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  Course (Re)Design

  http://historicus.us/2008/06/11/course-redesign.aspx
  42 days ago in Historicus · Authority: 8

  One of my tasks this summer and fall is to redesign the online Western Civilization Course I teach for a consortium of community colleges. I'm hoping to make the course more interesting by adding primary sources, audio and video files, games, some Web 2.0 tools, the opportunity to develop a research presentation instead of a paper, and movie response assignments. One of my goals, and of the department's, is to have a course that is less dependent on the text. The current design is almost completely text-based, focusing on weekly discussion sections that cover a single chapter of the textbook. The discussions comprise 30% of the total grade for the course, and require students to not only answer the questions posed, but to interact with each other. Since the students are not allowed to just answer the questions, but to add information and interpretations, I add follow-up questions throughout the week. The overall flow of the course is strictly chronological due tot he text design. Other assignments include multiple choice quizzes, essay exams, and a research paper. It's a design that was cutting-edge eight years ago, but it doesn't work for all students, and is frequently boring for me after four years of teaching it. Change is needed all around. I was already thinking of changing to a thematic approach when Mark Stoneman posted his experiments in this direction at Clio & Me. The themes he uses for his Western Civilization II courses roughly align with what I was thinking: historical thought, war & society, religion & society, nation building, politics & human rights, imperialism/colonialism, and economic development. State of Colorado requirements for the course mandate coverage of industrialization & urbanization, the Cold War, post-war economic changes, and the Scientific Revolution. The state guidelines provide an outline that looks something like this: The Transformations of Western Civilization, 1650-1789 Absolutism and Empire The Economy and Society of Early Modern Europe The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Political and Industrial Revolution The French Revolution and Napoleon The Industrial Revolution The Consequences of Industrialization and Urbanization Nationalism and Nation Building Cultural, Political and Scientific Change The Supremacy of Western Civilization Nationalism and Imperialism The Impact of a World Economy The Crisis of Western Civilization The Waning of European Primacy: The Great War Ideologies, Economics, Society, Politics and Culture Between the Wars World War II: The Struggle for World Power The Contemporary World The Cold War The Changing Relationships in the World Global Economy The Contemporary World To map it out, I think that it might go something like this: war & society (IVa, IVc, Va, with the Thirty Years' War, Seven Years' War, and Crimean War), economic development (Vc, Ib, IIb&c, IIIb, and IVb), religion & society (IIe, Ic, IVb), nation building (Ia, IId), imperialism/colonialism (IIIa, Vb), politics & human rights (IIa, Ia&c, Vd, IIe). So that's the topic coverage. How to actually do it. Unlike Mark Stoneman, who gets to assign cool texts, I can only use free content or what comes in our new textbook. Luckily, the new book comes with a whole slew of interactive materials, primary sources, audio and video files, and study aids. The downer is that most of the A/V materials do not apply to Western Civilization. I'm on my own for that. So what I'm planning on doing is supplementing the text with primary sources and A/V files from the Internet, having them watch some movies (rental on their dime), and playing the Web version of Diplomacy. Instead of just plain old Discussion sections, I'm going to try to convince the powers that be to allow substitution of blogging or journaling for some of the discussions, with a requirement that the students respond to x number of other students' writing. The research paper I'm going to supplement with a research presentation that must include audio from any of the available free services. I'm experimenting with some of the new assignments this summer as extra credit projects. I'll post more on those as the students complete them.
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  Bloggers Unite

  http://focusorganic.com/bloggers-unite/
  69 days ago in Organic and Green Information, News, Products | Live Green | Focus Organic.com · Authority: 76

  With so many human rights posts written today, people were having a had time finding every post to visit and Stumble, Digg, etc. I respect and admire the effort that everyone put into this event, and took the (entire!) day to make a fairly comprehensive list of posts for today's event. It still needs polishing, I will be recategorizing many posts, as too many ended up under "General," but I wanted to get it up and call it a work in progress. If you feel your post is in the wrong category, or would like to suggest a category, let me know. Remember that I am going to create some new categories and tweak the list, but I need a break for now! If I forgot your link or you know of a post I missed, please contact me. It would also be helpful if you let me know what category it should be posted under. Africa Bloggers Unite – Fome Barack Obama on Human Rights and Africa Capital Punishment Can You Believe This? Why should death penalty be eradicated from the world? 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  14th Military History Carnival

  http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/15/14th-military...
  69 days ago in Investigations of a Dog · Authority: 37

  This is the 14th Military History Carnival, with a special theme of Contested Boundaries. Today is also the day that Bloggers Unite encourages bloggers to write about human rights (hat tip: Mark Stoneman). I might post something on that theme later today if I have time (and I probably won’t have time), but this carnival edition gives plenty of attention to human rights issues. Borders We’ll start with the most obvious kind of boundaries: borders. TJ at Battlefield Biker looks back on his own service on the border between East and West Germany. Even in 1988 the Cold War was still very real: we didn’t know then what was going to happen in 1989. Alex at Military History and Warfare looks into the Great Northern War, when the Sweden’s Baltic empire was under threat from Russia and Denmark. At Strange Maps there’s a map of Europe painted onto a First World War helmet. Even within a country there a boundaries that are closed to most people. ProTraveller has photos of 15 top secret bases. Proper Historians? The question of what makes a historian is always being discussed in the history blogosphere. Gary Smailes looks at his own writing career and asks “Am I a historian?”. John David Hoptak at 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry tackles the equally difficult question of objectivity, as people often ask him “What side are you on?”. In the War Reading Room Paul Brewer reviews Nicholson Baker’s new book on World War II, which takes a different approach to writing history (see also part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6). Maybe historians have it easy compared to scientists. P D Smith at Kafka’s Mouse looks at the stereotype of the mad scientist. Riots and Rebellions What counts as war and what doesn’t is one of the most contested boundaries in military history. One person’s terrorist or criminal is another’s freedom fighter. This was never more true than in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Mike Cosgrave reviews at Charlie Wilson’s War, an autobiographical account of the CIA’s backing of the mujahideen against the Soviets. Tory Historian at Conservative History compares the IRA to Baader-Meinhof. Meanwhile at Progressive Historians midtowng investigates the origins of the word bandit in the American occupation Haiti in 1915. Saifuddin recounts an expedition sent by Mohammed to put down brigands who were preying on Muslims. May Day is International Workers Day. Kathy at the G-Spot describes the events at Haymarket Square, Chicago, which the day commemorates. As the protest developed into a gunfight, its could be described as a very real class war. The rebellious workers were treated as criminals, but the police weren’t. Axis of Evel Knievel follows up with the story of violence which occurred in Wisconsin around the same time. Again militia shot and killed striking workers and were not prosecuted. Miland Brown at World History Blog remembers how May Day parades were an occasion for Soviet propaganda. Also on a Cold War theme, you can watch Eisenhower’s famous speech about the military industrial complex at More or Less Bunk. War Crimes? Even when everyone agrees that there’s a war on, not everyone agrees about the proper way to conduct it. The legal situation got very confused during the war between the US and the Seminole Indians in 1818. Executed Today points out that Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish territory and executed two British subjects. The atomic bombing of Japan continues to be very controversial. Jonathan Dresner at Frog in a Well mentions that recently some new photos of Hiroshima were released and then found not to be photos of Hiroshima. Comments on the photos and at Greg Laden’s blog show that many people still feel very strongly about whether or not the bombing was justified. At The Dougout Grant Jones takes issue with attempts to retrospectively classify the allied breakout from Normandy in 1944 as a war crime. To put the collateral damage of Operation COBRA into perspective, go to Holocaust Controversies, where Roberto Muehlenkamp makes a rough attempt to work out how many Jewish and non-Jewish civilians were killed by Nazi war crimes and crimes against humanity. J. Carter Wood at Obscene Desserts makes a poignant visit to a cemetery where he saw a monument to German Jews who died fighting for Germany in the First World War. This really brings home how far Jews were integrated into German society and how irrational the Nazis were to persecute them. Identities Russian Jews fought for the Soviet Union in World War II but were not always treated well afterwards. Sean’s Russia Blog introduces Don Kozlents who fought at Kursk and later emigrated to Israel after much difficulty, but who still identifies himself as a Marxist as well as a Zionist. Over at English Russia there are some spectacular photos of the Red Army in action in Berlin in 1945. Muhlberger’s Early History linked to medieval soldier of the month from the Soldier in Later Medieval England database. This is a great new resource listing soldiers who served the English Crown in the Hundred Years War - a period when every kind of boundary between English and French was contested. Racial identity was very obviously at stake in the American Civil War, but this was not just a question of black and white. Fewer people know about the contribution of German Americans to the Union war effort. Brett Schulte of The Order of Civil War Obsessively Compulsed reviews a new book about how the battle of Chancellorsville affected relations between Germans and other Americans. Jim Schmidt at Civil War Medicine looks at medical care (or lack of it) of African American soldiers in the Union armies. At Civil War Bookshelf Dimitri Rotov celebrates the birthday of Louis Gottschalk, “the Creole Chopin”, who was born in New Orleans and supported the Union. Allen at The Whited Sepulchre finds the racial legacy of slavery, civil war, and reconstruction surfacing and being resolved in an old people’s home, where a white woman and a black woman worked together to overcome their disabilities. And at Bull Runnings Harry Smeltzer traces the famous descendants of Hugh Judson Kilpatrick who fought on the Union side (but not at Bull Run). Branson Travel Attractions brings us Branson Veterans Memorial Museum, which includes a sculpture of 50 US soldiers representing each state of the Union. Women at War Of all the boundaries contested in war, the one between men and women has most often held up despite the potentially counterproductive consequences of putting gender ideology before military effectiveness. The Battle of Britain is deservedly known as a struggle to preserve liberal democracy in the face of fascism, but it was also a struggle to preserve patriarchy in the face of military necessity. Even at such a desperate time Fighter Command preferred to have combat missions flown by inexperienced men rather than experienced pilots like Amy Johnson. But, as Kate at Osprey Publishing points out, Johnson and many other women still contributed to Britain’s victory by serving in the Air Transport Auxiliary, a role which involved flying planes and risking death. Brett Holman at Airminded finds airmindedness and an androgynous mind when he investigates the mysterious writer known only as Neon who was probably a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. And Susan Higginbotham spares a mother’s day thought for Margaret of Anjou, who has had a lot of undeserved bad press for her role in the Wars of the Roses. Hunting Tigers Out In Indi-ah People don’t spend all their time fighting each other. There is always plenty of scope for combat between humans and other species. Jason Bellows at Damn Interesting tells us all about expert tiger hunter Jim Corbett. He specialised in tracking and killing tigers which preyed on people, one of which was so dangerous that it had been chased out of Nepal by the army. He later put his experience to use giving jungle combat training in World War II. Carl Pyrdum has always Got Medieval: this time he finds a battle between monkeys and foxes illustrated in the margin of a bible. That’s all for this edition. The 15th Military History Carnival will be at Cardinal Wolsey’s Today In History on 14th June. Please e-mail submissions to alunadler at yahoo dot co dot uk or use the submission form. We still need hosts for July and September onwards, so if you’re interested in hosting please get in touch.
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  The Responsibility to Protect

  http://markstoneman.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/46/
  70 days ago in Stoneman’s Corner · Authority: 25

  Today bloggers all over the world are blogging about human rights in a campaign called Bloggers Unite. Those of us who enjoy a large measure of human rights bear some responsibility for people who are less fortunate. Bloggers can use their freedom of expression to spread the word. I wrote my main contribution, Human Rights in the History Survey, on Clio and Me, but the situation in Myanmar, also known as Burma, makes me want to write something here too. Daniel Schorr had a point yesterday, when he suggested on NPR that there might be a case for foreign intervention in Myanmar. The UN now has a “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine on the books, so it could deliver aid to the Burmese without the permission of their government, if it could find the political backbone to do so. I don’t know anything about Burma’s domestic political situation, so I cannot say if such a potentially destabilizing action would cause more harm than good, but it seems to me that we definitely need to work with the Security Council to put further pressure on the government of Myanmar and perhaps deliver aid without its permission. But how much more time do the Burmese people have? Further calls to use the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine to help the Burmese Brown seeks emergency Burma talks, BBC, 5/14/2008 Force Burmese aid: Canada by Mike Blanchfield, National Post, 5/14/2008 The UN’s responsibility to protect by Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares, International Herald Tribune, 5/13/2008 The world’s responsibility to Burma by Caitlin Wall, Foreign Policy, 5/12/2008 In Burma, a U.N. Promise Not Kept by Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post, 5/12/2008 Ruprecht Polenz: UN müssen gegenüber Birma Stellung beziehen, Deutschlandfunk, 5/13/2008 EU fordert mehr Druck der Uno auf Birma: Zur Not auch gegen den Willen der Junta, tageschau.de, 5/14/2008 More about the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine A Change to Believe In by Roger Cohen, The New York Times, 2/21/2008 The U.S. Should Reject the U.N. “Responsibility to Protect” Doctrine by Steven Groves, The Heritage Foundation, 5/1/2008 Responsibility to Protect Coalition Responsibility to Protect: Engaging Civil Society

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