Roman Vishniac Archive. Harvard Divinity School Library. In 1939, the Rev.
Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, agreed to travel to Prague to investigate reports of a humanitarian crisis. From these humble but brave beginnings, the Unitarian Service Committee was born. Digital Collections, Available Online. Collection Alan Lomax Collection The Alan Lomax Collection includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement... Contributor: Association for Cultural Equity - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - American Folklife Center Date: 1933 Collection Items: View 6,612 Items Collection Alan Lomax Collection The Alan Lomax Collection includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement...
Collection Items: View 6,612 Items. Making Sense of Documentary Photography. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you need to know how to analyze the picture to gain any understanding of it at all.
Making Sense of Documentary Photography provides a place for students and teachers to grapple with the documentary images that often illustrate textbooks but are almost never considered as historical evidence in their own right. Written by James Curtis, this guide offers a brief history of documentary photography, examples of what questions to ask when examining a documentary photograph, and an annotated bibliography and list of online resources for documentary photography. James Curtis is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. Curtis is the author of The Fox at Bay: the Presidency of Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication, and Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth, FSA Photography Reconsidered. Published online June 2003. Text Sets - Native American History and Authors. UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive. The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman.
Alexandra Kollontai Source: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman, Translated by Salvator Attansio, Herder and Herder, 1971;Transcribed: for marxists.org, 2001.
Prefatory Note This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published. The sentences and paragraphs in italics were crossed out in the galleyproofs and left out in her time. Variants were indicated in footnotes which likewise were rejected and crossed out. V. I. Lenin: The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (a.k.a. the April Theses) The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution [a.k.a.
Hitler as a Spider: 10 Propaganda Maps That Personify 20th Century Conflicts. A new exhibition showcases historic maps that summarized international conflict by depicting different world powers as people and animals.
War Map, an exhibit at London’s Map House, explores the satirical ways propagandists and mapmakers have sought to explain international conflicts in the 20th century, from making Hitler into a spider to showing Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt playing tug-of-war with Africa. The maps (which we spotted from The Economist’s 1843 magazine) will be on display in London until November 18, and an accompanying coffee table book is available now. Library Menu - Unlocking The Archive. German History in Documents and Images. Photographs. Interpreting a visual source, like a photograph, is very different to interpreting words on a page, which is the case with written sources.
Therefore, you need to develop a different set of skills. Photographs are very useful types of primary sources. They provide a rare glimpse of a particular second in time, which will never again be repeated. This is especially true for events that occurred before the development of television or digital technologies. Many people assume that photographs are unbiased, accurate records of historical events. The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized & Put Online. If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells.
“One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart from other manuscripts of the same period by the quality of its artwork and the sheer number of illustrations that run throughout the 680 pages of the book.” The work not only attracts scholars, but almost a million visitors to Dublin every year. Political Cartoons. Interpreting a visual source, like a political cartoon, is very different to interpreting words on a page, which is the case with written sources.
Therefore, you need to develop a different set of skills. Political cartoons are ink drawings created to provide a humorous or critical opinion about political events at the time of its creation. Timeline - World History Documentaries. Prelinger Archives : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming. By Castle Films movies eye favorite 162.
Use of Propaganda in WWI Postcards – Europeana Blog. Millions of postcards circulated during the First World War and influenced public opinion.
It is not surprising that something as ordinary as a postcard was used by governments on all sides to either defend their own actions, to discredit the enemy and to rouse the masses to support their nation. Within just three days of the declaration of war on 1 August 1914, publishers had war-themed postcards on sale. Their powerful images had an unprecedented impact on the masses: The postcard became a weapon of propaganda. During WWI, propaganda became, for the first time, the responsibility of government agencies like the Ministry of Information in Great Britain. Postcards were cheap to produce, cheap to buy and cheap to send. World War I propaganda postcards can be divided into two categories: 1. Home. Houses of Parliament. Digital Public Library of America. Soviet Russia. Historical Documents and Reports. The National Archives.
Guide to the classics: Homer’s Iliad - History of the Ancient World. By Chris Mackie Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the greatest. It tells part of the saga of the city of Troy and the war that took place there. In fact the Iliad takes its name from “Ilios”, an ancient Greek word for “Troy”, situated in what is Turkey today. This story had a central place in Greek mythology. War and pleas: propaganda posters from 20th century Australia – in pictures. Curriculum Pathways® Political Cartoons. Archival Collection ~ Stock Video & Audio.
Shooting The Past. Tag Archives: Ancient Egypt. ETANA. Perseus Digital Library. Old Maps Online. These Photos of Pompeii Show Slice of Ancient Roman Life that Was Buried Under 20 Feet of Ash - History Daily. Sep 172016 On August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, a 4,000-foot volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy, erupted, burrying the city of Pompeii under an almost 20-foot blanket of volcanic ash and killing 2,000 people. It was one of the world’s most famous and deadly volcanic eruptions. The ancient Roman city was left untouched until explorers rediscovered it in 1748, finding that Pompeii was virtually intact underneath the dust and dirt.
As a resort for Rome’s rich, elegant villas lined wide, paved streets. Some of these villas have been restored and are open to visitors, like the Casa del Fauno and Casa del Menandro. Pompeii was a bustling city with cafés, snack bars (the Thermopolium), and restaurants (Caupona Pherusa tavern), and even a 20,000-seat amphitheater.
Approximately 2.5 million tourists visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site every year. Pompeii had a complex water system and port, and two bath houses. The volcanic eruption lasted 18 hours. British Library - Sounds. US History Teachers Blog: Children In The Industrial Revolution. Dickens's London: in pictures. The Great Exhibition. The Great Exhibition, housed within the ‘Crystal Palace’, embodied Prince Albert’s vision to display the wonders of industry from around the world. Liza Picard looks at the exhibits, the building and the ideas behind the project. The Crystal Palace If you took an omnibus along London's Knightsbridge in the summer of 1851, you would see an astonishing sight.
The Educated Teacher. Last year my co-teacher and I were a little crunched for time when teaching the interwar years in Europe. We wanted to get across the economic and social problems that Europeans faced and how it influenced the choices they made, so I designed these learning stations to allow students to use primary and secondary sources to discover these facts for themselves.
We set up the classroom with the documents (printed from the PowerPoint, attached below) for each station taped to the walls around the room in clusters. Students worked with a partner to complete the questions on their worksheet (included below). Creative Warm-Up: the Industrial Revolution. After a few days of studying the Industrial Revolution, I gave students a warm-up activity to get them using primary sources creatively and putting themselves into that time period. In this activity, students were given a sheet containing two primary sources. There were several different sheets, and students could trade with their neighbors if they didn’t like the one they received. EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it. News Archive Search. National Archives Experience. National Archives of Australia and Archives NZ.
National Library of Australia. Trove: Newspaper Home. Australian War Memorial. Primary Source Sets. Teachers. Best Practices. JCS Online Resources. Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse. That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. Google Custom Search. Collections in Melbourne: A Guide to Commonwealth Government Records - Collections in Melbourne: A Guide to Commonwealth Records. Celia Blake. National Archives of Australia. Papua New Guinea Patrol Reports. Reports from government patrols are a major source of primary information on Papua New Guinea’s colonial-era history.
Medieval Europe Sources - History Skills Online. The Presidency and the Cold War. Vietnam War - History Skills Online. Ancient History - History Skills Online. Children and Youth in History. Early world maps. Antiquity Babylonian Imago Mundi (c. 600 BCE) A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century BCE.[1][2] The map as reconstructed by Eckhard Unger shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass showing Assyria, Urartu (Armenia)[3] and several cities, in turn surrounded by a "bitter river" (Oceanus), with seven islands arranged around it so as to form a seven-pointed star.
The World Wide Web project. The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions . Darwin's Reading. Reading was a fundamental tool in Darwin’s scientific practice. Cultural Institute. The Trove: Australia in Pictures Pool. De Re Militari » The Society for Medieval Military History. Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts. Medieval Writing.
Internet History Sourcebooks. Update Information 2006: In 2006 the Internet Medieval Sourcebooks and associated sourcebooks are undergoing a major overhaul to remove bad links and add more documents. 1. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient.
Turning the Pages: Virtual books. Decameron Web. The Online Medieval & Classical Library. ArXiv.org e-Print archive. Online Public Access. Home. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Welcome · Digital Public Library of America. Historical Texts Collection : History Department : Hanover College. Internet History Sourcebooks. Perseus Collections/Texts. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Primary and Secondary Sources. The British Library's Photostream. EuroDocs. Trove - Australia - Historic books, images, newspapers, maps and music. History - Digital Education Resources.
History - Digital Education Resources. Today in History: Wright Brothers First Flight. Australian Digital Collections. Internet History Sourcebooks. Defining Primary and Secondary Sources - Toolkit - The Learning Centre. Curriculum. Internet History Sourcebooks. Old Maps Online. British Pathé.