What are they excavating at Çatalhöyük?
Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a Neolithic town. 9,000
years ago, this place was one of the world's largest settlements. At
a time when most of the world's people were wandering
hunter-gatherers, as many as 10,000 people lived at Çatalhöyük.
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Digital collections and archives for learning, teaching and research | JISC Content - 4 views
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'This website provides an introduction to digital collections designed for education. They are mainly aimed at university students, researchers and librarians but many of the online archives are open to anyone. The collections cover areas such as history, social sciences, or science and engineering and include, for example, journals, newspapers and images.'
Farm, Field and Fireside: Agricultural Newspaper Collection - 5 views
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'Together with the introduction of rural mail delivery, the telephone, and the automobile, farm newspapers played a key role in the modernization of rural America. The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
BBC NEWS | World News America | Capturing history a picture at a time - 0 views
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Follow Andrew Carroll on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hereiswhere
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This is a 5 minute video video introduction to the "Here is Where" Project. "President Harry Truman once said that "the only thing new in this world is the history you don't know." Andrew Carroll is determined that many more Americans will know about their country's past, and particularly about quirky, previously obscure events and locations.He calls his project "Here is Where..." and he is traveling through all 50 states photographing and writing about long-forgotten people and places.\n\nIn this First Person account, Andrew provides examples of the historical 'nuggets' he's unearthing."
Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Open Yale Courses - 0 views
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Another course which you can download the lectures from, this time from Yale. How cool!
Norman Davies: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - 0 views
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A short lecture on the early modern history of Poland and Lithuania - great introduction to the topic
The ReDistricting Game - 4 views
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The Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. Currently, the political system in most states allows the state legislators themselves to draw the lines. This system is subject to a wide range of abuses and manipulations that encourage incumbents to draw districts which protect their seats rather than risk an open contest. By exploring how the system works, as well as how open it is to abuse, The Redistricting Game allows players to experience the realities of one of the most important (yet least understood) aspects of our political system. The game provides a basic introduction to the redistricting system, allows players to explore the ways in which abuses can undermine the system, and provides info about reform initiatives - including a playable version of the Tanner Reform bill to demonstrate the ways that the system might be made more consistent with tenets of good governance. Beyond playing the game, the web site for The Redistricting Game provides a wealth of information about redistricting in every state as well as providing hands-on opportunities for civic engagement and political action.
Çatalhöyük: Introduction - 7 views
Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages: Tearing down the "whites only" medieval world | The ... - 4 views
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Introduction to a series of blog posts on the misuse and misrepresentation of medieval history by White Supremacists
Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction - 3 views
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The king (or queen!) of primary source sites on the middle ages. These sourcebooks are the best sites I've found for primary documents.
OPB American History Interactive: Analyzing Artifacts - Introduction - 13 views
Introduction to the JFK Assassination : Who Killed President Kennedy? - 4 views
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This seems like a really reliable website on JFK.
Speak soft, speak sure - Introduction - 4 views
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An excellent series of informative texts and sources relating to the Preliminary HSC Civil Rights unit.
JFK, Freedom Riders and the Civil Rights Movement - 6 views
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World History Connected: EJournal of Learning and Teaching - 6 views
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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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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.
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Thanks very much Jeremy. I'll check it out!
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia? | EDSITEment - 9 views
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"Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?"
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1896 - 0 views
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" The 1896 presidential election was one of the most exciting and complicated in U.S. history. This website provides an introduction to one aspect of the campaign: the hundreds of political cartoons published in newspapers around the country. Most of these cartoons have been buried in archival microfilms, where students can't reach them. They offer a window into political structures and issues, society, and culture in the United States, just before the turn of the last century." A great resource on the topic.
Diversions | Economist.com - 0 views
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Good as an overview or basic introduction for students.
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