What's New - May 22, 2000

What's New - May 22, 2000

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Government/Politics

Politics1- The Most Comprehensive Online Guide to American Politics, Candidates & Parties
TOC: Presidency 200, State & Congressional Candidates, Politics, Report Newsletter, Political Parties, Primary Calendar & Results, News Links, Political Headlines, Debates & Issues, Campaign Products & Services, Campaign Buttons, Political Bookstore.
Best Practices 2000
Provides "...examples of unique campaign coverage including debates, political ads, and candidate profiles, plus offers suggestions and strategies for building partnerships and ideas on funding sources." From the Wisconsin Public Television.
stateline.org: your source for state news
Search Category - Politics
2000GOP.com - Win the White House!
See a Shockwave-powered Electoral College "game," which allows Republican boosters to calculate winning strategies for the big race to the White House.
Well-Founded Fear Sneak Preview
Interactive, multi-media content related to human rights, local and international law, resources and the political asylum process in the United States.
Warner Institute for Education in Democracy
Providing a web-based program about government and the Nebraska Legislature. "Our goal has been to design features on our web site that will be particularly useful, helpful, and beneficial for teachers, as well as interesting and instructive for the students."

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General History Sources
A Falconer's Memoir
Classroom Today - About Classroom Today
See topic on: 20th Century: Events That Shaped History, 20th Century: The 1920s and 1930s, Age of Exploration: Tools of Discovery, American Revolution: Struggle for Independence, Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Temples & Tombs, Ancient Greece: Its Gifts to Us, Aztecs: Culture & History, China: Culture & History, Civil Rights: Building Blocks of Freedom, Civil War: Causes of the Civil War, Colonial America: Life in the Colonies, Japan: Culture & History, Myth and Folktale: Native American Stories, Native Americans: Community & Traditions, Native Americans: Heroes & Heroines.
Seven Seas Trading Company's Library of History
Perspective, The Time Line Game
Offers to award games to outstanding students of history at their commencement ceremonies this year. Educators and institutions who would like to request a free game may contact us through URL listed above.
Secrets of the Dead
PBS Companion site.
Totalizator ( Totalisator ) History - A World's First - Index
The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals (Getty Research Institute)
"Ornate edible architecture and sculptures were often created for celebrations in the cities and courts of early modern Europe. The Edible Monument, an exhibition of the ephemeral art created for these festivals, draws from sixteenth to nineteenth century books and prints in the Getty Research Institute's Special Collections."
WebChron
Regional and cross-cultural chrononogies.
arabic music history
The Art of Mosaic

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Some Non-Western History Sites
CARTS: World History-Making
Chinese Philosophy Page (CPP)
PBS TeacherSource - This Month - May 2000: Asia and the South Pacific
Offers "...several interdisciplinary activities and lessons covering Asian mythology, nutrition, renga poetry, internment camps, Japanese contributions to the International Space Station..."
Smithsonian Natural History Web: African Voices

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Western Europe/Russia
The 1900 House
THE 1900 HOUSE is a four-part documentary that "transports" an actual modern family from 1999 back to life in 1900. The program will give viewers the chance to vicariously experience a time-travel journey back to everyday, middle-class life in Victorian-era London. The adventurous Bowler family spent three months living in a townhouse carefully restored to reproduce the ambiance and amenities of the turn of the century. As a result, THE 1900 HOUSE explores the radical changes in family and domestic life that have occurred over the past 100 years through scientific and technological innovations.
Galleria Dell' Accademy
Over sixty copyright free JPGs from this outstanding museum in Florence. For a more general visit to Florence, try the wherenext.com - FlorenceGUIDE.
Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheatre
From a visit to the Colosseum late in 1998. I visited the location again in the Spring of 2000, and should have some of the JPGs of the renovation progress online this Summer.
Department of Art History
Ohio State U. Course pages (with image data) are available.
Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan
Education World� : Special Theme: Education World's Millennium Series!
Resources for teaching about the Middle Ages.
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: A PBS Documentary created with ABC News/Great Projects
PBS PICKS: THE LIVING EDENS: IN OUR OWN HANDS
Bonhoeffer - Agent of Grace
"A religious scholar in a country bent on expanding an ideology of national and racial superiority, Dietrich Bonhoeffer struggled inside himself and chose to resist the Nazis. His convictions inspired many to resist, but cost him his freedom and life at the hands of the Gestapo."
wherenext.com - DublinGUIDE
V I K I N G S : T H E � N O R T H � A T L A N T I C � S A G A
New Smithsonian site. You might want to skip the flash introduction until after viewing the content. The site will take some time to explore (especially if you visit in the future when the site is completed) and seem to focus on the North Atlantic expansion from 750-1050. The river, coastal and inland activities of the Vikings are briefly mentioned, but not explored in detail.
Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
Holocaust on Trial
A look at the subject of Holocaust denial and historical background.
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
See the excellent Resource Guide. In addition to a fine web resource guide on Hemingway, the site offers 6 different lessons on Hemingway and the era of World War I.
Lou Coatney's THE RUSSIAN PORTFOLIO Game Home Page
a FREE World War II Russian Front strategy boardgame.
Georgia Revealed
For those of you who love to travel, add this site to your list of places to visit online and perhaps in your post-retirement dream vacations.
Ancient Music Instruments
What's New on Yahoo - Roman Empire (Wed May 10, 2000)
Ancient Rome
Museum of Cycladic Art
Apects of religion, cult, warfare and every-day life on the Cyclades in the 3rd millennium B.C. The site also offers graphics and description of Greek artifacts from the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) through to the Late Roman period (4th century AD). The Politis Collection of Greek Art is also featured and covers the historical span from the 14th century B.C. to the 6th century A.D.
The First World War and Comedy

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Some American History Sources
The American Experience | Edison's Miracle of LIght
Airing today (Monday - May 22). "Learn how Thomas Edison lit up our lives with this companion site that explores how he revolutionized the world with his inventions, yet lost control of the industry that he founded. Peruse a complete list of Edison's patents, read an essay on this brilliant inventor, hear selections of jazz and blues music produced by Edison's company, access a teacher's guide....."
The National Memorial Day Concert
This excellent page is much more than a simple companion site for the broadcast. Many features, including one of the finest listing of Internet veteran groups I have seen.
Learn More: Omaha Indian Music: Summary Page
Library of Congress Bicentennial Home Page
Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress Exhibitions
Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Learning Page of the Library of Congress: New
There are four new Summary Pages available online: Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909, Omaha Indian Music and Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989.
Some Missing Pages: A Soldier's Life
Although this web quest was designed for Canadian children, it can easily be adapted to American K-12 schools.
Arlington National Cemetery
See the Historical Information page.
America's Library
Abraham Lincoln, Buffalo Bill Cody and his "Wild West" show, Harriet Tubman, jazz great Duke Ellington and Thomas Edison.
frontline: jefferson's blood
Info on what DNA tests reveal truths about the family lineages of Thomas Jefferson and other early American presidents, plus an interactive timeline documenting the Jefferson/Hemings connection. Also find a teacher's guide, a Web gallery for students to document important aspects of their own family identity, and a quiz on race and slavery.
PBS: The New Americans
"Ordinary" immigrants "...engaged in the same day-to-day struggles to earn a living, raise a family, and lead productive lives..." helps to personalize the stories of immigrants and refugees. The New Americans Teacher Guide included on the site.
Great American Speeches
With a fine Archive.
They Drew Fire - Coming Soon
A documentary film airing first on May 15, 2000 on the topic of combat artists of WWII. "Through the eyes of seven surviving WWII combat artists, we learn about the human, emotional side of combat."
Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Best visit and browse before including in student lessons.
America's Library
ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL
Thread City Willimantic Connecticut History and Tourism
NEWSEUM: On The Campaign Trail
Best to sample the HTML version first, as the shockswave rendition takes some time to load. Information on the last 100 years of campaign journalism using a Shockwave timeline.
New York Times Special Report: The C.I.A. in Iran
From the agency's secret history of the coup. "Written in 1954 by one of the coup's chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran's elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist."
DoHistory Home
A case study on tne Martha Ballard Diary that demonstrates how to piece together the past from the fragment and clues that helped build a tale around Martha Ballard's diary.
The American Indian in the Great War: Real and Imagined
Masters thesis, with loads of background from colonial times to the World War I.
Behind Barbwire at Amache
The Story of the Japanese-American Internment during World War II.
World War II Navy Art: A Vision of History
The Navy Art Collection: Paintings of Naval Aviation; From the Abbott Labs Collection
From a 1943 tour exhibit. Visit the home page for U.S. Navy History, if you have the time.
The brochure for the Korean War exhibit
A Civil War Sketch Artist: American Treasures of the Library of Congress
From "... the best of the Civil War sketch artists who drew the war for the nation's pictorial press."
Center of the American West
"Please thank the poor oppressed U.S. Easterners for working so hard to provide the taxes that have built most of our roads, freeways, dams, etc...Please let other know that behind our rhetoric of independence lives the true welfare state in the United States and how the 13 mostly desert western states have hoodwinked the rest of the country for picking up our tabs providing us with subsidized grazing so Western Ranchers can compete with midwest feedlots, giving us subsidized irrigation so western farmers can compete with dryland farmers in the rest of the nation, looking the other way when letting us get away with deficit-sale timber sales on public land paid for by the taxes of Easterners and giving us dams paid by taxes so we can have cheap, cheap electrical rates so our industries can compete with those constructed by the poor, cowlike easterners. -Pocatello, ID"
Nebraska History Resources
Usque Ad Mare - A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
The Women's Army Corps
A Collaborative Study in American History
History of the Federal Judiciary
Content of Their Character
The Evers, King and Shabazz children on the lives and deaths of their fathers -- using Photographs, biographies and audio clips.
Chicago Historical Society Northwestern University Wet With Blood (index)
A look (graphic intensive) at the physical evidence from the assissination of Lincoln.

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Humanities/Art
The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Language of the Land -- Table of Contents
A site that must be listed in the Humanities and the Geography section, as it has features that fit in both categories.
Communication Landscapes: ELA
Tate Collections | General Collection | John Singer Sargent
With almost 25,000 works listed on this site, each with its own information page, and 8,000 of these are illustrated.
Sir Henry Raeburn
Yahoo! Arts:Artists:Masters:Illustrators:Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939)
SCORE: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Student Activity 1)
"Your task is to visit some unusual habitats and discover which animal is in the wrong place. To be successful you will need to research both the habitat and the three creatures listed there."
Bomis: The Poems Against Drunk Driving Ring
NGA:Jackson Pollock web feature
Whatever you do, don't click on the bottem menu, unless you plan to spend the entire Internet session with an art focus. Overall, the site rates an "A+".
Junior's Juke Joint
Vitaminic The Music Evolution

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K-12 Resources
frontline: the battle over school choice
Airing May 23, 2000.
Qu�bec English Schools Network
Mining the Internet Project Registry
The WebQuest Page
Fulbright Foundation (Canada) Home Page - US Embassy Web Site
A site that offers to donate games to be awarded to outstanding students of history at their commencement ceremonies this year.
Mexico Newsletter
Mr. K's Links 2 Learning 4 Educators (L2L4ED)
Class Information Network
Publish grades, notes and assignments on the Internet. Students get unlimited self-serve access to the data that is important to them.
TrainingforSport.com
Help For School: Math, Science, Social Studies, English & More!
Teaching Jobs and Resources!
Teachers Books
The American Education Corporation - Home
The New York Times Learning Network
Welcome to the Nebraska Department of Education
Free Coloring Books for Children from The Crayon House

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Kids and Students
TURTLE TRACKS~ NATIVE YOUTH NEWSLETTER
Katrillion.com
washingtonpost.com - KidsPost
Free Coloring Books for Children from The Crayon House

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Parents
Zap
Zap provides information about sex, drugs, alcohol, mental health, skin problems, sports injuries, weight problems and family issues.
Kidz Privacy

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Leisure/Fun/Health
HealthAtoZ : The source for health and medicine
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD)
ETA Home Page--A Key Connection
PBS TeacherSource - Health & Fitness
Fortunecity - Free Online Photo Albums, Email Greeting Cards, and Digital Picture Storage

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News and Current Events
Ananova - The A-Files
Yahoo! Full Coverage:Elian Gonzalez Custody Battle
Scientific American: Feature Article: A Scourge of Small Arms: June 2000

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Media Literacy
PBS PICKS: The American Experience The Wizard of Photography
The American Experience | George Eastman (Launching on April 28, 2000)
"Interactive features illustrating how photography works, then and now A timeline of the development of photography Link to background information on the people and important events in the enhanced transcript."

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Resources For Writers
Writer's Quill
A quarterly literary journal promoting quality and diversity in poetry and writing, as well as various resources and information for the literary community.
Diaries
You want diaries? Find 190 here, with more on the way.
Inkhorn | The Writer's Resource Site

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Religion, Ethics and Philosophy
Christianity
Chronology of the religion.

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Research and Critical Thinking
Game Plan
Games and Puzzles using Strategy and Logic.
Questioning Questions Research Cycle Information Literacy
washingtonpost.com: KidsPost - Brainfood

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