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The Best Online “Explainer” Tools For Current Events | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
A number of news sites have regular features called something like “explainer” or “explain it to me” where they provide — in either video or text — short explanations about current events or answers to reader/viewer questions. Here are my choices for best of these kinds of resources out there — please share suggestions for ones I’m missing:
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A while ago we featured a couple of historically important Disney animations commissioned during the Second World War in the form of propaganda. Today we’re losing the cutesy animation and diving in with real footage of some of the most politically motivated films ever made. Propaganda is a by-product of nearly every war or major conflict, and acts as a concentrated effort by the government to influence, calm and control.
6 Historical Wartime Propaganda Films [Stuff To Watch]
Death and Taxes 2012. It's the government, in six square feet.
"Talk about representing something extremely complex that perhaps very few people in the US government have a handle on.
The Crusades (1095–1291) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The First Crusade
Free Technology for Teachers: Videos for Learning About Congress
Yesterday, my post about 47 Alternatives to YouTube started with the statement that some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube.
Marcus Tullius Cicero: A Life in Letters | History in an Hour
Novus Homo Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.E) was a novus homo (new man i.e someone with no notable ancestors) born at Arpinium, south of Rome, to a reasonably well off family.
Mapping History
The Mapping History Project has been designed to provide interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and/or illustrations of historical events, developments, and dynamics.
André the Giant, 1946-1993 Iranian “The Downfall of the Dictators is Assured” posters, WWII Gosport Tube Helmet, WWI
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Historical Maps :: Hargrett Library :: University of Georgia Libraries
The Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia Libraries maintains a collection of more than 1,000 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century. Although not limited to a single geographic subject, the collection heavily emphasizes Georgia as colony and state, along with its surrounding region. The Hargrett maps database serves as a finding aid for the majority of Hargrett's map holdings and provides digital versions of most maps.David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection
Insurance maps of Frankfort, Kentucky (sheet 1, index); Sanborn Map Company; 1907; City Atlas Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection Database and Blog.Spring: Embarrassed by Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista's brutality, the United States suspends military assistance to his regime. Summer: Batista's forces launch a last, unsuccessful push against a small guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro and based in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. January 1: Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's forces enter Havana.