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Walter Antoniotti

Modern Western Civilization Economic History - 8 views

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    One-Page handout for For Use in History Classes
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    I keep updating the Modern Western Civilization Economic History site. Suggestions welcome. Does anyone use it for student projects?
Eric Beckman

Haiti and the Atlantic World | Sources and Resources for Discussions about Haiti and Ha... - 1 views

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    Blog, Dessalines Reader, Links to Resources
Mr Maher

Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong - 3 views

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    The Bitcoin connection is obvious, but so should the story of a historical narrative we all assume is accurate, yet it is not. How much of your content is wrong?
HistoryGrl14 .

Upstander Project - 0 views

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    documentaries on native americans and Rwanda reconciliation
Javier E

White House briefing room descends into chaos over 'fake news' - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • However high the bar, Trump falls immeasurably short of the standard set by Sanders herself, which is that when people make honest mistakes, they should “own up” to them. Trump simply doesn’t do that. Media organizations look like a model of biblical rectitude vis-a-vis that guy.
Eric Beckman

Who built Great Zimbabwe? And why? - Breeanna Elliott | TED-Ed - 1 views

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    Short video on Great Zimbabwe, its connection Indian Ocean trade, and racist theorizing about its origins
Eric Beckman

Class Apps - NCTA - 2 views

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    Classroom applicable videos on East Asia
Eric Beckman

The Biology of Skin Color | HHMI BioInteractive - 2 views

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    18 minute video on the biology of skin color.
Eric Beckman

MIT Visualizing Cultures - 5 views

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    Image driven scholarship. Teaching units based on images, many of them mediated by historians.
Eric Beckman

Hayakawa Shōkosai I | Bowler Hat | Japan | Meiji period (1868-1912) | The Met - 1 views

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    Intriguing item from Meiji Japan, combines traditional and western influence. Useful object for student inquiry
Eric Beckman

When Worlds Collide on Vimeo - 4 views

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    Video describing meeting of European and Amerindian cultures
Mr Maher

Was the Declaration of Independence Signed on July 4? How Memory Plays Tricks with Hist... - 1 views

  • What are we to think of history? when in less than 40 years, such diversities appear in the memories of living persons, who were witnesses?”[2]
    • Mr Maher
       
      Primary documents are simply not more trustworthy that secondary sources
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    Teachers can use the information in this article to show students that primary sources can be just as slippery as secondary sources. For those who want to understand what the AMA's Tuning Project means by the "provisional nature of knowledge" - this is it.
Eric Beckman

313 The Edict of Milan| Christian History - 1 views

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    Article describing the Edict of Milan. Includes this important note on sourcing: "[The Edict's] terms are known to us only from a rescript issued six months later by Licinius. (This rescript was sent from his capital in Nicomedia-now Izmit in Turkey, just east of the Bosporus-to the governor of the nearby province of Bithynia. The Christian writer Lactantius has preserved its original Latin, while the church historian Eusebius gives it in Greek. ) "
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