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David Hilton

Search the Catalogs - 0 views

catalog.mwa.org

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shared by David Hilton on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    A catalogue of images, manuscripts, etc maintained by the American Antiquarian Society. What an awesome bunch. Will be good for any aspect of American social history, I would imagine.
Deven Black

The Free Information Society - Educating and Entertaining since 2003 - 7 views

www.freeinfosociety.com

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shared by Deven Black on 31 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Deven Black on 31 Oct 10
     
    Images, sound files, newsreels and other videos, and more on history, science and more.
Christina Briola

Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views

cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

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  • Christina Briola on 12 Nov 10
     
    Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I have created a very successful lesson/activity around this painting. The details are as follows. This window has this year's assignment. The next reply has the previous years. Advice: WHAP Review Activity: The Twittering Masses Review activity (mostly 1914- and East Asia) Description - I previously set up 103 discussions on turnitin.com for this lesson so they post into that person's discussion board and all replies are kept under the initial post. This year they posted on our classes Ning.com in the discussion forum. Grading is also difficult - Since not every one will have the same amount of replies - people are more likely to write to Hitler than Cui Jian for instance. So, I am grading the posts holistically out of 10 (I often only have 100-200 points in a quarter, so for instance a test might only be worth 40 points). I have students use a heading that states who [character] is tweeting what topic they are focusing on and who they are writing to. I would be interested in feedback or improvements people think they can make on this lesson - should I use Moodle, [Again, I have switched to Ning.com] etc.? Many thanks. And you can add or subtract people as you wish, so we have actually added Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Stephen Biko, and Emiliano Zapata to our role play and taken the painters (of this painting) out of the role play - Write up for students: Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162771/The-Internet-sensation-dinner-party-painting-103-historical-guests--spot.html#comments to see who all these individuals are, in color. The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, 140 words as compared to 140 characters, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose six of them (from my list below - my list is the final list - some people pictured have been replaced) to role-play in the "Twittering Masses." As your historical
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . .
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
HistoryGrl14 .

Renaissance Humanism - 7 views

www.historyguide.org/...humanism.html

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  • The return to favor of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism, the appreciation of worldly pleasures, and above all intensified the assertion of personal independence and individual expression. Zeal for the classics was a result as well as a cause of the growing secular view of life. Expansion of trade, growth of prosperity and luxury, and widening social contacts generated interest in worldly pleasures, in spite of formal allegiance to ascetic Christian doctrine. Men thus affected -- the humanists -- welcomed classical writers who revealed similar social values and secular attitudes.
  • Renaissance man may indeed have found himself suspended between faith and reason.
  • Human experience, man himself, tended to become the practical measure of all things. The ideal life was no longer a monastic escape from society, but a full participation in rich and varied human relationships.
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  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), one of the greatest humanists, occupied a position midway between extreme piety and frank secularism. Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) represented conservative Italian humanism
  • HistoryGrl14 . on 12 Feb 10
     
    could be a good site for starting a discussion on Humanism with students?...
David Hilton

Queensland Historical Atlas - 4 views

www.uq.edu.au/qhatlas

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shared by David Hilton on 05 Mar 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 05 Mar 10
     
    A historical atlas focusing on Queensland history. I'm into historical atlases at the moment.
David Hilton

Internet Global History Sourcebook - 7 views

www.fordham.edu/...globalsbook.html

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shared by David Hilton on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 11 Jan 10
     
    I'm still looking for quality source sites relating to indigenous history and although this site is still under construction it looks like it will be a valuable contribution. Blessed be Paul Halsall and his History Sourcebooks project, the bane of textbook tyranny everywhere!
David Hilton

DANS EASY - Electronic Archiving System - 3 views

easy.dans.knaw.nl/dms

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shared by David Hilton on 08 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 08 Dec 09
     
    The datasets that are offered cover a range of topics relating to Dutch history and are particularly strong in aspects of socio-economic and colonial history. The datasets can be browsed or searched by keyword. Users need to register in order to be able to download datasets.
  • David Hilton on 08 Dec 09
     
    Seems to have English as well as Dutch pages in the collections. Enormous range of topics and types of sources.
David Hilton

WorldImages - 12 views

worldart.sjsu.edu

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shared by David Hilton on 29 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 29 Dec 09
     
    Has collections of images organised by topics.
David Hilton

The Oyez Project | Build 6 - 4 views

www.oyez.org

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shared by David Hilton on 31 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 31 Dec 09
     
    Has detailed records of US Supreme Court decisions since 1950.
Ed McGovern

Lowell Mill Girl - 8 views

www.uml.edu/...index.htm

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shared by Ed McGovern on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Jeremy Greene on 04 Feb 10
     
    Lowell National Park like the Mass Historical Society see "Coming of the American Revolution" below offers a NEH Landmarks Program. They do a nice job. http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH/
David Hilton

Local History Online - online information resource for researching local history in Vic... - 3 views

www.historyvictoria.org.au/online.htm

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shared by David Hilton on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 15 Jan 10
     
    Has a few links useful for the social and cultural history of Victoria and Australia more generally.
Bette Lou Higgins

Society for Women and the Civil War - 12 views

www.swcw.org/sources.html

civil war women history

shared by Bette Lou Higgins on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
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  • Bette Lou Higgins on 22 Sep 11
     
    information about Civil War women
David Hilton

Instrok - 2 views

www.instrok.org/home.html

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shared by David Hilton on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 14 Oct 09
     
    Might be useful for younger classes looking at Korean history and society in the Joseon Period. There usually isn't much on the topic.
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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started by Matt Esterman on 30 May 09 6 follow-ups, last by Matt Esterman on 05 Jul 09
David Hilton

Latin American Pamphlets - 1 views

vc.lib.harvard.edu/...home

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  • David Hilton on 26 Aug 09
     
    Contains over 5000 titles.
  • David Hilton on 26 Aug 09
     
    Harvard's Widener Library is the repository of many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
Ed Webb

BBC News - History, with rose-tinted hindsight - 5 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8762969.stm

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  • As one official explained, "we understand that school is a unique social institution that forms all citizens"; which means it is essential they should be taught history, especially the right kind of history. "We need a united society," the apparatchik goes on, and to achieve that end, "we need a united textbook".
  • in 1934, it was Stalin himself who convened an earlier meeting of historians to discuss the very same issue, namely the teaching of history in Russian schools. He disapproved of the conventional class-based accounts then available, which were strongly influenced by Marxist doctrines, and which traced the development of Russia from feudalism to capitalism and beyond. Not even Stalin's hometown wanted to be associated with him anymore... "These textbooks," Stalin thundered, "aren't good for anything. It's all epochs and no facts, no events, no people, no concrete information." History, he concluded somewhat enigmatically, "must be history" - by which, in this case, he meant a cavalcade of national heroes, whose doings might appeal more broadly to the Russian people than the arid abstractions of class analysis and social structure.
  • Who, for example, should decide what history is taught in schools: should it be the government, or academic experts, or examination boards, or the schools themselves, or even the parents?
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  • for the last 18 months, I've been leading a project, based at the Institute of Historical Research, which is looking into the history of the teaching of history in schools in England since it first became a serious activity early in the 20th Century. And one of our most important discoveries so far has been the extent to which similar questions have been asked across the decades and generations, and often in complete ignorance of how they've been answered before.
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