Contemporary Social Studies 2010
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Ning Brought to you by Search Sign Up Sign In Teaching Digital History using documents , images , maps and online tools Main My Page Members Photos Videos Blogs Forum All Discussions My Discussions Add a Discussion Contemporary Social Studies 2010 Posted by John Lee on December 6, 2010 at 3:03pm in Visual historical inquiry View Discussions Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject . Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches , social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive . There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies . In fact , there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship . But , what that process entails is a
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I have not done a lot with the Teaching For Social Justice (and Teaching for Liberation) movement that is growing rapidly in our public schools across America, but I can assure you I am not done with this. I promise numerous stories this year on the movement that is infecting our schools. To kick off [...]
An 18th century Burmese letter, written in gold and rubies, has been deciphered in Germany. The ‘golden letter’, written by Burmese King Alaungphaya in the year 1756 to England’s King George II, lay in the vaults of Hanover’s Leibniz library for 250 years, as nobody could read its contents. The letter, which took three years [...]
10,000 years ago the Sahara was a fertile area, allowing fish to migrate across it. This is giving researchers a possible clue to how early humans migrated across the desert. In their analysis, Drake and his colleagues found evidence that many creatures, including aquatic ones, dispersed across the Sahara recently. For example, 25 North African [...]
A Virginia history textbook is being closely scrutinized after a number of glaring errors were found in its pages. Among the mistakes: the claim that 12 states joined the Confederacy, not 11, and that 6,000 soldiers died during the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War, instead of 22,000. Three of the five historians [...]
A 2,600-year-old tomb has been found at the Celtic hill fort at Heuneburg in Germany. The noblewoman’s tomb, dating from early Celtic times, measures four metres by five metres, and is exceptionally well-preserved. It contained gold and amber jewellery that makes possible for the first time the precise dating of an early Celtic grave. Using [...]
A greek amphora from the Greek isle of Lesbos has been found in the ancient fortress of Tel Qudadi in Tel Aviv. The find is the earliest known example to date of Lesbian ceramic work in the Mediterranean. What remains a mystery, the researchers say, is how the Lesbian amphora arrived at Tel Qudadi in the [...]
A 2,600-year-old Celtic tomb has been found by archaeologists excavating the ancient hill fort at Heuneburg, Germany. The 13-by-16-foot burial chamber is in an excellent state of preservation and still contains a treasury of gold and amber jewelry.
The jewelry allowed archaeologists to pinpoint a precise date, the first time they’ve been able to do [...]
An analysis of ancient rock art in Western Australia has shown that its vivid colours have kept for 40,000 years because it is alive with microbes. While some rock art fades in hundreds of years, the “Bradshaw art” remains colourful after at least 40,000 years. Jack Pettigrew of the University of Queensland in Australiahas shown [...]
The Roman city of Germenicia, which has lain hidden underground for over 1,500 years has been found thanks to an illegally excavated mosaic found under a house in Turkey. he Roman-era city of Germenicia was unearthed by chance during an illegal excavation in the basement of a house. Preliminary examinations showed that the mosaics were [...]
A new study of Neanderthal remains show that they cooked and ate plants and vegetables. The study is the first to confirm that the Neanderthal diet was not confined to meat and was more sophisticated than previously thought. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The popular image [...]
A message in a bottle delivered to a Confederate general during the American Civil War has been decoded. In the encrypted message, a commander tells Gen John Pemberton that no reinforcements are available to help him defend Vicksburg, Mississippi. “You can expect no help from this side of the river,” says the message, which was [...]
A 16th century book sold at auction contains some of the first documented information on how to perform a nose job. This book, which sold for a whopping 11,000 pounds to a modern-day plastic surgeon, was written by Gaspare Tagliacozzi. He was the professor or surgery and anatomy at the University of Bologna and devised [...]
A collection of 150 clay fragments containing the names of priests who served in Egypt during the Roman era has been found in Fayoum. “It is really a complete archive that highlights not only the names of priests who served in the temple during the Roman era but religious practices and the prosopography of Greco-Roman [...]
The remains of a city which dates back to the second century AD has been found on Socotra Island. The team said that the remains of the exposed ancient houses, roads, alleys and squares indicated that the city had been an administrative, religious and cultural area for the entire island, reports SABA NET. In a [...]
Could cave art in France be the world’s oldest optical illusion? A new paper argues yes. The paper’s author, Duncan Caldwell has surveyed the Paleolithic art of several caves in France and discovered a recurring theme that he says can’t be simply accidental. Throughout the cave of Font-de-Gaume, and in examples from other sites as [...]
The remains of a jade workshop which dates back 6,000 years has been found in China. It is for the first time that a workshop for jade and stone processing has been found in China, experts with the Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology said. Inside the ruins, piles of stone slices and many [...]
The 150-million-year-old skull of a pliosaur has been scanned by one of the UK’s most powerful CT scanners. The team has begun scanning the prepared fossil one piece at a time to reveal as complete a pliosaur picture possible, including information about the internal bone structure and the positioning of hidden teeth. Palaeontologist Richard Forrest [...]
: Daly History Blog where the past meets the present meets the future meets the past Home About me Book Reviews Contact Me Gallery My Books and Articles My talks Tracing your Legal Ancestors : A Guide for Family Historians by Stephen Wade Reviewing this book posed one small problem : I don’t actually HAVE a legal ancestor although there are possibly one or two illegal ancestors , but thats another story I’ve done a little research and study into criminal history check out the Old Bailey online for some good old crime reading but this book looks very much at the other side of the coin the judiciary and legal . system The British legal system is horribly complicated and confusing Quarter Sessions Assizes Magistrates County Court High Court to name but a few . There are lawyers barristers ,
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From the news article:
A less festive bunch it’s hard to imagine.
This is Hitler and his henchmen celebrating Christmas in 1941 – not that you’d know it from their glum expressions.
These probably had something to do with the recent dispiriting failure of Nazi attempts to seize Moscow and take control of Russia.
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A 500-year-old Christ icon has been discovered after it was cleaned by a British charity. The central panel of the triptych had over the centuries become blackened with the sprinkling of perfume that the monks use as they worship. The hugely important and stunning painted wood panel is now visible in its original coloured glory, [...]
An ancient kiln containing four tonnes of ancient copper coins has been found in China. An ancient kiln storing several tons of copper coins dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) was excavated in Hua County of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province on Dec. 22. The kiln is 1 meter wide at the mouth, 2 meters [...]
The ancient city of Danyawaddy in Burma, which dates back to the 6th century BC, has been razed to make way for a new railroad line. The most ancient city of Arakan, known historically as Danyawaddy, which existed in the 6 century BCE, was destroyed by bulldozers for construction of a railroad that passed over [...]
Life has posted an interesting series of photographs taken at a Nazi christmas party in 1941. Swastikas and Tannenbaum The image is chilling, bordering on surreal: On December 18, 1941, as World War II rages and countless innocents endure the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” — killing operations at the Che?mno death camp, [...]
Evidence of a previously unknown type of human, named the Denisovans, which roamed throughout Asia has been found. A genetic study suggests they may have interbred with modern humans. In fact, living Pacific islanders in Papua New Guinea may be distant descendants of these prehistoric pairings, according to new analysis of DNA from a girl’s [...]
The Tasmanian government has announced plans to build a bridge over an ancient aboriginal archaeological site. The Tasmanian Government has approved the proposal to build a bridge over the Jordan River levee site to continue the construction of the Brighton Bypass, sparking protest action by the Tasmanian Aboriginal community. Mr Paton says the levee site [...]
This week I am giving away a hardcover copy of Queens and Empresses by Mark Hichens to a random fan of A Blog About History on Facebook. History is brought to life through the colourful stories of eleven queens and empresses. Their lives were often tempestuous and tragic, ending in execution, suicide, divorce or abdication. [...]
In my regular (Non-AP) United States history class we are in the final two weeks of the quarter and have hit the 1980s. As I have mentioned recently, I use documentaries and docudramas whenever I feel they will be helpful. If the documentary is even tempered in its presentation and is not “boring” I can [...]