Archaeological Institute of America - 0 views
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.
British History Online - 0 views
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" British History Online British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research." Syas it all, really.
History Teaching Institute - OSU - 11 views
Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views
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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.
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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.
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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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ANU - ADSRI - The Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute - ADSRI - 3 views
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- The home of the Australian Social and Political Observatory - A reliable source of public information on population and society - The official repository for Australian social science data collections
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Has links to archives with information on Australian demography, society, politics, etc. You need to register to be able to access some of the data.
LBC/IRN: LBC/IRN - 2 views
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"The LBC/IRN Audio Archive, (London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive) consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content - approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. The digitised archive contains invaluable recordings of a wide range of broadcasts including coverage of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, Northern Ireland, the whole of the Thatcher period of government and recordings of the first hour of UK commercial radio including the first commercial radio news bulletin."
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You can only listen if you are part of a tertiary institution which has a paid subscription through the Athens ID system (v. annoying!) however you're able to read the transcripts for free.
Coming of the American Revolution - 27 views
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This is an interactive website from the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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What a great site Bob. Thank you for sharing. I am certain I can use this site for ideas in the classroom!
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I worked on it this summer. I especially recommend the docs for "non-consumption and non-importation" (the word boycott did not exist yet!). They are very student friendly and can be used in a U.S. history or world history class and can easily connect with boycotts today. Overall, this site could be used as an exemplar for other historical societies to follow: Intro to the whole site, intro to each topic, intro to each subtopic with questions, intro to each document with questions, a facsimile of each document, and a transcription. Fyi and fwiw, the Mass Historical Society will be hosting a Landmarks Institute this summer through NEH so U.S. teachers might want to apply: http://www.masshist.org/education/silver/crossroads-home/
Welcome to the Steinway Diary Project | The William Steinway Diary: 1861-1896, Smithson... - 1 views
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The National Museum of American History is engaged in a long-term project to create the first publicly accessible, annotated online edition of William Steinway's remarkable diary. This first installment of the Web site includes Edwin M. Good's complete transcription of all 2,500 pages of the Diary alongside high-resolution scans of each handwritten page.
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
Google Cultural Institute - 17 views
China Razed Thousands of Xinjiang Mosques in Assimilation Push, Report Says - WSJ - 0 views
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New research shows Chinese authorities have razed or damaged two-thirds of the mosques in China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang, further illuminating the scope of a forced cultural-assimilation campaign targeting millions of Uighur Muslims.
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the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said satellite imagery showed that roughly 8,500 mosques, close to a third of the region’s total, have been demolished since 2017. Another 7,500 have sustained damage
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Important Islamic sacred sites, including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes, were also demolished, damaged or altered, the study found.
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