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David Hilton

HANSARD 1803-2005 - 1 views

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    "This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. Information presented here is generated from the publicly available XML files. Material on this site remains under Parliamentary Copyright. Within these copyright constraints, you are encouraged to use and to explore the information provided."
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    An incomplete yet fascinatingly detailed record of the Hansard proceedings from Westminster during the period. Easily searchable.
David Hilton

Margaret Thatcher Foundation * - 1 views

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    The Margaret Thatcher Foundation's web site offers "free access to the full texts of thousands of documents relating to the politics of the last quarter of a century".
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    Large repository of sources on the Iron Lady.
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    Large repository of sources on the Iron Lady.
Mark Moran

Seven Score & Six Years Ago Today, Lincoln Gave the Gettysburg Address - 8 views

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    On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a speech that redefined the meaning of the Civil War.
Jeremy Greene

Frederick Douglass What to the Slave is the Fourth of July - 15 views

It is still being performed today! Or should I say Sunday: http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-29/yourtown/29718158_1_frederick-douglass-lecture-black-abolitionist

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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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David Hilton

New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration - 4 views

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    A great collection of historical resources on the New Deal.
Mr Maher

The First Decades of the Massachusetts Bay; or Idleness, Wolves, and a Man Who Shall No Longer Be Called Mister - Common-placeCommon-place: The Journal of early American Life - 6 views

  • In November 1630, John Baker was “whipped for shooteing att fowle on the Sabboth day”; and in June 1631, it was ordered that Phillip Ratliffe should be whipped, have his ears cut off, and be banished “for vttering mallitious and scandulous speeches against the goumt. & the church of Salem.
  • The inattention paid in the official record to women or indigenous land compels us to force open gaps and bring alternative narratives to light. Without this work, John Winthrop’s will be the only story told in textbooks about this country’s colonial history.
  • The Puritan freemen may have the loudest voices in the archive, but theirs are not the only narratives being told.
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  • In fact, deviations from moral norms receive some of the harshest punishments, such as in October 1631, when the court determined that to copulate with another man’s wife was punishable by death.
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    When historians look through more evidence they come to understandings that students never get to see becuase their teachers may only rely on the evidence that is part of the liturgy of the US History narrative canon. In this instance, routine court records will tell us much more about puritan Massachusetts than a John Winthrop sermon.
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