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Ellen Barnes

Awesome Stories - 0 views

www.awesomestories.com

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Deven Black

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 - 0 views

www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/home.do

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shared by Deven Black on 14 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Deven Black on 14 Jul 09
     
    A rich interactive website which presents info on Raid on Deerfield from different viewpoints: British; French; Mohawk; Huron; and Wobanaki.
David Hilton

Holocaust Cybrary remembering the Stories of the Survivors - Remember.org - 0 views

remember.org

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shared by David Hilton on 09 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 09 Aug 09
     
    A thorough and diverse collection of primary sources on the Holocaust.
Ed Webb

Culture Evolves Slowly, Falls Apart Quickly | Wired Science | Wired.com - 8 views

www.wired.com/...evolution-of-culture

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shared by Ed Webb on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • “just as evolutionary biologists use phylogenetic trees constructed using genetic data to test evolutionary hypotheses, anthropologists have recently begun to use cultural phylogenetics to test hypotheses about human social and cultural evolution,”
  • Political complexity indeed grew slowly, bit by bit, with no sudden jumps from bands to chiefdoms or tribes to states. “Political evolution, like biological evolution, tends to proceed through small steps rather than through major jumps in ‘design space,’” wrote Mace and Currie. However, purely forward-marching models didn’t fit the data. There was evidence of societies marching backwards as well, and this didn’t follow the same step-by-step path. Societies could collapse.
Joe Earley

US apologizes to Guatemala for Infecting over 1600 women with STDs in the 1940s - 9 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

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shared by Joe Earley on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joe Earley on 03 Oct 10
     
    Wow. What a story about US Foreign Policy from 1946-1948.
Van Weringh

Germany celebrates 20 years since reunification - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Cor... - 5 views

www.abc.net.au/...3028324.htm

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  • Van Weringh on 04 Oct 10
     
    This newspaper article explains very briefly the whole period between 1918 and 1990; a history lesson in a newspaper article!
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...ber-them-the-1914-18-war-today

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
Lisa Kempf

The Poisonous Mushroom - 4 views

www.johndclare.net/Germany2_PoisonousMushroom.htm

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  • Lisa Kempf on 04 Mar 10
     
    The Poisonous Mushroom was a collection of 17 short stories by the Nazi writer Ernst Hiemer, with pictures by the Nazi artist Fips.
Lisa Kempf

German Propaganda archive - 5 views

www.calvin.edu/...thumb.htm

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  • Lisa Kempf on 04 Mar 10
     
    Der Giftpilz, the German word for toadstool, was a publication of Julius Streicher's publishing house. It was aimed particularly at kids, and was sometimes used in the schools. In each case, the caption under the picture is translated to the right. In several cases, there is a link to a translation of the story that accompanied the picture.
David Hilton

Narrative Sources - 1 views

www.narrative-sources.be

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shared by David Hilton on 08 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 08 Dec 09
     
    Has Dutch and English sections so those of us whose medieval Dutch is a little rusty can still use the site. How thoughtful!
David Hilton

Raid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704 - 3 views

www.1704.deerfield.history.museum

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shared by David Hilton on 29 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 29 Dec 09
     
    Looks a bit more like a WebQuest type of site rather than a source collection, however has a timeline and some images. Seeings there is so little on the topic of New World colonisation generally I decided to add it.
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