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Colorado History Detectives
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Teaching Historical Literacy to School-Aged Readers

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Colorado History Detectives enables school-aged readers to learn Colorado and American West history by doing it. Laugen and Frisbee guide students through the process of interpreting primary sources by starting with questions rather than answers. Find resources here for engaging students with key themes from Colorado's past. A free downloadable PDF version of this book is available here: http://digital.auraria.edu/IR00000092/00001

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Colorado History Detectives enables school-aged readers to learn Colorado and American West history by doing it. MSU Denver History Department faculty Laugen and Frisbee guide students though the process of interpreting primary sources by starting with questions rather than answers. Thematically organized chapters include maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, diary excerpts, and other sources to create multiple opportunities for students to practice and master literacy and inquiry skills. Students can do history by reconstructing the past from different perspectives than a simple textbook would provide. Even elementary students can engage with the past by using this book. Cover design by Chrystyna Banks, MSU Denver.

Word Count: 39490

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History
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Date Added:
03/30/2019
The Coming Years
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Explore the future through modeling, reading, and discussion in an open-ended seminar! Our fields of interest will include changes in science and technology, culture and lifestyles, and dominant paradigms and societies.

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Arts and Humanities
History
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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Author:
Rising, James
Date Added:
02/01/2008
Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine
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This course will conduct a comparative study of the grand strategies of the great powers (Britain, France, Germany and Russia) competing for mastery of Europe from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Grand strategy is the collection of political and military means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. We will examine strategic developments in the years preceding World Wars I and II, and how those developments played themselves out in these wars. The following questions will guide the inquiry: What is grand strategy and what are its critical aspects? What recurring factors have exerted the greatest influence on the strategies of the states selected for study? How may the quality of a grand strategy be judged? What consequences seem to follow from grand strategies of different types? A second theme of the course is methodological. We will pay close attention to how comparative historical case studies are conducted.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
History
Political Science
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Posen, Barry
Date Added:
09/01/2004
Computer Histories - An introductory course on the history of computing
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Computer Histories is an introductory course on the history of computing that explores the questions 1) What is the history of computing? 2) What is the future of computing? and 3) What lessons can we learn from computing's past that will help guide us in determining computing's future?

Subject:
Applied Science
History
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Full Course
Author:
Michael P. D'Alessandro M.D.
Date Added:
09/07/2016
Confronting Canadian Migration History
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The essays published here speak to the broad range of research being done in Canadian migration history; they also highlight the commitment of their authors to an engaged, public-facing scholarly practice. Read together, we believe they offer a much-needed historical perspective on contemporary Canadian debates around immigration and refuge, questions that cut to the heart of who we are as a society.

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Confronting Canadian Migration History means two things. First, engaging with the history of population movements into, through, and from this territory, and their importance for our history as a multiethnic settler society. This has been one of the central projects of migration historians in Canada in recent decades. Second, to make and maintain a place for that historical knowledge in contemporary discussions of migration, and in doing so confront the present with the past. That latter goal is at the heart of this collection, which assembles in one volume fifteen texts published on ActiveHistory.ca over the last four years.

Word Count: 25644

ISBN: 978-1-9990201-3-2

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History
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Active History
Author:
Daniel Ross
Marie-Laurence Rho
Date Added:
04/01/2019
The Conquest of America
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In this course the conquest and colonization of the Americas is considered, with special attention to the struggles of native peoples in Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Panama, and colonial New England. In two segments of the course-one devoted to the Jesuit missionization of the Huron in the 1630s, the other to struggles between the government of Panama and the Kuna between 1900 and 1925-students examine primary documents such as letters, reports, and court records, to draw their own conclusions. Attention focuses on how we know about and represent past eras and other peoples, as well as on the history of struggles between native Americans and Europeans.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Cultural Geography
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Howe, James
Date Added:
02/01/2004
Critical Filipinx American Histories and their Artifacts
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The contents of this online book were created by Prof. Rick Bonus and his students as a final project for a course on “Critical Filipinx American Histories” in the Fall quarter of 2019 at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. In collaboration with the UW Libraries, the UW Burke Museum, and the UW Department of American Ethnic Studies, this book explores and reflects on the relationships between Filipinx American histories and selected artifacts at the Burke Museum. It is a class project that was made possible by the Allen Open Textbook Grant.

Word Count: 18767

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Cultural Geography
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
Sociology
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Washington
Author:
Rick Bonus
UW AAS 360 2019 Students
Date Added:
08/13/2020
Crosby Lectures in Geology: History of Africa
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This course is a series of presentations on an advanced topic in the field of geology by the visiting William Otis Crosby lecturer. The Crosby lectureship is awarded to a distinguished international scientist each year to introduce new scientific perspectives to the MIT community. This year’s Crosby lecturer is Prof. Kevin Burke. His lecture is about African history. The basic theme is the distinctiveness of the African continent in both the way that it originated 600 million years ago and in the way that it has developed ever since.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Atmospheric Science
Geology
History
Physical Science
World History
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Burke, Kevin
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Cultural History of Technology
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The subject of this course is the historical process by which the meaning of “technology” has been constructed. Although the word itself is traceable to the ancient Greek root teckhne (meaning art), it did not enter the English language until the 17th century, and did not acquire its current meaning until after World War I. The aim of the course, then, is to explore various sectors of industrializing 19th and 20th century Western society and culture with a view to explaining and assessing the emergence of technology as a pivotal word (and concept) in contemporary (especially Anglo-American) thought and expression.
Note: In the interests of freshness and topicality we regard the STS.464 syllabus as sufficiently flexible to permit some — mostly minor — variations from year to year. One example of a different STS.464 syllabus can be found in STS.464 Technology and the Literary Imagination, Spring 2008.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Marx, Leo
Williams, Rosalind
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Cultural Pluralism in Modern Middle East
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This seminar considers “difference” and “sameness” as they have been conceived, experienced, and regulated by peoples of the Middle East, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. The first half discusses the Ottoman Empire by exploring how this multiethnic, polyglot empire survived for several relatively peaceful centuries and what happened when its formula for existence was challenged by politics based on mono-ethnic states. The second half of the course focuses on post-Ottoman nation-states, such as Turkey and Egypt, and Western-mandated Arab states, such as Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. Finally, the course concludes with a case analysis of Israel.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Social Science
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ekmekcioglu, Lerna
Date Added:
02/01/2014
Culture Tech
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This class is divided into a series of sections or “modules”, each of which concentrates on a particular large technology-related topic in a cultural context. The class will start with a four-week module on Samurai Swords and Blacksmithing, followed by smaller units on Chinese Cooking, the Invention of Clocks, and Andean Weaving, and end with a four-week module on Automobiles and Engines. In addition, there will be a series of hands-on projects that tie theory and practice together. The class discussions range across anthropology, history, and individual development, emphasizing recurring themes, such as the interaction between technology and culture and the relation between “skill” knowledge and “craft” knowledge.

Culture Tech evolved from a more extensive, two-semester course which formed the centerpiece of the Integrated Studies Program at MIT.  For 13 years, ISP was an alternative first-year program combining humanities, physics, learning-by-doing, and weekly luncheons.  Culture Tech represents the core principles of ISP distilled into a 6-unit seminar. Although many collections of topics have been used over the years, the modules presented here are a representative sequence.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
History
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Aviles, Amilio
Rising, James
Date Added:
02/01/2003
Cultures of Computing
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This course examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices that create them. Students read classic texts in computer science along with cultural analyses of computing history and contemporary configurations. It explores the history of automata, automation and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; robots, cyborgs, and artificial life; creation and commoditization of the personal computer; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; hackers and gamers; technobodies and virtual sociality. Emphasis is placed on how ideas about gender and other social differences shape labor practices, models of cognition, hacking culture, and social media.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Philosophy
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Helmreich, Stefan
Date Added:
09/01/2011
Darwin and Design
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This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the immediate intellectual antecedents and some of the implications of the ideas animating Darwin’s revolutionary On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s text, of course, is about the mechanism that drives the evolution of life on this planet, but the fundamental ideas of the text have implications that range well beyond the scope of natural history, and the assumptions behind Darwin’s arguments challenge ideas that go much further back than the set of ideas that Darwin set himself explicitly to question - ideas of decisive importance when we think about ourselves, the nature of the material universe, the planet that we live upon, and our place in its scheme of life. In establishing his theory of natural selection, Darwin set himself, rather self-consciously, to challenge a whole way of thinking about these things. The main focus of attention will be Darwin’s contribution to the so-called “argument from design” - the notion that innumerable aspects of the world (and most particularly the organisms within it) display features directly analogous to objects of human design and, since design implies a designer, that an intelligent, conscious agency must have been responsible for their organization and creation. Previously, it had been argued that such features must have only one of two ultimate sources - chance or conscious agency. Darwin proposed and elaborated a third source, which he called Natural Selection, an unconscious agency capable of outdoing the most complex feats of human intelligence.
The course of study will not only examine the immediate inspiration for this idea in the work of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus and place Darwin’s Origin and the theory of Natural Selection in the history of ensuing debate, but it will also touch upon related issues.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Life Science
Literature
Philosophy
Physical Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kibel, Alvin
Date Added:
09/01/2003
Darwin and Design
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Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain and our mind. This course covers social development, social behaviour, social cognition and social neuroscience, in both human and non-human social animals. Topics include altruism, empathy, communication, theory of mind, aggression, power, groups, mating, and morality. Methods include evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology and anthropology.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
Life Science
Literature
Philosophy
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Paradis, James
Date Added:
09/01/2010
Digital Meijis
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Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150

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Digital Meijis: Re-visualising Modern Japanese History at 150 is a curated and edited collection on the Meiji Period. By pairing digitized materials and documents with historical narrative and interpretive analysis, the “visual essays” contained within encourage readers to review and rethink modern Japanese history through images.

Long Description:
Digital Meijis: Re-visualising Modern Japanese History at 150 grew out of one aspect of this larger project, the Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource. Curated and edited by Tristan Grunow and Naoko Kato, the Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource and this companion volume were designed to present and widely disseminate research on the Meiji Period in a public format designed for easy adoption in the Japanese studies classroom. By pairing digitized materials and documents with historical narrative and interpretive analysis, the “visual essays” contained within encourage readers to review and rethink modern Japanese history through images.

Word Count: 69194

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Subject:
History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of British Columbia
Author:
Meiji at 150 Project
Date Added:
05/01/2019
A Digital Tutorial For Ancient Greek Based On John William White's First Greek Book
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John William White's First Greek Book was originally published in 1896. The book contains a guided curriculum built around the language and vocabulary of Xenophon’s Anabasis. This digital tutorial is an evolving edition that is designed to run on both traditional browsers, tablet devices, and phones. Each lesson includes drill and practice exercises in addition to the text itself. The site also includes tab-delimited files for all of the vocabulary and grammar that can be imported into flashcard programs.

For more information about the design of the tutorial, you can read an article that was published in Volume 107, Number 1, Fall 2013 of the journal Classical World on pages 111-117 or a presentation from the 2013 meeting of the Digital Classics Association. An article about the audiences and usage statistics for the tutorial entitled An Open Tutorial for Beginning Ancient Greek has been published in a volume of papers entitled Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World. edited by Gabriel Bodard & Matteo Romanello and published by Ubiquity Press.

You can use these pages to study Ancient Greek online. As you complete the drill and practice exercises in each chapter, you will earn drachmas to help track your progress. The exercises keep track of the questions you have missed and presents those to you more often. Information about your progress is stored in a cookie on your computer. You can clear all of this data on the settings page.

When you have successfully completed all of the exercises in a chapter, you will have ten drachmas. You will lose drachmas as time passes so you know when you need to review chapters again.

Subject:
Ancient History
Arts and Humanities
History
Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Jeff Rydberg-Cox
Date Added:
11/01/2018
Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics
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This course examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Students analyze medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also considered is how people in different cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Philosophy
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Jean
Date Added:
02/01/2012
Disease and Society in America
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This course examines the growing importance of medicine in culture, economics and politics. It uses an historical approach to examine the changing patterns of disease, the causes of morbidity and mortality, the evolution of medical theory and practice, the development of hospitals and the medical profession, the rise of the biomedical research industry, and the ethics of health care in America.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Health, Medicine and Nursing
History
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jones, David
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Downtown
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This seminar focuses on downtowns in U.S. cities from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests; on the changing character of downtown; and on recent efforts to rebuild it. Subjects to be considered will include subways, skyscrapers, highways, urban renewal, and retail centers. The focus will be on readings, discussions, and individual research projects.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Fogelson, Robert
Frieden, Bernard
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Dschang Paris Garoua
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Missive à François Tatou, mon père. Essai d'anthropographie du quotidien

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Une malle s’ouvre. De précieux vestiges s’en échappent : photos impeccablement conservées par la douce vigilance d’une épouse, ouvrages jadis passionnément annotés, polycopiés aux signatures illustres, agendas nimbés de la patine du temps. Voilà le matériau à partir duquel l’autrice construit l’épistémologie particulière de cette si longue lettre par laquelle, portée par la fratrie, une fille parle à son père. Et voici lancée non pas une saga familiale, mais une anthropographie du quotidien de leurs vies. Réflexivité et catharsis. NewParaD’abord Dschang, sur les plateaux verdoyants de l’ouest du Cameroun où est né François Tatou « vers 1928 ». Son parcours de vie s’acheva aux confins du Sahel, dans une ville rebaptisée tendrement ici Garoua la Belle. Entre les deux, juste après les Indépendances, Paris où François Tatou acheva sa formation à l’Institut des Hautes Études d’Outre-mer, ce lieu qui forma de nombreux cadres de la haute fonction publique d’Afrique francophone. NewParaAu fil de la missive, sa fille met en scène un ressenti commun sur des enjeux toujours d’actualité : la femme dans la cité, les défis et dépits du multilinguisme, la scénarisation - brutale ou feutrée - des chocs culturels, l’assignation à résilience, le développement humain et social, l’urgence primordiale de la gestion pertinente des savoirs.

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Une malle s’ouvre. De précieux vestiges s’en échappent : photos impeccablement conservées par la douce vigilance d’une épouse, ouvrages jadis passionnément annotés, polycopiés aux signatures illustres, agendas nimbés de la patine du temps. Voilà le matériau à partir duquel l’autrice construit l’épistémologie particulière de cette si longue lettre par laquelle, portée par la fratrie, une fille parle à son père. Et voici lancée non pas une saga familiale, mais une anthropographie du quotidien de leurs vies. Réflexivité et catharsis.

D’abord Dschang, sur les plateaux verdoyants de l’ouest du Cameroun où est né François Tatou « vers 1928 ». Son parcours de vie s’acheva aux confins du Sahel, dans une ville rebaptisée tendrement ici Garoua la Belle. Entre les deux, juste après les Indépendances, Paris où François Tatou acheva sa formation à l’Institut des Hautes Études d’Outre-mer, ce lieu qui forma de nombreux cadres de la haute fonction publique d’Afrique francophone.

Au fil de la missive, sa fille met en scène un ressenti commun sur des enjeux toujours d’actualité : la femme dans la cité, les défis et dépits du multilinguisme, la scénarisation – brutale ou feutrée – des chocs culturels, l’assignation à résilience, le développement humain et social, l’urgence primordiale de la gestion pertinente des savoirs.

Word Count: 52085

ISBN: 978-2-924661-72-7

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
Languages
Philosophy
World History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Éditions science et bien commun
Author:
Léonie Tatou
Date Added:
04/27/2020