"We work with educators throughout their careers to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, as well as their students' academic performance and civic learning. Through a rigorous investigation of the events that led to the Holocaust, as well as other recent examples of genocide and mass violence, students in a Facing History class learn to combat prejudice with compassion, indifference with participation, and myth and misinformation with knowledge."
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The website offers more than 100 free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.
Welcome to the 20th Century History Series Website! The podcasts below are meant to be used as revision for the International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement Programs (AP), as well as AS and A2, AQA, OCR, Edexcel. They can also be used as support for College Foundation Year, or for general entertainment, if you just enjoy history!
The podcasts are free, and are intended as a supplement to regular learning and for general entertainment. They are heavy on historical evidence; numbers, names, dates, events and keywords, which is the basis for writing a solid paper or project.
Created by Kim Sønderborg
Head of Humanities, IB examiner, Franconian International School, Germany.
interesting website that compares different empires throughout history -- via data such as size in km, year at peak size, capital, founder, time period, etc.
The TimeMap of World History is an interactive history atlas and timeline that lets you navigate to any era of history to visit any civilization, nation or empire. Now contains over 650 history maps and over 1,000 pages of high quality supporting narrative all made easy to navigate via our TimeMap interface.
Jump in:
- Ancient World History
- The Middle Ages
- Modern History
This is the blog of the Historical Podcasts website, the top website for finding podcasts with an historical theme. As this site has the number one position in Google for 'history podcast' and 'historical podcast', if you know of a history podcast that deserves a bigger audience be sure to let us know
10 videos
Total length: 13 minutes
Description: Where did the phrase 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through 'The History of English' squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.
"Clio History Journal publishes exemplary essays by senior secondary History students. It's all about celebrating and sharing great student work. It helps encourage students' enthusiasm for the subject and it's also a great learning tool. It's really helpful, when you're setting an essay task, to be able to show students what a high quality essay looks like." - "Welcome to Clio History Journal. Clio is an online journal devoted to publishing research papers by senior secondary History students and their teachers. Student essays published on Clio have been judged as being of an exemplary standard. The journal is named after Clio, the ancient Greek muse of history, one of the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Clio is based at Dickson College, in the Australian Capital Territory, and has been publishing student work since 1996."
Welcome to British Pathé
The world's finest news and entertainment video film archive
You can view and buy films and still photographs from the entire archive of 90,000 videos covering newsreel, sports footage, social history documentaries, entertainment and music stories from 1896 to 1976.
View ebooks re Indonesia via the Cornell University library interface.
"The Voice of the Shuttle began in late 1994 as an introduction to the Web for humanists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. VoS became publicly accessible on March 21, 1995, when the Humanitas server on which it resided opened to global Web access. From its origin to October, 1999, VoS stayed at the same address on the Humanitas server. It grew in that period to over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. (See such pages as Cultural Studies, Sci-Tech and Culture, Cyberculture, and Technology of Writing.) VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors)."
"Oxford's renowned biologist Richard Dawkins puts the history of life on earth in perspective, using simply a piano. This short video is a great jumping off point for this brilliant lecture Dawkins gave back in 1991. It's called "Waking Up in the Universe, Growing Up in the Universe," and the 57-minute video pulls you deeper into some big questions. What's the origin of life? Where do we fall in the scheme of life on planet Earth? What's our role in the larger universe? And how lucky are we to have the brains and tools to understand the awesome wonders that surround us? "