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Published on Jun 26, 2014 War is dominating the news right now. But that makes it easy to miss that, relatively, there is a lot less of it today. The 21st century has been the most peaceful one in modern history to date. Zack Beauchamp explains three of the biggest reasons why in two and a half minutes. 
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1 July 2014 Whilst living in Beijing Thomas Ketchell experienced the dreadful air quality and decided to re-enact the Great Smog of London of 1952 using social media. This led to the founding of Hstry, which relives historical events through a first-person perspective to bring history to life. Hstry is now providing interactive storylines of historical events for both schools across the globe in line with their vision to become the leading digital learning platform for history.
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The current crisis in Iraq explained in under 5 minutes. There is war in Iraq? Again? And the US and Iran are talking about working together? And who is this ISIS Terrorist group that is all over the news? And Religion? Oh Dear....When exactly has the world gone mad again?
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Published on Jun 27, 2014 The rules of attack and defence that pilots used in WW1 dogfight encounters.
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Published on Jun 26, 2014 It is almost 100 years since the single event that sparked the First World War. On the eve of the Archduke's murder, no one could have imagined the horrors that lay ahead, or the way the conflict would influence events for at least another hundred years to come
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Nearly four years of deadly stalemate on the Western Front slowly came to an end in 1918, as Allied armies pushed into Germany at enormous cost, leading the Central Powers to finally seek an armistice.
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Published on Jun 11, 2014 2014 is the 50th anniversary of the Rivonia Trial. On 11th July 1963 the police raided Liliesleaf farm and arrested eighteen people amongst whom were leaders of the liberation movement. Today, Liliesleaf is one of South Africa's most important heritage sites, and is seen as a place of liberation and this story is not complete without it. The CEO of Liliesleaf, Nicholas Wolpe has more on Liliesleaf.
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Interesting historical images can prompt good conversations which in turn lead to good questions for my students to research the answers to. One of the ways is by having students look through digital archives of images and then sharing their favorite images. Here are three good places to find historical images.
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Battles involving hundreds of thousands also involved precisely that many individual stories.
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1 June 2014 Peter Macdiarmid has taken photographs of locations in France and England to match with archive images taken before, during and after the D-day landings. Photography then and now lets you move through time by clicking on a historic image to reveal the modern view.
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Published on Jun 3, 2014
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Two events – Normandy and Tiananmen Square – almost fifty years apart, allow J. BROOKS SPECTOR to contemplate the meaning of freedom and memory.
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Published on Jun 2, 2014 The Nazis used Colditz Castle as a detention facility for Allied soldiers. A group of Dutch officers devised a clever plan to escape the camp. Their plot, which led four men to freedom, involved only a manhole, life-like dummies, and a game of rugby.
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Published on Jul 10, 2014 Hessy Taft was literally the poster child of Aryan beauty before World War II. Taft is also Jewish and tells her story.
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Published on Jul 2, 2014 International cartoonist and political satirist, Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) talks about lightness and darkness in South African politics. In his heartfelt talk to the Westerford High School teenagers, on what true leaders look like, he encourages them to be the leaders of tomorrow who bring light and not darkness to South Africa.
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3 July 2014 From almost the opening shot, the Great War has been fought over by historians wishing to interpret and understand what happened and why. Their conflict is not over yet.
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Published on Jun 27, 2014 How aviation technology developed rapidly in WW1 to create planes of war.
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Published on Jun 27, 2014 Michael journeys down the river to visit the abandoned remains of Fordlandia in the middle of the rainforest. Once an ambitious attempt to build a rubber factory out in the amazon jungle, now the ill-fated project's only inhabitants are the local population of bats.
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Published on Jun 16, 2014 Bob Bain is an associate professor at the University of Michigan. He is also faculty lead for the Big History Project, an international research and design group that has developed an online curriculum, assessments and professional development to enable high school students to study 13.82 billion years of cosmic history -- from the Big Bang to the Future.
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The National Archives Experience Digital Vaults is one of the resources that I almost always share in my workshop on teaching history with technology primary sources. The Digital Vaults offers three good tools that students and teachers can use to create content using images and documents from the National Archives.
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Nelson Mandela's speech from the Dock in 1964 by Sello Maake
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Lara Pawson’s In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre, is probably not designed as an antidote to Theroux, but serves as one nonetheless. In every way that the former book is lacking, this one is a towering success. Stuffed with death, it nonetheless brims with life, with a curiosity that is both moral and unwavering, bearing the courage to ask: if this is indeed a mess—and boy, is it, why might that be?
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BBC's 70th anniversary coverage of Normandy invasion includes new recordings by Sherlock star, Patrick Stewart and Toby Jones. By Jason Deans
Reeler Centre's insight:
I know, it's shameless-but I thought some history teachers might want to use Mr Cumberbatch's popularity to sell their subject to their female students :) Just a suggestion...
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This fascinating set of films give one a very real sense of the seriousness of the Cold War.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Have You Looked at Historypin Lately? - Create a Local History Project
Historypin is probably my favorite service for locating geo-located historical imagery. After writing my post about Views of Venice I explored Historypin for the first time in a few months and enjoyed exploring some of the Historypin channels and tours of geolocated imagery.
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