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Is English Language So Popular because of the USA? - 0 views

Americans might tend to inflate the influence of the United States in the history of the spread of English. Before the World Wars, particularly WWII, the US was a bit player on the world stage. The...

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Eric Beckman

Codex Mendoza (1542) - The Public Domain Review - 2 views

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    High quality images from the Codex
Bob Maloy

1759: From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham - 4 views

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    A game from the Virtual Museum of Canada, explores the French and Indian War from the standpoint of British, French, Canadian and Native American perspectives.
Eric Beckman

When Worlds Collide on Vimeo - 4 views

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    Video describing meeting of European and Amerindian cultures
Mr Maher

Plymouth Colony Legal Structure - 2 views

  • That no Act, Imposition, Law or Ordinance, be made or imposed upon us, at present or to come; but such as shall be made or imposed by consent of the Body of Freemen or Associates, or their Representatives legally assembled:
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      It isn't the Mayflower Compact which starts Democracy and Consent of the Governed - it is this!
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    Something to put alongside the towering pile of Mayflower Compact lessons. Much more detailed, pertinent and worthwhile, this short record with excerpts from laws, ordinances and listings will open the Plymouth to student's understanding in ways that Compact won't.
Eric Beckman

The Role That Currency Played in the Great Bengal Famine of 1770 - 1 views

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    Article on how East India Company imperialism and famine in Bengal.
Mr Maher

The First Decades of the Massachusetts Bay; or Idleness, Wolves, and a Man Who Shall No... - 6 views

  • In November 1630, John Baker was “whipped for shooteing att fowle on the Sabboth day”; and in June 1631, it was ordered that Phillip Ratliffe should be whipped, have his ears cut off, and be banished “for vttering mallitious and scandulous speeches against the goumt. & the church of Salem.
  • The inattention paid in the official record to women or indigenous land compels us to force open gaps and bring alternative narratives to light. Without this work, John Winthrop’s will be the only story told in textbooks about this country’s colonial history.
  • The Puritan freemen may have the loudest voices in the archive, but theirs are not the only narratives being told.
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  • In fact, deviations from moral norms receive some of the harshest punishments, such as in October 1631, when the court determined that to copulate with another man’s wife was punishable by death.
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    When historians look through more evidence they come to understandings that students never get to see becuase their teachers may only rely on the evidence that is part of the liturgy of the US History narrative canon. In this instance, routine court records will tell us much more about puritan Massachusetts than a John Winthrop sermon.
Eric Beckman

'But what about the railways ...?' ​​The myth of Britain's gifts to India | W... - 2 views

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    Describes the many ways in which Britain impoverished and divided India
David Hilton

American History to 1865 - 1 views

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    An enormous number of links to sources related to American history up to 1865.
Eric Beckman

"Benefits of British Rule" - 3 views

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    1871 speech by an Indian politician in Britain addressing pros and cons of the British Raj as he sees them
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