5/1/16

Chinese Christians

1956 Hungarian Revolution

Prague Spring, google images (make sure strict search is on)

Man with tank in Prague

Tiananmen

Eastern Bloc

Poland's Solidarity Movement

Soviet Republics

McCain interview

Jeremiah Denton, amazing

Fall of Saigon

Interview with cell mate of McCain

Trump on McCain


Barishnakov

list of defectors

Munich attack (little boring)

plane hijacking (violence warning )

Chernobyl (little scary)

Japanese tsunami

3/18 and 3/25

North Korean show trial -- American student has been arrested for taking down a poster of the leader and sentenced to 15 years of labor in prison (just watch a bit of this to get the idea)

North Korean refugee (parental supervision, difficult speech)

Nassar talking about Arab unity and revolution

Oum Kalthoum, often considered Egypt's greatest singer -- very different sound than what we are used to -- I have NO idea what she is singing

Aswan Dam across the Nile (I've only watched the first part)


Eisenhower on Kennedy 

war cake


Fabulous computer generated video of the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany (fortified and guarded)

Berlin Wall newsreel showing East Berliners jumping out of buildings along the wall

Tom Brokaw when the wall came down

Reagan at the wall

Berlin blockade and airlift

quick apartheid video

absolutely heartbreaking story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao 

Patty Lupone as Evita in the Broadway play about the life of Eva Peron


More from Evita

Hammer and Feather :  Astronauts on the moon prove Galileo was right when he said if there were no air resistance a hammer and a feather would fall at the same rate -- gravity pulls all objects at an equal rate

Mythbusters on same

Clip from movie about Apollo 13 -- the flight to the moon that had to be aborted because of an accident, amazing story.  The movie is not a documentary and it is not G rated, but the event really happened, the astronauts and ground crew had to figure out how to get a spaceship home from space when it was severely damaged.

The story of Thurgood Marshall, who grew up under segregation and became a great Supreme Court justice

Kennedy assassination ( graphic)


MLK Jr. dream speech

3/11/16

Hoover

Keynes and Hayek 1 (parent supervision)

Keynes and Hayek 2 (parent supervision)

Wagner

Tolkien to Hitler

3/11/16

Verdun

2/26/16

WWI association

1918 (I haven't watched all of this and the following lectures yet, but they seem solid and interesting)

1915

1916

1917

1914

footnotes and endnotes

easy end note resource

gallipoli lectures, there are several in this series, start watching this one about 7 minutes in, the first is introduction 

great on repeated endnotes

2/19/16

Irish / Jewish song

Fiddler on the Roof 

Fiddler on the Roof pogram scene 

(get parent approval) West Side Story "America"

Great Rift Valley

Rift Valley School

Danakil Depression

Port Arthur Map

Purdue Owl

2/12/16

Turabian style

How to Write an Outline

How to Write an Outline

MLA Works Cited

automatic bibliography

good outline summary

A Modest Proposal

Armenian Genocide (DO NOT WATCH WITHOUT A PARENT WATCHING FIRST, THERE ARE SOME VERY SAD AND GRAPHIC IMAGES HERE, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL OR YOUNGER)

Good simple bibliography sheet, no particular format

Rwanda video, also very difficult topic, preview (AGAIN, THIS IS NOT FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS, YOU MAY WANT TO EDIT OUT PARTS IF YOU LET THE STUDENTS WATCH)


Interview with Immaculee

Woman speaking in South Africa

2/5/16

Alsace-Lorraine

Atacama Dessert

These two links are from Brittanica, a good basic source for your papers

Copper mining in Atacama (other videos interesting, too -- watering Aloe Vera with fog)

Bismark video, great for getting a feel for the time

Suez canal facts

Video about education -- this is a movie trying to persuade you against public schooling

Atlantic story about the Prussian education model

Sears stories

Singapore

Edison inventions (don't bother with ads)

Beautiful Singapore pictures (make sure you have safe search on)

Revisionist history -- people like to come up with history that contradicts what "we all know" -- a good example is the reworking of Thomas Edison.

1/29/16

"The Luck of Roaring Camp" -- short story about a mining camp, adult themes so preview

Pickett's Charge 

Pickett's Charge maps

Pickett's Charge maps

Gettysburg Address

1/22/16

Making note cards (we'll do it differently, but this gives you an idea)

Queen Victoria's family (see the scroll at the top of the Google search page for pictures of a lot of her descendants)

Charge of the Light Brigade

Last of the Light Brigade

Gunga Din

Good Crimean War summary, but I don't know anything about the rest of the blog

Florence Nightingale

The Red Cross 

Queen Victoria and hemophilia

Queen Victoria, Granny of Europe

Nightingale's coxcombe graphs

1/8/16

Memorizing the preamble to the Constitution

Developing a thesis statement

If looking for subjects for your paper, skim the timelines at the back of each of the books we've read, or / and the tables of contents

The preamble

Thorough Constitution page, useful for U.S. history when you take it, or civics (I suggest you use prudence when viewing the explanations, though -- modern Constitutional law can be debated)