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Jeremy Greene

World History Connected: EJournal of Learning and Teaching - 6 views

worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/index.html

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  • David Hilton on 14 Jan 10
     
    Has articles and some source material links related to World History. The site (run out of University of Illinois, by the looks) has a strong focus on 'big history.' I hadn't encountered this term before; it seems to mean looking at history not through civilisations but rather periods or regions. If that description is wrong and someone could provide more accuracy on 'big history' that would be cool.
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    World History Connected: The EJournal of Learning and Teaching [www.worldhistoryconnected.org] World history poses extraordinary demands upon those who teach it, challenging the talent of experienced instructors as well as to those new to the field. World History Connected is designed for everyone who wants to deepen the engagement and understanding of world history: students, college instructors, high school teachers, leaders of teacher education programs, social studies coordinators, research historians, and librarians. For all these readers, WHC presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship, keeps readers up to date on the latest research and debates, presents the best in learning and teaching methods and practices, offers readers rich teaching resources, and reports on exemplary teaching. WHC is free worldwide. It is published by the University of Illinois Press, and its institutional home is Washington State University. Editors: Heather Streets, Washington State University and Tom Laichas, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences. Associate Editor: Tim Weston, University of Colorado. Funding for World History Connected, Inc. has been provided by The College Board and private donations. Should you wish to contribute, please contact Heidi Roupp, Executive Director [Heidiroupp@aol.com]
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    Check out past issues by using the index key. The home page is always the current issue.
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    The journal focuses on the New World History (looking at the world at a global scale across time) as opposed to the one civilization at a time approach. See the World History AP course description for an example of what this means: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/worldhistory/ap-cd-worldhist-0708.pdf David, as an Australian you are at Ground Zero of Big History since its leader is an Australian = David Christian. Christian's _Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History_ is the one book to read on the subject. This article well covers it: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whc/3.1/christian.html Google David Christian, Big History for more
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    Again, the journal is not specifically focused on Big History but on the New World History, but it did have one issue on Big History as its forum: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/ More links than you probably want here about Big History: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/maunu2.html This month's forum is on Latin America. Other forums range the gamut of world history.
  • David Hilton on 18 Nov 10
     
    Thanks very much Jeremy. I'll check it out!
Annabel Astbury

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 10 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...school-history-gove-schama-tv

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shared by Annabel Astbury on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • His key episodes are based not around a grand organising narrative but a series of vignettes that make compelling stories.
  • If history is popular on TV, it can be made popular at school.
  • Teachers developed new methods, shifting away from chronology and narrative to topics and themes, where the emphasis was placed on "skills" of analysis over the regurgitation of facts.
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  • . History in schools, they argue
  • without providing any connecting narrative thread that explains their relationship with each other. The solution is a return to narrative history, to a big story that will organise and make sense of historical experience.
  • Nonetheless, it remains an announcement that tells us more about the contradictions of government thinking and its reductive view of the humanities and social sciences than it does about the state of history teaching in our schools.
  • I agree with Schama that the real public value of history-teaching in schools (as in universities) lies in its capacity to re-animate our civil society and produce an engaged and capable citizenry. I disagree that good story-telling will get you there
  • History provides us with a set of analytical skills that are indispensable for citizens who want to understand our present conditions
  • We want students who aren't just entertained, but who can think critically and effectively about the world they live in.
  • For the creative and innovative teacher it may have been something of a constraint, but most now agree it led to a ‘golden age’ of history teaching in primary schools in the 1990s and ensured every child covered a coherent history syllabus from 11-14 without repeating topics. It also spawned a generation of excellent and accessible teaching materials and encouraged heritage organisations to provide for a standard history curriculum
  • Regardless this return to grand narrative and national myth goes against the very progress we as academic historians have made. History is more to do with how we think and evaluate things, the tools we use to come to conclusions than about dates and conveniently accessible stories self legitimatising the status quo.
Aaron Palm

Herbert Aptheker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Aaron Palm on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People. He was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse since the 1930s.
David Hilton

Milestone Documents - Primary Source Text & Expert Analysis - 0 views

milestonedocuments.com/newsletter.php

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shared by David Hilton on 29 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 29 Aug 09
     
    An excellent newsletter to sign up for. They're not just try to make money and they are historians and know what they're talking about. If you're on twitter then #historyteacher is the place to be!
Matt Esterman

Reflections on the History Wars: The political battle for Australia's future - On Line ... - 0 views

www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp

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shared by Matt Esterman on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • History is always our most useful tool and guide. Knowing our past helps us to divine our future; to see the long strands which denote our character and which have been common in each epoch of our development; and how they may be adapted in our transformation as an integral part of this region, while re-energising our national life.
  • Matt Esterman on 28 Sep 09
     
    Reflections on the History Wars: The political battle for Australia's future
Lisa M Lane

124th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association - 0 views

www.historians.org/...index.cfm

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shared by Lisa M Lane on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Lisa M Lane on 24 Sep 09
     
    The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held January 7-10, 2010 in San Diego with events scheduled in the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego (headquarters) and San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina (co-headquarters). The meeting hotels are located (PDF) on San Diego Bay adjacent to the Gaslamp Quarter.
David Hilton

NHEC | History Content - 0 views

teachinghistory.org/history-content

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shared by David Hilton on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 29 Jun 09
     
    This site looks like an excellent collection of sources, lectures, images and heaps of other stuff on all aspects of American history. You can even ask a historian a question about US history. How cool!
David Hilton

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

www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk

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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

UK Parliament Debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) - 0 views

www.theyworkforyou.com/debates

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shared by David Hilton on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    This site has debates from the UK House of Commons (I don't think The Lords is included) that go back at least to World War II. The purpose of the site is to raise public awareness, however it is useful to the historian as a source.
Denis MOOTZ

The History Faculty - 2 views

www.thehistoryfaculty.com

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shared by Denis MOOTZ on 14 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    "The History Faculty offers FREE video & audio lectures by leading UK historians. Please register for access to all our materials. There's no catch. We will not use your details for any commercial purpose." That's what they say. Let's hope there's more of this type of thing in the future - a place where the excellent materials produced in universities can be used for secondary level teaching.
  • Denis MOOTZ on 13 Oct 09
     
    Resources for teachers
David Hilton

History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home - 0 views

historyengine.richmond.edu/...home

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shared by David Hilton on 26 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 26 Jun 09
     
    A site which students can use to... actually I don't get it. If it works though it looks very cool. It's something the kids can use as little mini-historians and then publish the product to the web. It's focussed on US history (well they are the 'hyperpower', aren't they?).
Nate Merrill

Office of the Historian - 1 views

history.state.gov

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  • David Hilton on 07 Aug 09
     
    Seeems to be focussed on particular events that have occurred in US history, especially post-1950s.
David Hilton

Wonders and Marvels: History Resources - 0 views

www.wondersandmarvels.com/...history-resources.html

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shared by David Hilton on 18 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • David Hilton on 18 Jun 09
     
    A blog which collects historical oddities and posts links to them. Blogger seems to be a well-trained historian and has something interesting stuff. Lots of cool links which I'll add to the group.
David Hilton

Main Page - ArchivesWiki - 0 views

archiveswiki.historians.org/...Main_Page

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  • David Hilton on 18 Jun 09
     
    This wiki is run by the American Historical Association and is a clearinghouse of archival material. I have no idea what that means but the site seems to have links to some primary sources which is a cool thing.
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