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Bob Maloy

Branches of Power Game | Constitution USA with Peter Sagal | PBS - 3 views

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    Online learning game for teaching about the branches of the government
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    Online learning game for teaching about the branches of the government
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    what level student?
Mitch Weisburgh

CongressLink: [Members of Congress] Creating a Metaphor for the Three Branches of Gover... - 7 views

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    project where students create a poster of the three branches of government
Kay Cunningham

Welcome to the Imperial War Museum London Home Page - 4 views

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    'IWM London, the headquarters of the Imperial War Museum, the multi-branch national museum of war and wartime life from 1914 to the present day"'
Ed Webb

Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes | UK news | The Guardian - 8 views

  • The documents show that colonial officials were instructed to separate those papers to be left in place after independence – usually known as "Legacy files" – from those that were to be selected for destruction or removal to the UK. In many colonies, these were described as watch files, and stamped with a red letter W.
  • The documents show that colonial officials were instructed to separate those papers to be left in place after independence – usually known as "Legacy files" – from those that were to be selected for destruction or removal to the UK. In many colonies, these were described as watch files, and stamped with a red letter W.
  • As independence grew closer, large caches of files were removed from colonial ministries to governors' offices, where new safes were installed.In Uganda, the process was codenamed Operation Legacy. In Kenya, a vetting process, described as "a thorough purge", was overseen by colonial Special Branch officers.
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  • Clear instructions were issued that no Africans were to be involved: only an individual who was "a servant of the Kenya government who is a British subject of European descent" could participate in the purge.
  • Many of the watch files ended up at Hanslope Park. They came from 37 different former colonies, and filled 200 metres of shelving. But it is becoming clear that much of the most damning material was probably destroyed. Officials in some colonies, such as Kenya, were told that there should be a presumption in favour of disposal of documents rather than removal to the UK – "emphasis is placed upon destruction" – and that no trace of either the documents or their incineration should remain.
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    They say this was one of the major differences between the British and French handling of withdrawal from empire - not only criminal records, but historical and legal documents of many kinds.
David Hilton

Michigan State University Libraries - Digital and Multimedia Center - Digital Collections - 0 views

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    A list of digital collections run out of Michigan State University Libraries. Lots of farming stuff, for some reason.
David Hilton

Michigan State University Libraries - Digital and Multimedia Center - Digital Collections - 0 views

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    Focuses on organisations involved in race relations, abortion, native Americans and immigration in the USA.
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