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David Hilton

Civil War - 0 views

www.civilwar.com/...option,com_battlemap

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shared by David Hilton on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 20 Jul 09
     
    Has a funky little map with information on the battles of the US Civil War. Would be cool for students (nice colours, movement, graphics, etc.)
David Hilton

Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet - 1 views

library.duke.edu/...cwdocs.html

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shared by David Hilton on 23 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 23 Jul 09
     
    A collection of primary sources from women in the US Civil War.
David Hilton

Dr. Seuss Went to War - 2 views

orpheus.ucsd.edu/...dspolitic

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shared by David Hilton on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 20 Jul 09
     
    These are the cartoons produced by the Dr Seuss dude during World War II (1942-44). It's not exactly Green Eggs & Ham; shows how war can bring out the ugly side of a people. Very interesting though and probably excellent for some class activities or resource design. The images of Japanese are decidely un-PC.
David Hilton

World War II Database: Your WW2 History Reference Destination - 1 views

ww2db.com/index.php

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shared by David Hilton on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 29 Jun 09
     
    A site maintained by a bloke called Peter Chen whose hobby is collecting images and sources on World War II. What a legend!
  • David Hilton on 24 Jul 09
     
    A thorough and growing database on aspects of World War II.
David Hilton

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures - 2 views

memory.loc.gov/...sawhome.html

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shared by David Hilton on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 08 Aug 09
     
    A presentation of 68 motion pictures recording images of that American adventure in old-style colonialism, the Spanish-American War. Filmed in the US, Cuba and the Philippines.
David Hilton

American History from 1865 - 0 views

www.lib.washington.edu/...american2.html

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shared by David Hilton on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 20 Jul 09
     
    An extensive collection of primary sources related to American history since 1865.
David Hilton

Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 - WikiLeaks - 8 views

www.wikileaks.org/...Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010

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shared by David Hilton on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 16 Aug 10
     
    Saw the link  to these come through on an email and so added it to the group. Does anyone teach the Afghan War or contemporary events to their classes? 
Deven Black

Historic Headlines: World War II - NYTimes.com - 12 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...istoric-headlines-world-war-ii

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shared by Deven Black on 09 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Deven Black on 09 Sep 10
     
    In commemoration, below are links to nearly 40 original New York Times front page images and articles reporting on World War II milestones, from our On This Day in History archive.
David Korfhage

NOAA's Office of Coast Survey - Civil War Collection - 7 views

www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/...CivilWar

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shared by David Korfhage on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • David Korfhage on 12 Oct 10
     
    A nice-looking collection of Civil War military maps from NOAA
Ed Webb

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views

www.independent.co.uk/...rt-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 23 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
  • in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
  • The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
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  • Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Department organised and paid for a touring international exhibition entitled "Advancing American Art", with the aim of rebutting Soviet suggestions that America was a cultural desert. But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: "I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash." The tour had to be cancelled.
  • This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy's hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s.
  • If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.
  • Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy- handedly was worth support one way or another
  • As president of what he called "Mummy's museum", Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called "free enterprise painting"). His museum was contracted to the Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate most of its important art shows. The museum was also linked to the CIA by several other bridges. William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA, sat on the members' board of the museum's International Programme. John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman. And Tom Braden, first chief of the CIA's International Organisations Division, was executive secretary of the museum in 1949.
  • "It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad. That's one of the reasons it had to be done covertly. It had to be a secret. In order to encourage openness we had to be secret."
  • Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA. But look where this art ended up: in the marble halls of banks, in airports, in city halls, boardrooms and great galleries. For the Cold Warriors who promoted them, these paintings were a logo, a signature for their culture and system which they wanted to display everywhere that counted. They succeeded.
Kay Cunningham

Indexes to State-level Lists of Casualties from Vietnam and Korea Conflicts - 1 views

www.archives.gov/...casualty-lists

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shared by Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10
     
    Korean War Casualties records, 1950-1957, held in the National Archives.
David Hilton

CIA FOIA - Overview - 4 views

www.foia.cia.gov

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shared by David Hilton on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) electronic reading room of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offers several primary source collections for the study of Central and Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War period. The FOIA Electronic Reading Room web site was established by the CIA "to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents." Direct web access to the following collections is now possible: # The Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals is a PDF collection of "sensitive Soviet and Warsaw Pact military journals from 1961 to 1984 providing a view into Warsaw Pact military strategy". # Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski is "a captivating collection of over 75 documents concerning the planning and implementation martial law in Poland from mid-1980 to late 1981. The collection release coincided with a CIA symposium honouring Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a member of the Polish Army General Staff and the source of the documents."
  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    Seems to focus especially on the Cold War. Definitely one for the conspirary theorists.
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