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George Mason University: World History Sources: Official Documents
A guide to dissecting official documents. Learn how to find the author of documents, the primary audience, and other important information.
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George Mason University: World History Sources: Personal Accounts
Discover how journals, memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies are important historical sources. Learn how historians use these personal accounts and get other questions answered.
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George Mason University: World History Sources: Travel Narratives
Learn about the importance of travel accounts to history. Discover how the observations and experiences of travelers can play important parts in history.
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George Mason University: World History Sources: Hammurabi's Code
Nancy L. Stockdale. who teaches at the University of Central Florida, describes how she mediates a discussion of Hammurabi's Code with her students.
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Chnm: Building the Washington Metro
The rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. was years in the making. Follow the plans and see how this 103 mile system grew.
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Chnm: Children & Youth History
"Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present."
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Marxist Origins of Communism
This site shows the reasons for Karl Marx's belief in a command economy, and contrasts Marx's views from other philosophers such as Locke and Voltaire.
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Gmu: The Allied Intervention in Russian Civil War
A brief overview of the intervention and human costs of the Russian civil war. Gives a detailed background of the war.
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Gmu: Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, I
This site has an article by an economics professor about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's involvement in the initial communist revolutions. Lenin's policies and governing are discussed.
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George Mason University: Between the Wars: The Palmer Raids
Looks at the anti-communist 'Red Scare' that followed WWI with the upheaval of the Russian government, and includes Palmer's essay "The Case Against the Reds" and Emma Goldman's account of her deportation back to Russia.
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Chnm: The Sea Islands: An Experiment in Land Redistribution
Tells about the Special Field Order #15 and the purpose of Sherman's order to provide land for freedmen. From the Center for History and New Media.
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Chnm: Eubie Blake and Ragtime
This site contains a great interview with the pioneer of ragtime music, Eubie Blake. It also contains an audio clip of the interview.
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Chnm: The Buford Deportation
Anarchist Emma Goldman's graphic recollection of being deported from the United States during the red scare.
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George Mason University: Nixon's "Silent Majority" Speech
The text of Nixon's November 3, 1969, "Silent Majority" speech can be found here. Following it is a brief explanation of the effects it had.
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George Mason University: Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court Justice
Provides biographical information on Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a timeline of important events in his life.
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George Mason University: Between the Wars: Huey Long and "Share the Wealth"
Huey Long was an advocate for Americans sharing the wealth during the hardship years of the Great Depression.
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George Mason University: Midwest Mapping Project [Pdf]
This document details a research project in which four researchers independently created plans for the redistricting of voting districts for both state and federal legislatures, seeking to create voting districts that would meet both...
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Chnm: Between the Wars: The Red Scare
Read a satirical essay, written in 1919 and published in The Nation magazine, that showed how the Red Scare got out of hand and targeted innocent people.
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George Mason University: Imaging the French Revolution
A scholarly presentation of the French Revolution that is organized in three ways. The essays analyze images from this civil war. The discussions look at various interpretations, historians' methodologies, and at what effects digital...
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George Mason University: Women in World History
This is an extensive and rich collection of links to site about women in history, lesson plans and audio bites of professional historians analyzing historical materials. Includes teacher resources.
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Chnm: Critical Infrastructure Protection Oral History Project
Project documents the history of the nation's efforts to protect what has come to be called critical infrastructure--the systems and structures that are vital to the smooth and safe functioning of our economy, society, and way of life.
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Margo Mankus: Investigating Lcm and Gcf Using Rods
This lesson plan is for an activity using rods (Cuisenaire Bars) to help students understand the concept of factors, in particular the LCM and GCF of two numbers.
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George Mason University: The Blackout History Project
A web-based research project on recent science and technology, this offers those you were part of the Blackouts of '65/'77/'03 to tell their story online and for others to read about them.
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George Mason University: Outline of Anita Hill & Clarence Thomas Controversy
Site presents an unbiased report of the odd circumstances surrounding the Clarence Thomas appointment to the Supreme Court. There are related links that offer different perspectives and the full testimony. There is also a great quiz at...