History 12

Web Links

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History 12 is well supported by web material. However, students should take care to check the credentials of site creators. Much material of a purely propaganda nature is present and slick presentation can make even the most ridiculous material – like that of holocaust deniers -- appear convincing. URL’s with “.edu” endings are educational institutions and are, generally, more reliable than commercial or personal sites.

Part 1 - Ministry of Education Sites:

Link to Exam specifications, exam examples and scoring guides for provincial exams at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs_scoring.htm

See the IRP (Instructional Resource Package) for History 12 at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/his12/histoc.htm This is the course outline. See the exam specifications for what is to be evaluated on the final exam.

Part 2 - General Sites:

Take a course on using the Internet for historical research at http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/history/

In Saskatchewan, History 12 is called History 20. Great supporting text and including multimedia material, can be found at http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/ This would make a terrific correspondence course.

Britain’s GCSE Modern World History Course also parallels History 12. Find its materials at The History Learning Site: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modernworldhistory.htm

Richard Fuller, in Britain, maintains a support site for this course -- “SEG 2120 (Modern World) Contents” at http://www.rpfuller.com/gcse/history/index.html

-- very useful.

Another British curriculum support page is maintained at the University of Exeter. http://www.ex.ac.uk/historyresource/resources/20centuryres.htm Find more than just text here. Games and simulations also supplement conventional review lesson material.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library maintains an index page on ”The Evaluation of Information Sources” which will link readers to useful sites with tips on how to decide on the value of Web resources. Find it at http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm

The University of Kansas maintains the main History links page for the World Wide Virtual Library at http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/index.html Military History buffs will appreciate their “Military History” links page which looks at all aspects of the subject from ancient times to the present. Find it at http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/topical/military.html

Good material about studying history can be found at Tennessee Tech’s “History on the Internet” set at http://www.tntech.edu/history/ Begin here and link to an amazing amount of information. The entry page is misleadingly brief!

The History Guide is a collection of resources for students of high school or university history courses. It can be found at http://www.historyguide.org/ Be sure to look at the “Lectures on 20^th Century Europe” page at http://www.historyguide.org/europe/europe.html.

Sutherland Grad Chris Dingwall created his online 20^th Century History Glossary at http://www.dingwall.bc.ca/history/main.php3 and he still maintains it on the web several years later. (Yes, he earned the maximum 5% bonus!)

The British Columbia Social Studies Teachers’ Association maintains a resource page at http://www.bctf.ca/BCSSTA/history.shtml

Open School BC has useful links through their History 12 modules at http://www.openschool.bc.ca/courses/history12/index.html

Find a nice, simple, outline of the course at Mr. Searcy’s Awesome History 12 Website at: http://www.niss.sd85.bc.ca/history12/courseoutline.html it is the course grossly simplified – but isn’t that what you want when studying for the final?

Oxford University’s “Modern History Links” page is at http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/links/modern.htm Don’t let the short list fool you – these sites will fan out to a wealth of material once you start clicking.

Good links to interesting material for much of the course can be found at Susan Walker’s site: http://www.schdist42.bc.ca/ProjectInfo/history12links.html

Riverside High School’s similar links page is at:

http://riverside-history.web1000.com/links.htm

In a similar vein is the On Trak History 12 Web-Links page at:

http://www.ontrak.bc.ca/hi12.htm

See Professor Gerhard Rempel’s German History Lectures at:

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures.html

Check for other lectures on 20^th century history at http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures.html

Another good source for German History can be found at:

http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html

The mother of all good History document web pages is by our hero, Paul Halsall, the monumental Modern History Sourcebook, found at:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html Primary history sources don’t come any better than this.

Dr. Paul Vysny maintains a useful links page called The Soviet Union 1917-1991: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pv/courses/sovrus/resources.html

The Marxist Internet Archive has a huge selection of biographies, documents and photographs of important communist figures. Find it at: http://www.marxists.org/

Jennifer Rosenberg’s What You Need to Know About “20^th Century History” index page has excellent links. Her “In the Spotlight” selections of related news stories is quirky, but interesting. Go to http://history1900s.about.com/

Check the Historical Atlas of the 20^th Century at http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm Print resources are often better, but it is a handy supplemental source.

Download the software and access another Atlas of World History at http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/

Yahoo’s search directory links to superb sources at http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/

The Internet Public Library is highly weighted toward American history, but has good material. http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.55.85.10/

Sparknotes is an American version of the ubiquitous Coles Notes that Canadian students buy for all sorts of academic cramming. Online connections to their history material is at http://www.sparknotes.com/history/

Play with history (once you have time after the course is finished ) at the British site History Study Stop http://studystop.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/fromTHC.htm

The BBC’s “Timelines” contains great (mostly British) 20^th century history material. Be sure to look at the “Related Links” on the right hand side to link to wonderful resources, including multimedia items. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_science.shtml

Find examples of Nazi and E. German propaganda at Calvin College’s site at http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm

American history fans will enjoy the audio files at History and Politics Out Loud: http://www.hpol.org/

Many old books are available through Project Gutenberg, which is trying to put all great works of the past that are out of copyright online. This involves historical material. Go to the index page at: http://www.promo.net/pg/ and type in the author or title to see if the work you are interested in is there.

Part 3 – The World of 1919 (With important pre-war links):

Professor Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College teaches a course about World War I. Supporting notes for his lectures are online at http://mars.vnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/ww1/lectures.html There is much good material here on the war and what brought it about. Read it all!

Theories of Imperialism are summarized nicely at a Political Science site from Mount Holyoke College’s site at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/imperial.htm

V.I. Lenin’s critique of Imperialism, called Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism is available online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

A Very Good treatment of World War I can be found at Spartacus Schoolnet’s online Encyclopedia of the First World War at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

Mike Iavarone, who died in February 2004, was a World War I fanatic. Don’t let the .com URL ending put you off. His Trenches on the Web is the most amazing collection of material on the Great War that can be found in one place. Can over 7 million hits to Feb. 2004 be wrong? There is nothing else that comes even remotely close. Be sure to go to http://www.worldwar1.com/

PBS television has a useful and not overly complicated site about World War I called The Great War and the Shaping of 20^th Century History. Visit it at: http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

The UK’s BBC also maintains a terrific site, appropriately called World War I: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/index.shtml

Brigham Young University maintains the World War I Document Archive at http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

Michael Duffy maintains a not-for-profit site at firstworldwar.com that has useful material, including video clips: http://www.firstworldwar.com/about.htm

Another great WWI site is The Great War at http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/ww1.html

Part 4 - The Russian Revolutions and the Inter-war Years:

A great links page on the Russian Revolutions – though one with far too many dead links still listed – can be found at http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html

Britain’s University of East Anglia has a terrific links page maintained at its History Department’s History of the Soviet Union: http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/links/

The Lenin Internet Archives with documents and photographs of the revolutionary leader can be found at http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/index.htm

A nice, hyperlinked, brief history of the Russian Revolution can be found at the History Channel’s site at http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl%3FID%3D110958

SchoolHistory.co.uk has a good Russian Revolutions link page at http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/alevel/modern_european_russian.shtml

Great links can be found at The Inter-War Years http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-Inter-WarYears.htm

The Treaty of Versailles is available online through the Avalon Project at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/menu.htm

Infoplease has a page about the Treaty of Versailles at http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0861782.html

The League of Nations Homepage is maintained by Indiana University. Link to heaps of great material at http://www.indiana.edu/~league/

The Covenant of the League of Nations is online as part of the Avalon Project at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/leagcov.htm

A good analysis of the belief system of fascists can be found in Laurence Britt’s article “Fascism Anyone?” found at http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm

Oxford’s Roger Griffin also has an online article that is useful, “Revolution From the Right; Fascism,” found at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/humanities/Roger/fascrev.htm!

Italian Life Under Fascism; Selections From the Frye Collection has plenty of revealing material about life in Mussolini’s Italy. Find it at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/dpf/Fascism/Intro.html

Yahoo’s directory search for Fascism links to great material. Go to http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Political_Science/Political_Theory/Fascism/

The usual Spartacus Schoolnet material is available for the topic “German Fascism,” with the expected hyperlinks to other material in the Spartacus Encyclopedia. This is a good starting point at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERfascist.htm

Spartacus Schoolnet’s treatment of the Spanish Civil war is even better: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Spanish-Civil-War.htm

The Spanish Civil War sparked much passionate literature and art. Investigate some of this material at “About the Spanish Civil War” http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/scw/scw.htm

La Cucaracha; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 is a tremendous source for all kinds of material about the conflict. Include are a large collection of mp3 recordings of music from both sides and also non-Spanish sources. Listen to “No Passaran,””Ay Carmela,” or even Woody Guthrie’s “Jarama Valley.” You must visit http://lacucaracha.info/scw/music/index.htm

Stephen Walker, Mark Schafer and Gregory Marfleet presented a paper for the American Political Science Association called “The British Strategy of Appeasement; Why Did Britain Persist in the Face of Negative Feedback.” You can read this online at http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/poli/research/archive/SchaferAPSA2001.pdf

Read professor Gerhard Rumpel’s Lectures for the History of Stalin’s Russia at http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/stalin/lectures.html If you go back in his directory to his links page, don’t bother with them. Most are now dead.

See the Library of Congress’ Documents From the Soviet Archives at http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/russian/

Links to excellent Internet resources on the Stalin era are available on The Slavic-Eurasion Studies Web, “Russian and Soviet History” page at http://www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/history-e.html

Part 5 – World War II

BBC’s World War II pages are a very good starting point: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/

Another excellent starting point is the University of Washington Library’s information gateway site “World War II Websites” at http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/war.html

Abe Mark Nornes, at the University of Michigan, posts an exhaustive links list at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/WarLinks.html

Another mad individual who posts a useful links page out of personal interest is Phil Stokes, from Britain. Go to http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/index.html

Listen to the music of World War II at http://www.ingeb.org/WWII.html

Important World War II documents can be found at the Avalon Project’s “World War II; Documents” page: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

The Spartacus Schoolnet site deals with most aspects of the war at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm

Onwar.com has a collection of maps of the conflict at http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/ Other material on the war is also available at this site.

Largely US sources are linked to from Florida State University’s “World War II Links” page at http://www.fsu.edu/~ww2/links.htm

A fascinating collection of audio clips from the US in WWII can be found at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries’ “Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and at Home” page http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/verify.htm

An even broader collection can be found at EarthStation1.com’s site The World War II Sound and Image Archive at http://www.earthstation1.com/wwii.html

Professor Gerhard Rempel’s Lectures for the History of World War II are at http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/ww2/lectures.html This is very useful summary material.

Holocaust material can be accessed through Professor S.D. Stein of the University of the West of England’s Web Genocide Documentation; World War II Resources page at http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/WW2res.htm Although this site is heavily weighted to Holocaust material, there are other documents about the war at this site as well. Be sure to look at “Other Relevant Pages” to see how much broader this collection of links is than it would appear at first.

Other Holocaust materials can be found at remember.org’s site at http://remember.org/ The College of Education, University of South Florida’s “A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust” at http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/ and The Holocaust History Project at http://www.holocaust-history.org/

Interested in the military leaders of World War II? Go to The Generals of World War II, prepared by Steen Ammentorp at http://www.generals.dk/

Part 6 – The Cold War:

Begin your search for Cold War material at Spartacus Schoolnet’s “Cold War” index page at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.htm

Another great starting point is BBC’s History; the Cold War: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/coldwar/index.shtml

A good introduction to the Cold War conflict can be found at CNN Interactive’s Cold War pages, starting at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

Paul Halsall’s Modern History Sourcebook’s “A Bi-Polar World” page is one of the best links page from which to begin a Cold War study. Find it at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html

Carnegie Mellon University has a very interesting site that investigates Cold War science and technology. Its links page is a must see at http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/weblinks.htm

The Cold War Project has an enormous Cold War collection of documents and photographs at http://www.videofact.com/coldwar.htm . Some great material, but do note the strident “Cold Warrior” (right wing) bent of some of the material.

George Washington University’s The National Security Archive is a fascinating site with much Cold War material to link to. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

Find Cold War documents at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ site, The Cold War International History Projecthttp://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

More Cold War documents of interest can be found at Cold War Documents at Kansas State University: http://www.ksu.edu/history/coldwar/colddocs.htm

David Price, a cultural anthropologist interested in the Cold War’s effects on people, has a nice links page at http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html

Mount Holyoke’s “Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy; the Cold War” is an enormous list of relevant links at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm also look at Yale University’s Avalon Project Cold War links at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/coldwar.htm

A very nice set of Cold War notes can be found at the University of San Diego History Department’s Cold War Policies; 1945-1991 http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html/ This site is also mirrored elsewhere.

Chicago’s North Park University has placed the entire text of Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech” at http://campus.northpark.edu/history/Classes/Sources/Churchill.html

Investigate the United Nations through its homepage at http://www.un.org/english/

The US’ Library of Congress maintains a links page to Marshall Plan related material at http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/

Good early Cold War material is available through the Truman Library’s Project Whistlestop at http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/

Ellen Schrecker’s “The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents” provides useful information on the topic http://www.english.upenn.edu/%7Eafilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html

See what the CIA has to say about the Cold War at their “On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961” site: http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/17240/

PBS’s Red Files is an interesting look at the dark world of the Soviet intelligence services at http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/

Read original CIA reports about the end of the Soviet Union from the CIA’s own 1999 publication “At Cold War’s End; US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1989-1991: http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html#toc5

Access useful Cold War maps at Mathew White’s historical maps site, starting at http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/coldwar1.htm