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Ed Webb

U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba - ABC News - 0 views

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US USA military Cuba history conspiracy rightwing communism paranoia ColdWar

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  • In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
  • plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities
  • to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro
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  • "The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."
  • neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops deployed to drive out Castro. Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — not democratic — control over the island nation after the invasion.
  • a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds
  • reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election
  • One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.
  • Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.
Christy Hanna

Geography with a Sensory Approach - 6 views

www.teachingchannel.org/...graphy-lesson-idea-rain-forest

geography rainforest socialstudies graphs climate

shared by Christy Hanna on 02 Feb 13 - No Cached
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  • Christy Hanna on 02 Feb 13
     
    Students learn to read and interpret climate graphs of the rainforest using their senses- one group uses audio, another poetry, another photos, lastly one uses travel blogs.
Van Weringh

BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Causes of the Cold War Activity - 6 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...causes_coldwaract.shtml

bitesize coldwar bbc c20th america history

shared by Van Weringh on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
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  • Van Weringh on 14 Jun 10
     
    The BBC is so good at providing quality History resources. Here is another one; a must see for students who are about to study the Cold War
Kay Cunningham

The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools | Academic Commons - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...history-engine

technology higher_education history resources

shared by Kay Cunningham on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kay Cunningham on 12 Sep 09
     
    'One of the primary goals of the History Engine project has been to design a research and writing exercise modest enough in its analytical scope and its length that it allows students to "do history" long before a senior seminar or capstone course. (Another important goal, discussed below, is to capture this research to amass a large history archive.) The History Engine is an online archive consisting of thousands of "episodes" written and contributed by undergraduates.'
Lance Mosier

10K Apart | Inspire the web with just 10K. - 6 views

10k.aneventapart.com/91

tools collaboration website web2.0

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  • Lance Mosier on 16 Sep 10
     
    Want to give some design feedback on a site (or another 10k Apart entrant)? You can, with TinyBounce! Grab a screenshot of a website, add notes to it, then save your feedback and send the link to your friends (or enemies). TinyBounce is the smaller, sleeker little brother to Bounce (bounceapp.com)
Christina Briola

Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views

cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

art history

shared by Christina Briola on 12 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Christina Briola on 12 Nov 10
     
    Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I have created a very successful lesson/activity around this painting. The details are as follows. This window has this year's assignment. The next reply has the previous years. Advice: WHAP Review Activity: The Twittering Masses Review activity (mostly 1914- and East Asia) Description - I previously set up 103 discussions on turnitin.com for this lesson so they post into that person's discussion board and all replies are kept under the initial post. This year they posted on our classes Ning.com in the discussion forum. Grading is also difficult - Since not every one will have the same amount of replies - people are more likely to write to Hitler than Cui Jian for instance. So, I am grading the posts holistically out of 10 (I often only have 100-200 points in a quarter, so for instance a test might only be worth 40 points). I have students use a heading that states who [character] is tweeting what topic they are focusing on and who they are writing to. I would be interested in feedback or improvements people think they can make on this lesson - should I use Moodle, [Again, I have switched to Ning.com] etc.? Many thanks. And you can add or subtract people as you wish, so we have actually added Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Stephen Biko, and Emiliano Zapata to our role play and taken the painters (of this painting) out of the role play - Write up for students: Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162771/The-Internet-sensation-dinner-party-painting-103-historical-guests--spot.html#comments to see who all these individuals are, in color. The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, 140 words as compared to 140 characters, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose six of them (from my list below - my list is the final list - some people pictured have been replaced) to role-play in the "Twittering Masses." As your historical
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . .
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
Victoria Keech

MyAlltop - victeach71 - 1 views

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rss feeds aggregate. information

shared by Victoria Keech on 28 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • Victoria Keech on 28 Dec 09
     
    Another way to aggregate feeds, manage online learning from news, blogs and magazines
Ian Gabrielson

Searching for China: a Full WebQuest - 16 views

www.tommarch.com/...chinaquest.html

china History interactive

shared by Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15 - No Cached
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  • Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15
     
    " China is a majestic* country (note: links followed by * go to a dictionary definition) with a long and interesting history. If, like most people in the Occidental* world, you've never been to this fascinating land, you might want to take a brief tour. Go ahead and walk a few kilometers of The Great Wall or step foot into The Forbidden City or voyage to the Yellow Mountains. But beyond these tourist stops lives another, more complex, China. Currently, the people of China are experiencing great economic and social upheavals*. Such things as the situation in Tibet, Tiananmen Square massacre, and a scandal about treatment of orphans have brought some people to call for boycotts against China. Being faced with the task of understanding something as complex as a nation, you might want to give up. Sometimes in life you have that choice. But to give up trying to understand the China would mean giving up chances to benefit financially, to help people, to save some of the world's natural and artistic treasures, to protect the safety and security of millions of people, or to enlighten people's lives with greater religious insight. You see, you can't give up. So, if you're ready to begin, you might want to read a Travel Advisory before embarking* on our journey."
Aaron Shaw

Popular: Did Marie-Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake"? - 10 views

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France history revolution memory propaganda Jacobinism royalty class

shared by Aaron Shaw on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • in fact, Marie-Antoinette was a generous patron of charity and other members of the royal family were often embarrassed or irritated by her habit of bursting into tears when she heard of the plight of the suffering poor. There's also a problem with dates. During Louis the Sixteenth's time as king, there was only one case of bread shortages in Paris and that was shortly after his coronation. Marie-Antoinette was eighteen at the time and when she heard about the people's unhappiness at the food situation, she wrote a letter about it back to her mother in Austria, in which she said, "We are more obliged than ever to work for the people's happiness. The King seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget". Marie-Antoinette's personality therefore seems to have been the exact opposite of someone who would joke about the starving poor.
  • The story of a princess joking "let them eat cake" had actually been told many years before Marie-Antoinette ever arrived in France, as a young princess of fourteen in 1770. Her brother-in-law, the Count of Provence, who hated her, later said that he heard the story as a child, long before his brother ever married Marie-Antoinette. The count claimed that the version he heard was that the woman who made the comment had been his great-great-great grandmother, Maria-Teresa of Spain, who advised peasants to eat pie crust (or brioche) during bread shortages. A French socialite, the Countess of Boigne, said she'd heard that it had been Louis the Sixteenth's bitter aunt, Princess Victoria, and the great philosopher, Rousseau, wrote that he had heard the "let them eat cake" story about an anonymous great princess. Rousseau wrote this story in 1737 - eighteen years before Marie-Antoinette was even born!
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      Aaron Shaw on 01 May 12
       
      This is quite interesting. Many of my AP Euro students enjoy thinking it was the queen. This will give them something to "chew" on, and allow for a teachable moment. As another great Philosophe suggested we should accept nothing as truth except our own existance.
  • Others think that because the French Revolution was able to dress itself up as the force that brought freedom and equality to Europe, it had to justify its many acts of violence and terror. Executing Marie-Antoinette at the age of thirty-seven and leaving her two children as shivering, heart-broken orphans in the terrifying Temple prison, suggested that the Revolution was a lot more complicated than its supporters like to claim. However, if Marie-Antoinette is painted as stupid, deluded, out-of-touch, spoiled and selfish, then we're likely to feel a lot less pity when it comes to studying her death. If that was the republicans' intention, then they did a very good job. Two hundred years later and the poor woman is still stuck with a terrible reputation, and a catchphrase, that she certainly doesn't deserve.
  • Ed Webb on 01 May 12
     
    As a student and teacher of, among other things, propaganda and censorship, I think this is a great example for students to play with in thinking about how 'truth' gets established, politically and historically. In discussing nationalism I often talk about the importance of political myth in establishing identities, and here is a powerful example of a myth that became hegemonic.
Kristen McDaniel

Virtual Tour of Hagia Sophia - Περπατήστε στην Αγία Σοφία, 3D από τον υπολογι... - 20 views

www.mplogk.com/...ofia-3d-apo-ton-ipologisti-sas

history geography web2.0

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  • Kristen McDaniel on 19 Dec 11
     
    3D views of Hagia Sophia, interactive - very cool. :)
  • Jenny Osowski on 23 Jan 12
     
    This is also another great resource to tour the Hagia Sophia. This source also has tours of several other places http://www.3dmekanlar.com/en/hagia-sophia.html
HistoryGrl14 .

William Pitt the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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wilberforce

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 03 Nov 11
     
    Similar to the link for Wilberfoce, if using this topic, Pitt is another major character to include.
Joseph Phelan

NEH launches Created Equal: The Long Civil Rights Struggle - 4 views

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), was launched today to provide free access to documentary films highlighting ...

Civil Rights_ African American History_Freedom Riders_Abolitionists_Slavery By Another Name_The Loving Story_Gilder Lehrman_EDSITEment

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David Hilton

History Teachers' Discussion Forum - 1 views

www.schoolhistory.co.uk/...index.php

forums discussion community collaboration history teaching

shared by David Hilton on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 26 Sep 09
     
    Another excellent community of history teachers. Has thousands of members.
David Hilton

Extensive Information on Archaeology and Artefacts at Archaeology Expert (UK) - 0 views

www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk

archaeology europe africa asia america south america australia stone ages prehistory resources sites archaeologists

shared by David Hilton on 06 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 06 Jul 09
     
    Another great site on things archaeological. Archaeologists seem to be making even better use of the possibilities the net has opened up than historians. This site provides some good quality, free services.
David Hilton

Digital Scriptorium - 0 views

www.scriptorium.columbia.edu

manuscripts medieval history renaissance primary sources scriptorium scrolls latin french

shared by David Hilton on 22 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 22 Jun 09
     
    Another site with scanned images of manuscripts, most of them I think in Latin or medieval French or Italian or Old English. OK, I didn't check. They look cool, though.
David Hilton

DBQ/CRQ: Teaching with Documents by Peter Pappas - 0 views

www.edteck.com/dbq

source analysis source evaluation primary source analysis primary sources primary source evaluation

shared by David Hilton on 11 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 11 Jul 09
     
    Another site to help students use primary sources. Has some good questions to help students develop their eye for historical detail, motive, perspective, etc.
David Hilton

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook - 4 views

www.fordham.edu/...islamsbook.html

islam arabs mohammed sunni shia caliphate medieval persia turks ottomans imperialism arab nationalism c7th c8th c9th c10th c20th sources primary sources documents

shared by David Hilton on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Aug 09
     
    Another brilliantly organised collection from the History Sourcebooks.
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