History
- Great link for the whole year! Contributed by Carrie.
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Wonderful huge site: Atlas of the 20th Century.
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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!
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All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It's GREAT!
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The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon is now online: read from the screen or print to your heart's content.
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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!
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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!
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Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks. Contributed by Sue.
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Have Fun with History Videos
Timelines
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All the time line links you could ever need for this year.
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Timeline (and much more!) of Presidents of the 20th Century. Check it out!
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Interactive Technology Timeline from PBS. GREAT!
Presidents:
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Do you want pictures only? Click here for a picture gallery.
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Another excellent site for studying the Presidents: POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
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Coloring pages of every president for your Lower Grammar kids
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Site for inaugural addresses of the presidents
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You might want to start by having your oldest students read this selection on "How to Read a History Assignment".
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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For review, you might want to look over this excellent site on the Spanish-American War.
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This link is from The Henry Ford museum site.
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Primary source documents and other web connections written as companion to the book America 1900: The Turning Point. (You can read the enhanced transcript on screen in place of the book OR buy/see the video)
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Another wonderful PBS site with ideas you could use if you wanted to study this century through the eyes of the history of aviation. Here are the Wright Brothers!
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Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on Teddy Roosevelt. 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, the 1912 Progressive Party platform, a link to a full, free copy of The Rough Riders, and more links to other sites connected with TR!
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Booker T. & W.E.B. An interesting comparison of strategy for black social and economic progress. Look for a bias.
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Helen Keller biography. Scroll down to find another link to lots of pictures of Miss Keller.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Queen Victoria
- Edward VII
- Mother Jones
- J.P. Morgan
- Booker T. Washington
- George Eastman
- Max Planck
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Willis Carrier
- Wilbur Wright
- Orville Wright
- Henry Ford
Week 2: The Progressive Era
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PBS site with many resources on Hawaiian history.
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Link to many aspects of Hawaiian culture.
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Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on Teddy Roosevelt. 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, the 1912 Progressive Party platform, a link to a full, free copy of The Rough Riders, and more links to other sites connected with TR!
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PBS site on Harry Houdini.
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After reading about Father Damien, listed under Church History, read about the disease of leprosy, and the ongoing missionary work among those stricken with leprosy. Upper grammar and up.
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Wonderful site for all ages on the Panama Canal. Keep following links to history and photos!
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Live camera on the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal!
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A meaty, simple site with some pictures and much information on the Panama Canal. Dialectic and up.
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One last site for studying the Panama Canal: pbs.org
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Taft
- Henry Ford
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Wilbur Wright
- Orville Wright
- Sigmund Freud
- Albert Einstein
- John Arthur "Jack" Johnson
- Sun Yat-sen
- William D'Arcy
- Jane Addams
WWI: general sites for the 4-week study, all levels:
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firstworldwar.com has articles and multimedia resources
Week 3: Wilson's Reforms & Europe's War
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This site contains photographs of eight different real submarines, six model submarines and a large number of plans of old and modern boats. Submarine video clips and two virtual submarine tours are also presented.
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Actual pictures of a U-boat sinking a merchant marine vessel.
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General purpose site with much wonderful information on WWI.
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Good site for Dialectic students (and older!) interested in the U-boats of WWI.
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Interactive web site featuring an overview of the history and organization of the Federal Reserve, the monetary policy and regulatory functions, and the services provided to depository institutions. Site also includes interactive simulations with ways to test knowledge, such as quizzes and a virtual Bank examination
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Visit the mystical world of the Fed and talk about terms like monetary policy, discount rates, and open market operation. We'll find out just what kinds of tasks fill Alan Greenspan's day, and see how his and the Federal Reserve Board's decisions affect our everyday lives
- Woodrow Wilson
- Victoriano Huerta
- Venustiano Carranza
- Pancho Villa
- Franz Ferdinand
- Wilhelm II
- Nicholas II
- Alfred von Schlieffen
- Helmuth von Moltke
- Joseph Joffre
- Paul Von Hindenburg
- Erich Ludendorff
- Margaret Sanger
- Edward VII
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
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Another wonderful PBS site with ideas you could use if you wanted to study this century through the eyes of the history of aviation. Here's Lindbergh
- Erich von Falkenhayn
- Joseph Joffre
- Douglas Haig
- Alexei Brusilov
- Nicholas II
- Alexandra Feodorovna
- Rasputin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin
- Manfred von Richthofen
- Edith Cavell
- Alexei Brusilov
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
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Review Russian history up to the Russian Revolution. This page is especially good for those who are new to Tapestry in Year 4. Dialectic and up.
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Large site devoted to organizing links connected with the Russian Revolution. Primary source documents, maps, biographies--it's all here! Parental screening advised, since I'm sure there must be some pro-Marxist sites included.
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Direct link to helpful time line on the above site.
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Have a Grammar or Dialectic student crazy about baseball? Try a unit study on Joe DiMaggio's life that lasts the rest of this year! Start here!
- Woodrow Wilson
- Manfred von Richthofen
- Robert Nivelle
- Vladimir Lenin
- Alexander Kerensky
- John Pershing
- William Sims
- Sir Douglas Haig
- Nicholas II
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
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Read about the Influenza epidemic during WWI that claimed more lives at home than the war did overseas
- Woodrow Wilson
- David Lloyd George
- Georges Clemenceau
- Vittorio Orlando
- Erich Ludendorff
- Ferdinand Foch
- John Pershing
- Wilhelm II
- Rupert Brooke
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Wilfred Owen
Week 7: Postwar America
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This site includes background information as well as two multiple choice quizzes, one fill-in-the-blank quiz, and one true/false quiz. There's also a great set of flashcards! Link contributed by Kathy.
- A. Mitchell Palmer
- Sigmund Freud
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lucretia Mott
- Susan B. Anthony
- Lucy Stone
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Harriot Stanton Blatch
- Alice Paul
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Week 8: America's Roaring 20's & Russia's Stalin
- Joseph Stalin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Leon Trotsky
- Warren Harding
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke Ellington
- George Gershwin
- Langston Hughes
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler's Early Career
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Great Depression: Tales From the Rails
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Great Depression: Questions for an interview with a Senior adult
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Great web site with tons of resources on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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PBS site on the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. Detailed and very informative.
- Calvin Coolidge
- Adolf Hitler
- Heinrich Himmler
- Hermann Goering
- Julius Streicher
- Ernst Roehm
- Charles Lindbergh
- William Jennings Bryan
- Clarence Darrow
- Benito Mussolini
- Robert Goddard
- Edwin Hubble
- Charlie Chaplin
- Jack Dempsey
- John Scopes
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General: use throughout this unit!
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Outstanding, incredibly detailed and rich site on WWII. Dialectic and up; teachers (if you have time!).
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Outstanding index of sites dealing with WWII. Heavily hyper linked text and a joy to use. 6th Grades and up.
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
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Excellent online biography of Adolph Hitler. Detailed and interesting!
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Outstanding site on the Hitler Youth.
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Great web site with tons of resources on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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PBS site on the Hoover Dam
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Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics
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Walt Disney the man Behind the Mouse
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
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PBS site on the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. Detailed and very informative.
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Great Depression: Tales From the Rails
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Outstanding, heavily hyper linked site detailing the life of Joseph Stalin. Read up to, but not including, Stalin's relations with Hitler.
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VERY detailed (maybe too much so for even our high school students) life of Stalin, with some photos and some audio clips linked
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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!
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Radio broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster. This site contributed by Sue.
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
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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
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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!
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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)
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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
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Great links to further reading on FDR
- Listen to people talking about their experiences during the Depression
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
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Excellent online biography of Adolph Hitler. Detailed and interesting! Read Part 2: The Triumph of Hitler this week.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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Official Amelia Earhart site, or read about her last flight here.
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
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Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany after the Nazis invade Poland. Audio clip and text. All.
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More on Blitzkreig strategies and weaponry. Dialectic and up.
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Many details on the Panzer Tanks used in WWII, especially in the Blitzkreig phase of the war. Dialectic and up.
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Wonderful page detailing the Nazi-Soviet pact that took the world by surprise on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland. Dialectic and up.
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Good overview of Churchill's life, with many hyper links to key events and concepts in understanding this great man's times and actions. Dialectic and up.
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Battle of Britain home page. All ages.
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Compilation of original WWII documents, including the Atlantic Charter. Dialectic and up.
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History of air craft carriers. All U.S. ships ever built listed by name with personal histories from those who sailed them linked. Fascinating REAL history! All.
Week 15: World-Wide War
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Holocaust timeline. Many pictures. Many linked histories. Pulls no punches; parental supervision suggested.
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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.
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Three women who refused to remain passive in the face of the Holocaust. PBS.
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Learn about the role of the Swiss during WWII as the Nazi's bankers. PBS site called Nazi Gold.
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Fascinating site about race relations between Jews and Blacks: From Swastika to Jim Crow.
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
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The Lend-Lease Act: details and primary source documents, if you scroll down.
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The National Geographic for December 2001 posted a website on the 60th
anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There is an interactive
battle map, a memory book, a collection of stories from survivors and
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PBS site on treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. For another great site on this subject, also by PBS, click here.
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Detailed NOVA site on Albert Einstein. Outstanding!
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Copy of Albert Einstein's letter to President Roosevelt recommending the development of the atomic bomb.
- War Theory
- 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
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Another Cold War site
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Learn about the little-known powerbroker of the 1900's--Jesse H. Jones.
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
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The History of Israel in a Nutshell. This is a Flash presentation that is worth watching!
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Brief history of Israel and Palestine, with hyperlinks to key documents. Recommended as core reading for the Rhetoric level students this week. Pay close attention to the section entitled British Mandate!
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Outstanding web site: Maps to use in Geography assignments this week. For all ages!
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Selection of documents relevant to all sides of the Middle East conflict. They go back before our time period, and forward well beyond it.
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Another great site for your Grammar level students to aide in learning more about Israel. Contributed by Sharie in Maine.
- Charlotte has graciously shared her Unit 2 Study Guide and Review for rhetoric students.
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Week 19: India's Independence
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In case you can't get recommended books this week, learn all about Gandhi from this site. Has text, pictures, hyperlinks for in-depth research. Upper Grammar up.
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This site claims to be the "official" Gandhi site, and is notable for its many quotes from him, and fine pictures. Probably better for Dialectic and up.
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Why did Gandhi make such a big deal out of salt? Here's an article on the effects of the British salt taxation policies. Fascinating reading for Rhetoric students with the time and interest to pursue it.
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Excellent explanation of why Gandhi is seen in so many pictures spinning thread. Dialectic and Rhetoric level students.
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Another time line of Gandhi's life.
Week 20: China's Revolution
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China for Kids- you have to scroll a little to get to the information
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Rhetoric level, for interest mostly.
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A good Mao-Tse-tung site.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
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Korea- The Forgotten War- This site has LOTS of information, pictures, video, etc...
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Harry S. Truman- Library and Museum
Week 22: Eisenhower's Oasis
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Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on President 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!
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Timeline of Martin Luther King's life
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Good site for Lower/Upper Grammar students on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Chart to fill in on Martin Luther King, Jr. (Lower Grammar)
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Early Years of MLK excerpted from "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr."
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You Tube video of China's "Great Leap Forward" with Mao.
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Timeline of events and interesting information from each year in the 1950s.
Week 23: Conformity and Change
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PBS on the history of the Black Press.
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Text of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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Martin Luther King, Jr site for kids. It has information, quizzes and resources.
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Wonderful site on Nelson Mandela: black hero of South Africa.
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Rosa Parks online exhibit.
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Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Space Race site from the Smithsonian.
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Timeline of events and interesting information from each year in the 1950s.
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You Tube video of China's "Great Leap Forward" with Mao.
Week 24: Kennedy's New Frontiers
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PBS site on Vietnam: many links. Outstanding.
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Almost everything you could want on JFK: the JFK Library and Museum. His biography, his speeches, lot's on Jacqueline, etc.
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Timeline of events in the 1960s
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Alan Shepard going into space- You Tube video
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Civil Rights Events
- Video: James Meredith’s attempt to register at the University of Mississippi in Oxford
- Governor Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door
- Website: Bombing of Black Churches in Georgia
- Website: Montgomery, AL civil Rights Marches
- Photo: Montgomery, AL civil Rights Marches
- Photo: Montgomery, AL civil Rights Marches
- Photo: Montgomery, AL civil Rights Marches
- PDF: Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Webpage: March on Washington
- Video: March on Washington
- Audio and Text: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech
- Video and Photos: John Glenn - First American to Orbit Earth
- President Kennedy: the Man and His Message
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Civil Rights Speech
- Speech before the Berlin Wall
- Video: Kennedy’s assassination
- Newspaper: Kennedy’s assassination
- Photo: Kennedy’s assassination
- Photo: Kennedy’s assassination
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You MUST SEE this incredible site on the Space Race. Take a virtual tour of the National Museum of Air and Space, visit the time line, see actual artifacts from the Space Race.
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Studying the space race? Check out this great site all about the moon.
Week 26: Johnson's Great Society
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The "Great Society Speech," by Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964(written)
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The "Great Society Speech" (You Tube video)
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PBS on Vietnam: The American Experience
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
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PBS site on Vietnam: many links. Outstanding.
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Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
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Read about the overthrow of President Salvador Allende of Chile.
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Read more about Mao Zedong.
Week 29: Ford's Integrity
Week 30: Carter's Malaise
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Jimmy Carter for KIDS! Site has links, games, fun and timeline
Short biography about Jack Kevorkian
Economic Development in China after Mao: The Four Modernizations
Week 31: Reagan's Revolution
Read about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster here.
Watch the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on YouTube. Parents may want to preview before students see this.
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush's New World Order
History of the World Wide Web
Read some interesting facts about Operation Desert Storm.
Freedom for Nelson Mandela: be sure and play the video to watch the celebration of his release.
Time line of Boris Yeltsins life and career
Week 33: Clinton's Lost Opportunity
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Frontline presentation on The Gulf War.
Outstanding PBS-linked site on The Clinton Years.
Read about the 2000 election.
The trial of O.J. Simpson
Read Time magazine articles about Princess Diana
Read a "Dissident Voice," which tells about the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
Read about alternative energy.
Learn about steroids at kidshealth.org.
What is social networking?
Watch an interactive graphic about Hurricane Katrina. (It is slow to load, but is worth the wait!)
Read the chronology of events that took place on 9/11.
Watch the tragic events of September 11, 2001 on YouTube.
Forbes has a chart that tells about corporate scandals that you may find helpful.
Highlights of the Patriot Act
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
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