Learning Historical Research - Home William Cronon (Photo by Rees Candee) Welcome! We've designed this website as a basic introduction to historical research for anyone and everyone who is interested in exploring the past. Whenever you frame a question with reference to how things have changed over time, you commit yourself to doing historical research. All of us do this all the time, but not everyone thinks very carefully about the best ways of finding information about the past and how it relates to the present. The website is divided into two major sections: The first surveys essential stages of the research process. Individual pages are designed to be read from beginning to end, and the pages about the research process follow a logical order that mimics the phases of working on a historical project. Almost any question you can imagine asking about any topic will become more intriguing if you consider the ways in which the subject you're investigating has changed over time. Return to Top of Page Note-taking keywords
The Convergence of Knowledge and Work In looking at the challenges faced by today’s learning and development departments, it’s useful to look back through history at the different strategies that have been adopted to handle two similar, yet different, challenges: learning to handle information, knowledge and ideaslearning for the purpose of work In the past, there have been some areas of overlap between the two fields but until relatively recently, work has been mostly focused on the creation, buying and selling of goods and services whereas ‘knowledge work’ has been motivated by a desire to better understand the world around us. Given that more of the work carried out in developed countries is knowledge work, what lessons can be learned from history to help us support learning and development in the modern economy? The changing face of work Society has come a long way in terms of both intellectual development and the type of work people do. The original knowledge work A struggling discipline Pre-history (before 4100 BC)
Traces of Evil: Past IBDP History Paper 2 Questions and Responses Topic 1 Causes, practices and effects of wars1. Assess the role of each of the following in causing the First World War (1914–1918): the desire for revenge; economic motives; Balkan nationalism.2. “The length and outcome of the civil war was dependent upon outside involvement.” Topic 2 Democratic states – challenges and responses7. Topic 4 Nationalist and independence movements in Africa and Asia and post-1945 Central and Eastern European states19. Topic 5 The Cold War25. November 2013 PAPER 2 Topic 1 Causes, practices and effects of wars1. Topic 2 Democratic states – challenges and responses7. Topic 3 Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states13. Topic 4 Nationalist and independence movements in Africa and Asia and post-1945 Central and Eastern European states19. Topic 5 The Cold War25. Topic 2 Democratic states — challenges and responses Examine the obstacles to the success of democracy in Weimar Germany (1919–1933).
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Democracy Author and Page information Democracy (“rule by the people” when translated from its Greek meaning) is seen as one of the ultimate ideals that modern civilizations strive to create, or preserve. Democracy as a system of governance is supposed to allow extensive representation and inclusiveness of as many people and views as possible to feed into the functioning of a fair and just society. Democratic principles run in line with the ideals of universal freedoms such as the right to free speech. Importantly, democracy supposedly serves to check unaccountable power and manipulation by the few at the expense of the many, because fundamentally democracy is seen as a form of governance by the people, for the people. This is often implemented through elected representatives, which therefore requires free, transparent, and fair elections, in order to achieve legitimacy. However, even in established democracies, there are pressures that threaten various democratic foundations. Introduction demos
History News Network Who cares about the American Revolution and why should something that happened more than 200 years ago matter today? These are among the questions raised by a recent national survey, sponsored by The American Revolution Center, which revealed an alarming lack of knowledge of our nation's founding history, despite near universal agreement on the importance of this knowledge. The study, conducted in the summer of 2009 among a demographically representative random sample of U.S. adults, is the first national survey of adult knowledge of the American Revolution and its ongoing legacy. It reveals that Americans highly value, but vastly overrate, their knowledge of the Revolutionary period and its significance. Asked to grade themselves on their knowledge, 89 percent of adults polled believed they could pass a basic test on the American Revolution. "The American Revolution defined what it means to be an American. Some noteworthy findings from the report, titled "The American Revolution.
Worker Cooperatives Below is a short book that I published nearly three decades ago, History of Work Cooperation in America (1980) (ISBN 0-938392-00-X), which was distributed through the then-widespread “underground” media. My new book, Worker Cooperatives or Wage Slavery, scheduled to be published by PM Press in 2008, covers similar ground, but completely rethought, rewritten, updated, and greatly expanded. The intervening decades, and my research and experience since, have served to confirm and—I hope—deepen my understandings and conclusions. History of Work Cooperation in America Co-ops, Unions, Collectivity and Communalism from Early America to the Present The Native Tradition - The Colonial Tradition & Religious Communalism An Overview - Ideological Roots - Religious Communalism - Socialist Communalism - Workers' Parties - Early Stores - National Trades' Union Associationism - Union Cooperatives - Protective Union - Abolitionism 6. Unemployed Leagues - New Deal - EPIC - Bayard Land
Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever | Te Towards the end of the summer of 1969 – a few weeks after the moon landings, a few days after Woodstock, and a month before the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus – a large grey metal box was delivered to the office of Leonard Kleinrock, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. It was the same size and shape as a household refrigerator, and outwardly, at least, it had about as much charm. But Kleinrock was thrilled: a photograph from the time shows him standing beside it, in requisite late-60s brown tie and brown trousers, beaming like a proud father. Had he tried to explain his excitement to anyone but his closest colleagues, they probably wouldn't have understood. It's impossible to say for certain when the internet began, mainly because nobody can agree on what, precisely, the internet is. On the other hand, the breakthrough accomplished that night in 1969 was a decidedly down-to-earth one. "Have you got the L?" Kline typed an O. The birth of the web