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AIHE - Talking History Monthly Webinars - 9 views

americaninstituteforhistory.org/talkinghistory history Resources Professional Development web2.0
shared by Kristen McDaniel on 04 Aug 11 - No Cached
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  • Kristen McDaniel on 04 Aug 11
     
    Webinars conducted by historians across the country. This page has a schedule of future talks as well as links to the playback for past talks.
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picturing the thirties - 14 views

americanart.si.edu/...picturing_the_1930s culture history picturing social_studies smithsonian 1930s Great_Depression america images primary sources
shared by Deven Black on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
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  • Deven Black on 23 Oct 09
     
    Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.
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Map of Europe 1945 - 19 views

fcit.coedu.usf.edu/...map011b.pdf history socialstudies europe k6 ms hs wwii
shared by Mitch Weisburgh on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Mitch Weisburgh on 04 Jul 11
     
    World War II map of Europe, 1945 with country names left out.
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Searching for China: a Full WebQuest - 16 views

www.tommarch.com/...chinaquest.html china History interactive
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  • Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15
     
    " China is a majestic* country (note: links followed by * go to a dictionary definition) with a long and interesting history. If, like most people in the Occidental* world, you've never been to this fascinating land, you might want to take a brief tour. Go ahead and walk a few kilometers of The Great Wall or step foot into The Forbidden City or voyage to the Yellow Mountains. But beyond these tourist stops lives another, more complex, China. Currently, the people of China are experiencing great economic and social upheavals*. Such things as the situation in Tibet, Tiananmen Square massacre, and a scandal about treatment of orphans have brought some people to call for boycotts against China. Being faced with the task of understanding something as complex as a nation, you might want to give up. Sometimes in life you have that choice. But to give up trying to understand the China would mean giving up chances to benefit financially, to help people, to save some of the world's natural and artistic treasures, to protect the safety and security of millions of people, or to enlighten people's lives with greater religious insight. You see, you can't give up. So, if you're ready to begin, you might want to read a Travel Advisory before embarking* on our journey."
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Opinion | How the Far Right Conquered Sweden - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ar-right-conquered-sweden.html sweden right
shared by Javier E on 06 Sep 18 - No Cached
  • For decades, Sweden, once a racially and culturally homogeneous country with an expansive social welfare system, insisted that it could absorb large numbers of non-European migrants without considering how those migrants should be integrated into Swedish society.
  • As they did in cities across Western Europe, migrants tended to cluster in low-income neighborhoods; facing poor job prospects and rampant employment discrimination, they naturally turned inward. More young women have started wearing the hijab recently, Mr. Abdirahman tells me, and more young men “internalize the otherness” — rejected by their new society, they embrace the stereotypes imposed upon them. This can lead to a point where they reject gay rights or liberalism as “white, Western ideas,” and even attack firefighters because they represent the state.
  • As we walk around, Mr. Abdirahman, who is single and childless, confesses: “When I came here in 1998, to me this place was paradise. Today, I wouldn’t want my children to grow up here.”
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  • Not all immigrants get the same push at home, he says; some parents discouraged their youngsters from going to the city center to mix. Sweden, he is afraid, has entered a vicious circle of immigration, segregation and growing mutual hostility.
  • The situation grew worse with the latest mass influx of refugees, in 2015, after which a number of suburbs became almost exclusively migrant. Considered “no go” areas by some Swedes, these neighborhoods are known to outsiders only from horrific headlines. What people don’t get to see, Mr. Abdirahman worries, is the bus driver or the cleaning lady working themselves ragged to get their children into a university.
  • the government, dominated by the traditionally strong Social Democrats and the centrist Moderate Party, did far too little. That left an opening for the Sweden Democrats, until recently a group relegated to the racist fringe of Swedish politics. In the past few years, the party has recast itself; just like the populist Alternative für Deutschland party in Germany and the Five Star Movement in Italy, it has repositioned itself as anti-establishment and anti-immigrant.
  • The Sweden Democrats accuses all other political actors and the media of “destroying” Sweden, calls for a suspension of the right to asylum and promotes an exit of Sweden from the European Union.
  • Sweden always imagined itself as something different, a society bound by its unique brand of togetherness. But that self-satisfaction justified a myopic approach to the very complex problem of how to integrate vast numbers of foreigners. If you believe in giving everyone a state-of-the-art apartment, social welfare and child benefits, then it’s unlikely you will tackle the hurdles of the highly regulated Swedish labor market.
  • Sweden Democrats profit from the fact that they were often the first to point to the downsides of immigration. Yet as much as they despise wishful thinking, they replace it with simplistic thinking. No matter what problems there might be in Sweden — housing shortages, school closings, an overburdened health care system — in the view of the Sweden Democrats, it is always one group’s fault: migrants.
  • Even if the Sweden Democrats win big on Sunday, the election might be a force for good. The Moderate Party, which is likely to take second place, might split over the question of whether to rule with them. And the Social Democrats, already under pressure to move to the left, might likewise fall apart. Sweden’s party landscape, in other words, might be blown to pieces.If the country is lucky, some parts from this explosion will bind together as a new force — one that takes seriously the need for realism on immigration and integration, without falling for the siren song of right-wing populism.
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China Razed Thousands of Xinjiang Mosques in Assimilation Push, Report Says - WSJ - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...n-push-report-says-11601049531 china xinjiang Uighur religion repression
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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.
  • 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
  • Important Islamic sacred sites, including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes, were also demolished, damaged or altered, the study found.
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  • “The Chinese government’s destruction of cultural heritage aims to erase, replace and rewrite what it means to be Uyghur,”
  • China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday repeated its claims that Xinjiang has around 24,000 mosques and that the number of them per capita among Muslims in Xinjiang is higher than in many Muslim countries. It said that China fully protects the human and religious rights of all ethnic minorities and described the ASPI report as “smear and rumor.” It denied the existence of detention camps in Xinjiang.
  • ASPI estimated that around half of important Islamic sacred sites—many of which are supposed to be protected under Chinese law—have been damaged or altered since 2017.
  • The report estimated there are fewer than 15,500 mosques left intact in Xinjiang, the lowest number since the 1980s, when Uighurs had just begun rebuilding mosques destroyed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Most of the land where mosques were razed remained vacant, it said.
  • The campaign is part of a longer-term trend to transform communities in the name of public safety. The strategy has gained pace under President Xi Jinping who has called for the “Sinicization” of religion
  • During a visit the following month, the Journal found that some facilities had indeed been closed, with former detainees sometimes sent away to work in factories. One facility had been converted into a prison after being previously described as a school.
  • Of the dozens of facilities ASPI identified as recently under construction, roughly half were higher-security facilities. The most-secure facilities had high walls, multiple layers of perimeter barriers, watchtowers and dozens of cell blocks with no apparent outside exercise yard for detainees
  • Authorities are likely singling out people who they have lost hope of re-educating and putting them into long periods of incarceration, said Mr. Leibold. It is “the only way to really explain their pretty remarkable expansion,”
  • One challenge in pressuring China’s government over its Xinjiang policies is the relative silence of Muslim-majority countries. ASPI made its work available in 10 different languages to try to raise awareness beyond the English-speaking world
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba - ABC News - 0 views

abcnews.go.com/...story US USA military Cuba history conspiracy rightwing communism paranoia ColdWar
shared by Ed Webb on 14 Oct 12 - No Cached
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  • In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
  • plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities
  • to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro
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  • "The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."
  • neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops deployed to drive out Castro. Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — not democratic — control over the island nation after the invasion.
  • a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds
  • reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election
  • One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.
  • Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.
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Common Regency Errors - 7 views

www.eclectics.com/...common_regency_errors.html nobliity
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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 03 Nov 11
     
    possibly a good reference for those of us from countries without titled nobility...I know my students always struggle to understand how nobliity titles work.
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BBC News - Argentina's Dirty War lessons for the world - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-latin-america-15736895
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  • "We have had quite a bit of stability even in the worst-case scenarios, hyperinflation, default and a complete melt-down of the banking system in 2001. "Greece is a playground compared to what happened in Argentina."
  • "There are many countries where impunity reigns and I would say the most disappointing - obviously on a different scale - is the United States where the torture that has happened during the war on terror is not being investigated by political decisions not to investigate it." "In the US there are civil society groups that pursue justice very valiantly but in terms of public opinion there is still this idea that these are people we don't care about, names we can't pronounce." He added: "There is generally an attitude that if torture keeps us safe then we don't really care about it.
  • "Argentina has moved on, is moving on and in fact is moving on thanks to the trials not in spite of them. It is moving on to more respect for freedom of expression, freedom of association."
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Heritage Conservation Network: Adventures in Preservation - International Volunteer Vac... - 0 views

www.heritageconservation.net heritage conservation sites reconstruction archaeology workshops excursions activities modern restoration
shared by David Hilton on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Aug 09
     
    Would be an excellent student activity if you lived in a country with a significant and extant material history. You register with this network and nominate run-down buildings that you and your students can then restore, under the guidance of these volunteers. I guess there are some ethical problems there, but it would still be a wonderful experience for the students.
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Australians at War - 0 views

www.australiansatwar.gov.au/default.html boer war australia wwi wwii vietnam war korean war images sources primary sources research resources
shared by David Hilton on 05 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 05 Jul 09
     
    This one will only be useful for Australian teachers (except in the astounding event of Aus'n history being taught outside the sunburnt country) and looks like it might be a little chest-thumpingly patriotic. That's not always a bad thing though is it and there are some primary sources you could pinch and then use for more subversive purposes if that's your thing.
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Antique Roman Dishes - Collection - 0 views

www.cs.cmu.edu/...ant-rom-coll.html rome ancient sources recipes food culture daily life
shared by David Hilton on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 20 Jul 09
     
    What an excellent find! Ancient Roman recipes. I couldn't find any containing the infamous garum (fermented fish oil) but there was still some weird stuff. Guess every country has its weird food (kimchi for Koreans, Vegemite for us). Anyway thank God the Europeans discovered the Americas or we'd still be eating this stuff. Yuck.
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1896 - 0 views

projects.vassar.edu/...1896home.html usa presidents 1896 elections cartoons newspapers c19th politics america images sources primary sources
shared by David Hilton on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 08 Aug 09
     
    " 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.
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Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...0310-immigration-explorer.html demographics geography immigration usa us america maps
shared by David Hilton on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    This is an interactive animated map showing information on immigration into the US since the mid-19th century. You can choose a group and a time period and then get a map showing how those people setting in the country at that time.
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Welcome to the Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections - 2 views

polarbears.si.umich.edu usa america ussr russia russian revolution 1918 1919 bolsheviks polar bear expedition revolution wwi sources images primary sources
shared by David Hilton on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Aug 09
     
    "The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I." Not to mention there were a few other countries involved as well... Contains primary sources and images.
  • David Hilton on 12 Aug 09
     
    The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I.
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VADS: free art and design images for education - 0 views

www.vads.ac.uk england britain uk europe america usa france germany c20th images art sculpture photos sources primary sources 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
shared by David Hilton on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 05 Sep 09
     
    Seems to focus on images of art from Western countries in the postwar period.
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Global Gateway - 0 views

international.loc.gov/...intldlhome.html Library_of_Congress countries cultures reference
shared by Kay Cunningham on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kay Cunningham on 02 Sep 09
     
    LOC portal to world culture resources
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Indian Country Diaries | PBS - 7 views

www.pbs.org/...index.html history Native Americans America indigenous history genocide
shared by Simon Miles on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Simon Miles on 26 Jul 10
     
    The history of relationships between Native Americans, Europeans and other immigrants - includes sections on Assimilation, Relocation and Genocide, Indian Boarding Schools, Oral History of the Cherokee and an Interactive Map.
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Annual Message to Congress by Abraham Lincoln - 6 views

teachingamericanhistory.org/...index.asp
shared by Mike Gwaltney on 24 Nov 10 - No Cached
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      Mike Gwaltney on 24 Nov 10
       
      Lincoln perspective on necessary change in the face of opposition from an ideologically hardened opposition. "We must disenthrall ourselves..." is a call to look past that which we all hold as true (the common sense?) and focus on possibility: "we must think anew and act anew." Genius stuff.
  • The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
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