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Talking History - 9 views

www.talkinghistory.org

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shared by Lance Mosier on 21 Mar 11 - Cached

Lance Mosier on 21 Mar 11

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere. </div>

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Colonial Sense: John Woolman's Journal: Chapter 5 - 0 views

www.colonialsense.com/...Chapter_5.php

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shared by Geoffrey Reiss on 02 Sep 11 - No Cached

Geoffrey Reiss on 02 Sep 11

Considerations on the Payment of a Tax laid for Carrying on the War against the Indians. Meetings of the Committee of the Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia. Some Notes on Thomas á Kempis and John Huss. The present Circumstances of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey very Different from those of our Predecessors. The Drafting of the Militia in New Jersey to serve in the Army, with some Observations on the State of the Members of our Society at that time. Visit to Friends in Pennsylvania, accompanied by Benjamin Jones. Proceedings at the Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, respecting those who keep Slaves.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Considerations on the Payment of a Tax laid for Carrying on the War against the Indians. Meetings of the Committee of the Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia. Some Notes on Thomas á Kempis and John Huss. The present Circumstances of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey very Different from those of our Predecessors. The Drafting of the Militia in New Jersey to serve in the Army, with some Observations on the State of the Members of our Society at that time. Visit to Friends in Pennsylvania, accompanied by Benjamin Jones. Proceedings at the Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, respecting those who keep Slaves. </div>

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Seventeen Moments - 0 views

soviethistory.macalester.edu/index.php

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hpbookmarks on 09 Dec 14

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."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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."</div>

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Teaching American History in South Carolina: A State-wide Approach to Teaching Professi... - 3 views

www.teachingushistory.org

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shared by Dean Mantz on 29 Mar 12 - Cached

The Battle of Gettysburg - The United States Army - 1 views

www.army.mil/...flash.html

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shared by Jason Heiser on 30 Jun 12 - Cached

Bubbabrain 10 Million Game Challenge - 7 views

K-12 Challenge for students. Go to http://www.bubbabrain.com - click on the word challenges- select your challenge- select your state-pick a game- hit play. Over 500 games for social studies!

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started by darren mccarty on 19 Nov 11 no follow-up yet

2012 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College - 4 views

www.270towin.com

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shared by Dean Mantz on 22 Jun 10 - Cached

Dean Mantz on 22 Jun 10

Research individual states and how they voted for president over the last 10 years.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Research individual states and how they voted for president over the last 10 years.</div>

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A People's History of the United States - 0 views

www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

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shared by Chuck Holland on 15 Jul 10 - Cached

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 6 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...school-history-gove-schama-tv

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shared by Annabel Astbury on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached

His key episodes are based not around a grand organising narrative but a series of vignettes that make compelling stories.
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If history is popular on TV, it can be made popular at school.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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History provides us with a set of analytical skills that are indispensable for citizens who want to understand our present conditions
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We want students who aren't just entertained, but who can think critically and effectively about the world they live in.
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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
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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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Thomas Jefferson Papers : Notes on the State of Virginia manuscript - 1 views

www.masshist.org/...notes

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shared by Lance Mosier on 12 Apr 10 - Cached

U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division (WHD) - Minimum Wage Laws in the States - 2 views

www.dol.gov/...america.htm

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shared by Lance Mosier on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached

Lance Mosier on 26 Jan 11

Curent minimum wages in U.S. Good to compare to past minimum wages.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Curent minimum wages in U.S. Good to compare to past minimum wages.</div>

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Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State | PBS - 5 views

www.pbs.org/auschwitz

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shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Oct 11 - Cached

Home | State Library of New South Wales - 0 views

www.sl.nsw.gov.au

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shared by Richard Ford on 01 Jun 09 - Cached

US Geography Game - 0 views

www.history.com/...place-the-state-game

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shared by Matt Henderson on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached

Matt Henderson on 31 Mar 11

Good activator for US History class

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