History

Recently, a West Point History professor said that "teaching Viet Nam was like teaching the Peloponnesian wars."

We have become the history we ignored.

The rootlessness that propels "progress and modernity" is founded on ignorance of the past. Lacking a rooted past - and gnawingly dissatisfied with the present - we assume The Machine will produce enough toys to save, or at least distract us, from terminal vapidity.

We are afflicted by a compulsion to "drive ourselves to distraction," a phrase once used to describe the near reaches of lunacy. (See: "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman)

How did we get here?

Modern revolutions - whether the Industrial Revolution or Marxist revolution - have much in common with modern "conservatism." They are all unbridled beasts eager to savage sacred groves in the name of "progress" and productivity.

All modern revolutions hinge on the belief that traditions (from the Latin "traditio" meaning "to pass on") are irrelevant, and that we can re-make ourselves - ex nihilo - into "new men" and "new women" whose avant garde "virtue" is built on dismissive disdain for history and the replacement of ancient value with de novo ideology, velleity, celebrity, fatuity, and novelty for its own sake.

The memory hole widens.

Deconstructionists muddy the water like infants not yet potty-trained.

Aggressive ignorance masquerades as enlightenment. (See: Loewen)

Lacking cohesive wisdom traditions, knowledge reduces to intellectual debris --- useful for narrowly targeted purposes, but void of unitary meaning and destructive of integrity.

Detritus mounts.

The Tower of Babel sinks a new foundation.

World and Regional History

History Gateway at U. of Kansas:
http://www.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html

Do History On Your Own (with very good set of links):
http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/index.html

Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Paul Halsall, Fordham University:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/index.html

PBS History "Companion Site" http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/

ERIC - National Library of Education http://www.accesseric.org/

World History Document Archives:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html

Library of Congress Electronic Text Listing:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html

BBC Education "Quickfind" History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/quickfind.shtml

Encyclopedia Smithsonian, From A to Z http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm

History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers: http://execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html

Speakeasy. Internet for Educators:
http://www.speakeasy.org/educators/history.html

World Lecture Hall (Post secondary):
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html

Real History Archives and Links (alternative views):
http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/index.htm

Horus' Web Links to History Resources (presented by the University of California, Riverside Department of History) Great collection of links by area listings and alphabetical listing http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html

Historical Photos On-line (U.C. Riverside):
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-art/photo.html

History on-line (U. of London and Institute for Advanced Study):
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/

Lives: the largest number of biography links on the web: http://amillionlives.com/

Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu

Latin American History Research Sites (since 1826)
http://courses.ncsu.edu/classes/hi300001/bkmarks.htm

Chinese History Research Site (UCSD) http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/

Russian History on the Internet http://www.ucr.edu/history/seaman/

Aesop's Fables (and much more!) This is a great classics site!!!

Classical Art, Archeology and Mythology
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/artindex.html

Classical Literature Archive (441 texts) http://classics.mit.edu/

Greek and Roman History: Links, Documents, Notes
http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/histlink.html

Perseus Ancient Greece Project (Tufts U.) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

The Jewish Student Online Research Center http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/

Middle Ages, Byzantium, Renaissance

Byzantine and Medieval Study Links (Rich site)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Renaissance (Annenberg Foundation) http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

Middle Ages. What it was really like to live in the Middle Ages.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/

British and American History

Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe:
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

American and British History on the Internet (Rutgers)
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html

American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers):
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html

History Matters Links to American History: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/best.taf

The Complete Thomas Jefferson Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum On-Line:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

Alexis de Tocqueville http://www.c-span.org/alexis/

The American Civil War http://www.civilwar.com/

Harper's Weekly. The 19th Century World http://www.harpweek.com/

Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Post Cards of Lynchings in America
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/main.html

National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institute)
http://www.si.edu/nmai/

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

History of Politics OUT LOUD http://www.hpol.org//

Great American Speeches (Northwestern University)
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/

Great American Speeches (The Last 80 Years) http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/

History of the Federal Judiciary (U.S.A.) http://air.fjc.gov/history/

Voices of the Holocaust Accounts by Survivors, 1946. (U. of Illinois)
http://voices.iit.edu/

Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300053878/qid%3D957099766/sr%3D1
-19/002-8699520-1604835

Save Our Sounds (Over one million historic sound clips) www.saveoursounds.org

Nobel Laureates by category (with pertinent links): http://www.almaz.com/nobel/

National Women's History Project (with links): http://www.nwhp.org/

Why do Civilizations Collapse? A study of the Maya
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/

The Vikings: North Atlantic Saga http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/start.html

Shackleton's Antarctic Odyssey (A remarkable case study)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/

Complete Index of Nova Productions http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Hitler's Lost Sub (based on a PBS documentary):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/

History of Mathematics (with links):
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html

George Eastman, The Wizard of Photography. PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/

Museums and Galeries

Museum Network (Explore 30,000 museums worldwide)
http://www.museumnetwork.com/

Museum Web Page (World-wide by country): http://www.icom.org/vlmp/

National Museum of American History (Smithsonian): http://americanhistory.si.edu/

National Museum Natural History (Smithsonian): http://www.mnh.si.edu/

American Museum of Natural History: http://www.amnh.org/

Natural History Museum, London: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

U. Penn Museum "World Cultures" (On-line exhibits):
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Collections/ourwebexhibits.html

British National Museum National Archives (the last 1000 years):
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/

ArtCyclopedia (Huge site with lots of rich links): http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Crow Collection of Asian Art (500 pieces on-line). With geo-cultural and religious contextualization: http://www.crowcollection.com/

Culturefinder --- What's going on in every American city: www.culturefinder.com

American Photography: A Century of Images
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

Civil War Photographs - Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html

Sanctuary Lynching Photos http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/

Pulitzer Prize Photos http://www.newseum.org/pulitzer/

Enlaces a Fotografias en el Mundo http://www.fotoclub.org.uy/links.htm

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) http://www.npg.org.uk/live/searchweb.asp

Afghanistan On-Line -
http://www.afghan-web.com/history



		HISTORY Recently, a West Point History professor said that "teaching Viet Nam was like teaching the Peloponnesian wars." We have become the history we ignored. The rootlessness that propels "progress and modernity" is founded on ignorance of the past. Lacking a rooted past - and gnawingly dissatisfied with the present - we assume The Machine will produce enough toys to save, or at least distract us, from terminal vapidity. We are afflicted by a compulsion to "drive ourselves to distraction," a phrase once used to describe the near reaches of lunacy. (See: "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman) How did we get here? Modern revolutions - whether the Industrial Revolution or Marxist revolution - have much in common with modern "conservatism." They are all unbridled beasts eager to savage sacred groves in the name of "progress" and productivity. All modern revolutions hinge on the belief that traditions (from the Latin "traditio" meaning "to pass on") are irrelevant, and that we can re-make ourselves - ex nihilo - into "new men" and "new women" whose avant garde "virtue" is built on dismissive disdain for history and the replacement of ancient value with de novo ideology, velleity, celebrity, fatuity, and novelty for its own sake. The memory hole widens. Deconstructionists muddy the water like infants not yet potty-trained. Aggressive ignorance masquerades as enlightenment. (See: Loewen) Lacking cohesive wisdom traditions, knowledge reduces to intellectual debris --- useful for narrowly targeted purposes, but void of unitary meaning and destructive of integrity. Detritus mounts. The Tower of Babel sinks a new foundation. *** World and Regional History About.com Cultures & History http://home.about.com/culture/index.htm?PM=59_0216_T History Gateway at U. of Kansas: http://www.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html History Web Sites: http://www.geohistory.com/inetlinks.html History links: http://www.educationplanet.com/search/History/History_Resources The History Net http://www.thehistorynet.com/ Do History On Your Own (with very good set of links): http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/index.html Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Paul Halsall, Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/index.html Historical Texts on-line: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/gateway/gate01.html History Lists www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/lists.html PBS History "Companion Site" http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/ ERIC - National Library of Education http://www.accesseric.org/ Education, U. of Mich Library: http://mel.lib.mi.us/education/education-index.html World History Document Archives: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html Library of Congress Electronic Text Listing: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html On-Line Books Page (U. Penn.): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/moved.html BBC Education "Quickfind" History http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/quickfind.shtml Encyclopedia Smithsonian, From A to Z http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm History Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/ History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers: http://execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html Speakeasy. Internet for Educators: http://www.speakeasy.org/educators/history.html World Lecture Hall (Post secondary): http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html Real History Archives and Links (alternative views): http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/index.htm Horus' Web Links to History Resources (presented by the University of California, Riverside Department of History) Great collection of links by area listings and alphabetical listing http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html Historical Photos On-line (U.C. Riverside): http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-art/photo.html History on-line (U. of London and Institute for Advanced Study): http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ History Links, CSUN http://www.csun.edu/~hfhis003/links.html World History Chronology (hyperlinked) http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/World/World.html Lives: the largest number of biography links on the web: http://amillionlives.com/ Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu Latin American History Research Sites (since 1826) http://courses.ncsu.edu/classes/hi300001/bkmarks.htm Islamic History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html Chinese History Research Site (UCSD) http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/ African History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html European History http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/europe/europe.html Irish History on the Web http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html Russian History on the Internet http://www.ucr.edu/history/seaman/ Antiquity Aesop's Fables (and much more!) This is a great classics site!!! http://www.ou.edu/cas/classics/gibbs/Documents.html Duke Papyrus Archive http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/ The Greeks, PBS website http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/index.html Classical Art, Archeology and Mythology http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/artindex.html Classical Literature Archive (441 texts) http://classics.mit.edu/ Greek and Roman History: Links, Documents, Notes http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/histlink.html Catalog of Websites on Roman Antiquity** http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/RomanSites/ho me.html Perseus Ancient Greece Project (Tufts U.)* http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The Jewish Student Online Research Center http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/ Middle Ages, Byzantium, Renaissance Byzantine and Medieval Study Links (Rich site) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/ The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html Renaissance (Annenberg Foundation) http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/ Middle Ages. What it was really like to live in the Middle Ages. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/ British and American History British Archeology http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba.html Irish History on the Web: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe: http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ Heritage Magazine http://www.americanheritage.com/ American History http://americanhistory.about.com/homework/americanhistory/mbody.htm?once=true & American and British History on the Internet (Rutgers) http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers): http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html History Matters Links to American History: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/best.taf The Complete Thomas Jefferson Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html The Declaration of Independence http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/declaration/bios.html Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum On-Line: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ Alexis de Tocqueville http://www.c-span.org/alexis/ The American Civil War http://www.civilwar.com/ Harper's Weekly. The 19th Century World http://www.harpweek.com/ Virginia Runaway Slaves http://www.wise.virginia.edu/cvc/history/runaways/ Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Post Cards of Lynchings in America http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/main.html National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institute) http://www.si.edu/nmai/ Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 http://womhist.binghamton.edu/ History of Politics OUT LOUD http://www.hpol.org// Great American Speeches (Northwestern University) http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/ Great American Speeches (The Last 80 Years) http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/ History of the Federal Judiciary (U.S.A.) http://air.fjc.gov/history/ Holocaust Voices of the Holocaust Accounts by Survivors, 1946. (U. of Illinois) http://voices.iit.edu/ Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300053878/qid%3D957099766/sr%3D1 -19/002-8699520-1604835 Odds and Sods Save Our Sounds (Over one million historic sound clips) www.saveoursounds.org Nobel Laureates by category (with pertinent links): http://www.almaz.com/nobel/ National Women's History Project (with links): http://www.nwhp.org/ Why do Civilizations Collapse? A study of the Maya http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/ The Vikings: North Atlantic Saga http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/start.html Shackleton's Antarctic Odyssey (A remarkable case study) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/ Noah's Flood: A New Wave of Evidence: http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=article&articl eid=http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/A13897-1999Nov17.html Complete Index of Nova Productions http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ Narcotrafficking in Mexico: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/readings/lupsha.html Nanking Atrocities: http://web.missouri.edu/~jschool/nanking/ Hitler's Lost Sub (based on a PBS documentary): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/ Evolution Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/index.shtml History of Mathematics (with links): http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html George Eastman, The Wizard of Photography. PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/ Museums and Galeries Museum Network (Explore 30,000 museums worldwide) http://www.museumnetwork.com/ Museum Web Page (World-wide by country): http://www.icom.org/vlmp/ National Museum of American History (Smithsonian): http://americanhistory.si.edu/ National Museum Natural History (Smithsonian): http://www.mnh.si.edu/ American Museum of Natural History: http://www.amnh.org/ Natural History Museum, London: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ U. Penn Museum "World Cultures" (On-line exhibits): http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Collections/ourwebexhibits.html British National Museum National Archives (the last 1000 years): http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/ ArtCyclopedia (Huge site with lots of rich links): http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ Crow Collection of Asian Art (500 pieces on-line). With geo-cultural and religious contextualization: http://www.crowcollection.com/ Culturefinder --- What's going on in every American city: www.culturefinder.com PHOTOGRAPHS Smithsonian photos http://americanart.si.edu/helios/index.html American Photography: A Century of Images http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/ Civil War Photographs - Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html Civil Rights Photos http://www.civilrightsphotos.com/ Sanctuary Lynching Photos http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/ Pulitzer Prize Photos http://www.newseum.org/pulitzer/ UNESCO Photobank http://www2.unesco.org/photobank/ Picture of the Day http://www.discovery.com/news/picture/picture.html Enlaces a Fotografias en el Mundo http://www.fotoclub.org.uy/links.htm National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) http://www.npg.org.uk/live/searchweb.asp Life Magazine Photos, 20000 http://www.lifemag.com/Life/eisies/eisies2000/contents.html Aerial Photos http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ Snow Crystals http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
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