies downward into the tinder, which is a scorched linen rag lying in the box beneath; the latter holds the spark as a smouldering ember, until you touch the spunk or sulphur-tipped splint upon it, whereupon with a little blowing the sulphur takes fire and you have a lighted match with which you light the candle set in the socket in the box lid. Perhaps this is not much to look at, but from a historic point of view it is a thing of such importance that it might be described as the master of human progress from prehistoric time down to 1835, or as visible proof of perhaps the greatest discovery that man ever made.
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Home - TimeMapper - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast! - from the Open Knowledge Foundat... - 8 views

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    Excellent tool for creating timelines- great for collaborative humanities projects
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    Very interesting. I must try that. It is very great for collaborate in groups.
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The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme - 0 views

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    The Discussion Papers Journal series is a compilation of papers written by leading Holocaust and genocide studies scholars from around the world. The series aims to engage the minds of students and spark lively discussions to expand their awareness of how hatred, discrimination and human rights abuses are shaping world events today. Teachers and students will examine what the implications are for the future and what could and should be done by the international community to stem the tide of violence, ensure the rule of law and protect the most vulnerable. The views expressed by these scholars do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations.
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Mapping the Measure of America - 5 views

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    THe American Human Development (HD) Index is a composite measure of wellbeing and opportunity. It combines indicators in three fundamental areas-health, knowledge, standard of living-into a single number that falls on a scale form 0 to 10.
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Seventeen Moments - 0 views

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    Fantastic resource. "SEVENTEEN MOMENTS IN SOVIET HISTORY was funded by a generous educational development grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). The project was directed and created by James von Geldern (Macalester College) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University). Since 2007, Kristen Edwards (Menlo College) has collected materials for the website from the Hoover Archives and Stanford Libraries."
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School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 6 views

  • His key episodes are based not around a grand organising narrative but a series of vignettes that make compelling stories.
  • If history is popular on TV, it can be made popular at school.
  • Teachers developed new methods, shifting away from chronology and narrative to topics and themes, where the emphasis was placed on "skills" of analysis over the regurgitation of facts.
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  • . History in schools, they argue
  • without providing any connecting narrative thread that explains their relationship with each other. The solution is a return to narrative history, to a big story that will organise and make sense of historical experience.
  • Nonetheless, it remains an announcement that tells us more about the contradictions of government thinking and its reductive view of the humanities and social sciences than it does about the state of history teaching in our schools.
  • I agree with Schama that the real public value of history-teaching in schools (as in universities) lies in its capacity to re-animate our civil society and produce an engaged and capable citizenry. I disagree that good story-telling will get you there
  • History provides us with a set of analytical skills that are indispensable for citizens who want to understand our present conditions
  • We want students who aren't just entertained, but who can think critically and effectively about the world they live in.
  • For the creative and innovative teacher it may have been something of a constraint, but most now agree it led to a ‘golden age’ of history teaching in primary schools in the 1990s and ensured every child covered a coherent history syllabus from 11-14 without repeating topics. It also spawned a generation of excellent and accessible teaching materials and encouraged heritage organisations to provide for a standard history curriculum
  • Regardless this return to grand narrative and national myth goes against the very progress we as academic historians have made. History is more to do with how we think and evaluate things, the tools we use to come to conclusions than about dates and conveniently accessible stories self legitimatising the status quo.
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BBC News - 7 billion people and you: What's your number? - 7 views

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    "2,898,854,342nd"
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