Mr Maher's List: AP European History Unit 6 - Nationalism in the Age of Progress

Review of a bibliography of the "unifier" of Italy, which not only provides a snapshot of the man and his time, but shows how history changes as the record changes. Correspondence of Cavour was not available to historians until the 1960s

Short article that draws the connection between Saddam Hussein's attempted arab unification in 1991 and Bismarck as leader of German unification. Students can see this as an example of comparisons across time - how does the understanding of one event help us understand the other? Or does the comparison distort history? This same comparison was made by Margaret Anderson in her history of Western Civ at Berkeley