History Channel Mankind The Story of All of Us Episode 1/12 Inventors
21 Sep
“Mankind embraces a groundbreaking way of telling this epic human story. Drawing on a growing global interest in a revelatory field of history, now adopted by universities across the globe. ‘Big history’ focuses on the forces of nature to show how mankind’s path is guided by events that stretch back, not hundreds, but thousands, even millions of years. How the power of science, from geology and astronomy, to physics and biology, combined to shape our shared human journey. Revealing astounding global connections, and an astonishing interconnected story. This is history without limits. Free from boundaries and politics. Our story, like it’s never been told before. Written by History Channel “
10 Great Sites for Bored History Nerds – Flavorwire
30 AugIf you’re crazy about history like I am, take a look at the site http://flavorwire.com/412297/10-great-sites-for-bored-history-nerds
The big history project now available!
20 AugTHE BIG HISTORY PROJECTGreat reference for educators world wide, free of charge! Check out @BigHistoryPro’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/BigHistoryPro/status/369631370240225280
The big history project now available!
20 AugGreat reference for educators world wide, free of charge! Check out @BigHistoryPro’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/BigHistoryPro/status/369631370240225280
PLEASE JOIN! I Love History…and Research facebook group
12 NovI Love History…and Research facebook group
This facebook page seeks to provide members with valid source documentation for all manners of subject matter. Some links might be controversial and comments are always welcome but this group was not designed for debate.
Navajo code talker from World War II dies
10 NovNavajo code talker from World War II dies
(CNN) — George Smith, one of the Navajo code talkers who helped the U.S. military outfox the Japanese during World War II by sending messages in their obscure language, has died, the president of the Navajo Nation said.
“This news has saddened me,” Ben Shelly, the Navajo president, said in a post Wednesday on his Facebook page. “Our Navajo code talkers have been real life heroes to generations of Navajo people.”
Smith died Tuesday, Shelly said, and the Navajo Nation’s flag is flying at half-staff until Sunday night to commemorate his life.
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Several hundred Navajo tribe members served as code talkers for the United States during World War II, using a military communications code based on the Navajo language. They sent messages back and forth from the front lines of fighting, relaying crucial information during pivotal battles like Iwo Jima.
Military authorities chose Navajo as a code language because it was almost impossible for a non-Navajo to learn and had no written form. It was the only code the Japanese never managed to crack.
The Navajo code talkers participated in every assault the U.S. Marines carried out in the Pacific between 1942 and 1945.
The code talkers themselves were forbidden from telling anyone about the code — not their fellow Marines, not their families — until it was declassified in 1968.
Now in their 80s and 90s, only a handful of code talkers remain.
“They have brought pride to our Navajo people in so many ways,” Shelly said. “The nation’s prayers and thoughts are with the family at this time as they mourn the passing of a great family man who served his country and protected his people.”
Shelly’s Facebook post didn’t mention Smith’s age or the cause and location of his death. A statement about the death on the official Navajo Nation website was not accessible late Thursday.http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/us/navajo-code-talker-dies/index.html
The Food Timeline
15 Aug
bread 1 (Photo credit: awrose)
The Food Timeline (click here to visit link)
Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip…and why? So do we!!! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some experts say it’s impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods are not invented; they evolve.
“The Food Timeline was created by Lynne Olver, reference librarian with a passion for food history. Information is checked against standard reference tools for accuracy. All sources are cited for research purposes. As with most historical topics, there are some conflicting stories in the field of food history. We do our best to select and present the information with the most documented support.
Since we launched in March 1999, The Food Timeline’s scope has grown from a single page with a sprinkling of links to 50+ web pages offering a wealth of historic information, primary documents, and original research. As of June 23, 2012 we served 29 million readers and answered 23.7 thousand questions. Compare today’s site with the original Food Timeline, circa 1999. Our notes on the art of culinary research with a side order ofpopular requests. The Food Timeline is recognized by the American Library Association as a Great Website for Kids and was reviewed in ALA’sacademic publication Choice, July 2009.
The recipes featured on our site are selected from a variety of sources including old cook books, newspapers, magazines, National Historic Parks, government agencies, universities, cultural organizations, culinary historians, and company/restaurant web sites. We have not cooked them in our own kitchens and cannot vouch for their results in yours. If you have any questions regarding the ingredients, instructions or safety of these recipes please forward them directly to the webmaster of the site hosting that recipe. Recipes from primary documents are linked for historical purposes only. If you plan to cook one of these, they need to be examined very carefully for unsafe practices (such as the eating of raw eggs).”
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500 Nations The Story of Native Americans – 1
10 Aug
“500 Nations is an eight part documentary on the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents from pre-Columbian to the end of the 19th century. Much of the information comes from text, eyewitnesses, pictorials, and computer graphics. The series was hosted by Kevin Costner, narrated by Gregory Harrison, and directed by Jack Leustig. It included the voice talents of Eric Schweig, Gordon Tootoosis, Wes Studi, Cástulo Guerra, Tony Plana, Edward James Olmos, Patrick Stewart, Gary Farmer, Tom Jackson, Tantoo Cardinal, Dante Basco, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Tim Bottoms, Michael Horse, Graham Greene, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Amy Madigan, Frank Salsedo, and Kurtwood Smith. The series was written by Jack Leustig, Roberta Grossman, Lee Miller (head of research), and W. T. Morgan, with Dr. John M. D. PohlEpisode 1: Wounded Knee Legacy and The Ancestors
The series begins “where our story ends” with eyewitness accounts of Wounded Knee. The Ancestors next offers excerpts from Native American creation stories, then explores three early North American cultures, including the 800-room Pueblo Bonito in the arid southwest, the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, and Cahokia, the largest city in the U.S. before 1800″ Wikipedia
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American Indian Archive Center
6 Aug
American Indian Archive Center
Archive Center
The National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center supports the mission of the museum to collect, organize, preserve and make available papers, records, images, recordings, and ephemera that accurately reflect the historical and contemporary lives of Native peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere, specifically regarding Native art, culture, knowledge, politics, events, and social movements and developments. The collections also complement the museum’s artifacts and are used for scholarly research, exhibitions, journalism, documentary productions, and other research and educational activities. The Archive Center provides reference, research, and services to Native Americans, publishers, scholars, museum staff, and the general public.
English: Nez Percé American Indian (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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“Daughter of Dawn” Extraordinary 1920 silent film with all-Indian cast re-released after a painstaking restoration project
16 Jul“Daughter of Dawn” Extraordinary 1920 silent film with all-Indian cast re-released after a painstaking restoration project
Extraordinary footage from a 1920 silent film which historians feared had been lost forever has been brought back to life.
The film, called The Daughter Of Dawn, was shot in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma in July 1920 and used an all-American Indian cast.
However, the footage had not been seen since it was screened more than 90 years ago in October 1920, at the College Theater in Los Angeles.
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Brought back to life: It was feared The Daughter Of Dawn had been lost forever… but the a restored version has been re-released
Going native: The Daughter Of Dawn featured an all-American Indian cast and was shot in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma in July 1920
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Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
We want to be the web’s one-stop resource for country statistics on everything from obesity to murders.
Compare cities, crimes rates, incarceration rates, income, demographics, and just about anything else you can think of
Click here to go to link>>>>http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES ONLINE
8 Jul
Logo of the Archival Research Catalog, the online catalog for the holdings of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
NATIONAL ARCHIVES ONLINE
The Online Public Access resource is the online public portal to our records and information about our records. The OPA prototype currently provides access to nearly one million electronic records currently in the Electronic Records Archives (ERA), which are not available elsewhere online. More electronic records from ERA will be included in OPA in the coming year.
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Racism: A History [2007] – BBB (Part 1 of 3) “The Colour of Money”
8 Jul
A map of the world in 1886: areas under British control are highlighted in red. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Racism: A History [2007] – BBB (Part 1 of 3) “The Colour of Money”
“Racism: A History is a three-part British documentary series originally broadcast on BBC Four in March 2007.
It was part of the season of programmes broadcast on the BBC marking the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807, a landmark piece of legislation which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. The series explores the impact of racism on a global scale and chronicles the shifts in the perception of race and the history of racism in Europe, the Americas, Australia and Asia. The series was narrated by Sophie Okonedo.
First Episode: The Colour of Money” Wiki
THE HUMAN FAMILY TREE
8 Jul
Animation of the structure of a section of DNA. The bases lie horizontally between the two spiraling strands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The Genographic Project is a five-year-long (2005-2010) study funded by National Geographic and IBM to collect human DNA from people all over the world, and analyze those data to determine the various general pathways humans took out of Africa.
Human beings evolved in Africa about 160,000 years ago, and lived only in Africa until around 60,000 years ago when we started to emigrate, in little groups, in different directions. There is evidence of a couple of false starts before that—Skhul Cave in Israel and Jwalapuram in India—but they don’t seem to have left DNA evidence among us
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