History

General

  • Wonderful huge site: Atlas of the 20th Century.

  • Another massive site with Primary Source materials: teacher's use, probably, initially, although you'll use it to find sites for your children.  If they want to read the originals, here they are!

  • All ages will love this site on US Government.  This site transcends unit boundaries.  It's GREAT!

  • The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon is now online: read from the screen or print to your heart's content. 

  • Eyewitness History is GREAT! It has first-hand accounts, graphics, and a wonderfully user-friendly interface. Bookmark today and use it all four years! I recommend that you start by clicking on "index" and then scroll through, noting upcoming topics in your Year-Plan! Enjoy!

  • Have you chosen the Spielvogel books as a spine?  If so, click here to find more teaching helps!  To navigate through this site, you'll want to click on the picture of your text, or one similar, to find interactive quizzes, internet activities, and more!

  • Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks.  Contributed by Sue.

  • Today in History

  • Have Fun with History Videos

Timelines

 

Presidents:

  • Do you want pictures only?  Click here for a picture gallery.

  • Another excellent site for studying the Presidents:  POTUS (Presidents of the United States)

  • Coloring pages of every president for your Lower Grammar kids

  • Site for inaugural addresses of the presidents

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Unit 1

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

WWI: general sites for the 4-week study, all levels:

Week 3: Wilson's Reforms & Europe's War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America's Roaring 20's & Russia's Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler's Early Career

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Unit 2

General: use throughout this unit!

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

  • Dust Bowl

  • PBS site on the Dust Bowl of the 1930's.  Detailed and very informative.

  • Great Depression: Tales From the Rails

  • Recommended reading for Rhetoric level students: this analysis clearly sets forth real differences and connections between Marxism, Communism, Nazism, and Fascism.  It will be of much aid to students filling out this week's chart (in Student Activity pages) in preparation for our discussion.

  • Benito Mussolini: this site contains a biography, and links (eventually) to sites with very graphic pictures of Mussolini's execution, as well as an archive of pictures of him during his tenure in office.  Parents are advised to view these sites with their OLDER children only.

  • Time's Man of the Year: Stalin!  In 1942!

  • Outstanding, heavily hyper linked site detailing the life of Joseph Stalin.  Read up to, but not including, Stalin's relations with Hitler.

  • VERY detailed (maybe too much so for even our high school students) life of Stalin, with some photos and some audio clips linked

  • Steady as a Rock: The Papacy of Pius XI and its relationship to Europe's turbulent generation between the wars by Joseph John Florencio Jr.

  • Discussion of "Fiscal Fascism."  Excerpt: "Thus, it is important to recognize that, as an economic system, fascism was widely accepted in the 1920s and '30s. The evil deeds of individual fascists were later condemned, but the practice of economic fascism never was. To this day, the historically uninformed continue to repeat the hoary slogan that, despite all his faults, Mussolini at least "made the trains run on time," insinuating that his interventionist industrial policies were a success."  Were they?  Find out by reading this article!

  • Radio broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster.  This site contributed by Sue.

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

  • Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on FDR.  Includes: link to video you can buy (its script is posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer.  Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters,  and more links to other sites connected with FDR

  • Eleanor Roosevelt has been voted "The Outstanding Woman of the 20th Century" by some. Here's a PBS site devoted to her, with links and video you can buy!

  • Website sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, which contains a massive amount of primary sources and information about the Depression and the 1930s (co-sponsored by the Institute, Teachers College at Columbia University, and the Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities -- I suspect given the sponsors a fairly liberal bias but solid on the primary sources)

  • Wonderful, detailed biography of FDR, with MANY MANY hyper links to subtopics associated with FDR's life and presidency.  Dialectic and up!  Great if you want to follow subtopics you get interested in this week

  • Successes and Failures of Roosevelt's New Deal Programs

  • Great links to further reading on FDR

  • Fireside chat transcripts

  • Listen to people talking about their experiences during the Depression

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

  • Spanish Civil War Factbook.  Excellent introduction.

  • Short biography of Francisco Franco.  This fascist totalitarian ruler survived until the mid-1970s, largely because his was NOT an expansionist regime.

  • Images from the Spanish Civil War: posters index.

  • This outline of the Spanish Civil War is very informative, given an attentive student.  It's in outline form, and therefore efficient, but the student will not be "drawn in" by interesting text.  However, it's worth the price of admission to view the graphics and maps that go along with this very helpful time line.  Also note, as you scroll down, that the outline includes a section on the "civil dimension" of the conflict, a section on the "international dimension" (very important: the Spanish Civil War was a training exercise for expansionist regimes) and a section on the  "ideological dimension" of this war.

  • Pictures and maps to aid in your study of the Spanish Civil War.

  • Excellent online biography of Adolph Hitler.  Detailed and interesting!  Read Part 2: The Triumph of Hitler this week.

  • Outstanding highly hyper linked page on Neville Chamberlain.  This page will give you MUCH valuable information that is not available in enrichment books recommended for this week.  Please take some time to follow hyper links that interest you, or are terms/events about which you know very little.  This site is highly recommended.

  • This link on the policy of appeasement from the above page is HIGHLY recommended reading this week, especially the primary source quotes at the bottom.  In reading them you will gain valuable insight into WHY this policy was followed.

  • Outline of Hitler's maneuvers Leading up to the Munich Crisis.  Wonderful original audio clips from various world leaders including the leaders of Britain (Chamberlain), Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany (Hitler).

  • Neville Chamberlain is often quoted (and belittled) for his famous statement that his appeasement of Hitler over Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference had earned Europe "peace in our time."  To read the text of his ironic statement, click here

  • Official Amelia Earhart site, or read about her last flight here.

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

  • Holocaust timeline. Many pictures.  Many linked histories.  Pulls no punches; parental supervision suggested.

  • Memory of the Camps: this documentary on the liberation of the German concentration camps in 1945 was assembled in London that year, but never shown until FRONTLINE first broadcast it - 40 years later - in May of 1985.

  • Three women who refused to remain passive in the face of the Holocaust.  PBS.

  • Learn about the role of the Swiss during WWII as the Nazi's bankers.  PBS site called Nazi Gold.

  • Fascinating site about race relations between Jews and Blacks: From Swastika to Jim Crow.

  • Excellent site to substitute for some of the recommended books for your Upper Grammar and Dialectic students.  Explore the links to read lots of information about the Holocaust.

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

  • Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.  Includes: link to videos you can buy (scripts are posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer.  Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters,  and more links to other sites connected with these men!

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

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Unit 3

General:

  • Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.  Includes: link to videos you can buy (scripts are posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer.  Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters,  and more links to other sites connected with these men!

  • Get a quick thematic overview of the Cold War, and see the entire huge CNN video series on this conflict.  Every imaginable subject is covered; it would be great if your library carried some of these videos.  Take a look!

Week 19: India's Independence

Week 20: China's Revolution

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

  • Korea- The Forgotten War- This site has LOTS of information, pictures, video, etc...

  • Go into as much depth as you want to with this exhaustive site on the Korean War, its special forces, the countries that fought in coalition there--this is a huge site; something for everyone.

  • Or, how about a brief overview of the war.  Great to read aloud to younger students, this summary even includes a few black and white photos.

  • Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on President Truman.  Includes: link to videos you can buy (scripts are posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer.  Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters,  and more links to other sites connected with these men!

  • Harry S. Truman- Library and Museum

  • Building the Atomic Bomb

Week 22: Eisenhower's Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

Week 24: Kennedy's New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson's Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

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Unit 4

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford's Integrity

Week 30: Carter's Malaise

Week 31: Reagan's Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush's New World Order

Week 33: Clinton's Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

  • Text of President Bush's Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East.

  • Bin Ladin's view of America, and his list of the reasons America deserved to be attacked in 2000.  It is something every American should read thoughtfully, since it articulates a series of widely held view.

  • Click here for a map of the seven cities of the seven churches in Revelation

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

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