The Snowfield: After the Battle
10 weeks ago by adamrg
"The Snowfield is a beautiful and horrifying game. You begin on what was clearly a battlefield not long ago, strewn with corpses, barbed wire, and broken fences, covered in snow. You are huddled and obviously freezing. There are some other soldiers in the area, mostly standing in a daze, shell-shocked; they speak to you (a handful of catch-phrases repeated), in German; evidently, this is the Eastern Front in World War II, though none of the corpses are wearing Russian uniforms. The setting is stark, and emotionally impactful."
ethics
games
wwii
History
10 weeks ago by adamrg
Effects of Historical Reasoning Instruction and Writing Strategy Mastery in Culturally and Academically Diverse Middle School Classrooms.
february 2012 by adamrg
Seventy 8th-grade students (including talented writers, those with average ability, and students in need of special education services) participated in an integrated social studies and language arts unit designed to promote historical understandings and argumentative writing skills. The historical reasoning instruction lasted 12 days, and the writing instruction lasted 10 days. Students applied historical inquiry strategies when reading documents related to westward expansion and learned to plan argumentative essays related to each historical event. Results indicate that in comparison to 62 students in a control group who did not receive either form of instruction, students who demonstrated mastery of the target strategies during instruction wrote historically more accurate and more persuasive essays regardless of their initial learning profile.
history
writing
reasoning
research
education
february 2012 by adamrg
Conflict History
september 2011 by adamrg
Browse the timeline of war and conflict across the globe.
war
conflict
History
visualization
maps
timeline
worldhistory
september 2011 by adamrg
Ancient Egyptians believed in coiffure after death
august 2011 by adamrg
Ancient Egyptians wouldn't be caught dead without hair gel. Style in the afterlife was just as important as it was during life on Earth – and coiffure was key.
egypt
History
hair
beauty
august 2011 by adamrg
World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
june 2011 by adamrg
World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict and its horrible aftermath reverberated for decades in either direction. While feats of bravery and technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery and destruction. In the late 1930s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the nations of the Axis Powers and the Allies resulted in some 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world.
This series of entries will last from June 19 until October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In these photo essays, I hope to explore the events of the war, the people involved at the front and back home, and the effects the war had on everyday lives. The entries will follow a roughly chronological sequence, with some broader themes (such as "The Home Front") interspersed throughout. These images will give us glimpses into the real-life experiences of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, moments that shaped the world as it is today. I hope to be able to do justice to this important story in this large-photo narrative format and invite you to join me for the next 20 Sundays.
wwi
1930s
1940s
history
photography
primarydocuments
This series of entries will last from June 19 until October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In these photo essays, I hope to explore the events of the war, the people involved at the front and back home, and the effects the war had on everyday lives. The entries will follow a roughly chronological sequence, with some broader themes (such as "The Home Front") interspersed throughout. These images will give us glimpses into the real-life experiences of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, moments that shaped the world as it is today. I hope to be able to do justice to this important story in this large-photo narrative format and invite you to join me for the next 20 Sundays.
june 2011 by adamrg
10,000 Year Clock
june 2011 by adamrg
We are building a 10,000 Year Clock. It's a special clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking. It's of monumental scale inside a mountain in West Texas. The father of the Clock is Danny Hillis. He's been thinking about and working on the Clock since 1989. He wanted to build a Clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. The vision was, and still is, to build a Clock that will keep time for the next 10,000 years. I've been helping Danny with the project for the last half dozen years. As I see it, humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems. We're likely to need more long-term thinking.
history
future
clock
longnow
june 2011 by adamrg
In The Beginning
may 2011 by adamrg
The construction of a massive temple by a group of foragers is evidence that organized religion could have come before the rise of agriculture and other aspects of civilization. It suggests that the human impulse to gather for sacred rituals arose as humans shifted from seeing themselves as part of the natural world to seeking mastery over it. ... "Twenty years ago everyone believed civilization was driven by ecological forces," [archeologist Klaus] Schmidt says. "I think what we are learning is that civilization is a product of the human mind."
civilization
religion
history
prehistory
turkey
may 2011 by adamrg
Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
april 2011 by adamrg
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III (1216–1272) and his successor, Edward I (1272–1307). Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces). Their remains were often displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burnt at the stake.
history
violence
wikipedia
england
april 2011 by adamrg
World's Largest indoor Photo: Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague - 40 Gigapixel 360º Panorama
march 2011 by adamrg
The sum of world knowledge at the end of the 18th century.
1700s
history
library
art
photography
march 2011 by adamrg
Murder in the Time of Cholera
march 2011 by adamrg
There is an old saying: Under every mile of railroad track is a dead Irishman. Locally speaking, this is almost literally true.
history
archeology
pennsylvania
railroads
murder
march 2011 by adamrg
Map of How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com
march 2011 by adamrg
In 1811, John Randel created a proposed street grid of Manhattan. Compare his map, along with other historic information, to modern-day Manhattan.
nyc
map
maps
history
interactive
march 2011 by adamrg
Keats and Starbucks
march 2011 by adamrg
An etymological and historical analysis of how Starbucks got their name.
etymology
history
starbucks
march 2011 by adamrg
The HOUSE that RUNS ITSELF
february 2011 by adamrg
Imagine, if you can, the delight of the woman who steps into her “ready made” house and finds the kitchen already equipped with electric refrigerator, dishwasher, sink, electric or gas stove, built-in clock, abundant cupboard space—and even a two-day supply of groceries on the shelves. And she never will be bothered by cooking odors because an electric exhaust quickly removes smoke, dust and fumes from the kitchen. In addition to the windows, indirect lighting gives plenty of illumination for her work in the compactly designed room.
history
1930s
technology
house
futurism
february 2011 by adamrg
"Oldest" modern human remains identified in Israeli cave
february 2011 by adamrg
Archaeologists have announced evidence that the modern human species, Homo sapiens, roamed what is today Israel as early as 400,000 years ago.
anthropology
history
science
earlyhumans
february 2011 by adamrg
Franz Kafka, J.P. Müller: The exercise system that swept Europe in the early 1900s.
january 2011 by adamrg
The Müller system is pretty much as I observed each morning growing up; it is something like a precursor to Pilates, it borrows from ballet, and it needs no equipment, other than commitment.
exercise
history
calisthenics
kafka
january 2011 by adamrg
Ancient Transylvanians Rich in Gold, Treasure Shows
january 2011 by adamrg
"They" are the Dacian people, mysterious contemporaries of the ancient Romans. Ruling Transylvania centuries before Bram Stoker dreamed up Dracula, the Dacians left behind no writings but, the bracelets suggest, were apparently flush with treasure—as historians have long suspected, given the mineral wealth of the region's mountains and rivers.
history
dacians
gold
looting
january 2011 by adamrg
Dwight David Eisenhower, Personal and confidential To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 8 November 1954
january 2011 by adamrg
This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas.5 Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
socialsecurity
history
1950s
letters
january 2011 by adamrg
A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?
january 2011 by adamrg
Try as you might, you can't walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you're walking straight, but as NPR's Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.
mystery
science
history
animation
january 2011 by adamrg
Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
january 2011 by adamrg
Nevertheless: people die. For most of us, the fate of tweets and status updates and the like may seem trivial (who cares — I’ll be dead!). But increasingly we’re not leaving a record of life by culling and stowing away physical journals or shoeboxes of letters and photographs for heirs or the future. Instead, we are, collectively, busy producing fresh masses of life-affirming digital stuff: five billion images and counting on Flickr; hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos uploaded every day; oceans of content from 20 million bloggers and 500 million Facebook members; two billion tweets a month. Sites and services warehouse our musical and visual creations, personal data, shared opinions and taste declarations in the form of reviews and lists and ratings, even virtual scrapbook pages. Avatars left behind in World of Warcraft or Second Life can have financial or intellectual-property holdings in those alternate realities. We pile up digital possessions and expressions, and we tend to leave them piled up, like virtual hoarders.
death
history
posterity
archive
january 2011 by adamrg
Wikipedia: List of Common Misconceptions
january 2011 by adamrg
I'm appalled to say that I've shared at least two of these with students over the years. Crikey.
history
misconceptions
self-improvement
self-deception
january 2011 by adamrg
The Darkside Of Donuts // Current
january 2011 by adamrg
Theres a darkside to donuts kid, right there in San Francisco. Join beekeeper Jon Rolston and listen to his thoughts on donut shops after midnight.
doughnuts
history
LosAngeles
philosophy
socialstatus
january 2011 by adamrg
The Pop History Dig » “Rosie The Riveter” 1941-1945
january 2011 by adamrg
“Rosie the Riveter” is the name of a fictional character who came to symbolize the millions of real women who filled America’s factories, munitions plants, and shipyards during World War II. In later years, Rosie also became an iconic American image in the fight to broaden women’s civil rights.
history
wwii
women
january 2011 by adamrg
The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short | The Economist
december 2010 by adamrg
Towton is a nondescript village in northern England, between the cities of York and Leeds. Many Britons have never heard of it: school history tends to skip the 400-or-so years between 1066 and the start of the Tudor era. Visitors have to look hard to spot the small roadside cross that marks the site of perhaps the bloodiest battle ever fought in England. Yet the clash was a turning point in the Wars of the Roses. And, almost 550 years later, the site is changing our understanding of medieval battle.
middleages
medieval
history
battles
warfare
anthropology
december 2010 by adamrg
Civil War Battle Wounds
december 2010 by adamrg
A beautiful and shocking set of images from the civil war.
civil
war
photography
history
1860s
december 2010 by adamrg
Secret Santa: NORAD mum on how it tracks St. Nick
december 2010 by adamrg
Most embellishments never capture the public’s imagination because they tend to be ad campaigns or movies that try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, Bowler said.
NORAD, by contrast, takes an essential element of the Santa Claus story—his travels on Christmas Eve—and looks at it through a technological lens, Bower said.
santa
history
norad
military
christmas
NORAD, by contrast, takes an essential element of the Santa Claus story—his travels on Christmas Eve—and looks at it through a technological lens, Bower said.
december 2010 by adamrg
Flowcabulary Hip-Hop History
january 2010 by adamrg
Music, Lyrics and Lesson Plans included. If someone wants to buy this for my classroom... we'd surely find a way to have some fun with it.
history
music
hiphop
usa
worldhistory
january 2010 by adamrg
How Americans spent themselves into ruin... but saved the world. The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
november 2009 by adamrg
Even if America is exhausted, worn out and a shadow of her former self, from having spent her way from world dominance into a chasm of debt, the U.S. does have something to show for it the last six decades.
A world saved. A majority of human beings lifted out of poverty. That task, far more prodigious than defeating fascism and communism or going to the moon, ought to be viewed with a little respect. And I suspect it will be, by future generations.
This should be contemplated, soberly, as other nations start to consider their time ahead as one of potential triumph. As they start to contemplate the possibility of becoming the next great pax or "central kingdom."
If that happens ... will they emulate Marshall and Truman, by starting their bright era of world leadership with acts of thoughtful and truly farsighted wisdom? Perhaps even a little gratitude? [via Andrew Sullivan]
america
history
debt
empire
A world saved. A majority of human beings lifted out of poverty. That task, far more prodigious than defeating fascism and communism or going to the moon, ought to be viewed with a little respect. And I suspect it will be, by future generations.
This should be contemplated, soberly, as other nations start to consider their time ahead as one of potential triumph. As they start to contemplate the possibility of becoming the next great pax or "central kingdom."
If that happens ... will they emulate Marshall and Truman, by starting their bright era of world leadership with acts of thoughtful and truly farsighted wisdom? Perhaps even a little gratitude? [via Andrew Sullivan]
november 2009 by adamrg
Wikipedia's facts-about-facts make the impossible real
november 2009 by adamrg
Cory Doctorow on Wikipedia's change of mindset from *These facts are true*, to, *It is true that these facts were reported by these sources*
wikipedia
facts
history
editing
november 2009 by adamrg
Opting for prom without all the frills
april 2009 by adamrg
It is about time we had a reality check, even if it is deeply painful.
prom
highschool
history
economics
april 2009 by adamrg
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