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Kay Cunningham

American President: Resource on the U.S. Presidents - 2 views

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    Information on each of the US Presidents. The information is cursory however would be useful for preliminary or activities where only basic biographic information is required.
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    'A comprehensive collection of material about the Presidents of the United States and the history of the presidency. This web site features essays about the President's life before, during, and after each presidential term. It additionally provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration. A collection of essays on the President at Work delves into the function, responsibilities, and organization of the modern presidency and traces the history and evolution of presidential duties.'
Van Weringh

Skills:History - 2 views

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    Thanks for this one Jess. It's a guide on history writing provided for Victorian high school students.
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    Links to essay writing resources, info about formulating research questions, specific to History
David Hilton

Historical Text Archive: Electronic History Resources, online since 1990 - 0 views

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    "The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet. This site is dynamic with regular additions to its contents and its link collection." That's what they say.
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    The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet. This site is dynamic with regular additions to its contents and its link collection.
Kristine Goldhawk

United States Institute of Peace - 0 views

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    Homepage for the USIP - Great lesson plan ideas and essay contest for high school students under Education & Training tab.
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    The essay contest for 2009-10 is not up yet, but the topic is the effectiveness of nonviolent civic action. My students participated last year when the topic was crimes against humanity and it lead to really great discussions.
David Hilton

History in Focus: the nature of history (article) - 20 views

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    Useful essay on what history is. Thanks Matt!
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    Yes it is a concise essay expressing complex changes very succinctly. The Website from which it comes looks very useful too. A number of Key historical topics and periods each with some original articles, book reviews, recommended websites etc. It is backed by the very reliable Institute of Historical Research see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/index.html
David Hilton

Try out my new History Essay Planning Tool! (hopefully finalised by September!) #histor... - 33 views

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    A quite cool history essay planning tool on Russell Tarr's website www.activehistory.co.uk.
Bob Maloy

Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd - 20 views

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    A digital history site that includes images and historical essays on crowds and crowd violence during the French Revolution, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
Mr Maher

Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving - 4 views

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    This academically rigorous article may be beyond even the highest functioning AP US History students. But all teachers will find this article aiming a question directly at their curriculum - Do you teach a myth as a cultural affirmation? The essay argues that "traveling home to turkey and all the trimmings was "invented", not in 17th century Massachusetts, but in 19th century Philadelphia in the pages of the nation's most widely circulated magazines and in respond to the changing American scene. Two hundred years after the Pilgrims' quit commemorations, Thanksgiving developed a uniform national profile, impelled by its promoters ideas about republican identity, ideas diffused by a publishing industry with increasingly national reach"
Aaron Palm

Edited by Eric Foner and Manning Marable / Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Re... - 0 views

  • This reader collects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003) on the African American experience. Written with passion and eloquence, they are full of ideas originally dismissed by a white, segregated academy that have now become part of the scholarly mainstream. Covering topics including slave resistance, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W. E. B. Du Bois, these essays demonstrate the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, while restoring Aptheker's central place as one of the founding scholars in the development of African American studies.
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      Herbert Aptheker was a member of the American Communist Party and worked to write revisionist history that separated America from its founding
Kay Cunningham

BBC - History: British History in-depth - 1 views

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    Essays and imagery from the BBC, on British History from the Norman period to the present. Sections include Middle Ages, Tudors, Civil War and Revolution, Empire and Sea Power, Victorian Britain, and more.
Lisa M Lane

Beach-Side Thoughts on History, to My Students at Beyond School - 4 views

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    And the issue, to put it in a nutshell, is this: Knowing all this stuff is worthless, if all you've done is learn it. You seem to think that we're teaching you Western Civilization because gee, it's a great civilization. It's not. Like all civilizations, it has it's strengths and it has its flaws. Just because it's part of the dominant culture today doesn't make it good. Maybe the dominant culture today would be much better if certain aspects of Western Civilization were different - or even non-existent. Most of your essays saddened me because they were so full of cheer-leading for the West. Civilizations, Western or Eastern, Northern or Southern, don't need cheerleaders. They need critics.
Kendra Nielsen

"The Sentiments of a Labourer": William Manning Inquires in the Key of Liberty, 1798 - 3 views

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    Revolution-era farmer William Manning's essay on why education is the "Key of Libberty"
Aaron Shaw

History of Stuff - 17 views

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    "This blog is an opportunity to bring the study of history into the 21st century. Out with the old 5 paragraph essay (until the exam) and in with digital speak! Each of us, students and teachers, will have an opportunity to write history. To analyze the "story" in history and question the "his" of the same."
Lisa M Lane

History Working Papers Project - 8 views

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    HWPP is an online space for scholars to share works-in-progress with their peers. After uploading a conference paper, essay, or article manuscript to the HWPP website, authors can invite others to read their work and make comments in the margins. As more people respond, writers get more feedback. But, unlike traditional comments done on paper, HWPP allows commenters and authors to interact with each other. They can read each other's marginalia and engage in dialogue about it. In fact, entire threaded discussions can take place in the margins. Here's what it looks like:
Matt Esterman

National Curriculum - 38 views

In Year 11 students have to complete a research assignment that is mandated by the syllabus, however at our school we basically gave them the list of personalities they could study. I was pushing f...

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