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Focus on Films is an archive of British portrayal of events Domesday, Tudors, Stuarts Early 20th Century Actuality films, Women's suffrage, Great War, Ireland, British Empire and Commonwealth, Inter-war Years, World War Two Post-war: Britain since 1945, British Empire and Commonwealth, Cold War

"http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t

Exhibit of Russian Archives of the Soviet System

The National Archives are British documents, articles, online resources and education resources

Library of Congress Soviet Archives exhibition

Biographies Library Images Subject Section Additional Resources

Josepf Stalin Internet Archive Soviet History

What is Marxism? Archives, documents, resources, eBooks

Document archive of Wilson's 14 Pts Speech

International Working-men's Association First IWW

Chronology of Russian History Resources and Online links Archives in russia Dynasties Aseembly of Russian nobility History of Jews in russia Treasures of the Tsars Historical Maps Alaska Alexander II, Nicholas and Alexandra Marxism-Leninism Soviet Union, Cold War, Soviet ArchivesRussian/Soviet Technology

Soviet History Archive Marxist Perspective

The British A level topics are similar to IB ones for the 20th century. This directory of Web sites is a broad listing of resources.

Cold War info.