Global Perspectives

There's an old saying that a photo is worth 1000 words because each photo tells a story. Can you determine the story being told in this photo with the help of the caption?

What do you See, Think and Wonder about this photo?

What do you think Japanese and German generals would have had to discuss in 1941? Where do you think this photo was taken? Why was this meeting documented in history? Can you figure out what part of the world the Japanese general is pointing to?

(Above) Japanese general and three German generals examining global map, (ca. 1941).

Global Bully?

Amsterdam

Put Britain first!

Brazil

Constitution de la République Rwandaise

Darkest Africa

Poor Spain! (Above)

Print shows a head labeled "Cuban Moloch", which is probably meant to suggest a demonic figure, with it's mouth open wide to swallow a flotilla of Spanish ships headed toward Cuba; a frightened young King Alfonso XIII of Spain cowers on a throne in the lower right corner among mounting "Debts", an empty strong box, a broken sword labeled "Spain", orb, scepter, and a tattered Spanish flag. The "Moloch" reaches a hand out, across the ocean, toward the still child-like Alfonso. (ca. 1898)

(Left) Cartoon shows a worried man (labeled "Western Powers") looking at a map of Africa. A large black splotch in the northern area is labeled "Unrest." Comments on the outbreaks of violence in North Africa, particularly Algeria and Morocco, as North African nationalists demanded more independence from France. The Western powers saw the North African unrest as politically threatening to world stability. (ca. 1962)

The US has a lot of great, rich history however Primary Documents in American History did not surface until the 1700s, meaning we do not have such an extensive written or recorded history as other countries or regions of the world. Below, you can find drawings from Europe in the fifthteenth century.

Roman soldiers bearing the trophies in triumph

Created / Published

[between 1493 and 1506]

The Virgin with child holding a book

Created / Published

[ca. 1498]

Eagle with shield - coat of arms

Created / Published

1486.

Man performing autopsy on cadaver lying on table as 8 other men look on

Created / Published

1495.

The Ukraine.In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. The Ukraine is Number 52 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The study appeared at a momentous time in the history of Ukraine. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, political forces in the country demanded autonomy and later complete independence from Russia. A Ukrainian republic was declared in November 1917, and in February 1918 Ukraine concluded a separate treaty of peace with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The study discusses the development of a Ukrainian national identity since the 17th century; Ukrainian nationalism; relations between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine and Poland, and Ukraine and Romania; and the history of pogroms against the country's large Jewish population. The appendices include an analysis of the population of Ukraine and the number of Ukrainians living in the Russian Empire (and in Austria-Hungary and the United States), and the text of the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers. After Germany's defeat in World War I, Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union and did not achieve independence from Russia until 1991. World Digital Library.

The History of Ukrainian Drama.This work by Ukrainian literary critic, writer, and translator Ivan Steshenko is the first volume of a projected multivolume history of the Ukrainian theater. The volume is in five chapters. The first covers general conceptual and historical issues, such as the rise of the theater and the transformation of ancient cult rituals into performances. The second chapter covers Latin-Germanic and Slavonic folk rites and their content. The third chapter discusses drama as a means for the dissemination of Christianity in Ukraine. The fourth chapter provides information about the development of drama by various Slavic peoples. The book concludes with an analysis of the works of Theophanes Prokopovych, also known as Feofan, archbishop of Novgorod (1681--1736). Feofan was the author of the tragicomedy Vladimir, based on the story of the introduction of Orthodoxy in Russia by Saint Vladimir in the tenth century, which is considered a masterpiece of Ukrainian baroque theater. Feofan was also a theoretician of literature and oratory, a poet, and a satirist.

Dinner in the Ukraine

Railroad in the Ukraine

Julian Kytasty: Ukrainian American Bandura MasterBandura master Julian Kytasty performs on the traditional Ukrainian stringed instrument with similarities to the lute and the zither. This concert, recorded at the Ukrainian Museum in New York City is a collaboration with the museum and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance's program, "Beat of the Boroughs: NYC Online."

Ukrainian People in the Past and Present

Coats of Arms of Ukraine

Ukrainian pickets, 1/11/1922

Woman posed in peasant costume, Ukraine, Russia

(Left) This collection of prints depicts the historic coats of arms and flags of Ukraine. The work is by Mykola Bytynsʹkyĭ (1893--1972), a Ukrainian painter and expert on heraldry. Bytynsʹkyĭ fought in the Ukrainian War for Independence at the end of World War I and later immigrated to Prague where he studied arts and produced several works on heraldry. After World War II, he lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany, before immigrating to Canada. The coat of arms of Ukraine, a trident on a blue shield, was officially adopted in 1918 during Ukraine's brief period of independence, and again in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The trident goes back to 11th century, when it was stamped on the gold and silver coins issued by Prince Vladimir the Great (ruled 980--1015). The national colors of Ukraine are blue and yellow. Blue refers to the color of the sky and is a symbol of peace; yellow is the color of wheat and symbolizes the richness of the earth.

Brazilian Infrastructure

Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries

Global Perspectives

What do you See, Think and Wonder about this photo?

(Above) Japanese general and three German generals examining global map, (ca. 1941).

Global Bully?

Amsterdam

Put Britain first!

Brazil

Constitution de la République Rwandaise

Darkest Africa

Poor Spain! (Above)

Dinner in the Ukraine

Railroad in the Ukraine

Ukrainian People in the Past and Present

Coats of Arms of Ukraine

Ukrainian pickets, 1/11/1922

Woman posed in peasant costume, Ukraine, Russia

Brazilian Infrastructure

Brazilian Infrastructure Twenty-First Century