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Herein lies the problem. History is not taught to foster knowledge and the love of history. Instead, it serves subsidiary purposes, such as civic responsibility, patriotism, and pride in one's heritage. 
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One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe, and set the stage for the 20th Century.
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This series draws on previously unseen photographic evidence to illustrate the various phases of World War One. If you are keen to use fresh primary material then this is a good place to start!
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If the history of life on earth is viewed as the Empire State Building, all of human history is a dime on top. If the life of our planet is viewed as a year, every event in the history books has raced past in the last few seconds of that year.
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Simmy Lewis is 96 and a South African veteran of World War II. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, GROUNDUP spoke to Lewis about the war, his views on race and living with increasing frailty. By NATHAN GEFFEN.
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28 May 2014 A viscount in the French Army left behind a collection of hundreds of glass plates taken during World War I that have never before been published. The images show the daily life of soldiers in the trenches, destruction of towns and military leaders.
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Published on May 26, 2014
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Published on May 23, 2014 Dan takes a deep breath as he prepares to have an extremely close encounter with some of the deadliest weapons of the war in an attempt to understand how they were able to wreak such havoc.
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Published on May 14, 2014 As the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens, its chief curator and officials at other New York institutions describe how they selected the objects by which future generations will remember Sept. 11, 2001.
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Reagan and the Cold War; Censorship in China; Chinese interests in Africa and The rise of China...five books worth considering for your school collection.
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20 May 2014 100 guests gather to celebrate birthday of man who helped evacuate children before second world war.
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In November 1918, aboard a train in the forest of Compiegne, a French general made a mockery of the German High Command as they sued for peace. It was an insult that would fester in the mind of a young German solider, laying blinded at the time, in an army hospital 700 miles away. Twenty two years later, that soldier would take his revenge -- in the same railway carriage. That soldier, now leader and supreme warlord of a resurgent German Reich, was Adolf Hitler.
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Published on Apr 10, 2014 At this point it isn't clear what any of us outside of Venezuela can do to help those inside the country - and this has been hard for me to stomach. Perhaps one of the best things I can do is to provide emotional support.
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Published on Apr 17, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1 Trench warfare is one of the defining features of the First World War, but why? Dan Snow and One Show regular Michael Douglas find out why they were necessary - with the help of paintball guns
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2 June 2014 The Indiana University library is making public more than 400 previously unseen black-and-white photographs of the historic student-led 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.
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Sixty-nine years ago this month, world leaders tried to delay the reporting of one of the biggest stories of the 20th century. They might have been successful, too, if not for one rogue journalist.
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The Mountain and the Viper fought savagely, but so did people in middle-ages judicial affairs.
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Amor Masovic has the gaze and mournful air of a man who never gets enough sleep. For nearly two decades, his job has been to find the mass graves containing thousands who disappeared during the Bosnian war. When I first met him in 2012, he calculated that he and his colleagues at the government’s Missing Persons Institute had found more than 700 mass graves, containing the remains of nearly 25,000 people.
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The German military in France and Hitler are under attack less than a month after D-Day.
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This clip is one of several from an upcoming National Geographic documentary entitled D-Day Sacrifice which uses remastered and colourized footage coupled with the testimonies of both famous individuals such as Eisenhower as well as anonymous participants. You can read more about the documentary here and will find more clips from the Youtube channel here. (And yes, the French accents are abominable :))
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Published on May 26, 2014 The Museum Support Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, houses more than 16,000 pieces of art, firearms, uniforms, and gear belonging to the United States Army. Some notable items in the priceless collection include artwork by U.S. Army soldiers, firearms dating to the 18th century, original paintings by Norman Rockwell
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Published on May 23, 2014 In Part II WW1 Uncut reveals that in addition to dogs and the famous contribution made by horses the war also saw attempts to use a bizarre collection of animals and creatures including pigeons, seagulls, sea lions, elephants and even...glow worms.
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An exceptional book called Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, about the history of American documentary films made during World War II has just been published. Time and again, the book returns to the question of how one can film combat, especially when there is a conflict of interests between journalism and propaganda, or truth and morale-building.
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20 May 2014 Manny Man Does the history of World War 2 in seven minutes. It's a quick and easy way to get up to speed on what the Second World War was about!
Elysha Gibson's curator insight,
May 5, 2020 7:22 PM
Main resource: Students will be asked to create their own video presenting their findings of an inquiry project. Students will work in groups, brainstorm an inquiry question, research using ICT (recording their progress through blogs which the teacher and peers will comment on) and then create their own video using resources such as iMovie or other online video creating programs. Their video will be uploaded to youtube and will be used as a teaching resource for the year 10 class that will follow them next year. The process of inquiry will enhance learning and encourage higher order thinking. Use of blogs to track progress and sharing the videos online to be used for the next year's year 10 class links to the redefinition stage of the SAMR model with students learning in ways that would not be possible without ICT use. This resources and the exercise that will follow it, will give students a sound understanding of the following general capabilities areas: Literacy: Use informative, persuasive and imaginative texts Support texts with primary and secondary sources Make language and text choices from an understanding of context Numeracy: Count and measure data to construct and interpret graphs, tables and statistics Construct and interpret maps and models with grids, scale, distance, area and projections ICT capability: Access and use digital technology to investigate and be creative Be aware of personal security protocols, intellectual property and ethical responsibilities Use social media to collaborate, communicate and share information of historical significance Plan, organise, create, display, communicate and present learning digitally to collaborate, discuss and debate Critical and creative thinking: Develop investigative questions Critical choice of research Personal and social capability: Develop capacity for self-management and direct their own learning Develop communication, empathy, teamwork, negotiation and conflict resolution skills Develop leadership, resilience, goal-setting and advocacy skills to make a contribution to their community and society The task will incorporate these capabilities along with use of technology to enhance student learning and create authentic and engaging tasks for students to complete in history. 
Thomas James Kurkowski's curator insight,
May 13, 2020 10:53 PM
(Unabashedly stolen from Elysha Gibson)
A fun little video about WW2. Very brief and quick summary of WW2 that i could see being used as an 'ntro to ww2 for any high school student. Might be an 'info overload' for younger students. 
Shannon Coad's comment,
May 26, 2020 6:37 AM
This is excellent! I used something like this in one of my Embedded tasks and I found it to be a lot of fun, informative and could definitely see the students getting really engaged and excited about something like this! Like Thomas I have rescooped as well- so thankyou!
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Published on May 15, 2014 An emotional ceremony has been held in New York where United States President Barack Obama unveiled the new museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks of 2011. The museum opens its doors to the public on Wednesday.
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There is no better symbol of the failure of the Eritrean state than the thousands of refugees who abandon it every week, searching for a better life – even when escaping is often more dangerous than staying put. SIMON ALLISON spoke to Dan Connell, a long-time Eritrea watcher, about the perils that await Eritrean refugees, and why they are so desperate to leave in the first place.
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Published on Apr 22, 2014 Olga Oliker, Associate Director, International Security & Defense Policy Center and Senior International Policy Analyst at RAND Corporation, visited the Google Los Angeles Venice office on April 9, 2014 to speak on current events in Russia and Ukraine. The title of her talk is: "Russia: What Happened? What's Next?"
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