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Hanover Historical Texts Projects offers primary texts for use in history with documented citations and references for students. European, US 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Africa, Middle East, East Asia, South Asia and India, Americas outside US

Online text for research and historical texts

"Look back with angst A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the first world war"

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.

Eighteenth Century France French Revolution, Layfayette, Lavoisier

European Maps 16th century, 1882-1910

19th Century Nationalism Italian & German Overview

History and humanities electronic forms of texts Ancient, Middle Ages, Early Modern and Modern Europe United States 17th-20th century Americas outside the US Africa, Middleast, East Asia, India, South Asia, Ancient Greece and Rome

Russia 1801-

19th Century Historical Maps of the World

Americas Trade in 18th century Virtual Museum

"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and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers.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

Kaiser: Russo-Turkish War 1877-78 Prof Richard J Evans lecture how Russia played a central part in the history of war and peace in 19th century Europe Origins, course and impact of six wars--international conflicts, military aspects, ideological influences and the affect on the increase of social and cultural changes

Rutgers Library site index for American and British resources religion, holocaust, medieval, nineteenth century, oral histories, urban history, war and diplomacy, Women's history, Intellectual history, law, crime and police history, afro-American history

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

IB History 20th Century Russia, WWI, Cold War, Vietnam Bismarck, European Union, Spanish Civil War, Hitler, Stalin

Russian Revolution online resources

Great Series on the Eastern Front of WWII. Useful for TOK discussions as well. 

John Emerich Edward Daton "Historical Essays and Studies" [1907] Historical Essays: Italy: Cavour Causes of the Franco-Prussian War Talleyrand's Memoirs History of the French Revolution

Online Historical Essays of 19th Century European History

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